About

Statement

I use film in combination with printmaking, photography, animation, and painting to create short vignettes of visual poetry for the audience to experience. I bring original artworks to life by interlacing and overlaying live action video with flat animation mediums in combination with music to represent the idea that our earth, and all of humanity as being armour clad, and protected by Love.

Biography

Awarded a full scholarship to Central St Martins in London, England, PD Packard earned a BFA degree in Textile Design and Fashion. Upon returning to the United States, she designed products and graphic design for packaging, displays, original textiles, and surface designs primarily catering to department stores like Barneys New York and Japan, Neiman Marcus, Henri Bendels, and Bergdorf Goodman under the Packard label. Drawing parallels between printmaking and fabric/surface design facilitated her smooth transition into fine art in 2009.

 Packard's artistic endeavors have garnered exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her works have been included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art | Franklin Furnace | Art Book Collection in NYC, the Boston Public Library Print Collection in Boston, MA, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung City, theScuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia in Italy, the Southern Graphics Council (SGC) International in Kennesaw, GA, and numerous private collections.

 In March 2019, she concluded a Fellowship Residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Italy, sponsored in part by The Boston Printmakers and Speedball Art Products. Additionally, in August 2016, Speedball Art Products commissioned her to create an educational video showcasing her specialized technique for Printing Decorative Papers with Akua Inks. The video, co-directed by Packard, Akua Inks inventor Susan Rostow, and Christina Pumo, is available on the Akua Printshop YouTube channel.