Faith Hubley
Biography
Faith Hubley was born on the 16th of September, 1924 in New York City. She worked in the theater before moving to Hollywood to become a film editor and script supervisor. Back in New York, she worked as script supervisor. In 1955, she and her late husband, John, established an independent animation studio. Their remarkable partnership produced films such as Moonbird (1959), The Hole (1962), Windy Day (1967) and Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976), which broke new ground in the world of animation. The Hubleys employed a freeform visual style, and used improvised dialogue, children's voices and jazz by such artists as Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie to explore new and provocative ideas. Their films received scores of prizes, including three Academy Awards from a total of seven nominations.
Since 1977, her work had been marked by world mythology and the art of indigenous peoples. Faith Hubley was honoured at the Cannes, Venice and London film festivals and received fourteen CINE Golden Eagles. She was the Honorary President of the 1994 Hiroshima International Animated Film Festival and won the Gold Animation Award at the 1994 New York Expo for her film Seers and Clowns (1994).
Faith Hubley was a respected fine artist as well. She was a senior critic at Yale University where she had been teaching a popular fall semester course in picture writing. Her painting and printmaking work had been exhibited at many galleries - Annecy 1980, New York 1981, 1986 , Los Angeles 1994. In 1985, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills presented "A Salute to The Hubley studio" which included screenings, a symposium and a
gallery exhibit of original art and paintings. She received an honorary doctorate from Columbia College, Chicago in 1990 for "a brilliant talent which has made film animation into fine art". In 1995, she received an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.
Faith Hubley died from chronic disease on the 7th of December, 2001, in New Haven, Connecticut.