Join us for a FREE STOP MOTION ANIMATION OPEN STUDIO with Arts in Education of the Gorge teaching artists, Shelley Toon Lindberg, Chloë Hight and Janet O’Sullivan. You will have the opportunity to play with the Stop Motion Studio Application on iPads and learn fun 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional animation techniques. Open to all ages!
Saturday, November 9th
1:00pm to 6:00pm Open Studio, in the CCA Gallery
215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR 97031
No registration necessary, first come first served.
Demonstrations:
• 1:30pm-2:00pm Janet O’Sullivan will walk you through the process of designing, carving, molding, and casting a three-dimensional puppet. Participants will paint their own puppet and learn how to create a tension fit joint.
• 2:00pm to 2:30pm Chloë Hight and Shelley Toon Lindberg will teach you how to make two-dimensional puppets with detachable moving parts. You’ll create your own puppet and then make it move in the animation studio.
This Open Studio is funded by grants to Arts in Education of the Gorge from Pacific Power Foundation and Roundhouse Foundation.
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Shelley Toon Lindberg
Shelley is a visual and media artist based in Hood River, Oregon. She works in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. For nearly a decade she has been the lead animation instructor for Yup’ik Word of the Week in the Lower Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, Voices on the Land with Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau, Alaska, as well as Voices of the Earth with When We Shine Foundation on Maui, Hawaii.
As a teaching artist, her aim is to engage students in inquiry-based thinking and art making to explore the natural world, inter-cultural understanding and indigenous language revitalization.
Her work with students has appeared in the Maui Film Festival, Gorge Impact Film Festival and the in-flight film offerings of Alaska Airlines.
Chloë Hight
Chloë is a visual and teaching artist based on the Southern Oregon Coast. She collaborates with organizations across the Pacific Northwest to nurture creative community spaces where people of all ages can engage in the tactile process of art making. She explores a range of mediums including, textile weaving, basketry, pottery drawing, painting, and stop-motion animation.
Through the lens of these materials and processes, Chloë seeks to ignite curiosity and inspire expression of personal stories, fostering deeper connections to both identity and the natural world.
Janet O’Sullivan
For over a decade Janet was a stop motion fabricator working for studios in New York such as Buck and Hornet Inc. and in Portland for Laika Studios. She helped create puppets, sets and props using an immense variety of materials for commercials and feature films. Her love for creativity and problem solving helped her in opening Tokki Art Supply in Hood River, Oregon in 2019.
