Lydia is a visual artist, filmmaker and theater practitioner, whose conceptual practice includes installation, shadow theatre, puppetry, hand-made animation, works on paper and film and video in the genres of animation, experimental, installation and documentary. She works with themes of modern allegory & euphemism in narrative structures exploring the language of theatre, folkoristics, history and material culture and how they play out in the personal and political arena. She earned an MFA in Art Practice: New Genres/Mixed Media at the University of California-Berkeley in 2009; in addition, she was awarded a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Art in 2008 as an electronic arts/film fellow and also holds a B.A in drawing and printmaking from Portland State University. She has screened her films and shown her work at the Pacific Film Archive, The Berkeley Art Museum, Adobe Back Room Gallery, Galleria de la Raza, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Martina Johnson, MonkeyTown (Brooklyn, NY) Portland State University and Santa Clara University among other venues. Lydia has worked with the Unima award winning shadow theatre company Shadowlight Productions in San Francisco and has taught beginning video, hand-made animation and introduction to visual thinking courses at the University of California-Berkeley. Lydia has been a visual arts teacher for 10 years and is currently teaching Film History and Video Production and Contemporary Media and Art at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco.