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Since the early 1970s, Morse has taught beginning animation to students of all ages. An artist-in-residence for four years with the South Carolina Arts Commission, she led animation workshops at the Sinking Creek Film Festival for nearly two decades. Her DVD Move-Click-Move, is used by many workshops and schools to introduce students to independent animation.
Deanna Morse has led hundreds of animation workshops for children and adults. To propose a project, contact Deanna at morsed@gvsu.edu
Flags celebrates the connection between Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA and our five sister cities: Ga District (Ghana), Omihachiman (Japan), Perugia (Italy), Bielsko-Biala (Poland) and Zapopan (Mexico).
Workshop leaders Deanna Morse and Gretchen Vinnedge led a unique collaborative international animation project with the Mollie Club of the Community Media Center, where young people around the world reconsidered what is meaningful about the Olympic Games, and created animations with fresh ideas for a new Olympics.
The Animation Outreach Program of GVSU and Mollie Club at GRCMC joined hands to teach a youth workshop where children aged 6-8 created free flowing animations. As part of the AWG (Animation Workshop Group) of ASIFA, their film will premiere at the Annecy, France and Hiroshima International Animation Festivals (Japan) in 2010. Workshop leaders: Deanna Morse and Gretchen Vinnedge.
Puppet Magicians
Slow/Fast: Sporo/Brzo
Deanna Morse traveled to Croatia to teach students (ages 9-14) animation at the 16th International Animated Film Workshop, SAF, Cacovec, Croatia
play kids videos: http://www.archive.org/details/AnimationMagiciansCamp2009http://www.archive.org/details/AnimationMagiciansCamp2009shapeimage_1_link_0
Workshop link: http://www.safcakovec.com/Workshop.htmhttp://www.safcakovec.com/Workshop.htmshapeimage_2_link_0
Imagining Olympics
AWG, The Animation Workshop Group, started in 1979 as a project of the international ASIFA, the oldest organization for international animators.
Sounds of Animation
Flags Metamorphoses: Sister Cities
to play video: http://www.archive.org/details/ImaginingOlympics2008http://www.archive.org/details/ImaginingOlympics2008shapeimage_3_link_0
to view video:
http://vimeo.com/5999714
In Michigan, Melissa Bouwman and Deanna Morse co-taught a workshop, using Flash. Our group interpreted the music as: scary things happen, they flee, and then things get resolved. Premiered at the 2006 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, and the 2007 Cinanima International Animation Festival, Portugal.
Screened at Cinanima in Portugal, Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan, the Kids for Kids Film Festival in Montreal, and Kecskemet Animation Film Festival in Hungary. It was also screened in China before the 2008 Olympic games.
Created as the first exercise in Animation I class at Grand Valley State University, Deanna Morse, instructor, and Kari Smith, Teaching Assistant. It is part of the participatory art project: Flags Metamorphoses, organized by Myriam Thyes.
In 2006 and 2007, as a project of the ASIFA Animation Workshop Group (AWG), hundreds of young people around the globe were given a richly layered soundtrack by award winning composer Normand Roger. Each group interpreted their portion of the track with the visual tools from their own culture. Over 25 workshops in more than a dozen countries participated in this global animation project.
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