Hampshire College

Joan Braderman, professor of video, film, and media studies, holds a B.A. from Harvard and M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from New York University. Her award-winning documentaries and art videos (such as Joan Does Dynesty, 1986 and Joan Sees Stars, 1992) have been shown on PBS, cable, in galleries, at festivals, and at universities internationally and are in the permanent collections of museums such as the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

She is a founder of Heresies, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, and writing by and about her has appeared in such places as: The Village Voice, The Independent, Time Out, Afterimage, The London Guardian, and "Illuminations; An Essential Guide to Video Art."

Joan received a retrospective at the De Cordova Museum; the Koopman Chair in the Visual Arts at Hartford Art School; and the 2002 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Video, Portugal.

Grants include: National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.; Massachusetts State Councils for the Arts; and the American Film Institute. Joan has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Boston Museum School, and the London Art Institute.

Professor Braderman is currently making a new experimental documentary feature, The Heretics, about the Women's Art Movement in NYC: http://www.heresiesfilmproject.org/

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
Division II Independent Projects in Film, Photography, Video and Installation (Spring 2010)
Video I (Spring 2010)
Media Production II: Women Directors: Film and Video (Fall 2009)
Introduction to Analog/Digital Media Arts (Fall 2009)