Visiting Artist Series features performance artist Kathy Rose
 Kathy Rose website |
A performance artist who combines dance and film animation, Ms. Rose received her bachelor’s degree in fine arts in film from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1971. She also studied and performed dance with Group Motion, which is a multi-media dance company comprised of former students of Mary Wigman of Berlin. In 1974 she received a master’s in fine arts from the California Institute of the Arts in animation, inspired by the work of Japanese animator Yoji Kuri.
Her film, “Doodlers”, won first prize at the International Film Society Festival (ASIFA) in New York and became involved with the independent animation movement in the 1970’s. In another animation, Pencil Booklings (1978), she interacts with her animated figures. After her father’s death she started to blend animation and dance, projecting her animations upon herself and fellow dancers.
Rose received a Guggenheim in Performance Art in 2003, 6 grants from the NEA, 4 NY State Council for the Arts Grants, 3 from the NY Foundation for the Arts, as well as many others. She has toured extensively nationally and in Europe (including performances at the Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, and The Institute of Contemporary Art in London).
Her presentation is part of a weekly “Visiting Artists” series that is required for all visual arts and new media students, although in this case all campus and community members interested in animation and film are also welcome to attend.
For more information on Ms. Rose's works, visit www.krose.com. For details about the department’s Visiting Artists Program, please contact Jill Johnston-Price, assistant professor of animation and illustration.
