Lisa Crafts is an animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work addresses issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos. Blending animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, Lisa's work inhabits the blur between what is seen and what is imagined.Crafts' work has screened in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and MacDowell. She is professor emerita in the Film Video department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Lisa will be visiting Hampshire to give an artist talk on 4/23 from 2:30-3:50pm. This in person lecture is being held in conjunction with Professor Jenkins’ animation history class, where we screened some of Lisa’s work, including the groundbreaking Desire Pie (1976) which was banned in Boston and is now in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

This event is open to the Hampshire College community! Please arrive a little before 2:30 if possible! This event is sponsored in part by the Learning Collaboratives.

JLC 120 (Bill Brand Screening Room)