Image: "Strange Neighbours", 3 channel site specific installation, 2014, Media Facade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Tracy Miller-Robbins
tmillerrobbins(at)gmail.com
Education
M.F.A, Electronic Arts, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati 1993
B.F.A, Painting, Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1990
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (Animation and Video courses), 1990-91
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH (Video Graphics courses), 1989
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor, Animation Pre-Production (online, asynchronous), Department of Art, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, Fall 2022
Graduate Faculty Mentor, MFA Program. Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 2011-2018
Animation Professor, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 1996-2017
Electronic Publishing, Adjunct Instructor, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 1994-1996
Saturday School Instructor, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 1994-1995
Art for Kids Instructor, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH1990-1994
Animation, Adjunct Instructor, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1993
Instructor of Record, Graduate Assistantship (Drawing), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1992-1993
Art for Kids Teaching Assistant, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1986-1990
Screenings/Exhibitions
My mama told me I’m experimental, Satellite Film Screening, Saigon Experimental Film Festival (SEFF), Hanoi, November 2022
VASTLAB Experimental 2022, Los Angeles, CA, November 2022
International Animation Day, ASIFA International, Screenings include: Texas, India, Michigan, Oregon, October 2022
Sinclair Community College, 2 person show, Burnell Triangle Gallery, Dayton, Ohio, September 2022
Supernova 7th Dimension, Everything Abstract Experimental Competition, Denver, Colorado, September 2022
Silent Screen, Activating Environmental Awareness, Outdoor LED screens, juror Beatie Wolfe, Denver, Colorado, September 17th 2022
Ohio State Fair, Juror's Choice Award, Body of work included 6 prints and 2 single channel videos, July/August 2022
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 51, Vanderelli Room, Outdoor screening, Columbus, OH, July 2022
Lines Fiction Film Screening, Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany June 2022
Digital Graffiti Festival, Projection Art Festival, Curator's Choice Award, Alys Beach, FL, May 2022
West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival, Morgantown, WV, April 2022
Ann Arbor film festival trailer, 30 & 60 second trailers, shown before screenings, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2022
New Woman Juried Exhibit, Annex Gallery, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, January 2022
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 45, Ohio State University, online screening, Columbus, OH, January 2021
Animated Women Club, AR Self-Portraits, 70+ female animators from around the globe. www.animatedwomen.club, January 2021
ASIFA International, Created an animated doodle to celebrate the new year. 13 animators from Greece, USA, Norway and Belgium, January 2021
ASIFA Central, Created a 9 second animation for "Potluck", a 2 minute/13 artist Anjam in celebration of International Animation Day, October 2020
Seoul International Extreme-Short Film Festival(SESIFF). Extreme-Short Rewind", August/September 2020
Digital Graffiti from Home, "Strange Neighbours" included in reel from past festivals. May 2020
Canaltown Moving Movie Festival, Honesdale, PA, September 2019
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 39, Ohio State University, Hagerty Hall, Columbus, OH, July 2019
Artscape 2019: Animations on the Big Screen, Curated by Corrie Francis Parks, Baltimore, MD, July 2019
Streetlight Revisited, Group Show, 80+ artists on random shuffle 24/7, Wedge Projects, 1448 West Howard Street, May 6,-July 28, 2019
ABOP Open Projector event for Subculture & Alternative Cinema, (invited artist), Volume 6b, Ashville, NC, June 2019
Streetlight Revisited, Group Show, 80+ artists on random shuffle, evening projection, Roman Susan, 1224 West Loyola Avenue, May 7-24, 2019
ABOP Open Projector event for Subculture & Alternative Cinema, (invited artist), Volume 6, Ashville, NC, May 2019
Streetlight @Wedge Projects, Tracy Miller-Robbins, collected works (Howard Street), Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago IL, April 2019
"collected works" projection at Bowery and Houston, Walltime, New York, NY, 3/22/19
