 Artist Biographies
Katz has been the recipient of the Charles Payson Fellowship and was awarded both the Libra and Trustee Professorships for his Holocaust research projects from the University of Maine system where he has taught since 1981. He has been a visiting artist/lecturer at the University of Maryland, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Trinity College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Medicine Hat College, Alberta, Canada and The Art Academy of Krakow and the Judaica Foundation for Jewish Culture in Poland, and Holocaust conferences in Augsburg, Germany and Vienna, Austria.
Quin is currently an Associate Professor of Film, Radio and Television at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is the recipient of numerous commissions, awards and grants including multiple fellowships in music composition from the National Endowment for the Arts and support from the National Science Foundation.
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Robert Katz is the creative director of Were The House Still Standing. Since 1989, he has been traveling to southeastern Poland to uncover the details of his family's life in their rural village and their fate at the hands of the Nazis. These journeys inspired his 1997 computer-generated video entitled, You Ask About the Family, about social memory and family remembrance, which premiered at Bates College with special showings in Krakow, Munich and Vienna. For the past twenty years, Katz has designed and fabricated numerous Holocaust memorials including Dwelling of Remembrance in Scarsdale, New York and the Slivka Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Maine. His Holocaust-related art works have been displayed at universities and galleries throughout the United States. His installation project entitled Fragments of Dispersion was exhibited at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
Douglas Quin served as technical coordinator and sound designer for Were The House Still Standing. He is the owner of dqmedia and consults on film and television sound design, museum exhibit design, production, post-production, creative development and project management. Recent clients and projects include: sound design and mixing for Werner Herzog's 2009 Academy Award® nominated film, Encounters At the End of the World and exhibit design for Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.
Matt Dibble was the videographer and editor for the project. In a twenty-year career, Dibble's work has included installations for U.S. museums and documentary films for public television. His most recent film, which he shot, edited and co-directed with Y. David Chung, is Koryo Saram, The Unreliable People, a one-hour documentary about the fate of Koreans who, in 1937, were ethnically cleansed from Russia by the Stalin regime and re-located to desolate regions of Central Asia. In 2008, the film won a Best Documentary award from the National Film Board of Canada.