I'm an animator and interdisciplinary artist. My hand-drawn animations are featured in documentary films at the intersection of art, history, and science. These films have screened nationally on PBS's Great Performances and internationally at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, Japan, the National Museum of Australia, and the Animation Block Party in Brooklyn, NY. I am the Assistant Professor of Visual Storytelling at Kutztown University, where I teach courses in pre-production for animation and film. Previously, I was a lecturer of Design and Animation at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania and a lecturer of Design at The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
I received my MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and BA from Vassar College. Residencies include the Hacktory in Philadelphia, a Visual Arts fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities, and a summer residency at the Wassiac Project. My sculptural work has previously exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, BC, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington in Arlington, VA, and Julius Caesar Gallery in Chicago, IL. Awards include the 2019 G Holmes Perkins Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Juror’s Prize at the 25th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Juried Exhibition in 2012, a Fulbright Grant in 2008 to study Chinese traditional landscape painting in Hangzhou, China, and the Weitzel Barber Art Travel Prize in 2006 to study Buddhist sculpture practices in Western China.
Open for animation commissions or collaborations, email me at: jarivkin at gmail dot com.