Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist. Her work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Morse on cutting edge of filmmaking, Grand Rapids Press, November 9, 2001N.Y. Museum Adds Local Film To Collection, Grand Rapids Press, November 2, 1986MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Review by Juliet Davis, Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4, winter 2006, University of Illinois Press, pp. 46-48

For the period of , she is president of the International Animated Film Association.ASIFA: Board Members She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: new members in 2020Grand Valley State University: VMA faculty member emerita joins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, August 5, 2020Grand Valley Lanthorn: Professor Emeritus joins the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Early life and education Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.Iowa State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Alumni: Citation of Merit Iowa State University, Plaza of Heroines: Deanna Morse

Career After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston, and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education, and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts, where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.

She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013. During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001 and used the proceeds to fund scholarships. There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses.Flag Metamorphoses, 2005-2014

Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.SIGGRAPH 1992: Art Show She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,SIGGRAPH 1994: Art and Design Show and a juror for the art show in 1998.SIGGRAPH 1998: TouchwareSIGGRAPH 1999: technOasis

She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation FestivalHiroshima International Animation Festival Juror, August 1998 in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.41st Ann Arbor Film Festival Juror, March 2003

She has published articles in Animation World Network.Pre-Cinema Toys Inspire Multimedia Artist Toshio Iwai, Animation World Magazine, February 1999Secrets from the Selection Committee: Zagreb Animafest 2004, Animation World Network, June 14, 2004Love and Peace: Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2006, Animation World Network, September 14, 2006Animation at the Ann Arbor Film Fest: Bending Minds and... Uncensored... Since 1963, Animation World Network, April 25, 2007

Filmography She has made several films for Sesame Street, including Dogs (1991), Monkey's T-Shirt (1991), and Night Sounds (1992).

Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants". Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".

Year Film Format 2017 Clear, Deep, Quiet Video installation 2015 Angels in Maui DVD 2015 Bird Dreams DVD 2014 Animation Collaboration DVD 2014 Perch DVD 2013 Mindful DVD 2013 Whispers of the Prairie DVD 2013 This present moment DVD 2012 Skin DVD 2012 Kindred DVD 2012 Skies of Mist DVD 2011 Wish you were here DVD 2010 Traces of Light DVD 2009 Breathing Room Video installation 2009 Ancient Woodland DVD 2007 Forced Perspective: Odessa DVD 2007 Time Flights Video installation 2007 Postcards from my backyard DVD 2002 Kitchen Creature Feature Film 2001 Move Click Move: a DVD Compilation DVD 2000 A Mother's Advice Film 1993 Digital Aquarium Video installation 1992 Lost ground Computer animation 1992 Sandpaintings Film 1991 Self Portrait: Artist With Pets Film 1991 Dogs Film 1991 Night Sounds: Imagination Film 1991 From The Sand Video installation 1990 The A.M. Dream Computer animation 1990 Monkey's T-Shirt Film 1989 Plants Film 1991 Artist In The Schools Film 1988 Main Street M Film 1987 The Lumberyard Film 1985 August Afternoons Film 1984 Camera People Film 1982 Hand Film 1981 Reality Check Film 1981 Recycle Film 1981 Help!...I'm Stranded... Film 1980 Charleston Home Movie Film 1978 Starcycle Film 1978 Jimmy Brown The Newsboy Film 1978 Ranky Tanky Film 1978 Cats At The Door Film 1975 The Midnight Dance Film 1972 Marriages Film 1972 Dejeunez, Mon Amour Film

Awards 1993 - Named a distinguished professor by the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of State Universities.Grand Valley Forum, Volume 17, No. 39, May 1993 1995 - Outstanding Alumni Award from Iowa State UniversityIowa State University, Citation of Merit, Recipients 2002 - Addy Award for Move Click Move DVDYouTube: Video News Release announcing the Addy award for the animation collection Move Click Move 2003 - Omni Award for Move Click Move DVD 2005 - Selected as an outstanding woman in the arts by the YWCAGrand Valley Forum, Volume 30, No. 14, October 2005 2015 - Hyperion Award, 9th Eclipse Awards honoring Michigan's filmmakers and television creators Honored in the Plaza of Heroines at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall at Iowa State University.

References

Further reading Giannalberto Bendazzi: ANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3, Contemporary Times, 2015. P. 46: Women in the Limelight, Deanna MorseANIMATION: A World History, Volume 3 at Google Books Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz and Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, Focal Press, 2013, pages 139–141Karen Sullivan, Kate Alexander, Aubry Mintz, Ellen Besen: Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building Stories, Focal Press, 2013, Juliet Davis: Review of MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Journal of Film and Video, winter 2006.Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 58, No. 4 (winter 2006), University of Illinois Press, pp. 46-48 Pilling, Jayne, ed: Women and Animation: a Compendium. British Film Institute, 1992. Russett, Robert; Starr, Cecile: Experimental Animation, origins of a new art. Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y., 1988. (p. 22-23)

External links

Animations by Deanna Morse on her YouTube channel The Film-Makers' Coop - Deanna Morse