Researching Jeff Scher
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1 people with the Scher surname? In that year Scher was ranked number 3578 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jeff means "Form of JEFFREY. God's peace" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Scher surname in the USA? Scher is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Jeff Scher
Jeff Scher is a New York-based filmmaker, animator and painter. He was born Jeffery Noyes Scher, on December 24, 1954. Scher graduated from Bard College in 1976. He is married to Bonnie Siegler and they currently live in Westport, CT with their two children Buster and Oscar. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Academy Film Archives, Hirshhorn Museum, Pompidou Centre, Musee d’Art Moderne, Vienna Kunsthalle and Austrian National Archive. To supplement his income, Scher creates and directs commercials for HBO, HBO Family, PBS, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Ameritek, International Film Festival and the Sundance Channel. He also teaches graduate courses and at the School of Visual Arts and plans to begin as an instructor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film & Television’s Animation program in the fall of 2008. In 2001 Scher received the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Moving Image.
He also won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for his production design on the HBO documentary The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm.
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