Animation and Community

Whitman at the Whitsell is the name of an animation and poetry celebration honoring the 200th birthday of American poet Walt Whitman.  Producer Marilyn Zornado has organized a gathering of Northwest-based artists, including Devon Damonte, Teresa Drilling, Deanna Morse, and Joan Gratz, to create short animated works representative of Whitman’s writings.

We're also joined by GLAS Animation Festival co-founder Einar Baldvin, and by Northwest Animation Festival director Sven Bonnichsen.  Sven has invited the Berkeley-based GLAS Festival to screen their experimental community-based animation program in Portland for the first time.