Faith Hubley was the epitome of grit and grace. She embodied that to which many artists aspire, a combination of a stubborn and disciplined approach to one’s work along with a good-hearted spirit, a genuine care and affection for people and for all beings in the environment that sustains us.

After her death in 2001, the Provincetown International Film Festival established an award in her honor. The award is intended to recognize film artists who represent the qualities that Faith Hubley stood for: who illuminate and inspire other people, who define integrity, who do not make concessions in their work, who evince a tenacity to the inherent value of what they do, but who also manifest a generosity of spirit and absolute sincerity and a core resolute goodness. As her daughter, Emily said, in many ways it is the “no bullshit here” award.

Faith’s work was animation, not cartoons, but rather creativity in motion, each frame a piece of art that, when put in motion, makes us think and laugh and maybe cry, a very pure art. It defies linear thinking; it is a storytelling that pulls you in, a shared joy of the creative spirit.

In an interview, Faith Hubley said, “We can be waves, we can be particles. We can be farmers, we can be artists. We can love each other and study each other. The possibilities are endless….”
And so is her genius.

Faith Hubley (1924 - 2001) was born in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan. She left home to go to Hollywood to pursue a career in filmmaking. She began as a messenger at Columbia Studios, but eventually worked as a sound-effects and music editor. During her time in California, she met John Hubley, an animator with Disney Studios, whom she married in 1955. She and her husband John established their independent animation studio, Storyboard. Many of their films featured the voices of their four young children. Their remarkable partnership produced films such as ‘Moonbird’, ‘Windy Day ‘and ‘Everybody Rides the Carousel’, which broke new ground in the world of animation. The Hubleys employed a free-form visual style. Their unique sound tracks featured improvised dialogue by their children, and jazz scores by Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones. Their twenty-one films received scores of prizes, including three Academy Awards from a total of seven nominations.

After her husband's passing in 1977, Faith continued to complete one independent film each year. Her solo work is marked by world mythology and the art of indigenous peoples. A selection of these films will be on display at the gallery: "Africa" (1998), a visual praise poem dedicated to the place of our emergence, "My Universe Inside Out" (1996), Faith's animated reflections on her own life and "Northern Ice Golden Sun (2001), Faith's last film which explores the Inuit's deep attachment to the natural world.

Faith Hubley's work has been honored in the Cannes, Venice and London film festivals. She has received fourteen CINE Golden Eagle awards and received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award by the San Francisco International Film Festival (2000). Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries from Annecy, France to Los Angeles, California. In 1995, she was honored with a retrospective program at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery. She has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College, Chicago, Hofstra University in New York and the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. At the time of her death in 2001, Faith Hubley had completed 25 solo films and was a senior critic in the Department of Art at Yale University, where she taught a class on storyboarding.

Faith Hubley died of cancer in December of 2001, at the age of 77, just a few months after she was a guest of honor at the Provincetown International Film Festival, attending a retrospective of her work. The following year, PIFF instituted the Faith Hubley Memorial Award, and bestowed the inaugural award to director Mira Nair.

While drawing much of her inspiration from ancient cultures and primitive art, Faith Hubley nurtured her own personal artistic style and vision by drawing and painting daily. The pieces in this exhibition are examples of oil paintings and mixed media pieces connected to Faith's personal life, her love of the ocean and to her films, including those screening in the gallery.

In addition to Ms. Hubley’s work the gallery will offer a summer preview from gallery artists including Marty Davis, Jefferson Hayman, Sharon Horvath, and David King.