Randall Davis Wakerlin holds a BA in Film/Animation from Hampshire College, (MA) and an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts, (CA). Wakerlin’s film figure 1: Scar (detail) won Best Animation awards in both the Pacific Coast Film Festival (Del Mar, CA) and the Seattle Underground Film Festival (Seattle, WA) in 2000 and has been widely screened around the U.S. His most recent work In Good Spirits features live action documentary footage of the Hilltribe cultures of Northern Thailand with animated segments of Hilltribe textiles. Recent projects include various short animation pieces such as Twenty-Six, a documentation of one year of Mr. Wakerlin’s life, and collaborations with Portland, OR composer Matt Marble and Emily Stone entitled Chroma where Wakerlin's animation was projected behind dancers in a performance based on the color orange at Gallery 500 (Portland, OR). He is currently collaborating with Los Angeles composer Nicholas Chase creating an interactive work for video and solo piano entitled Star Trenching. Mr. Wakerlin resides in Portland, Oregon where he is working with animators Chel White and David Daniels at Bent Image Lab and teaches animation at Pacific University.