Watch the film that was created during the live stream animation during Art-A-Whirl 2020:
Check out how it was made:
For the last few years, I have been creating stop motion animated films on a big scale during Northeast Minneapolis’ Art-A-Whirl weekend. I have made these films with community collaboration.
I have joined with people dropping by to make paper cut-outs and then animate them on a floor or a table. Look at the videos under “Animation Station Past Projects” to see some examples of these.
This year I was planning to do something along those lines and was lucky enough to be awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to fund my doing it. But I wasn’t be able to create this collaborative movie as planned because of the social distancing necessary to keep COVID-19 from spreading too quickly, so I did it on-line instead.
My Northeast and Yours is an animated film collaged out of photographs and drawings sent to me. Starting during Art-A-Whirl weekend, I created a large-scale stop motion animation by printing out those images and arranging them on a large tabletop. My work creating this animation was livestreamed.
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John Akre is a fiscal year 2020 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