"subconscious capture" projection at Bowery and Houston, Walltime, New York, NY, 2/17/19
Soft Bytes Animation Festival, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA, May 2018
AnimaPIX showcase, Madalena, Pico, Azores, December 2017
Southeastern International Film Festival, Nashville, Tennesse, November 2017
Strength through Connection, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH, October/November 2017
Fur Reality Animation Screening, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2017
Brasilia Animation Festival - BAF, Brasilia, Brazil, October 2017
Streetlight, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago IL, July 2017
Animation Goes MSU! Open Air screening, curated by Daniel Šuljić, SUPERTOON International Animation Festival, Šibenik, Croatia, July 2017
Glitch: An Exploration of Digital Media, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA May-July 2017
Melbourne International Animation Festival, (dots), Installation Program, Melbourne, Australia, June 2017
3rd International New Media Art exhibition & publication (strange neighbours), CICA Museum, Korea, May/June 2017
Norwich Underground Film Club, Anteros Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, May 2017
Upper Arlington Film Festival, Columbus, OH, May 2017
Filmideo, Index Gallery, Installation Monitor, Newark, NJ April 2017
Draw the Line: Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK April 2017
Cineclube Animassa, Rv Cultura Arte, Brazil, April 2017
Faculty Exhibition, JVC Atrium, Site Specific installation of strange neighbors, CCAD, March/April 2017
Clean Shorts Film Festival 2017, Oklahoma, March 2017
Rush Process DIY Animation Spotlight, Rec Room, Houston, TX, March 2017
Emerge Microcinema, Forest Hill Brewery, Cleveland, OH, February 2017
Surfaces 2.0, (dots) UCF Gallery, University of Central Florida, February 2017
Wular Lake International Short-Film Festival, India, December 2016
Animation Marathon, Greece, November/December 2016
7th Seoul Metro International Subway Film Festival, Seoul, Korea and Barcelona, Spain, September/October/November 2016
Women Over 50 Film Festival, Brighton, UK, October 2016
First Friday Film Festival, MTH Theater, Kansas City, October 2016
International Animation Awards, Online festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 2016
Mosaic World Film Festival, Rockford, IL, August 2016
Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE, Montreal, Canada, August 2016
Hsin-Yi Chidren's Animation Awards, Taipei, Taiwan, Preliminary Screenings, August 2016
Samawah Cinema Tour, Samawah, Iraq, July 2016
The Walthamstow International Film Festival, London, UK, July 2016
The One Minute Festival, Melhores Minutos (Best Minutes) exhibition, Rede de Exibição, June 2016
SPE Women's Film and Video Library, Online (extended) Festival, June 2016-March 2017
Ozark Shorts, Traveling Festival Screenings, 2016
MSU Media Façade (Museum of Contemporary Art) / Animafest Zagreb, “dots”, Zagreb, Croatia May/June 2016
Melbourne International Animation Festival, (morning coffee), Installation Program #1, Towards Narrative, Melbourne, Australia, June 2016
One Minute Film Festival Aarau, Spezialprogramm 3, Stadtmuseum Aarau, Switzerland, May 2016
Samawah Cinema, Short Film Session, University of Baghdad International Festival, Baghdad, Iraq, May 2016
Mediated: An Urban Projection Event (strange neighbours), Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, May 2016
ANIMAZE DAZE at Cannes, Animation Day at Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 2016
Animation Attack! Atlanta, Georgia, May 2016
World Festival of Emerging Cinema, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, May 2016
Digital Graffiti 2016, Art Projection Festival, "dots", Alys Beach, Florida, May 2016
Tromanimation, Brooklyn, NY, April 2016
2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival, Seattle, Washington, April 2016
Sun Screen Film Festival, Animated Short Block, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 2016
ShortCup Festival, 2016 Space Showcase, screenings simultaneously in São Paulo, Bogotá, Florianópolis and Medellin, April 2016
10th International 100 seconds Film Festival, Out of Competition, Tehran, Iran, March 2016
Shorty Week, network BARaderos (Gallery-Pub White and Black), Spain, March 2016
21st Annual SPE Women’s Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV March 2016
Big Muddy Film Festival at the University Museum, Animation Showcase (installation), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL February 2016
Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL February 2016
Film Festival Kolaksai, "Morning Coffee", Ukraine February 2016
Independent international Animation Festival Funny Cat (online festival), Russian Federation, January-March 2016
Cinema Club, "Morning Coffee", Videology, Brooklyn, January 2016
Miami Independent Film Fest, “Morning Coffee”, Miami, Florida 2016
Locomocion Experimental Animation Festival, "Morning Coffee", Mexico November 2015
Leamington Underground Cinema, 60 seconds max, "Morning Coffee", Leamington Spa, UK November 2015
Just a Minute Film Festival, "Morning Coffee", Online, October 2015
The World Animation Celebration, Winner, Best Experimental Animation, sponsored by Sony Pictures and Animation Magazine, "Morning Coffee", Culver City, CA, October 2015
Anima-Sao - International Animation Festival, "Morning Coffee", São Gonçalo, Brazil, October 2015
10 Second International Animation Festival, "Faces", "Fire", "Rainbow", Seoul, Korea, October 2015
Sixty Second Film Festival, "Morning Coffee", Vashon, WA, September 2015
Expotoons Animation Festival, "Morning Coffee", Mini-Corto, Buenos Aires, September 2015
Twin Rivers Film Festival, "Morning Coffee", Asheville, NC, September 2015
International Festival of Cordoba Cineminutos, Parallel Showcase: Panorama, "Morning Coffee", Cordoba, Argentina, September 2015
Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes MULTIFEST, “Morning Coffee”, Mexico August 2015
Festival do Minuto, Minute Trophy: Honor Mention, "Coffee", Brasil, June 2015
MSU Media Façade (Museum of Contemporary Art) / Animafest Zagreb, “Morning Coffee”, Zagreb, Croatia June 2015
Digital Graffiti 2015, Art Projection Festival, "Strange Neighbours", Alys Beach, Florida June 2015
Melbourne International Animation Festival, "Strange Neighbours", Animation Installation, Melbourne, AU June 2015
Extremely Shorts Film Festival, “Morning Coffee”, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX June 2015
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, 90 Second Program, “Morning Coffee”, Manitoba, Canada June 2015
TOFF, “Morning Coffee”, June 2015
River Film Festival, “Morning Coffee”, Padova, Italy June 2015
CMAC Rural Film Festival, “Morning Coffee”, Minute to Spare, Princeton, Minnesota May 2015
Loop de Loop, “Faces”, Screenings in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Paris January 2015
Show me the Animation, Do it in Ten, Fire (online), August 2014
Loop de loop, Rainbow, Screenings in Melbourne, Australia, Adelaide, Australia and Los Angeles, CA 2014
MSU Media Façade (Museum of Contemporary Art) / Animafest Zagreb, “Strange Neighbours”, Zagreb, Croatia June 2014
loop de loop, Food, M-Bar screening, Los Angeles, CA 2013
Three channel Video, Mixed Messages Conference, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 1997
Fuseboxes and Circus Breakers, Furlong Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stout, WI 1997
Digital Muse, Artspace Lima, Lima, OH 1996
Multimedia Exhibition and CD-ROM, Siggraph, Orlando, FL 1994
1000 Add One Frame Exhibition and CD-ROM, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany 1994
Scanning the Horizon, Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, Visual Arts Gallery, Columbus, OH 1994
ISEA 94, Mediatheque Lounge, Helsinki, Finland 1994
Visual Surge, Studio San Giuseppe Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 1994
Beyond the Soaps: Reel Images of Real Women Film Festival, Raymond Walters College, Cincinnati, OH 1993
Interactive Experience, ISEA / InterCHI 93, RAI Congress Centre, Netherlands, Holland 1993
Are you sure you want to quit?, 840 Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1993
Exhibitions
Small Wonders 3, A tiny exhibition of art and film, "Morning Coffee", Hamtramck, Michigan July 2015
Spy Mail Art Exhibit, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Siberia 2014
Focus Latin America: Art is our last hope, International Mail Art Exhibit, Phoenix Art Museum, 2014
PAIN, mail art exhibit. University of New England in Maine 2014
Borders, mail art exhibit, Strasbourg, France 2014
Rochester 6x6 Exhibition, Rochester, NY 2014
I am a walnut tree, mail art exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 2014
Temporality, mail art exhibit, International Blowing Bubbles Day, Venray (Netherlands) 2014
Sketchbook Project Traveling Exhibition and Art Library, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, Victoria BC, Canada 2013
9th National Computer Art Invitational, Traveling Exhibit, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 1996
Livewire, Derby Photography Festival, Traveling Exhibit / Online, University of Derby, UK 1996
