Discipline: Film/Video – animation

Karl Staven

Discipline: Film/Video – animation
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Karl Staven worked on several animated films. One involves ripping paper, another brings a children's rhyme to life, and a third is a narrative character film set in a church. He was open to a fourth possibility as a part of this residency.

Studios

Chapman

Karl Staven worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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