KATHERINE BLAKENEY
YorwickCastle.com
katblakeney@yorwickcastle.com
Facebook: Katherine Blakeney, New York
Youtubechannel: IsleofCiris 

    
Education

2010-2011            University Of Edinburgh
                              MSc Film Studies

2006-2010            School of Visual Arts
                             BFA Traditional Animation (Stop Motion)

2002-2006           La Guardia HS of Visual and Performing Arts
                            Art Department

Films
(Director, Animator, Art Director, Costume and Set Designer, Cinematographer, Lighting Designer, Screenwriter)

2010  The Dreams of Kings (stop motion)

2009  King Richard and the Apple (stop motion)

2008  Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Tree Nymph  (stop motion)

2007  Stone Egg: Traditional Myth from the Isle of Ciris (stop motion)

2006  How to Make Powdered Sugar (traditional animation)

Festivals

2010 The Dreams of Kings

May    Dusty Film and Animation Festival, New York, USA

August    Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Best of Animation Attack!, Atlanta, USA

Employment

2010                    Film Library Assistant, Part Time
                             School of Visual Arts Film Library
                             New York, USA

2010                    Teacher’s Assistant, Part Time
                             Department of Film, Video, and Animation
                             School of Visual Arts
                             New York, USA

2006-present       Web Design and maintenance (southasasif.com), Full Time
                             South Asasif Conservation Project
                             Luxor, Egypt
             
2006-present         Proofreader, Web Designer, Digital Artist

2006-2007            Archaeological Draughtsman, Contractual
                             The Metropolitan Museum of Art
                              Egyptian Department
                              New York, USA

Field Work in Egypt

2006 -present          Assistant Director, Archaeological Draughtsman, Digital Artist, Photographer, Proofreader, PR Officer
South Asasif Conservation Project, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt
                                Luxor, Egypt

2001-2005            Registrar, Archaeological Draughtsman, Proofreader
                             Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty (TT 312)
                             Deir El Bahri, Luxor, Egypt
                           

Exhibitions
(Paintings and Sculpture)

2003  Fiorello H. LaGuardia H.S. of Visual and Performing Arts

2001  Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center

2001  National Academy of Design

2000  National Academy of Design

1999  Art Gallery in Chelsey

1999  Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center

1999  National Academy of Design

1998  National Academy of Design

1997  Cork Gallery, LIncoln Center

1997  National Academy of Design

Publications

As Writer

"Comparing Characters from Albert Camus's 'The Fall' and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'." Student Pulse Academic Journal 2.01. 2010

"Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature." Student Pulse Academic Journal 2.01. 2010

"William Shakespeare's Richard III: Brilliant Schemer, Entertaining Villain." Student Pulse Academic Journal 2.01. 2010

"Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

"Jean De Joinville and his Biography of Saint Louis on the Seventh Crusade." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

"Perceptions of Knighthood: Comparing the Character of 'The Knight' in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

"Art and Biology: How Discoveries in Biology influenced the Development of Art Nouveau." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

"An Analysis of Billy Wilder's 'Double Indemnity'." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

"An Analysis of Film Critic Andre Bazin's Views on Expressionism and Realism in Film." Student Pulse Academic Journal 1.12. 2009

As Illustrator

Pischikova, E. Tomb of the Vizier Nespakashuty (TT 312) at Deir el Bahri
(line drawings, computer reconstructions)
(forthcoming at the Metropolitan Museum Publishing House)

Pischikova, E. “Two Ostraka From Deir El Bahri and The Lily Flower Motif In Twenty-sixth Dynasty Theban Tombs”, JARCE (39) 2002, 197 - 206

As Proofreader

Pischikova, E. 'The early Kushite Tombs of South Asasif ', BMSAES 12 (2009), 11-30.
www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_12/pischikova.aspx

Skills

Languages

Knowledge of French and Arabic (Upper Egyptian dialect)

Software

Proficient in:
Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, iStopMotion, FrameThief, Dragon Stop Motion, Toast, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, FileMaker

Knowledge of:
Maya, Flash, ProTools, DVD Studio Pro

Miscellaneous

Costume and set design, photography, calligraphy, sewing, embroidery

Portfolio