Katrina Fullman is a film and videomaker, performance/installation artist, and
educator. Unraveled, her feature lenghth documentary, on memory,
genetics and Alzheimer's disease won the 2008 FREDDIE International
Health and Medical Media Award in the Issues and Ethics category
and a Chris Statuette at the Columbus International Film and Video
Festival. Fullman is also director of the award-winning documentary
shorts Her Appetite and Refuse & Refashion, and writer, producer and director of the commedy/melodrama/social
satire I Touched Gloria. Fullman's video work has screened extensively
at festivals, galleries and museums including Art in General (New
York), the Bettry Rymer Gallery (Chicago), Outfest (L.A.), The
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (San Francisco), Reeling
(Chicago), Mix (New York), Women in the Director’s Chair (Chicago),
Athens International Film Festival, Telemanita Women’s Video Festival
(Mexico City), Kino Im Schulz (Cologne), and the London Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival. Fullman's performance, photography and installation
work has been exhibited at Gallery2 in Chicago, and the Caesar
Chavez Gallery and Mission Cultural Center, both in San Francisco.
She has been reviewed in the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Reader, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian and
Gay Film (New York: Serpents Tail Press, 1996). Fullman has received
grants from the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, The Chicago Artist
Assistance Program, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Purdue Research
Foundation. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication
Department at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
(IPFW). Fullman has also taught at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and Harold Washington City
College (Chicago). She holds s a BA in political science from The
Ohio State University and an MFA in video from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
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