Independent Filmmaker and Artist Lisa Barcy with Jamie Thome

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Lisa Barcy is an independent filmmaker and artist whose films have been screened internationally at film and animation festivals. She has been awarded the Director’s Citation at The Black Maria Film Festival, and Best Animation at both the Chicago Underground Film Festival and The Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her films include The Guilt Trip, or The Vaticans Take a Holiday, Mermaid, The Ordovicians, The Ephemeral Orphanage, and Anonanimal, a music video for Andrew Bird. She's also created large puppets for several Chicago-based theater companies. When not animating or teaching she creates artist books, collages, puppets, and participates in the occasional odd performance art piece. She lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul University in the School of Cinematic Arts. 

For more information about Lisa and her work, please visit her website at lisabarcy.squarespace.com 

Artists Book House Conversations are bite-sized video conversations between host Jamie Thome and various book artists, illustrators, cartoonists, writers, poets, librarians and book collectors. ABH Conversations will be released here on our You Tube channel and on our website and on the second Tuesday of every month. 

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