Connie Coleman made video works from 1976 – 2009. Connie was trained as a textile designer and craftsperson at Rhode Island School of Design from 1966 – 1970 (BFA-textiles), 1973 – 1974 ( MAE ). in the early 1970’s Connie started to make off loom constructions using recycled computer tape from NSA. She was also a jacquard loom weaver ( one of the first digital design machines using punch cards) Connie had an intuitive love for the grid and for visual process. Her first use of video was to document her performance based weavings. By 1980 she started using video to express her life and also her identity as a woman. By 1980 Alan Powell and Connie Coleman agreed that all video work leaving the house would go out as Coleman and Powell. This was because Connie and Alan were involved in every step of the process of making video. Some video projected the voice of “She”; some “He” and others as an equal collaboration of “We”.

By the end of the 1990’s Connie began branching out on her own because she was heavily involved in computer prints  and animation. Some of the later video works were authored as Connie Coleman.

Connie Coleman Memorial Book (2011)

Selected works 

Renovations
12:20
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1980
Produced at Experimental TV Center

Guess What
1:23
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1982
Produced at Experimental TV Center

Saturday Night
4:19
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1985
Music Gareth Downs
Produced at Experimental TV Center, Videosmith

Live from the Oval Office
2:28
Produced by Connie Coleman, Alan Powell, 1995
Music Gareth Downs
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