Squealing Pegs

Massachusetts College of Art and Design presents Squealing Pegs, its seventh annual screening event featuring some of the most interesting and exciting animated shorts created by the college’s animation students over the last year. This seventy-minute compilation contains an eclectic selection of new work, including stop-motion, cartoon, abstract, experimental, hand-drawn, pixilation, documentary, and other forms of animation.

MassArt animation students have had their work screened at hundreds of film festivals locally, nationally, and abroad. Last year, Kara Nasdor Jones ’08 won the internationally coveted Grand Prize for Best Student Animation sponsored by Mytoons and the Best Undergraduate Animation Award for her film I Slept with Cookie Monster at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival in Canada. The animation program also screened a thirty-four minute compilation of student films in competition at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival. Alex Butera ’08, whose Baman Piderman animation has received over 1.2 million hits on YouTube, is currently working in original series development at Cartoon Network Studios.