After graduation she became an assistant editor at WGBH-TV in Boston,[13][14] and also worked as a scriptwriter for the Virginia Department of Education,[13] and on a series about desegregation for Virginia PBS. She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.[14][15]
She taught at the College of Charleston, at Regis College, and then at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, for thirty-three years, retiring as an Emerita Professor in 2013.[16] During her time at GVSU, she released the retrospective and interactive DVD Move Click Move in 2001[17] and used the proceeds to fund scholarships.[16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[18]
Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.[19] She was chair of the SIGGRAPH 1994 Art and Design Show,[20] and a juror for the art show in 1998.[21][22]
Hyperallergic wrote about her 1989 animated film Plants that "The play of light, color, line, and shape can be mesmerizing ... vegetal patterns move and spin to evoke plants".[30]Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".[31]
^ abcdefghijkDavis, Juliet (Winter 2006). "Reviewed Work: MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse". Journal of Film and Video. 58 (4). University of Illinois Press on behalf of the University Film & Video Association: 46–48. JSTOR20688539.
^ abc"Filmmaker Head Named for S.C."The Times and Democrat. Orangeburg, South Carolina. 18 November 1974. p. 5B. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^ ab"Super 8 Films Featured". The Greenville News. Greenville, South Carolina. 23 May 1976. p. 16B. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^Todd, Sharon (6 June 1975). "Artistic Uses Of Film Explored". The Greenville News. Greenville, South Carolina. p. 43. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^ ab"Deanna Morse Says Goodbye". dot[COMM] The Official Blog of Grand Valley State University's School of Communications. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
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Juliet Davis: Review of MOVE-CLICK-MOVE by Deanna Morse, Journal of Film and Video, winter 2006.[3]
Pilling, Jayne, ed: Women and Animation: a Compendium. British Film Institute, 1992. ISBN0-85170-377-1
Russett, Robert; Starr, Cecile: Experimental Animation, origins of a new art. Da Capo Press, New York, N.Y., 1988. ISBN0306803143 (p. 22-23)
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