Linda M. Lewett Bringing together narrative storytelling and experimental filmmaking, interviewing and docu-drama, performance and multi-media art to make cultural programs for curious viewers and the arts community.
	Producer/Director credits include: Essential Elements - Library of Congress Martha Graham Legacy Project; 20/20 Visions: Dance Place; for WETA / PBS in HDTV - Legacy of Generations: Pottery by American Indian Women, Woven by the Grandmothers: 19th Century Navajo Textiles, From Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips (Field Producer.) After attending Virginia Commonwealth University as an Art History major, she worked as a photographer and animation production artist. Her first television staff position was an On-Air Projectionist / Switcher for an NBC Affiliate in 1978. She received a B.A. cum laude in Film from American University in Washington, DC in 1984. From 1985-1990 she was a staff producer at Channel 16 in Virginia and on the weekends produced & directed Metro Dance Arts which aired nationally on local cable. In 1989 she produced a Video News Release on the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Washington, DC which appeared on "Oprah" and "USA Today."					Awards Include: National Institute to Preserve America's Dance, PEW Dance Media Fellowship, New York Festivals Silver Medal, Emmy DC Chapter nomination, CINE Golden Eagle, ITVA-DC Award of Excellence & Award of Merit, Cable Ace Nominations, NFLCP Hometown Video Awards, Appalshop Southeast Media grant, New Forms Regional grants, Arlington County Individual Artist grant. Media art collaborations have been seen in the National Museum of American Art, Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles, Philadelphia Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, IMZ Dance Screen, The Kennedy Center, Exit Art, the Kitchen, American Film Institute in DC, Boston Museum of Science, Washington Project for the Arts, Maryland Art Place, and Maat Schaptij in Amsterdam. Lewett served on the Boards of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, Washington Project for the Arts, and in the Corcoran Gallery of Art mentoring program. In 1999 she founded a non-profit organization, Art Moves Media, inc.