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

Master 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

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

2021– 2025

Assistant Professor of Animation and Illustration School of Art | College of Fine Arts, The University of Arizona

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

2025

Recipient of the Early Career Scholar Award, University of Arizona Award of Distinction, University of Arizona

2024

Recipient of an Integrative Art Research Fellowship, University of Arizona

Recipient, Lee Herbst Faculty Innovation Award for bridging research, teaching, and service learning. School of Art, University of Arizona

2023

Anthem Award for 2021 animated Viruses & Vaccine Science of Covid-19, a collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and the City of New York.  

PUBLICATIONS | ANIMATED ESSAYS

2024

2022

  • Antebi, N. (2022) “The Revitalization of ProNaf; Then and Now” Derivas Lab Ed. No.2 Ciudad Juárez, published in Querétaro, Mexico (Editors: Francisco Paillie Pérez and Ximena Ocampo Aguilar) 

2019

  • Antebi, N. (2018) “Industrial Light and Magic: Mary Hallock Greenewalt received 11 patents for her “color organ,” an early form of synthesizer. She would spend the rest of her life defending them.” Topic Magazine (Editor: Michelle Legro/Art Director: David Barrera)

2018

CREATIVITY ACTIVITY/RESEARCH

EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS and PERFORMANCES

2025

  • Animating the World, Houston Center for Photography 42nd Center Annual (Juror: Becky Senf)

  • Animating the World, solo video installation at Pidgin Palace Arts, Tucson, Arizona (Programmer/Representation: Danny Vinik)

  • Animating the World, screening at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. (Programmer: Patrick Moser)

2024

  • Vecinos, performance with collaborator Ingrid Leyva at INVERSE Performance Festival, Bentonville, Arkansas. Commissioned by the Momentary and Crystal Bridges (Curators: Cynthia Post Hunt and Emma Saperstein)

  • Over Story/Meander Story Solo exhibition and “Cinco Minutos a Cinco Puntos,” a 12-hour community event I organized in conjunction with the closing of the exhibition. Galería Cinco Puntos, El Paso, Texas (Jan 2024)

  • “Border, River, Mover, Breather” 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) activities:

2025

  • Selected for presentation at the conference: “Who needs a border wall? Border, fences and walls : Towards a new research agenda” Montréal, Canada May 8–9, 2025

  •  Video Art Night (VAN)!, AT&T Discovery District, Dallas, Texas

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

  • Selected for the Border Biennial at The El Paso Museum of Art. El Paso, Texas, Curators: Claudia S. Preza M.A., EPMA Assistant Curator, alongside curatorial advisors Edgar Picazo Merino and Jazmín Ontiveros Harvey.

  • Selected for 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 

  • Selected for exhibition as part of the 2022/2023 MexiCali Biennial The Land of Milk & Honey / La Tierra Que Mana Leche y Miel

  • Selected for 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, Ithaca, NY 

  • Screening at Arsenal Berlin (X)trACTION Program, Berlin, Germany

  • 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 

2019

  • 100 Partially Obscured Views of the El Paso/Juárez Border at NMSU's Feminist Border Arts Film Festival at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

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) commissioned by Alabama Center for Contemporary Art and part of the exhibition “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

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) 

2019

  • “Mapping a Restless River at the US/Mexico Border" exhibited at Vassar's Palmer Gallery part of a series on "Water, Borders, and Fences"

  • “Mapping a Restless River at the US/Mexico Border" and The Beach that Speaks part of an upcoming exhibition at Hobart and William Smith Colleges titled, “The Worth of Water”, curated by Nick Ruth 

  • “Mapping a Restless River at the US/Mexico Border" Design at the Edge: the U.S.-Mexico part of an upcoming exhibition at MODA, the Museum of Design Atlanta curated by Flusche

  • Official Selection I Offer You Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico City, MX 

  • Screening of A Retelling of Cowherder and Weaver in the Age of Migration, "Digital Fairytale Program," Elizabeth Street Garden, NYC presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection

  • Presenting Agents of The Chihuahuan Desert premiering April 4 via “Digital Fairytales: Vengeance is Mine” hosted by Made in NY Media Center and Leo Kuelbs Collection, Brooklyn, NY

  • Agents of The Chihuahuan Desert premiering April 20th via “Digital Fairytales: Vengeance is Mine” at Mitte Media Festival, Berlin, Germany

