Bio:

Joanna Priestley has produced, directed and animated 17 award winning films. She has had retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland) and the Stuttgart Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, the MacDowell Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso and Creative Capital.  Ms. Priestley has had an apprenticeship Program since 1986, teaches animation at the Art Institute of Portland and presents programs of her work and animation workshops worldwide. She was Founding President of ASIFA Northwest, co-founder and co-director of FILMA: Women's Film Forum and Regional Coordinator of the Northwest Film Center.

"I love Joanna's films.  They're brilliant, inventive and amazing.  She's the queen of independent animation." -Bill Plympton

"The lively and inventive animations of Joanna Priestley are full of joy and unexpected pleasures." -Kathy Geritz, Pacific Film Archive

Links:

Priestley's Personal Website featuring Bio, Filmography, and many tasty tidbits.
http://www.primopix.com/

Articles by & about Joanna Priestley
http://www.itvs.org/external/AW/Priestley.html
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?article_no=691
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=cat&category1=People&article_no=2354
http://asifaseattle.com/community/an-in-04.html

Can Purchase films here
http://www.independentexposure.com/program/387/Relative_Orbits.html