Kentucky Foundation for Women, Decade Celebration, Northern Kentucky University, Louisville, KY 1995
Grants and Residencies
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, Interdisciplinary/Performance Art 1995
Kentucky Foundation for Women Grant, Project support, Funding for production of “ivy” installation 1994
Isabel Wolfstein Travel Grant, University of Cincinnati, “Vinculum” installation at ISEA / InterCHI 1993
Image Processing Residency, Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY 1992
Louis G. Rockwood Memorial Production Grant, University of Cincinnati, “Vinculum” installation 1991
Visiting Artist and Workshop Presentations:
Greg Blair, Brian Fencl and Tracy Miller-Robbins, Virtual Artist talk (Zoom), Sinclair Community College, September 2022
Mysteries of Zooom, Asifa Central Retreat, Virtual workshop, July 2022
Animated Drawings workshop, In-Between Animation Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2018
Animated Drawings workshop, MODE17, Motion Design Summit, Ohio State University, School of Design, 2017
Maryland Elementary, Bexley Schools - 6th grade, Rube Goldberg Inspired Claymation, Spring 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Maryland Elementary, Bexley Schools - 5th grade, Science Claymation, Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Fine Arts Seminar, Animated Drawing Presentation/demo, CCAD Fine Arts, Fall 2016
Drawing workshop- Professor Gordon Lee, Animated Drawing Presentation/demo, CCAD, Fine Arts, Fall 2015
Discovery Club, CCAD, Summer 2015
The Animated Loop, CCAD Animation Workshop for High School Students, 2014
Studio Day, Animation Workshop for High School Students 2014
Reelabilities Film Festival, CCAD, Conducted a "Make Your Own" Workshop for festival participants 2013
Heritage Middle School, Westerville Schools - 6th grade, Science Claymation, Meiosis, Fall 2013
Saturday Sessions at ESC, ClaymationWorkshop (Grades 4-6), Spring 2013
Saturday Sessions at ESC, Drawn Animation Workshop (Grades 4-6), Winter 2012
Hanby Arts Magnet School - 5th grade gifted program, Food Web Claymation, Winter 2012
Hanby Arts Magnet School - 4th grade gifted program, Post it Note Anijam, Spring 2012
Robert Frost Elementary - Enrichment Clusters, Pixilation, Claymation and Cutout Animation, (3 weeks) 2011
Animation Pre-College Summer Intensive, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH 2005-2007
Artist in Residence, Ohio Arts Council, Arts in Education Program (typical residencies were 2 weeks) 1995-2003
Hypercard Stack, At Risk youth, ages 9-13, Positive Education Program, Cleveland, Oh
Silhouette animation, Elementary students, Fairlawn Elementary, Pemberton, Oh
Interactive Kiosk, High School Students, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Oh
Visiting Artist, Presented multimedia work, Lycoming College Art Department, Williamsport, PA 1995
Visiting Artist, Presented multimedia work, Lycoming College Art Department, Williamsport, PA 1994
Bibliography
Jenkins, Mark. "In the Galleries Digital and Traditional Media Join Forces." Washington Post, 30 June 2017. Web.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-digital-and-traditional-media-join-forces/2017/06/30/c5e6e384-5a98-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.4b56d746760f
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Dansie, Mary. "Art Review: Draw the Line." LeftLion. Left Lion, 21 Apr. 2017. Web.
https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2017/april/art-review-draw-the-line
Milligan, Mercedes. "Animation Goes MSU Presenting 13 Plein-Air Films." Animation Magazine. 23 May 2016. Web.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/animation-goes-msu-presenting-13-plein-air-films
Animafest Zagreb. "From Tetris to the Birth of Fascism: Animation Goes MSU", May 20, 2016.
http://www.animafest.hr/en/2016/news/read/from_tetris_to_the_birth_of_fascism_animation_goes_msu
Woodley, Chris. "Animation Domination, Artist Tracy Miller-Robbins works to help aspiring animators advance in the world" Westerville Magazine. May/June. 2016.
https://issuu.com/cityscenemediagroup/docs/westerville_may16_web
Meet the Artists of DG2016 - Digital Graffiti. Digital Graffiti. 2016. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
http://www.digitalgraffiti.com/tracyandolga/
Mercedes Milligan, World Animation Celebration Winners Announced, Animation Magazine, Oct. 27, 2015.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/world-animation-celebration-winners-announced
World Animation Celebration Program, Animation Libation Studios, access date: Oct. 27, 2015.
