Dana Francis Plautz

Ms. Plautz spent 10 years working in the entertainment industry holding various posts at both Hanna-Barbera Studios and Norman Lear's Embassy Communications.

Plautz is a very respected member of the arts community. Ms. Plautz currently has an appointment from the Governor of Oregon as Chairman for the Oregon Film and Video Office. She is also on the board of directors of Eyebeam Atelier, a non-profit cultural and educational organization dedicated to digital art. She serves on the California College Arts and Craft (CCAC) Design + Media Advisory Board. Additionally, she is chair of Free Art Day for Abused Children in Portland OR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing creative arts activities to young victims of child abuse and at risk families.

Plautz has chaired various workshops and studies concerned with digital art, new media and technology. She was a keynote speaker at the 1998 California Governor’s Conference on the Arts, the Oregon Film and Video Office's quarterly forum, the Film/Video/New Media 1999 Oregon Conference, the Art at the Heart of Learning 2000 conference and has been a guest lecturer on numerous occasion at USC, UCLA, NYU, the NW Film Study Center, to name a few. In November 2000 she gave the keynote address at the Stanford University Department of Art’s Attraction/Distraction Conference, which she also helped to organize.

Plautz is also an accomplished video producer. She produced four PBS WorldCom segments that focused on the Internet, has made numerous videos for charitable organizations and public service announcements, as well as productions in the home video industry including contributions to Fred Flintstone’s 30th Anniversary Special and Rita Moreno’s Now You Can Exercise tape. She has also produced numerous corporate videos. Most recently, plautz completed a documentary called Artist Response to 9.11.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon in 1982.

Artist Response to 9.11