ABOUT
BIO
Kacey Morrow is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of New Media Design at Western Washington University, teaching in the Art Department with a focus on motion graphics, digital video, web and interactive design. Prior to WWU, she was a full-time lecturer at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, teaching in the Graphic and Interactive Communications Department.
She achieved her MFA from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in Graphic Design/Narrative Media and received her BA from the University of Iowa in Graphic Design with a minor in Cinema and Comparative Literature.
Her videos have appeared in several film festivals and exhibitions nation-wide. She has printed works published in the literary journal Ninth Letter. Ninth Letter was featured in Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, How Design, and Step Inside, and was a competition finalist in SXSW 2005 Interactive Web Awards Competition. She has presented at different design affiliated conferences in Chicago and Boston. She also has years of professional experience in Chicago as a motion, print, and multimedia designer.
For more information,Download CV here.
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
2011
- WomanMade Gallery - "Transient", Chicago, IL 2011
- Sunscreen Film Festival - "Ten Seconds", St. Petersburg, FL 2011
- San Francisco International Women's Film Festival - "Ten Seconds", San Francisco, CA 2011
- Queens World Film Festival - "Ten Seconds", NY, 2011
- Western Gallery - "Travel, Vanish", Bellingham, WA 2011
2010
- Northwest Film Forum Film Challenge - "Bike", Seattle, WA 2010
- Ladyfest Exhibition - "Transient", Bellingham, WA 2010
2009
- St. John's Intl. Women's Film Festival - "inside every moment...", St. John's, NL, Canada 2009
- Independents' Film Festival - "inside every moment...", Tampa, FL 2009 *Best Experimental Film
- Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival - "inside every moment...", Tipton, IA 2009
- NW Projections - "inside every moment...", Bellingham, WA 2009 *Best Experimental Film
- Zero Film Festival West Coast Tour- "inside every moment...", Seattle, WA 2009
2008
- Zero Film Festival - "inside every moment...", Los Angeles, CA 2008
- Tarfest - "inside every moment...", Los Angeles, CA 2008
- Hells Half Mile Film and Music Festival - "inside every moment...", Bay City, MI 2008
- Washougal International Film Festival - "inside every moment...", Washougal, WA 2008 *Most Ambitious Experimental Video
- Western Gallery - "inside every moment...", Bellingham, WA 2008
2007
- Selby Gallery - "inside every moment...", Sarasota, FL, 2007
- Art Institute First Floor Gallery - "inside every moment...", Minneapolis, MN 2007
2006
- Krannert Art Museum - "inside every moment...", Champaign, IL, 2006
- ISpace - "inside every moment...", Chicago, IL, 2006
2005--
- 48 Hour Film Festival - "paper jam", Des Moines, IA, 2005 *Best Cinematography and Audience Choice Best Film
- Live performance of "Tape" - background motion graphics, Iowa City, IA, 2003
CONFERENCES/LECTURES
2011
- University Film and Video Association Conference, Boston, 2011. Screened "Transient" and Reviewed "Where Are You Mission Blue" by Cade Bursell.
2010
- Design Principles and Practices Intl. Conference, Chicago, 2010. Presented paper, "Motion, Space, and Time in Design"
2009
- Guest Lecture for Temple University's Summer Seminar in London, London, 2009. Presented a lecture about Graphic Design in London for British Mass Media course
2008
- Faculty Review/Preview noon lecture series, Western Gallery, Bellingham, 2008. Presented creative work, "inside every moment..." and "Roadside Plastic"
- Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media, Boston, 2008. Presented paper, "Representation and Manipulation of Time in the Visual Arts" Narrative Studies in Design Education Panel