Kacey Morrow March 9th 2019

What do you do?

I am an Associate Professor at Western Washington University, teaching in the Department of Design with a focus on motion graphics, digital video, web and interaction design. I enjoy creating experimental videos that have appeared in numerous film festivals and exhibitions nation-wide including the Seattle International Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival. I also co-wrote the third edition of the textbook, Producing for TV and New Media and illustrated the book, Kathleen Turner on Acting: Conversations about Film, Television, and Theater. Marrying my love of design, music, and film, I co-founded the Bellingham Music Film Festival and frequently do design work for local non-profit movie theater, Pickford Film Center. I also stay involved in discussions about design and digital media by attending and presenting at conferences and workshops internationally.

Advice/words of wisdom that affected your life you’d like to pass on?

Being both an educator and designer, I'd like to share the 10 Rules of designer, artist, and activist, Sister Corita Kent.

Rule 1: Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Rule 2: General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule 3: General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.

Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.

Rule 5: Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

Rule 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Rule 8: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

Rule 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Rule 10: "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for x quantities." John Cage

Helpful Hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything - it might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.