Join Brown Arts Institute and Providence-based animator Joel Orloff for a two-hour creative workshop inspired by William Kentridge’s stop motion animations, including No, It Is (2012), on view in Cohen Gallery April 26 - June 16. Participants will view examples of Kentridge’s work and collaboratively experiment in small groups to create short stop motion animations using charcoal and a technique often used by Kentridge called modified base animation. No experience with illustration or animation required. All materials will be provided.

About the Facilitator: Joel Orloff is an animator who lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He has created the animation for a number of documentary projects: Witness Theater (dir. Oren Rudavsky), Unladylike2020 (dir. Charlotte Mangin), Don Quixote of Newark (dir. Joseph Dorman), The Day Iceland Stood Still (dir. Pam Hogan). His short film Pilgrim is currently on loan to the Newport art museum. He co-created, with Viraj Gandhi and Riley Thompson, the award-winning short film When Planets Mate, an indo-futurist phantasmagoria set to the music of Chakram. He is currently creating animation for an upcoming documentary about the life and work of Elie Weisel. He teaches animation at RISD. Learn more at www.joelorloff.com.