Deanna Morse

Deanna Morse is an independent American experimental filmmaker and media artist.

For the period of , she is president of the International Animated Film Association. She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2020.

Early life and education Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972. She received an M.A. in film and teaching at Goddard College, and in 1992 received a Master of Fine Arts (art and technology), with a merit scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1995, she was awarded an outstanding alumni award by Iowa State University.

Career After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston, where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.

She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013. During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001 and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.

Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show. She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show, and a juror for the art show in 1998.

She has judged festivals and computer graphics competitions including the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

She has published articles in Animation World Network.

Filmography She has made several films for Sesame Street, and Night Sounds (1992). Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools". Year !! Film !! Format

1995 - Outstanding Alumni Award from Iowa State University 2002 - Addy Award for Move Click Move DVD 2003 - Omni Award for Move Click Move DVD 2005 - Selected as an outstanding woman in the arts by the YWCA 2015 - Hyperion Award, 9th Eclipse Awards honoring Michigan's filmmakers and television creators Honored in the Plaza of Heroines at Carrie Chapman Catt Hall at Iowa State University.