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The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts: Joanna Priestley. This fellowship, which is presented to a local artist of high merit in rotating disciplines each year, carries a cash award of $20,000. Joanna Priestley is a world-class animator and filmmaker with a career that spans over 25 years. The main goals of her work are to explore and develop personal cinema in animation, as well as extend the boundaries and definition of her art form. As noted by the Individual Artist Fellowship Award panel, her prolific output has humor, depth, and appeal, and she has been an inspiration to audiences and fellow animators. Festival Retrospectives of her work have shown on PBS and BBC2, as well as in Norway, Germany, Poland, and India. Her work has won awards at many film festivals, including First Prize at the Big Muddy Film Festival for Dew Line (2005) and the Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival for Utopia Garden (1997). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Creative Capital Foundation. In addition, she has a stellar track record of serving the community through mentorships and collaborations. Joanna has run an apprentice program since 1986, and she teaches animation workshops worldwide. For years she has served as an ambassador for Northwest filmmaking, and was an early supporter of the Platform International Animation Festival that debuted in Portland last week. “RACC is thrilled to award this year’s fellowship to Joanna Priestley who has been such a productive and creative member of Portland’s vibrant film community for many, many years,” stated Eloise Damrosch, Executive Director of RACC. With the award, Joanna will take a year off from mentoring, teaching, traveling, fundraising, volunteering, curating, and presenting programs. She will establish an organic plan to invigorate her filmmaking process and develop a new direction in her work. Joanna plans to work on a new drawing style and experiment with combining 2-D computer drawings with real, 3-D background sets. She will also take some time to develop her own personal brand of comedy. Joanna Priestly will be officially honored at a luncheon in the Fall of 2007. More about her life and work can be found at www.primopix.com. The RACC Artists Fellowship Award was established in 1999 as a way for the community to recognize the value of some of the region’s most accomplished artists. The program is intended to help artists of high merit sustain or enhance their creative process. To apply, professional artists must have worked in their field for 10 years and have lived in the Portland tri-county area for five. The Fellowship Grant program operates in a four-year cycle in terms of the disciplines it celebrates. Next year, Literary Arts (FY08-09) will be honored. For more information visit www.racc.org/grants. Applications, which include three narrative questions, artist resumes, two letters of recommendation, and examples of the artist’s work, are reviewed through a lengthy panel process of community representatives from the discipline being honored. Serving as Media Arts Panelists this year were Peter Appleton, Russ Gorsline, Dana Plautz, Jane Ridley, Enie Vaisburd, Jack Walsh, and Chel White. Artists who have received this prestigious award in the past include: Through vision, leadership and service the Regional Arts
& Culture Council works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of
community life. Back to RACC Press Release page View News Archives Request RACC Press Releases via email. Contact: Mary Bauer, mbauer@racc.org
RACC Staff to ContactJeff Hawthorne
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