Blue Convo 1 by Laura Heit

18" x 14”, Cyanotype on fine art paper, 2017

Laura Heit employs multimedia artist who employs stop-motion, live-action puppetry, hand drawing, and computer animation in interdisciplinary work. Her work has screened at museums and film festivals around the world including; Walker Arts center, MOMA, Guggenheim, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Annecy, Rotterdam, Taiwan, Ann Arbor, and London International Film Festivals, Black Maria, PBS, and others. She also works in puppetry, experimental theater, and live performance. Her acclaimed puppet-show-in miniature, The Matchbox Shows, in which Heit plays ringmaster to a tiny cabaret, has been touring for over ten years, St. Ann’s Warehouse Brooklyn NY, REDCAT, and Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA. She has been the recipient of awards and grants from; Mac Dowell Colony (2007, and 2009), Channel Four Television London, British Film Council, Durfee Foundation, ARC grant, Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America, and MTV. She has a BFA in Film from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Royal College of Art, London. From 2007 – 2011 She was co-director of the Experimental Animation Program at Cal Arts in Valencia California. She lives and works in Portland Oregon.