Lynn Tomlinson ltomlinson@cfl.rr.com 4702 Shorecrest Dr. Orlando, FL Curriculum Vita

Biography

Lynn Tomlinson is an interdisciplinary artist working in animation, sculpture, and documentary. Her work often features organic images and motion, and figures from the landscape. 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 and documentary 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. She is Artistic Director and Social Documentarian on the website Folkvine.org, which recreates the experience of visiting Florida folk artists and their communities, and is helping to build a national version of this project. Her community art projects include the large scale Hannibal Square Community Mosaic. Her sculptural installations include Boxed In, a project funded bythe ArtFronts Partnership in Philadelphia, PA, and featured inSculpture 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 recently completed 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, she 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 addition to being an independent artist, she is currently Coordinator of Public Art for the Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida. Tomlinson is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, where she teaches in the summer session.  She lives with her husband, Craig Saper, and their two children in an acre of jungle in Central Florida.