THE ARTIST IN ME: ANIMATED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Ages 16-29
Summer 2024, JHU-MICA Film Centre
In this workshop, student fellows will create animated shorts chronicling their journeys as artists, the evolution of their creative selves. In group discussion, they'll reflect on first stirrings, whether in childhood or more recently; the influence of other artists; challenges, discoveries, wrong turns that turned out to be right. And they'll consider both what inspires their work and what their work does for them; how conceiving, making, and sharing creative projects translates or transforms experience. From this review they'll select an emphasis, a specific aspect of their story to develop. Animations might be quirky, fanciful, or serious. The art they address may be animation itself, or it may be painting, photography, dance, writing songs, or telling stories. The art may be the way fellows live their lives. They’ll review fundamentals, including script-writing, storyboarding, illustration, and audio recording, while gaining proficiency in Adobe Animate. Individual final projects will be shared on the program website and through a public exhibition. Limited to 10 student fellows.
Alfonzer Harvin is a graduate of the Screenwriting and Animation program (SWAN) at Morgan State University. He is Media Specialist and Web Designer at NorthBay Education Inc., and has created animations for Comcast and Netflix. He is skilled in all phases of production, and believes that knowledge is all we need to change the world.
Kerstyn Myers is a member in the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society at UMBC, where she is pursuing computer science. She believes technology and art are the connections to the future.
