Louise Stern

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Sotheby's Institute of Art (MA)

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Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation.{{cite web|title=Louise Stern|url=http://kindleproject.org/grantee/louise-stern/|website=Kindle Project|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}

Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community and is fourth-generation deaf on her father's side, and third-generation deaf on her mother's side. She attended California School for the Deaf, Fremont.{{cite news|last1=O'Kelly|first1=Lisa|title=Louise Stern: 'I didn't think I would ever live in the hearing world, let alone write in it'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/may/30/louise-stern-deaf-chattering-interview|accessdate=September 26, 2014|work=The Observer|date=May 30, 2010}}

Literature

Her first collection of short stories, Chattering, was published by Granta in 2011. Alan Warner called it "an amazing debut: vibrantly perceptive, gentle, funny and profound".

Her first novel, Ismael and His Sisters, was written and set in a deaf village in the Yucatán Peninsula, where Stern communicated in Mayan Sign Language.{{cite web|title=Ismael and His Sisters|url=http://grantabooks.com/ismael-and-his-sisters|website=Granta|accessdate=September 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516025833/http://grantabooks.com/ismael-and-his-sisters|archive-date=May 16, 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last1=England|first1=Juliet|title=A catch-up with author Louise Stern|url=http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/Art%20&%20Culture/689/A%20catch-up%20with%20author%20Louise%20Stern|website=Hearing Times|accessdate=September 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052951/http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/Art%20%26%20Culture/689/A%20catch-up%20with%20author%20Louise%20Stern|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}} There will be an accompanying book of photographs to it.{{cite web|title=Deaf writer shines at RADAR festival|url=http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/Art%20&%20Culture/1414/Deaf%20writer%20shines%20at%20RADAR%20festival|website=Hearing Times|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}

She has also written plays, including The Ugly Birds and The Interpreter, which was performed at the Bush Theatre.{{cite news|last1=Gray|first1=Freddy|title=The chattering classes|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6937683/the-chattering-classes/|accessdate=September 26, 2014|work=The Spectator|issue=May 14, 2011|date=May 14, 2011}} Stern was commissioned to write stories for BBC Radio 4 in 2012 and 2013.{{cite web|title=The Electric Box|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mhtl4|website=BBC|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Latido|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036l5ks|website=BBC|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}

Visual art

Stern studied at Gallaudet University, where she was the only student studying art history.[https://www.seditionart.com/louise-stern Sedition Art: Louise Stern] She moved to the United Kingdom in 2002 where she gained a Master of Arts from Sotheby's Institute of Art and worked as an assistant to Sam Taylor-Wood.

Her own artwork has been exhibited in galleries in Geneva, Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Port Eliot. She is the founder and publisher of Maurice, a contemporary art magazine for children.{{cite web|title=LOUISE STERN|url=http://grantabooks.com/Louise-Stern|website=Granta|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}

Film

She directed a film, Celan, based on the poetry of Paul Celan. The first screening had live spoken accompaniment by Polly Frame.{{cite web|title=Programme: PoetryFilm Equinox: Translation, Transcreation, Punctuation|url=http://poetryfilm.org/2014/09/24/programme-poetryfilm-equinox-translation-transcreation-punctuation/|website=PoetryFilm|date=September 24, 2014 |accessdate=September 26, 2014}} The premiere screening of Celan and accompanying live performance took place at a PoetryFilm Equinox event curated by Zata Kitowski.

In 1999, she acted with her sister Shoshannah in the film The Auteur Theory.{{cite web|title=The Auteur Theory|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159259/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|website=imdb|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}

She is the subject of the film Louisa in Majahua.{{cite web|title=Louisa in Majahua|url=http://www.stevenmarkfisher.com/index.php/films/louisa-in-majahua/25047054.vimeo|website=Steven M Fisher|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}