RARE "American Film Institute" Jan Haag Hand Signed 4X6 Card for Sale

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1933) is the founder of the American Film Institute (AFI) Directing Workshop for

Women and a world-famous textile artist and poet. Jan Haag

(née Smith), born in Marysville, WA, grew up in

the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Seattle's Holy Names Academy, and

went on to study art and painting at Burnley

School for Professional Art. Haag continued her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, The New School for Social

Research in New York, University of Washington, Pennsylvania State

University, UCLA, and Southwestern

University School of Law. Haag also studied painting with Frederick E. Smith, dance

with Eleanor King, and singing

and tabla with Ali Akbar Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri. In

Seattle, Haag managed poetry readings, an art gallery, and the Shakespeare

Workshop for ABC Bookstore. As an actress, she performed in regional theaters

during the 1950s and 1960s, and directed plays in Washington, Oregon and

California. Haag has exhibited her work in West Coast museums, competitions,

and galleries—including the Seattle Art Museum,

the Frye Museum, the Otto Seligman

Gallery, and the Woessner

Gallery. In Los Angeles, Haag served as Film and Television Director

for the John Tracy Clinic, where

she directed a series of forty-two films, "Teaching Speech to the

Profoundly Deaf," for the Department

of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1971 she joined the staff of the American

Film Institute where, as Director of National Production Programs, she

administered the nation's largest film granting program, the Independent Filmmaker Program, funded by the National Endowment for the

Arts. In 1974, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation,

she founded AFI's Directing Workshop for

Women, a program in which accomplished women—such as Joanne Woodward, Lee Grant, Margot Kidder, Ellen Burstyn, Maya Angelou, Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Dyan Cannon, Julie Phillips, Kathleen Nolan, Cicely Tyson, Brianne Murphy, Nessa Hyams,

and Randa Haines could

develop their directing skills.[4][5] The DWW became the fountainhead back to which

the careers of many women, now directing film and television, can be traced.

Haag also served on the boards of many film festivals/programs, Festival, Filmex, the Sundance Institute, and

the International Women Filmmakers Symposium. Between 1975 and 2008,

Haag created twenty-three needlepoint canvases, working on some of these

simultaneously. One work took ten years to complete. The more complex of these

canvases required hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours of application. An

accomplished painter and poet familiar with different mediums, Haag writes of

the textile art medium: “Compared with the roughhouse immediacy of painting and

sculpture, one can cite many a rug, tapestry, piece of stitchery which took a

year to make or, at times, a decade. Back and back and back, millennia by

millennia, the history and lore of weaving/stitchery recedes as we, at the near

end of the time scale, proceed -- cloth, grid arts, fractals and computer --

into the future.” Haag explains: “Over the years, working on these pieces has

become one of my primary ways of understanding both the world and my experience

of it. The works… transmit knowledge. Not only the powerful subjective

awareness of light and color, but the pleasure associated with study -- in this

case, study of music, astronomy, mathematics, travel, archaeology, and the

iconographic, mystical and esoteric traditions of many cultures.” These

textile pieces became a life’s work. Through determined experimentation and

applying techniques and iconography learned from a lifetime of travel,

including treks on foot alone through India, Korea, China, Thailand, Nepal,

Russia and Europe, Haag would forever change the perceptions and possibilities

of needlepoint.

In 1982, Haag retired from AFI to focus on her art and writing. She has

written thousands of poems and given poetry readings in theaters, museums,

libraries, galleries, and private salons. A limited edition of "Amanita

Caesarea", a legend, with original drawings by Roger Landry, was published by Gallery Plus in

Los Angeles. Haag has written stories, novels, plays, film scripts, articles,

essays, and a vast journal—the manuscripts of which are on deposit in Special

Collections at the Blagg Huey Library of Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX. Haag's travel stories have appeared in four of Tales series of books: India, A

Woman's World, The Spiritual Gifts of Travel, and Spain.

During a 1991 writer's fellowship at the Syvenna

Foundation in Texas, Haag wrote a novel Cantalloc.

In 1992, during a writer's fellowship at Blue

Mountain Center in New York, she completed No Palms,

a California/Texas novel centering on water rights, real estate fraud, and

murder. After 50 years of research and study, in 2009, Haag published Jocasta,

an original play based on the Oedipus myth seen from Jocasta's point of

view. Ascesis, a 600-page volume of poetry, was published in 2014.