Jessica Bardsley
Education
2012 M.A. Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 M.F.A. Studio Art (Film, Video, New Media), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 B.A. Cultural Studies (with Honors) New College of Florida
Off-campus Study
2007 UCLA, New Genres Department
2007 Hampshire College
2004 San Francisco Art Institute
2004 Ringling College of Art and Design
Awards/Scholarships
2012 Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour/Award
2012 John W. Kurtich Foundation Travel Scholarship: Belgium and the Netherlands
2009-2012 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Enrichment Scholarship
2011 Flaherty Film Seminar Student Fellowship
2011 Dean’s Grant: Travel Award
2011 CPH:DOX New Visions Award Nomination
2010 Princess Grace Award (Graduate Film Scholarship)
2004-2008 Florida Bright Futures Full Tuition Scholarship
2004-2008 New College of Florida Foundation Award
2004 Florida Scholar Award
Selected Screenings and Exhibitions
2012
Black Maria Film and Video Festival (New Jersey)
Upcoming solo show, Nightingale Theater (Illinois)
Upcoming solo show, Gallery X (Illinois)
Upcoming group show, Autumn Space (Illinois)
2011
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen Int. Documentary Film Festival), New Visions Competition
Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria BC, Canada)
Greenpoint Film Festival (New York)
Images Festival (Toronto, Canada)
FLEXfest (Florida)
Anthology Film Archives, Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (New York)
Microscope Gallery (New York)
Gene Siskel Film Center (Illinois)
2010
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Kassel, Germany)
Rooftop Films (New York)
Shadowbox Cinema II, by the Ann Arbor Film Festival and MCA Detroit (Michigan)
Nightingale Theater (Illinois)
Sarasota Film Festival (Florida)
The Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany)
Experiments in Cinema v5.1 (New Mexico)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio)
Princeton Environmental Film Festival (New Jersey)
LVL3: Talk Video To Me (Illinois)
2009
Millennium Film Workshop (New York)
Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria BC, Canada)
Video_Dumbo (New York)
Dallas Video Festival (Texas)
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Montana)
Hot Springs Documentary Film and Video Festival (Arizona)
“Lessons in the Sky,” Dia Art Foundation, curated by Andrea Grover (New York)
2008
Anthology Film Archives (New York)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio)
Teaching Experience
Fall 2011 Instructor, First Year English Seminar: Southern Gothic Film and Fiction, SAIC
Spring 2011 Instructor, First Year English Seminar: Contemporary Non-fiction Practices, SAIC
Teaching Assistantships
Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Seminar (Sadie Benning), SAIC
Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, Media and Modernity Seminar (Amy Beste), SAIC
Summer 2010 Teaching Assistant, Media Arts Workshop (Warren Cockerham), SAIC
Summer 2010 Teaching Assistant, Creative Writing for Visual Arts (Heidi McKye), SAIC
Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Film Workshops (Tom Comerford), SAIC
Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant, Drawing for Animation 1 (Chris Sullivan), SAIC
Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant, Time-based Art (Steve Lacy), SAIC
Film Festival and Screening Series Experience
2011-present Program Assistant, Conversations at the Edge, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011-present Organizer/Co-curator, Eye and Ear Clinic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008- 2009 Tribeca Film Fellows Program Assistant, Tribeca Film Institute
2008 Programming Coordinator, Sarasota Film Festival
Publications
2012
(forthcoming) nostalgia, like water
2010
“The Commoners,” INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media and Radical Aesthetics, #2
“The Commoners,” Rooftop Films DVD
2009
“The Commoners,” The Journal of Short Film, Volume #18
“The Wren,” Blackbird, Volume 7, Number 2
2008
“Evocative Non-fiction: Representation and Identity Construction in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee and Jacqueline Goss' Stranger Comes to Town,” New College of Florida Senior Thesis
"Black Women's Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance: Transgressions in the Poetry of Grimke and Johnson," New College Academic Journal, Issue 1 |