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Lynn Tomlinson lynn@lynntomlinson.com |
Biography
Lynn Tomlinson is an interdisciplinary artist working across a broad rage of media, including animation, sculpture, mosaic, documentary, site-specific installation and community arts. Her interests include community arts, social documentary, and experimental media. She has received many grants, fellowships, and awards, including an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media Arts from the state of Florida.
Her award-winning animated films have been screened at numerous festivals including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Women Make Waves Film and Video Festival. Her clay-on-glass animated shorts have aired on children’s public television, MTV and Sesame Street. As Artistic Director and Social Documentarian on the website Folkvine.org, she helped recreate the experience of visiting Florida folk artists and their communities. Her community art projects include the Hannibal Square Community Mosaic, a 10'x18' mosaic mural built of hand-made and recycled tiles, built with help from hundreds of students and community volunteers. Her sculptural installations include Boxed In, a project funded by the ArtFronts Partnership in Philadelphia, PA, and featured in Sculpture Magazine. One recent series includes natural forms with videoplayers embedded inside, peered at through knotholes, funded by a Professional Development Grant from United Arts of Central Florida. She directed Wish You Were Here, a half-hour PBS documentary on the history of tourism in Central Florida, supported by the Florida Humanities Council.
A Philadelphia native, Tomlinson was an Associate Professor in the Media Arts department the University of the Arts, where she taught for ten years before moving to Central Florida in 2002. There she worked as an independent artist, served as Coordinator of Public Art for the Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, and built four large community mosaics. Tomlinson is a Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, where she teaches in the summer session. In 2011, she moved to Baltimore, where she lives with her husband, Craig Saper, and their two children. She currently teaches stop-motion animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).