  • Re-performing Photon Ecstasy (Kepler–37) Queens Museum with l'Ao at the Queens Museum in conjunction with Emergency INDEX vol.7. Queens, NY

2018

  • Folly Gardens exhibited at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum as part of Mexicali Biennial's CALAFIA: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, San Bernardino, CA

  • World Premiere of I Offer You, a oulipian collaborative performance with l'Ao at The Brooklyn Art Library curated by Tansy Xiao, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Selections from Fred’s Rainbow Bar and Other Stages on the International Border along with a short essay are a featured spotlight at Labocine

  • SOFT BYTES; A FEMINIST ANIMATION FESTIVAL screening of Forever Your Girl, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, Curators: AHC and TSALA

  • Selections from Fred’s Rainbow Bar and Other Stages on the International Border debuted at the Feminist Border Arts Film Festival at New Mexico State University on April 16.

  • World Premiere of A Retelling of Cowherder and Weaver in the Age of Migration, "Digital Fairytale Program," Made in NY Media Center, DUMBO presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection

2017

  • Just Browsing world premiere at Fridman Gallery, NY https://www.fridmangallery.com/justbrowsing followed by Q&A with Joanne McNeil

  • Don't Put Nothin In It Unless You Feel It Revisited, "Garden of Earthly Delights," Central Booking, NYC (curator: Maddy Rosenberg)

  • Procrustean Bed performed by Miolina & Melissa Grey, with animation by Nicole Antebi, Birmingham New Music Festival, Birmingham, AL

  • “I Present Two” Screening at Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA (Curators: Stacy Elaine Dacheux and Shauna McGarry)

  • Concert No.8 Folk Geometry @ NOMADLOFT (by invitation only), Soft Series, Documentation of the show available at Clocktower Radio, New York, NY

  • Last Crow at Marienbad screening at Monte Vista Projects "Small Things," Los Angeles, CA

  • Procrustean Bed performed by Miolina & Melissa Grey at the National Opera Center-Scorca Hall, NY on March 8, 2017, in observance of International Women’s Day.

  • Procrustean Bed  performed by Lynn Bechtold at La Cupula Gallery Córdoba, Argentina

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling official Selection New Filmmakers New York, Courthouse Theater Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

  • The Beach that Speaks included in "Dead Horse Bay: The Glass Graveyard of Brooklyn," UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Allison Meier)

  • A Retelling of The Cowherder and Weaver in the Age of Migration, Commission for Leo Kuelbs' Digital Fairytales suite, China edition, in development (Sound collaborator: Xiren Wang | Curator: Leo Kuelbs)

2016

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling official Selection Croydon International Film Festival, London UK, 2016

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling official Selection Green Screen Environmental FilmFestival, Trinidad and Tobago: November 1-12th, 2016

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling official Selection Factual Animation Film Fuss, Whitechapel, London: Friday 30th September – Sunday 2nd October 2016

  • Tilapia Jetty, part of the exhibition “California: The Art of Water” at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University (Curator: Claire Perry)

  • Magic Square, Visual music collaboration with electronic music pioneer, Vince Clarke, and experimental composer, Melissa Grey. Premiered at the Morbid Anatomy Museum along with an illustrated lecture by Colin Dickey.

  • Procrustean Bed Visual music collaboration with experimental composer and performer Melissa Grey and featuring Lynn Bechtold on violin. Premiered at NWEAMO Festival 2016 at the New San Diego Central Library April 8th-9th

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling exhibited at Vanishing Point presented by Art House Exhibitions, Jersey City, NJ (Curators: Arthur Bruso and Raymond E. Mingst)

  • The Telling of the Bees Telling exhibited at “Looking Local: A Library of Place,” Antenna, New Orleans, LA (Curators: Katie and Matt Allison)

2015

  • “Animistic Thinking and Landscape” solo exhibition, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA (Curator: Cynthia Hooper)

  • Riparianism screening at Morbid Anatomy Saint Florian Pageant on the Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

  • Telling of the Bees Telling, Silverado Film Festival, Silverado, CA

  • Bookmark/Landmark including in the Twin Cities Floating Library (Curated by Sarah Peters), MN

  • On Kawara Album cover for Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA (Brainchild of Gary Cannone)

