The Animate Materials project returned to the Ottawa International Animation Festival for a third time, joining a phenomenal lineup celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary. After curating programs devoted to animating ink (2023) and fabric (2024), this year’s screening turned to the luminous world of pastel animation.
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Sharing overdue news that I was awarded a major SSHRC Insight Grant (2024- 2029) to support the Animate Materials Workshop for the next 5 years. This funding will allow me to continue partnerships with brilliant artists, scholars, film festivals and art galleries interested in exploring material history and culture through animation. Emily Carr University published an announcement and profile of the project here. I have so many people to thank for supporting this work, when it was developed largely on my own time on top of full-time teaching. Two people I can’t thank by name are two external peer reviewers, who wrote thoughtful and generous reviews of the application. They understood the project and clearly helped the jury appreciate its potential.
