Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 6–8 pm
Free or suggested donation
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Come to Squeaky Wheel for a special animation workshop with visiting artist Miranda Javid! Based on the artists own way of working using translucent paper, participants will learn how they can quickly and intuitively create their own animations with a smartphone, a free app, some tracing paper, and drawing materials. This workshop is intended for participants 16 and up, and is open to all experience levels.

Participants can bring their own smartphones or request an iPad from Squeaky Wheel. You can download the Stopmotion app to be utilized in the class here.

Bio of the instructor

Miranda Javid is an animator, curator, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience, human bias, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Eyeworks Film Festival, Slamdance, the Flaherty Seminar, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow, a Denniston Hill resident, a Sherman Fairchild grantee, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town, S Africa, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA. Currently, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State.

Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature, and individual members, businesses, and supporters. Learn more about the program here.

Image courtesy of Miranda Javid. Black ink on crinkly paper. The image is a drawing of a loosely drawn hand holding onto a leaf. Previous frames or past moments of the movement fading in a trail behind the hand.