CURRICULUM VITAE | NICOLE ANTEBI
Assistant Professor of Animation and Illustration
Co-director of The Wonder Studio at Biosphere 2
School of Art | College of Fine Arts
The University of Arizona, Tucson
nantebi@arizona.edu www.nicoleantebi.com
CHRONOLOGY OF EDUCATION
2001 Masters of Fine Art, Visual Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1998 Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture/Printmaking, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
SELECT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Assistant Professor of Animation and Illustration School of Art | College of Fine Arts 2021-Present
Affiliate Faculty Latin American Studies The University of Arizona, Tucson
2020 Faculty at SUNY Albany, NY
Faculty at Queens College, Queens, NY
Faculty at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
HONORS AND AWARDS
2024 Lee Herbst Faculty Innovation Award for , School of Art, The University of Arizona for bridging research, teaching, and service learning
2023 Anthem Award for our 2021 Animated Covid Explainer series, a collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the City of New York
CREATIVITY ACTIVITY/RESEARCH
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2024
● Forthcoming performance with Ingrid Leyva at INVERSE Performance Festival, Betonville, Arkansas
■ Over Story/Meander Story Solo exhibition at Galeria Cinco Puntos, El Paso, Texas
■ Cinco Minutos a Cinco Puntos A 12-hour community event in conjunction with the closing of the exhibition Over Story/Meander Story, Galería Cinco Puntos, El Paso, Texas
■ Installation, artist talk, screening and animation workshop at the Irish National College of Art and Design and sister installation with collaborator poet Éireann Lorsung at University of College Dublin (May 2024)
100 Partially Obscured Views/100 Vistas Parcialmente Oscurecidas 2015-2023 (Animated Documentary) Select Activities
2024
● Acquired for The El Paso Museum of Art’s permanent collection
● Official Selection 20 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires, Argentina
● Biophilia International Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
● Official Selection Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival, Toro Valle del Cauca, Columbia
● Solo exhibition at Galeria Cinco Puntos, El Paso, Texas (January 2024)
● Screening followed by a Q & A at the Irish National College of Art and Design Dublin, Ireland (May 2024)
2023
● Included in the Border Biennial at The El Paso Museum of Art. El Paso, Texas
● Included in the Border Biennial at the Museo de Artes de Ciudad. Juárez, Mexico. Curators: Claudia S. Preza M.A., EPMA Assistant Curator, alongside curatorial advisors Edgar Picazo Merino and Jazmín Ontiveros Harvey.
● Official selection of 26th annual Antimatter [Media Art], October 19 to 29, 2023 in Victoria, BC, Canada.
● Official selection of AM Docs Film Festival, Palm Springs, California
● Included in a forthcoming exhibition as part of the 2022/2023 MexiCali Biennial The Land of Milk & Honey / La Tierra Que Mana Leche y Miel.
● Included in The Arizona Biennial 2023 at the Tucson Museum of Art, Curator: Taína Caragol
2022
● Soft premiere Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
● Screening at Cornell Cinema (X)trACTION Program
● Screening at Arsenal Berlin (X)trACTION Program
● Screening at the Rio Grande Theater, Las Cruces, New Mexico in conjunction with Icons and Symbols of the Borderland, curated by Diana Molina
● Official selection Lunenburg Doc Fest, Lunenburg Nova Scotia Canada
● Official selection Oaxaca Film Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico
2023
● Tilapia Jetty screening at the Second Annual Finger Mullet Film Festival at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. (Programmers: Julie Dickover, Patrick Moser, Kevin Mahoney)
● Meander Story/El Historia de los Meandros (in collaboration with Ingrid Leyva, Celina Galicia, and Sonia Rayka) exhibition at Alabama Center for Contemporary Art Titled “American Boundary Waters” Curator: Elizabeth Hawley
● “Mapping a Restless River at the US/Mexico Border” continuing exhibit at the National Building Museum “The Wall/El Muro, What is a Border Wall?” (curator: Sarah A. Leavitt, Ph.D.)
2022
● "Mapping a Restless River at the US/Mexico Border" multi-year exhibition at the National Building Museum “The Wall/El Muro, What is a Border Wall?” (curator: Sarah A. Leavitt, Ph.D.)
