MA Media Arts and Film, University of Michigan 1983

Terri Sarris teaches multi-camera studio production, single camera digital video, and film. With Film Video Professor Bambi Haggins, Sarris developed and teaches an integrated studies/production course in the History, Theory and Production of the Television Situation Comedy. Students in the course worked in small teams to write, produce, and direct original situation comedies. Television writer/producer David Pollock spent a week at Michigan in connection with the course working with students on script development and revision.

Along with Department of Dance Professor Peter Sparling, Sarris was chosen for the UM Faculty Interdisciplinary Associates Program in winter of 2002 to develop and teach a collaborative course in "Videodance." Sarris and Sparling, along with Charles Reynolds of the UM Music School Library, continue to produce a yearly Dance on Camera Festival showcasing internationally acclaimed screen dance work.

Terri Sarris' creative work weaves together dance and media in a variety of forms. Through theatrical performances combining staged dance and projected images and screen works that include dance as the visual element or subject, Sarris continues to explore the intersection of the two art forms. "Fast Forward/Playback," her recent multi-channel video installation with Peter Sparling and Architect Ronit Eisenbach was showcased in the Detroit Tri-centennial "Artists Take on Detroit" exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2001/2002. In 2004/05, Sarris collaborated with media artists Cynthia Pachikara, Marianetta Porter, and choreographer Robin Wilson on a multi-media performance adaptation of the poetic novel Slave moth, by Thylias Moss.

Sarris is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, and an "Annie" Award from the Washtenaw Arts Council.

Terri Sarris teaches Fall 2005:

FV 290 Introduction to Film, Video and TV Production

FV 302 Television Studio I