Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s Department of Art and Design, with support from The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome animator, illustrator, bookmaker and installation artist Jo Dery to campus for a visiting artist lecture.
Dery’s lecture will conclude the 2015-16 season of the Department of Art and Design’s Visiting Artist Speaker Series.
Jo Dery is an artist who experiments with visual storytelling. Her creative practice is rooted in drawing, mining autobiography and a deep love of the natural world for inspiration. She makes short films, books and comics, works on paper and mulitmedia installation projects.
Her short films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. In 2012, she received the Helen Hill Award, which supports innovative independent filmmakers. She has been awarded grants from the LEF Foundation, The Free History Project and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her drawings and prints have been exhibited in Providence, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Berlin. Her little books can be found in independent stores like Ada Books (Providence), Quimby’s (Chicago) and Little Otsu (Portland).
She is currently an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, and is also serving as one of the outside jurors for The Department of Art and Design’s 48th Annual Student Juried Exhibition.
For more information on this lecture, contact Michael Dickins, gallery director, at dickinsm@apsu.edu.