  • Official Selection, The Americas Film Festival, screening of Riparianism, New York, NY

  • “A Telling, Singing, and Blessing of the Bees” at Hive House, Los Angeles with Kate Purdy and Emily Lacy (Curators: Kate Purdy and Stacy Dacheux)

  • Dream Propulsion (Laboratory) presented at "Submerged!" Light Year, DUMBO, Brooklyn (Curators: Karl Erickson and Leo Kuelbs). part of Leo Kuelbs Collection

  • Featured animator Circuit Bridges, Gallery MC, NY and Mobius, Boston, MA, and het Bolwerck, Zaadmarkt, Iceland (Curator: Melissa Grey/Electronic Violinist: Eva Ingoff)

  • "After the Aqueduct," LACE Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Kim Stringfellow)

  • "Submerged!" Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (Curators: Karl Erickson and Leo Kuelbs). 

  • Dream Propulsion (Laboratory) part of Leo Kuelbs Collection "Submerged!" Z Bar Berlin, Germany (Curators: Karl Erickson and Leo Kuelbs). 

  • Dream Propulsion (Laboratory) part of Leo Kuelbs Collection

2014

  • Featured animator at Underwater New York Anniversary Event, Dumbo Sky, DUMBO, NY (Curator: Nicki Pombier Berger)

  • Dream Propulsion (Laboratory) screening at "Submerged!" Dumbo Arts Festival, DUMBO, NY (Curators: Karl Erickson and Leo Kuelbs) Leo Kuelbs Collection

  • "The Bad Luck Hut," FIGMENT NYC, Governor's Island, NY (Curator: Irene Malatesta)

  • The Shack world premiere at "Spectacular Subdivision"at High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (Curator: Jay Lizo)

  • Dream Propulsion (Laboratory) screening at "Submerged!" Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, NY (Curators: Karl Erickson and Leo Kuelbs).

  • “Toward a History of Shacks” (Magic Lantern/Moving Image performance with Aaron Beebe and Benjamin Miller) Winter Shack, Brooklyn, NY

2013

  • Digital Macrame screening at Dumbo Glow," Projected on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, DUMBO, NY (Curators: Leo Kuelbs and John Ensor Parker)

  • The Eucalypt screening at “Teeny Histories,” a Teeny-Cine's first event at Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA (Curator: Jenny Stark)

  • Animated Sonnet to commemorate the centenary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Library Special Collections at UCLA , Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Christian Reed)

  • Folly Gardens screening at The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, England

  • Highland Park Rain Disco, “Magic Lantern Show” at Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT

2012

  • Geography of Reclamation, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA (Solo exhibition)

  • Los Angeles Road Concerts: Mulholland Derive edition, Los Angeles, CA (Organized by Stephen Van DycK)

  • "Distributed Microtopias" exhibition at FLEFF, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

  • 2012 Bay-Delta Science Conference (exhibition and panel discussion), Sacramento, CA

  • "Facing the Sublime in Water, CA," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (Curator: Irene Tsatsos)

  • "The Subterraneans: The Artists Behind LA’s Artist-Run Spaces," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

  • "Drawing on the Psyche," Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Jay Lizo)

  • "Pitch Battles," Performance at Machine Project with Colin Dickey and Chris Kallmyer exploring the difference between two rival pitches, 440 Hz and 432 Hz and cymatic sound, Los Angeles, CA

  • "Water Week," DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Karl Erickson)

  • Geography of Reclamation: An Essay in Three Parts, 3rd annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

  • "Pitch Battles," Performance at California State University, Monterey Bay with Colin Dickey and Chris Kallmyer exploring the difference between two rival pitches, 440 Hz and 432 Hz and cymatic sound, Seaside, CA

2011

  • "Ever Green," Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Lara Bank)

  • "Liquid Assets: Water, CA Presents A Spatial Dictionary," The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • "Dream + Act: Presented by Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art," La Causa and TELA SOFA (The East LA Society for Film and Arts), Los Angeles, CA


2010

  • "Here Come the Plants / A Flora-Utopian Transformation," Elastic Sound and Vision Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • "Water Matters," Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

  • Alumni exhibition, Ruben Center for Contemporary Art, UTEP, El Paso, TX (Curator: Kate Bonansinga)

  • "Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration" Exhibition at the Katherine Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN.(Juror:  Lucy Lippard)

