Fall 2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence
Amanda Strong
with Visiting Artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett
October 30 at 7pm – Film Screening & Talk Back, BAMPFA (tickets here)
November 1 at 4pm – Artist Talk: Amanda Strong + Bracken Hanuse Corlett, BAMPFA (tickets here)
plus class & studio visits
Amanda Strong will be the Arts Research Center's Artist-in Residence for fall 2024. Strong is a Canadian Screen Award and Emmy nominated director, artist, stop motion storyteller and has served as a media based artist for nearly 20 years. With a cross-discipline focus, common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineage, language and culture. She is Michif/Red River Métis and is a member of the MMF (Manitoba Métis Federation). Strong is the owner, producer and director of the Vancouver based animation studio Spotted Fawn Productions Inc. (SFP) where they create stop motion animations, books, installations and explore digital technologies that compliment the hand made art of stop motion. She is also a director at Atomic Cartoons where she is the current director of Emmy nominated 2D animated TV series, Molly of Denali, on PBS. Under her direction, SFP utilizes a multi-layered approach and unconventional methods that are centered in collaboration on all aspects of their work. With each production, SFP’s foundation focuses on process, learning, collaboration and collective making, while uplifting and creating space, training, resources, and skills development for Indigenous, BIPOC, LGTBQT2S+ and emerging artists. Strong’s work has been screened and exhibited across the globe, most notably at Cannes, TIFF, TIFF Top 10, VIFF, OIAF, Museum of Anthropology, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and the National Museum of American History. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, BC Arts Council and the NFB. Amanda was selected as the First Canadian Director and first Animated Project for the Sundance Institute Indigenous Filmmaking Lab for her latest film Inkwo For When the Starving Return, which has acquired the talents of world renowned artists and collaborators from past stop motion features (Coraline, Paranorman, Corpse Bride, Wendell and Wild, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio). The film is set to have its World Premiere at TIFF 2024. She is currently developing her first stop motion feature film. Strong received a BAA in Interpretative Illustration and a Diploma in Applied Photography from the Sheridan Institute.
Amanda will be joined during her residency at Berkeley by Bracken Hanuse Corlett, an interdisciplinary artist from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He works in painting, sculpture, audio-visual performance, digital art/design, animation and narrative. He graduated from the En'owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He also trained at the Hunt Studio with renowned Heiltsuk artists Bradley Hunt and his sons Shawn and Dean. A recent winner of the 2022 Portfolio Prize and the 2022 Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Visual Arts, he maintains a studio and collaborative practice working with ancestral forms and new media. He has exhibited, screened and/or performed locally and internationally with some notable work at VIFF, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, TIFF, and the Institute of Modern Art.
Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, and co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Departments of Art Practice, Film & Media, and Ethnic Studies, the Native American Studies Program, the Canadian Studies Program, and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues
