Bio
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Sarah Jane Lapp makes paintings, drawings, and films.
She is the recipient of a Seattle City Artist's Grant (2010), Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Media Grant (2007), the Alpert Award in the Arts/UCross Residency Award (2007), an Artist Trust Gap Grant (2004), a Jerome Foundation New York Media Grant (2000), a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Grant (2000), an Artslink/CEC International Partners Media Grant (1997 with Jenny Perlin), and a two-year full-merit fellowship from the Masters in Fine Art program in the Department of Filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She has been a fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center (in collaboration with Mark Dresser), the MacDowell Colony (2000, 2001), the Atlantic Center Center for the Arts/Civitella Ranieri (2000), and at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts (2000). Past exhibition venues include Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, British Film Institute, Kino Arsenal, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, PBS, SXSW, Tacoma Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Jewish Museum/New York, the Museum of Fine Art/Boston, Walker Art Center. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a Fulbright Scholar at FILMOVÁ A TELEVIZNÍ FAKULTA AKADEMIE MÚZICKÝCH UMÉNÍ V PRAZE (FAMU) for ten months in 1994 and subsequently apprenticed at the state animation studio Bratri v Triku in Prague. Short-listed for Seattle's weekly newspaper's "Genius" award, Ms. Lapp spent five years as an editorial cartoonist/visual artist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a daily newspaper. Ms. Lapp spent 2010-11 in residency in Cambridge, teaching animation in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard and Video Production at Wellesley College. Gallery Liasos: Bertrold Naumann, Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg in Germany; Seattle Art Museum/ Rental Gallery; Gallery Extrana, and Seventh Art Releasing.
She is finishing "Sweetface," a 16mm film that investigates the relationship between sweetness and power.
Press
Across the Pond
- Galerie Berthold Naumann announcement, May 8, 2009
- Stuttgarter Nachrichten, May 6, 2009
- Sarah Jane Lapp in Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 5, 2006 (PDF)
- Modern Art in Alten Rathaus, Filder wochenblatt, April 6, 2006 (PDF)
Across the Country
- Jazz Messengers, Synastry
- Outside-Inside-Out, Christmas Gift Suggestions for that Avant Garde Lover in Your Life
- Robert Bush's response to "Nourishments"
- The New York Times, A Film Festival for a Jewish World That Spans the Globe, by A.O. Scott
Local Love
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 15, 2007, The artist lineup for Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Biennial is irresistible
- The Enterprise, October 1, 2008, Lapp Exhibit at Anderson Center
- The Stranger, September 10, 2008, 2008 Stranger Genius Awards Shortlist: Film
Cross-examination
- La Trobe University, Screening the Past, What Should I Make Up? An inquiry into autobiography. Interview with Sarah Jane Lapp.