● Screening of Gestures for a Plague Season in collaboration with "The Clock Tells the Hour" (organized by Éireann Lorsung and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance)
2020
● Animation collaboration with artists Courtney Puckett and Colin O’con for New York Textile Month
● Participating artist in White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts second summer invitational, Holmes, NY (Curators: Courtney Puckett and Colin O’con)
● Participating artist in Pandemic Projections, Singac, NJ (Curators: Gianluca Bianchino and Jeanne Brasile)
● Nudibranchs x 10 part of the exhibition Art in the Lab, St. Frances College, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Alison Dell, Ph.D)
PUBLICATIONS | ANIMATED ESSAYS
2024
● Antebi, Nicole forthcoming animated essay at The Texas Observer
2023
● Antebi, Nicole “The Revitalization of ProNaf; Then and Now” Derivas Lab 2020/2022 Ed. No.2 Ciudad Juárez, published in
Querétaro, Mexico (Editors: Francisco Paillie Pérez and Ximena Ocampo Aguilar)
WORK REPRODUCED IN A SCHOLARLY BOOK
2023
● Quoted in Alejandra Olivia’s book Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migrationpublished by Penguin Random House (2023) from my (2019) animated essay “Mapping a Restless River in the U.S.-Mexico Border”.
● Quoted in Barbara Sostaita (Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago) book Sanctuary Everywhere: Fugitive Care on the Migrant Trail, Sonoran Desert Chapter. The book is an ethnographic study of the ways migrants shelter and defend each other during the migratory journey.
ANIMATION COMMISSIONS
2024
● Hired to produce animation sequences for Ternura Radical (2024)
Short documentary by Celina Galicia generously funded by Femme Frontera, El Paso, Texas
2021-2022
● American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Covid explainer series funded by AMNH & New York Health & Mental Hygiene
Erin Chapman, New Media Producer AMNH
Nicole Antebi: Animation, Illustration
Hannah Snell, Motion Designer
Translations: Spanish, Mandarin
● Alabama Center for Contemporary Art commission for Meander Story Animated Map for the exhibition “Boundary Waters”Curator: Elizabeth Hawely.
● Desert Archaeology: “Tucson did you know?” Animated titles and transitions. Director: Lisa Molomot.
BOOK TRAILERS
2020
● Book Trailer for Megan Rosenbloom’s Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin FSG Press (July 2020)
EDUCATIONAL ANIMATION
2021-2022
● Illustrator/Animator on the Science of Covid-19 Animated series supported by the American Museum of Natural History and The City of New York (2021-2022)
● Animation and motion graphics for Tanya Golash Boza’s 15-part series on the Origins of Race and Racism for UC Merced (2018-2019)
GRANTS AWARDED AND COMMISSIONS
Internal Grants
2022-ongoing
● Grantee of CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge team Community Stories of Sustainability and Resilience: Promise for the Learning Experience
Year 1: Ingrained animated film collaboration with Flowers & Bullets community garden located in Tucson, AZ. Animation I students worked in the garden as a way of building community and learning how to cultivate corn as the basis for their short fully animated documentary “Ingrained.” I designed and facilitated a Flowers & Bullets animation workshop so that the gardeners, who are also artists, could confidently contribute to the film.
Screenings:
● Premiered at “What’s Up Docs?” program the LOFT cinema (2022)
● 2023 University of Arizona Wonder House at SXSW (2023)
● TEDX U of A (2023)
● 2023 Fall Convocation
Year 2: Small Seeds; Big Change, animation film collaboration with Borderlands Restoration Network, based in Patagonia, AZ. Students collaborated on a short animated film intended to advocate for BRN’s mission of restoring binational water systems. (2023)
● Premiered at “What’s Up Docs?” program the LOFT cinema (2023)
2021-ongoing Principal Investigator for “STITCHING IDENTITIES: Rarámuri Dressmaking and Resistance in Chihuahua City” archive and short documentary film based on Victoria Blanco's book Out of the Sierra published by Coffee House Press in collaboration with siríame or governor of El Oasis, Amalia Holguin, and London-based filmmaker, Irene Baqué and funded by a Digital Borderlands, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through Special Collections at The University of Arizona Library.
2023 -ongoing AIRES/RII/TRIF Funded SCIENCE IN MOTION/COLLABORATIONS with BIOSPHERE II
Part 1: Co-PI with Diane M Thompson, Scott R Saleska, and Greg A Barron-Gafford on Science in Motion: Scaling Broader Impacts of UArizona Resilience Science Through Student-Engaged Filmmaking, Animation, Data Visualization, and Motion Arts-Science Pedagogy in collaboration with Aaron Bugaj, Senior Research Specialist and Media Producer at Biosphere 2.
