ANIMATION WORKSHOPS
Lynn has been organizing and facilitating animation workshops at colleges and universities and for festivals and community groups for three decades. She loves introducing people to the magic of animation and watching their eyes light up as they bring their artwork to life. Depending on the setting and the needs to the workshop, she sometimes shares her unique clay on glass process, sometimes helps students build cut-out puppets, or uses a variety of experimental processes to introduce the range of possibilities for animated image making under the camera.
Crafting Empathetic Narratives: An Animators Perspective: In addition to animation production workshops, she also leads a master class where she walks students through finding the narrative thread suitable for animation in a non-fiction film. She taught this workshop to staff members at Wide Angle Youth Media in Baltimore in 2018.
Clay on Glass (Clay Painting) Workshops
Lynn taught a three-day intensive workshop to graduate animations students at Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan. This film is the result: Out Our Window
At Towson University in January 2015, Lynn and her collaborator Diane Kuthy, both faculty at Towson University, led a two-day arts integration workshop involving Baltimore area art and English teachers and Art Education and Electronic Media and Film students. Teachers received an iPod and training on creating animations; teachers then returned to their classrooms and incorporated the lessons, producing 45 minutes of animation, using cut-out stop-motion processes. These fun and colorful films revolved around the theme of ‘imaginary worlds’, tied to Baltimore-wide community events relating to the book, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. The movies created by the various students were showcased at the Creative Alliance Theater in Baltimore. The workshop and event were funded by the Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. More on The Big Read in Baltimore can be found here: http://libraries.towson.edu/big-read
This blog was created to can serve as a place to share ideas and showcase the animated imaginary worlds that are sparked by this workshop.