Karen Aqua, RIP

New England independent filmmaker and Sesame Street animator Karen Aqua (b. 1954) passed away a couple days ago following a ten year battle with cancer. Michael Sporn’s Splog has a memorial blog post with comments from a who’s who of indie animation including Joanna Priestley, Skip Battaglia, Janet Perlman, Kathy Rose, Ruth Lingford, Candy Kugel, and Paul Glabicki, among many others.