Marilyn Freeman

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Marilyn Freeman is an interdisciplinary, process- and time-based artist living in Olympia, Washington. Her work is characterized by themes of identity, tolerance, faith and alienation. Baptism is the first in a series of autobiographic essays and installations about growing up Catholic. Communion, a 50x50 foot multimedia installation from this Sacraments series, exhibited at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in October 2008. Freeman’s contemplative film work, collectively entitled, CinemaDivina, is screened in spirituality centers as well as film and arts venues. The Olympia Film Society presented the solo show, CinemaDivina: New Works, in May 2009. The CinemaDivina short, hope, exhibited last March at New York’s Powerhouse Arena  in 2,191 Days and Counting. The CinemaDivina piece, reverence, is online now at ninthletter.com. Freeman’s experimental feature film, Group, distributed by Frameline, was released on DVD in 2009 following its 2002 theatrical run and extended educational market release. In addition to numerous accolades for directing and producing, Freeman has received financial support from The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, Centrum, and the Washington State Artist Trust in the form of a Media Arts Fellowship and a Gap Grant for her screenplay, Sophisticated: The Hollywood Story of Miss Dorothy Arzner.  Freeman’s film, Meeting Magdalene (1995), played festivals worldwide and led to her short story collection, Meeting Magdalene (Naiad Press, 1996). Presently, Freeman is in post-production with The R Word, a feature-length documentary about the self-advocacy movement of people with developmental disabilities. She holds a BFA in Theater from the Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She is cofounder of the media arts studio, Wovie, and a Visiting Artist at The Evergreen State College.