SENSE OF BELONGING(S): STOP-MOTION ANIMATION
Ages 16-29
Fall 2023, Online
What do the objects in your bedroom, backpack, or car say about you? What about the shoes you bought last week, or the charm bracelet you've had since childhood? In this online animation workshop, student fellows will create portraits of their inner worlds using personal objects that have meaning to them. Objects might be anything from clothing to keepsakes; might be found, purchased, or inherited; and might have a range of complex associations attached. Fellows will experiment with both narrative and non-narrative possibilities as they explore themselves through their belongings. They’ll learn the animation production process of brainstorming, storyboarding, lighting, capturing, and editing, with demonstrations of stop-motion animation techniques and plenty of studio time. Final animations will be shared at a public exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 9 student fellows.
Gwyneth Anderson is an animator and visual artist exploring themes of invisibility and perception. She has exhibited in galleries, festivals, forests, and vacant lots throughout the US and internationally. She recently moved to Baltimore from Chicago, where she was a teaching artist with the Museum of Contemporary Art and Columbia College.
Emmet Sheehan, a Baltimore City native, was part of the pilot program that launched the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and also trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive.
