dirty hands

"Never trust an artist with clean hands. " -Sol LeWitt Information on some of my current projects as well as some of my older work.

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Animation Bus #4

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I'll be screening my animations on 99 screens in Time Square through the Time Square Arts event Midnight Moment. Stay tuned for dates.

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Springs Projects screening night. I’ll be curating a night of film at a gallery on Wednesday, September 3 @ 6PM. Film will start at 6:30. 

Springs Projects  20 Jay Street, #311B  Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)

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Animation Station | Cleveland Museum of Art

Stop by the Cleveland Museum of Art between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. to get a firsthand look at the art-making process. Each session provide

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The Animation Bus will be at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, NC on November 20-24. Let me know if you are in the area.

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The Elephant's Song from Lynn Tomlinson on Vimeo.

This is the story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog. Their story is portrayed in colorful, handcrafted animation, created frame by frame with clay-on-glass and oil pastel animation.

→ instagram.com/clayonglass

Animated and Directed by Lynn Tomlinson Written by Lynn Tomlinson and Sam Saper Music and lyrics by Sam Saper Vocals by Deletta Gillespie and Brooks Long Instrumentals and arrangement by Trucker Talk: Abby Becker, Greg Bowen, Jessica Keyes, Rich Kolm Sound Effects by Elsa Lankford Sound recorded and engineered by Shea Springer, Sweetfoot Studio Additional animation by Lucy Saper and M.C. Tomlinson

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The short film "Cracking Chirality" produced by the absurdly talented Day's Edge Productions and The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. was published online today and will on Curiosity Stream shortly. Dusty Studio did the animation with myself and Miles Mason doing the stop motion, Phillip Evans doing much of the illustration and Yalan Wen doing the motion graphics. Thanks Neil, Nathan, Page, Kori and Alex for begin so easy to work with. :)

"Cracking Chirality" from Chemistry Shorts™ explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it.

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Confluence: Safe Crossing

SVA MFA Computer Arts 2023 Fall Exhibition

Opening reception: Thursday, November 9, 6-8pm

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Confluence: Safe Crossing,” an exhibition of animations, films, prints and sculptures by MFA Computer Arts students, alumni, and faculty. Curated by India Lombardi-Bello, department assistant to the chair and outreach coordinator, and department administrative assistant Jack Meisterich, the exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, November 8, through Monday, November 27, 2023 at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, New York City.

At the opening reception on Thursday, November 9, alumnus Dustin Grella (2009) will park his Animation Bus outside the SVA Flatiron Gallery for visitors to gather, draw and animate. A timelapse video will be created and shared at a later date.

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The Vermont Animation Festival is hosted by Northern Vermont University in partnership with Catamount Arts and the Vermont Curators Group.

Announcing Dustin Grella as the 2024 VAF Keynote Speaker!

Dustin Grella is an animator and documentary filmmaker whose work attempts to glean glimpses of colorful insight into the seemingly mundane.

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Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) will be screening in the Competition-4 programme at the ANIMAGE festival in Recife, Brazil on October 3-8, 2023.

Poster Design by Natalia Gregorini - IG @nataliagregorini

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Animation Bus #03 from Dusty Studio on Vimeo.

Current progress on the animation bus that has chalkboard side so that people can draw on them.

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Read the full New York Times article at:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/music/dead-and-company-final-tour.html

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Best In Show Craft Awards Independent Films Commercial Experimental Music Videos Student Films Women In Animation Awards

Animation Hotline, 2022 (Ohio Edition) earned a thumbs up by the ASIFA community! Thank you for your love and support over the years. :)

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Water bottles with hand drawn labels that started in 2006. https://dustystudio.com/project/new-york-city-tap-water-2012/

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This is just a mockup, so it isn't what the bus looks like right now. Although it is an actual photograph of the bus. I'm planning on putting some colorful painting on the front and the back and then the middle will be chalkboard paint, so that when we are traveling we can have other people draw on the bus and we can draw on it ourselves and make animations. For some reason I keep talking about myself in plural.

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Happy 6th birthday to Buddy, my life's co-pilot. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmduKfrwvqKX4z8wZIFN319ujPymmiEK5xgHg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=