Janis Crystal Lipzin

Janis Crystal Lipzin, (born 1945) is an American artist working with film, photography, video, audio, multi-media installations, and media performance. She has been an active filmmaker since 1974,[1] when she became attracted to using Super-8 cameras, in part because of their easy portability and flexibility to make changes to a print.[2] Her work has been recognized with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Film Society, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Venice Biennale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other international venues. [3] She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009 where she served as Chair of the Film Department and before that directed the Film/Photography Program at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. [4] Among her awards are fellowships, commissions and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, Ohio Arts Council, California Arts Council, Mission Eye and Ear, and Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles.. [5]

Janis Crystal Lipzin in October 2017