Lisa Crafts

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

This work is from a collection of chimeric animated portraits inspired by conversations
with thinkers, activists and dreamers who are actively engaged with issues pertaining to
the environmental crisis. These works are amalgamations of fiction and non-fiction:
expressive silent animated narratives sparked by our conversations. These works utilize
animation to disrupt literal and authoritative documentary as a means to open up
conversation and spark new ideas.

Lisa Crafts is an animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work addresses issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos. She is currently working on a series of short moving image pieces about the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the Anthropocene. Blending animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture, the work inhabits the blur between what is seen and what is imagined. Craft’s work has screened in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and MacDowell. She teaches in the Film Video department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY