Perceptual Interiorities: A live animated interactive performance with musicians Dana Reason and Kevin Patton, 3/3/2012. Corvallis Art Center, 7:00PM. See links for feature article aboiut event.
Terremoto has been selected for the short film competition at the L'Aquila Film Festival, which will be held between 23 and 26 November 2011. The projection is scheduled for Friday 26, within a special event called "Tomorrow" about L'Aquila's earthquake and Japan's tsunami, in cooperation with Sendai Film Festival "Shortpiece!!!"
Anita's Journey will be screened at The Wexner Center For the Art's exhibition space for video, the Block Gallery during the month of November 2011. For details see webpage:
http://www.wexarts.org/fv/?eventid=5981
Anita's Journey will also be screened at the Vancouver Jewish Arts Film Festival, Vancouver BC, Monday, November 14, 2011
Family History will be screened in September 2011 as an official selection in the CologneOff Vll , Art and the City, International Video Art Festival, at the Sunflower Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Budapest International Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, Waterpieces Contemporary and Video Art Festival Riga/Latvia.
Terremoto will be screened at the Sidney Down Under Film Festival in Sydney Australia in September, 2011.
Anita's Journey will be screened on OPB in August 2011 as part of the Oregon Lens series focusing on Oregon filmmakers.
Morning Coffee will be exhibited at the Athens Film and Video Festival in Athens, Greece this summer.
Terremotto and Family History will be included in the "Currents 2011" New Media Exhibition at the Museo Cultural, Santa Fe New Mexico in June 2011.
Both films were also screened at the "Skepto International Film Festival”, Sardinia, Italy, Milan, Bologna, Rimini, Ravenna, Florence, Perugia, Naples, Italy and Madrid, Spain,in May 2011
Family History is included in the "Animacall Project" at the Contemporary Art Center in Thessaloniki, Greece, summer 2011.
There will be a special screening of Anita's Journey in conjunction with the Portland Chamber Orchestra's production of the Ann Frank opera, From Darkness to Light, April 9-11.
www.portlandchamberorchestra.org/darknesslight
Shelley will be giving a visual presentation, Berlin/Jerusalem, at the Oregon jewish Museum on Thursday, March 31. She will preview and discuss films Shifting Borders and Anita's Journey, and her recent trips to both cities.
"Terremoto", won the "Best Art and Animation Award" at the Radar/Hamburg Film Festival in Hamburg, Germany, where it was screened in November 2010.
In December 2010 Shelley will be doing a residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she will work on her newest animation"Anita's Journey".
Just back from a month long stay in Jerusalem as the Visual Arts Fellow the pilot program for the American Academy in Jerusalem.
Jewish Cultural Fellowship Pilot - a set on Flickr
http://www.facebook.com/l/0bd08ED5t3QKMPXkhiWHc98msKA;www.flickr.com/photos/jewishculture/sets/72157624157196603/detail/?page=2
Shelley Jordon will be traveling to Berlin, Germany to begin research for a new project tentatively called ”Anita’s Journey”. The hand painted animation will explore her mother-in-law, Anita Greenstein’s experience in hiding in Berlin during WWII based on a memoir written by Anita’s father, Robert Graetz’s memoir about the experience. The trip will be partially funded by an OSU library Research Award and an Oregon Arts Comission Individual Fellowship Award. From Berlin she will travel to Israel where she has been selected to be a Visual Arts Fellow at the pilot program for the Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship. She also received an OSU Center for the Humanities Fellowship Award to work on the project fall term.
Morning Coffee installation, and the Mother/Daughter drawings and interviews will be included in an exhibition entitled "Motherlode" at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon.
Opening is this Sunday April 18, 3:00-5:00PM. Exhibition continues through May 22, 2010.
For more info see website.
http://www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/2010exhibitionmotherlode.php
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2010/04/upcoming_motherlode_at_marylhu.html
Shelley Jordon has been awarded a 2010 Oregon Arts Commission Artist Individual Fellowship Award.
Work from the "Acoustic Neuroma" series will be included in, "Interiors", an invitational group exhibition at the Froelick Gallery, January-February 20120.
Family History will be exhibited at the Oregon Jewish Museum December 20- April 28. http://www.ojm.org/opening.htm
Family History recieved a "Judges Award" from LA times film critic Ken Turan at the 36th Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland, OR.
Family History was screened this fall at:
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Marrickville, Australia, September 2009
Tacoma Film Festival, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, October 2009
Radar Hamburg Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany, November, 2009
Eugene International Film Festival, Eugene, OR
36th Annual Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland OR
You can see the animations and installations on the animation page of this website.
Stay tuned for more news!