Neil Kendricks
July 13th to September 12th 2020
Cooler Room Artist in Residence
About the project:
My proposed project for Art Produce’s Artist-in-Residence program is to work on my screenplay and filmmaking projects while simultaneously developing concept art, storyboards and the first pages of a comic-book adaptation based on my screenplay-in-progress. During the residence’s duration, I will utilize the studio space as a creative arena to pursue these overlapping creative endeavors where my screenwriting and drawing practices would have the opportunity to develop in tandem with one another.
July 13th to September 12th 2020
Cooler Room Artist in Residence
About the project:
My proposed project for Art Produce’s Artist-in-Residence program is to work on my screenplay and filmmaking projects while simultaneously developing concept art, storyboards and the first pages of a comic-book adaptation based on my screenplay-in-progress. During the residence’s duration, I will utilize the studio space as a creative arena to pursue these overlapping creative endeavors where my screenwriting and drawing practices would have the opportunity to develop in tandem with one another.
About the artist:
Neil Kendricks is a San Diego-based artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator who earned a Master’s degree in Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. He has written extensively about comics since the early 1990s, and he teaches the course ART 296: Comics and Sequential Media at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design and film courses at San Diego Miramar College and Southwestern College. Kendricks’ new short film Book of Skin is currently in post-production. In 2018, Kendricks was selected for an artist’s grant from the William Male Foundation towards his documentary-in progress Comics Are Everywhere! Commissioned by the arts organization Ship in the Woods for the Convergence exhibition, the artist-filmmaker’s 2015 short film Suspension has screened at such international film festivals as the 2017 SUBURBINALE Film Festival (Sept. 2017), the 2017 San Diego Underground Film Festival (Aug. 2017), the 2016 Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities (Sept. 2016) in Huntingdon, PA; Virginia’s 2016 Staunton International Film Festival (Sept. 2016), the 2016 Experimental Superstars Film Festival (Aug. 2016) in Serbia/Montenegro, and Tochka Dostupa Contemporary Arts Festival (Aug. 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kendricks’ 2015 experimental short film Memory Lines has also screened at film festivals including Australia’s INDIEhype Film Festival and the Cine Pobre Film Festival in La Paz, BCS, Mexico in 2016, and 4th Annual CityBeat 5 Minute Film Festival (Sept. 2016) in San Diego, CA; Alaska’s Machetanz Film Festival (May 2016), and the 2016 Stockholm Experimental and Animation Film Festival (April 2016) in Sweden. His award-winning short film, 2002's Loop has screened at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion, among others. The Michigan-born artist’s photography has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, London's Royal College of Art, and many other venues. In February 2008, Kendricks’ first solo photography exhibition, Bruised Eye Candy was shown at San Diego’s now-defunct Spacecraft gallery. Kendricks was one of 10 innovative artists selected for the 2013-2014 Creative Catalyst Fund-Individual Artist’s Fellowship funded through the San Diego Foundation towards his long-form film, Comics Are Everywhere!
Neil Kendricks is a San Diego-based artist, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator who earned a Master’s degree in Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. He has written extensively about comics since the early 1990s, and he teaches the course ART 296: Comics and Sequential Media at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design and film courses at San Diego Miramar College and Southwestern College. Kendricks’ new short film Book of Skin is currently in post-production. In 2018, Kendricks was selected for an artist’s grant from the William Male Foundation towards his documentary-in progress Comics Are Everywhere! Commissioned by the arts organization Ship in the Woods for the Convergence exhibition, the artist-filmmaker’s 2015 short film Suspension has screened at such international film festivals as the 2017 SUBURBINALE Film Festival (Sept. 2017), the 2017 San Diego Underground Film Festival (Aug. 2017), the 2016 Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities (Sept. 2016) in Huntingdon, PA; Virginia’s 2016 Staunton International Film Festival (Sept. 2016), the 2016 Experimental Superstars Film Festival (Aug. 2016) in Serbia/Montenegro, and Tochka Dostupa Contemporary Arts Festival (Aug. 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kendricks’ 2015 experimental short film Memory Lines has also screened at film festivals including Australia’s INDIEhype Film Festival and the Cine Pobre Film Festival in La Paz, BCS, Mexico in 2016, and 4th Annual CityBeat 5 Minute Film Festival (Sept. 2016) in San Diego, CA; Alaska’s Machetanz Film Festival (May 2016), and the 2016 Stockholm Experimental and Animation Film Festival (April 2016) in Sweden. His award-winning short film, 2002's Loop has screened at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion, among others. The Michigan-born artist’s photography has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, London's Royal College of Art, and many other venues. In February 2008, Kendricks’ first solo photography exhibition, Bruised Eye Candy was shown at San Diego’s now-defunct Spacecraft gallery. Kendricks was one of 10 innovative artists selected for the 2013-2014 Creative Catalyst Fund-Individual Artist’s Fellowship funded through the San Diego Foundation towards his long-form film, Comics Are Everywhere!
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