Animated Filmmaker and Artist Gives Lecture

Brent Green, a self-taught animated filmmaker and artist from Cressona, Pa., will kick off the 2011-12 Anderson Endowment Lecture series with a free public lecture at 2:30 p.m., on Wednesday, August 31, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. The lecture series is presented by the Penn State School of Visual Arts.

Green lives and works in a barn in his hometown of Cressona, where he grew up aspiring to be a writer-musician. In his early 20s, he taught himself how to draw cartoons so he could animate the images in his stories and songs. He writes short stories, which become the basis for his films, sculptures, and installations. Though he is best known for his films and performances, he has begun to create installations that incorporate his props and sets, including a series of devices crafted from sewing treadles and accordions that, when cranked or extended, produce animated images. Green’s solo exhibitions have been shown throughout the United States, including New York, Phoenix, Houston, Miami and Sante Fe. His films have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, the Hammer and Getty museums in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.