Part 2: PI HUMANITIES/RESILIENCE/ARTS seed grant received in collaboration with Aaron Bugaj, Co-I, Research Technologist, Biosphere 2, Dr. A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, Co-I, Professor and Curator, RLG Mycological Herbarium - School of Plant Sciences, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology on Deepening Foundations for Science In Motion: Arts Research, Coalition Building, and Groundwork for UArizona Art & Science Resilience Synergies of the Future
Related funding de develop Moving Science Summer Animation Residency Summer 2023 and Summer 2024 at Biosphere 2
2022 COLLABORATION WITH THE FLORENCE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT
Final project collaboration with my Illustration 2 ART360 class. Students were introduced to the stories of asylum seekers who spent time at Eloy Detention Center in Florence, Arizona and the many challenges and dangers they face at home and in the US. The students’ illustrations were used in the Florence Project newsletter, social media posts, and on their website as a means of creating empathy by connecting readers to their clients.
The illustrations are now part of the Ford Foundation Border Narratives archive in The University of Arizona Special Collections.
Student impacts: Echo Rigg, Robin Silverman, and Eleanor Spencer commissioned to do further illustration work.
Principal Investigator for OASIS// STITCHING IDENTITIES: Rarámuri Dressmaking and Resistance in Chihuahua City
2021-ongoing Archive and Short Documentary funded by a Mellon Foundation Digital Borderlands Grant through Special Collections at The University of Arizona Library.
AIRES/RII/TRFF funded SCIENCE IN MOTION
Part 1: Co-Investigator: Science in Motion: Scaling Broader Impacts of UArizona Resilience Science Through Student-Engaged Filmmaking, Animation, Data Visualization, and Motion Arts-Science Pedagogy (2022)
Collaborators: Aaron Bugaj, Diane M Thompson, Scott R Saleska, and Greg A Barron-Gafford
Part 2: Principal Investigator: Deepening Foundations for Science In Motion: Arts Research, Coalition Building, and Groundwork for UArizona Art & Science Resilience Synergies of the Future (2023) Co-Investigators: Aaron Bugaj, Dr. Betsy Arnold
CONFERENCES/SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
2024
● CONFERENCIA ENTORNO E IDENTIDAD, Panel discussion at El Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez. Moderador: Christian Diego Diego
● Non-fiction Animation Talk with documentary filmmaker, Lisa Molomot, support from The Hanson Film Institute and The School of Film and Television at University of Arizona
● Presented “Science in Motion” talk and cut paper collage stop motion workshop to Liverman Scholars Retreat at Biosphere II
2023
● Creating Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Academic Research Experiences CUES Panel discussion
● Webinar panel to discuss “The Revitalization of ProNaf; Then and Now”published by Derivas Lab 2020/2022 Ed. No.2 Ciudad Juárez, published In Querétaro, Mexico (Editors: Francisco Paillie Pérez and Ximena Ocampo Aguilar)
● Presented “Science in Motion” talk to Liverman Scholars Retreat at Biosphere II with Aaron Bugaj
2022
● Transnational Community Centered Animation: A conversation BetweenNorma V Iglesias-Prieto and Nicole Antebi at 10th Annual Emerging Conversations Symposium (EC2022), Hosted by AVCE at the University of Arizona Funded by CUES, LAS, Confluence Center
● Presented “Science in Motion” talk to Liverman Scholars Retreat at Biosphere II with Ellen Mcmahon and Aaron Bugaj
2020
● Visiting artist talk and week-long animation master class at the University of Texas at El Paso Art Department. El Paso, TX
SERVICE/OUTREACH SELECTED ACTIVITIES
ANIMATION AS A TOOL Of RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2023-2025
● Diana Liverman Scholars Mentor (2023-2025)
● Coordinated a collaboration between the Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing, documentary award winning, filmmaker, Lisa Molomot and three of my advanced animation students to work on the educational film: Semiconductor U.S.A (2024)
○ Additional Impacts: Student Maya Wong hired by Lisa Molomot to work on animated sequences for a local documentary
● Coordinated and connected Arizona Arts, The Florence Immigration and Refugee Rights Project with School of Art Students for a meeting between Amal and Esperanza (2023)