Lisa Ruth earned her B.F.A. in Media Arts and Animation at The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. Her video work, (e)scapes and Worn Out Doll, have appeared at Reeltime in Evanston (2002), the Mystic dance club (2002) and The Way Out Film Festival (2003). She was also a camera assistant for the animation feature on Cartoon Network, Longhair and Double Dome (2000), and art assistant for the Chicago-based 2002 independent film Jeff Farnsworth.

Lisa has worked with Dreaming Tree Films as a Creative Director, storyboard artist, a/v editor, motion graphics artist, cinematographer, director and producer. She directed 2 independent films for Dreaming Tree’s Book of Stories series and taught digital filmmaking to high school students in Chicago’s After School Matters program. The After School Matters Orientation video she created with Jillian Pendell, Find Your Future, won the Silver Plaque in the Chicago Int’l Film Festival Intercommunications in Education for Dreaming Tree Films in October of 2003. In 2004, the Book of Stories feature Lisa co-produced, The War, was inducted into the Children’s Film Festival at Facets.

In addition, Lisa has worked on a variety of independent and commercial videos. She collaborated with writer Sarah Keller on the independent film Nice Outfit (2003), worked in conjunction with the Albany Park Community Center on the gang awareness video for the city entitled Stories From The Inside (2004), and provided cinematography, a/v editing, and motion graphics for the human rights video One Body (re-released 2004) along with co-writing the music score with musician Matt Sommers. She has also provided all aspects of video production for school orientation videos, web commercials and tourism videos for the City of Chicago, town of St. Charles and Lisle, Illinois Convention Bureau.

Her most recent projects include her collaboration with DePaul University’s Visual Arts Education Director, James Duignan. The two collaborated on the documentary slated for PBS, A Shared Vision: A Documentary of the Mandatum Project in Chicago (2005), and are also working on a documentary of the Chicago blues circuit slated for release in the summer, 2005.

Her affiliation with Anatomically Correct began in February of 2002. In November 2002, the 3D animation Worn Out Doll appeared at The Apollo Theater in Anatomically Correct’s exhibition Oh, You Beautiful Doll! in conjunction with the theatre’s production of The Vagina Monologues. Lisa also contributed video editing and title graphics to photographer Carrie Notari’s Flower Bodies exhibit at Walsh Gallery. The two also collaborated on an independent short film based on and titled after Emily Dickinson’s poem I Hide Myself Within My Flower (2002). The two collaborated once again for Notari’s Graffiti Bodies exhibit at Flatfile Photography in October of 2003.

Lisa continues to write and produce her own art video shorts, music and poetry while collaborating on various film projects. She is currently working on a book of her artwork and is a board member of the Howard Area ARTSLAB in Chicago. She is also an inner-city public high school teacher in Visual and Language Arts, and is currently attending DePaul University for her Master of Arts in Visual Arts Education.