Liz Van Verth - Par Avion
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Liz Van Verth is a filmmaker from Buffalo, NY, who received her BFA in Illustration at Syracuse and her MFA at Pratt Institute in New York. She worked as a graphic artist for NBC Nightly News and eventually as a 3-D animator for show graphics on Dateline NBC. She has also worked on projects for CBS Sports and MTV.
Liz currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute, and had previously taught at at Pratt Institute and Lehman College.
Her MFA thesis animation is called Par Avion, which won Best Concept for the Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Show and was screened at the Brooklyn International Film Festival KidsFest, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Heartstrings Award.
