Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art

Joanne Nerenberg

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000

Joanne Nerenberg is a film director, editor, and producer. She is currently co-producing The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, directed by Dempsey Rice and produced by Lori Cheatle; and producing Wild Surmise, a new film by Lizzie Gottlieb, featuring writer Robert Caro and his legendary editor Bob Gottlieb. She is the co-creator of move it!, a dance TV show for kids sold to Sesame Workshop in 2003. Her documentary short Body Job (2008) is a meditation on inspired physicality in the workplace, and profiles three individuals who transform sedentary jobs into active, kinetic ones. Joanne has produced video for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, The NY Historical Society, Harvard University and The Lincoln Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Studios

Firth

Joanne Nerenberg worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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