User:JKizzieHumanities/Jo Dery

Jo Dery is a multimedia artist working in Brattleboro, Vermont. She works in animation, book-binding, illustration, and installation. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a bachelor's degree in film, animation, and video, and earned her master's degree at Goddard College. She is a founding member of the Dirt Palace in Providence, Rhode Island and completed a residency at the historic MacDowell Colony. Her work in animation and multimedia has been exhibited at the Dirt Palace, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and the New York Times.

Her book Quietly Sure - Like the Keeper of a Great Secret was published in 2008. Dery was awarded the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award in 2012. She has taught at Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University, and DePaul University. As of 2014, Dery teaches film studies at Keene State College.