Lisa Crafts is an American artist, animator and painter. She is a self-taught artist that specializes in Surrealist animation.

Contents 1 Career 2 Films 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

Crafts has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. She was also the recipient of the 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.^[1]

Crafts has been a guest lecturer at several schools, including Harvard University and Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently a visiting Media Arts instructor on faculty at Pratt Institute in New York City.^[2]

Crafts' paintings have been exhibited at the La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles, California and the Calvin-Morris Gallery in New York City. Her independent animated films have been shown in festivals, museums, theaters, and on television in Europe, Japan, Korea, and throughout North America. She has also curated animation programs in the US and Japan.^[3] She has created animations for music television, Sesame Street and the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel, as well as titles and animation for documentaries by Michel Negroponte and Cindy Kleine.

Her most recent work on documentaries include animation for Cindy Kleine’s Phyllis and Harold, Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen’s Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, and Michel Negroponte’s "I'm Dangerous With Love."^[4]

[edit] Films

Crafts wrote and directed the award-winning The Flooded Playground, a 20-minute animated film released in 2005.^[5]

The Flooded Playground won the following awards:^[6]

• Festival Prize, Best Animation, Reel Women International Film Festival, 2006
• Reel Frontier Award, Best Animation, Arizona International Film Festival, 2006
• Best High-Definition Experimental Film, HDFest, 2007

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lisa Crafts official site
• The Flooded Playground, Internet Movie Database
• Review: "Cartoons: No Laughing Matter?" by Michael Atkinson, Village Voice, May 2, 2006
• Review: "Cartoons: No Laughing Matter?" by Ed Gonzalez, Slant, April 28, 2006