Learn to make your own stop-motion animation! Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership, in collaboration with the Inuit Art Foundation, is excited to share this event in our “De-ICE-olation” Online Artist Workshop Series! We shared a recorded video of multimedia artist and Inuit Futures 2020 Artist-in-Residence Glenn Gear, giving an introduction to stop-motion animation and a tutorial on affordable animation techniques using a jointed paper puppet. On Thursday May 7th, Glenn then shared a 1-hour livestream Q&A on animation techniques, puppets and more!
The Q&A session took place online using Zoom. This workshop, like every De-ICE-olation event, was free.
Glenn Gear is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Montreal, Quebec, originally from Newfoundland. Much of his work explores alternative forms of storytelling through research-based creation and personal/tactile knowledge rooted in his Inuit heritage connected to Nunatsiavut. Primarily focused on animation and moving images, he also uses archives, photographs, drawings, traditional crafts, and objects in his practice. He is passionate about low-budget and experimental animation techniques and shares these through mentoring opportunities that have become an integral part of his practice. His work delves into the relationships between people, animals, and land, rethinking the spaces in which history, hope and Inuit knowledge may thrive. Glenn is currently the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership 2020 Artist-in-Residence! During this residency he has already presented at Montréal En Lumière’s Nuit Blanche and Concordia University’s First Voices Week, where he led a Sealskin Brooch-making Workshop and participated on the panel “On Screen: Inuit Film and Video.” He has also worked on projects with the National Film Board of Canada, and collaborated with other artists on installations, murals, online works, and live video/audio projections. His films have screened in festivals throughout Canada and around the world, including ImagineNATIVE Film +Media Arts Festival, Canada; Skabmagovat – Indigenous Peoples’ Film Festival, Finland; He Wiki Kiriata Māori – Māori Film Week, New Zealand.