Elizabeth Sher
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Berkeley California USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
ELIZABETH SHER is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where she has taught since 1977. CCAC was founded in 1907. Its faculty of practicing artists has included Richard Diebenkorn, Viola Frey, Raymond Saunders and playwrite/poet Michael McClure. Sher's prints and paintings have been shown at four university museums and the San Francisco and San Jose Museums of Art, with solo shows in San Diego, San Francisco, Scottsdale, and Palo Alto. Her work is in the permanent collections of the United States Information Agency, Carnegie-Mellon University Museum, Oakland Museum, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts and the Austin Museum of Art. She started making motion pictures 1979, and her teaching now focuses on time-based, computer generated and interactive media classes. Since 1979 she has made 25 films and videos, from 4 minutes long to feature length. Forms include children's stories, interviews, performances, TV documentaries, magazine shows and dramas. Subject matter has clustered in two categories: art and health. Her health films have all had a personal element; the topics keep pace with her own life cycle as a woman and mother. Her films have found audiences on television, at universities and festivals from Hong Kong to Edinburgh to Dallas. Titles include "Homenaje a Tenochtitlan", "Juggling", "Celluloid Seduction", and "The Master-Mentor Series." They have earned grants from the Pioneer Fund, The Harris Foundation, the Anheuser Busch Foundation, the NEA's Regional Media Arts Fellowship, and the Union of Independent Colleges of Art. Having started out as a personal filmmaker, Sher has evolved into a collaborative media professional. She has edited four documentaries and three independent features by other directors. Her 1996 film, "When Women Go Through Menopause, Where Do Men Go?, on male menopause, was the feature presentation on the Women of Vision series on PBS station KCSM and has aired in Israel and New Zealand. Filmography/Awards Info: This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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