Nancy Beiman News Today

In today’s newsletter: After months of wrangling, Parliament passed the government’s controversial plan to tackle small boats

As retirement approached, Nancy Beiman wanted to do something creative. Before long she was sketching out the story of a very unusual blended family

Eat’n Park’s classic Christmas ad teaches us that to be a shining star you first have to be a giving tree. 

  Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979 became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts' Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women artists ever since. As a young animator in the early 1980's, Nancy began recording interviews with legendary artists from the early days of the Disney

She packed her debut feature, Turning Red, with retro streetcars, Timbits, bustling Chinatown streets and other salutes to her childhood

Brenda Banks, One Of The First Black Women Animators In America, Dies At 72 Brenda Banks, who has died aged 72, blazed a quiet trail through the animation world, building up an impressive résumé in an industry where few Black women had succeeded before. As an animator, she worked with directors such as Ralph Bakshi — who claimed, erroneously, to have discovered her — and on iconic characters like the Looney Tunes and The Simpsons. Known as a private person, Banks shied away from the spotl...

  Shi was born in 1989 in Chongqing, China as an only child before immigrating to Canada at the age of two with her parents. [4] She spent half a year in Newfoundland before moving to Toronto, where she grew up learning about art from her father. [5] She was influenced by her father, who had been a college professor of fine arts and a landscape painter in China. [6] About her mother, Shi says that "Shes not a super outwardly emotional person," but Shi took a lot of inspiration and gui...