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KAREN AQUA
"Aqua has a distinctive style and vision of her own ... , coupled with a dancer's sense of movement and a musician's sense of rhythm." -Leah A. Sullivan, Animation Magazine
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Karen Aqua studied animation and illustration at Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a BFA Degree in 1976. Since 1976, she has completed ten independently-produced animated films. Her award-winning films have been screened worldwide, at festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, New Zealand, and the Middle East. She has received fellowships from the American Film Institute, the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), New England Film/Video Fellowship Program, Berkshire Taconic Trust, LEF Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation. Aqua has taught animation at Boston College and Emerson College, and at workshops and residencies around the United States. She has presented numerous screenings of her work throughout the United States, and has had one-person exhibitions of her drawings at a number of museums, universities, and art centers. She has served as a juror for film festivals in the US, Japan, and Canada. In 2005, a special program of Aqua's animated films was presented at the Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran. Since 1990 she has directed/animated 22 segments for the acclaimed children's television program "Sesame Street." |
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Eric Ginsburg was born in Washington D.C, and as a child was exposed to politics and art. On Weekends he would go with his family to the Museums on the national mall, but It wasn't until he met maureen Gallace as an Undergraduate at New York University that he began exploring the arts/painting. His subject matter quickly became animals usually Eric's two Dogs: Skye and Einstein. Ginsburg is known for his humanistic approach to dog and animal paintings. Because of this unique point of view, Ginsburg’s work is known to have a particularly bright emotional and whimsical style After Graduating from NYU Ginsburg Received a Masters From Columbia University. He has shown his animal (dog) paintings throught NYC, The United States and abroad. He is currently working In Washington D.C. the art and living |
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