http://www.animationlibationstudios.com/
Expotoons 2015 catalogue (p.35), International Animation Festival, September, 2015
http://issuu.com/expotoons/docs/catalogo_baja
Multifest 2015 catalogue (p.11), International Festival, August, 2015.
http://issuu.com/micmultifest/docs/catalogo_multifest_2015
Café da manhã ( Morning Coffee) , official blog of the Anima-Sao Festival, access date: August, 2015.
http://animasaofestival.blogspot.com/2015/08/cafe-da-manha-morning-coffee.html
30A Radio Interviews 2015 Digital Graffiti Artists, Interview (podcast), 30A Radio, Alys Beach, June 2015
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/30a-radio/e/2015-digital-graffiti-artist-interviews-38352935
Malcolm Turner, Installation Animation (page 33), Melbourne International Animation Festival Catalogue 2015, June 2015
http://miaf.net/archive/MIAF_2015_catalogue_FINAL.pdf
Animation Goes MSU, Animafest Zagreb, June 2015
http://www.animafest.hr/en/2015/side_event/read/animation_goes_msu_3
Animation Goes MSU, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Zagreb (Museum of Contemporary Art), June 2015
http://www.msu.hr/#/en/20626/
Animafest Zagreb Program, Animation Goes MSU! (page 29), June 2015
http://issuu.com/animafestzagreb/docs/animafest_2015_bilten_lowres
Alys Beach Announces Artists for 2015 Digital Graffiti Festival, South Walton, April 24, 2015
http://www.southwalton.com/digital-graffiti-2015/
DG2015 Festival Finalists Announced, Digital Graffiti, Apr 22, 2015
http://www.digitalgraffiti.com/dg2015-festival-finalists-announced/
Animation Goes MSU, Animafest Zagreb, May 2014
http://animafest.hr/en/2014/side_event/read/animation_goes_msu_2
Joe Marine, Film Festival costs got you down? No Film School, February 19, 2013
http://nofilmschool.com/2013/02/free-no-entry-fee-festivals
Juror
Juror, Mode Fest, Mode Summit, reConnect (virtual), 2021
UC Blue Ash, Reviewer- Capstone Projects, 2020
Juror, Mode Fest, Mode Summit, New Zealand, 2019
Cincinnati Animation Festival, Juror, Screening at Esquire Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, April 2018
State Juror, Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, Columbus, OH 2016
Lead Juror, Experimental Gallery, Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Columbus, OH 2015
Judge, Reflections Visual Art Competition, Worthington Schools, Elementary.2014
Skills
Animation: Dragonframe, Adobe Photoshop, Toon Boom Harmony, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Adobe After Effects, Animate CC
Other: Word, Powerpoint, Wordpress
Volunteer projects
Storyboard Artist/Instructional Designer, Science World, e-Learning for Kids, Netherlands 2013
Storyboard Artist/Instructional Designer, Math World, e-Learning for Kids, Netherlands 2012-2013
Animator, Hopes for Women in Education, Toronto, ON 2012
Author, No Entry Fee Festival Blog, 2011-Present
Director, Carthwheel Animation Studio, 2008-Present
Online projects:
Sketchbook Project, Strange Neighbors Sketchbook
Loop de Loop Faces, Screenings in Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles and Paris 2015
Show me the Animation, Do it in Ten, Fire, August 2014
Loop de loop, Rainbow, Scrrenings at: Loop Project Space and Bar (Melbourne, Australia), Blank Space Studio, (Adelaide, Australia) and NerdMelt,
Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, November 17, 2013 – January 12, 2014, Memories of the heart (closed), (open), Memories of the Mind.
Loop de loop, Food, M-Bar, Los Angeles, June 30, 2013
Screenings of Student works
CCAD Animation, Experimental Animation, 100 Years of Animation, Schumacher Gallery, Capital University, 2016
West Cherry Street Film Night, Part I: Experimental Animation Projects: Spring 2016, Short Film Screening (9 student shorts), 2016
Experimental Animation Projects: Spring 2016, Short Film Screening (9 student shorts), Beeler Gallery Screening Room, 2016
Extremely Young Shorts, Aurora Picture show, Texas, "Food Web" by Hanby Fifth Grade, 2014
Wexner Youth Shorts, Columbus, Ohio, "Food Web" by Hanby Fifth Grade, April 2013
Professional Organizations
Asifa Central/Midwest, Board Member
Women in Animation