2009

  • "Through the Looking Glass: The Los Angeles Aqueduct "with May Jong, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA (Two-person exhibition)

  • Don't Put Nothin In It, Unless You Feel It, a sub-exhibition at Summercamp Project Project in conjunction with "GO BIG OR GO HOME," El Serreno, CA

  • "Sustainability," Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (Curator Suzanne Adelman)

  • "Sound in Space," Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA (Curator: Clay Chaplin)

2008

  • "A Solo Show," Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA

  • Exhibition at Appellation Wine, New York, NY

  • "Urban Screens 08," Melbourne, Australia

  • "California Scenarios," Orange County Museum of Art (Orange Lounge), Costa Mesa, CA (Curator: Carol Cheh)

WORK REPRODUCED IN A SCHOLARLY BOOK

2025

  • Quoted in Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez’s forthcoming book Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico's Edges published by Vanderbilt University Press (2025).

2023

2015

  • Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann, Palgrave Macmillan 2015. Reference to my short, animated essay Geography of Reclamation Pages 90-91.

PODCASTS

2024

RESIDENCIES

2025

  • Forthcoming residency at SOMA, Mexico City, MX (September 15 - October 15)

2018

  • WOW/UNY Residency, Governor's Island, NY https://www.worksonwater.org/summerresidency/

2001

  • Artist in Resident at the Border Arts Residency, La Union, NM

ANIMATION COMMISSIONS 

2024

  • Produced animated sequences for Ternura Radical (2024)

short documentary about the rise in activism around gender violence in Juárez, Mexico. Director: Celina Galicia funded by Femme Frontera, El Paso, Texas 

2021-2022

Erin Chapman, New Media Producer AMNH

Nicole Antebi: Animation, Illustration

Hannah Snell, Motion Designer

Translations: Spanish, Mandarin 

  • Desert Archaeology: “Tucson did you know?” Animated titles and transitions. Director: Lisa Molomot.  

BOOK TRAILERS

2018-2020

EDUCATIONAL ANIMATION

2021-2022


REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS

2025

2016

2015

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2014

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2012

  • Los Angeles Times Review: ‘Facing the Sublime in Water, CA’ delves deep by Sharon Mizota December 20, 2012

  • “Recording the Narrative: A Conversation with Nicole Antebi” Interview with Stacy Elaine Daucheux interview on Revising Loneliness 

2011

  • 'Ever Green' at Monte Vista Projects: Free Christmas Trees For Rent! But is it Art?, by Megan Sallabedra, Los Angeles Weekly

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2011/12/free_christmas_tree_art.php

  • Palm Springs Life feature by Carol Cheh “Burning Off Water: Three Contemporary Artists Explore the Desert in Their Work” December 2011

  • "Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art and the Woman’s Building", edited by edited by Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton, interview with Teresa Chavez “Unburying History, The Future(s) of Feminist Art”

2007

2012

  • Art Ltd. January/February 2013, “Desert Art” by Steve Biller

CONFERENCES/SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND CURATION

2025

  • Paper titled “Reclaiming 'Friendship' Across Borders” forthcoming panel presentation at MODE SUMMIT 2025 (Motion Design Education Conference) in Prague, Czech Republic 

  • Presentation at the Carson’s Scholars symposium “Multiple Perspectives on Visualizing Science”

2024

  • Presentation and thaumatrope animation workshop, Artistic Expression of Original Research, Santa Rita Experimental Range, Sahuarita, AZ. Organized by Jessica Maccaro 

  • 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

2022

  • “Transnational Community Centered Animation: A conversation Between Norma 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

2018

  • Visiting artists talk at Queens College in conjunction with Zoe Beloff and Gregory Sholette's experimental media MFA program.

2017

  • “At the Margins of the Word: the Multimedia Essay” Panelist at the upcoming Nonfiction Now conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

2012

  • Exploring the Known and the Unknown," A panel discussion with Wilderness Mind at Angels Gate Cultural Center. Moderated by Betty Ann Brown

  • "2012 Bay-Delta Science Conference" (exhibition and panel discussion), Sacramento, CA

  • Co-organizer of “Water, CA, Creative Commons” at Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2011

  • Collective member Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

  • Co-curator of "Water, CA Presents: A Spatial Dictionary" and related programming, The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA

  • Artist talk on Water, CA at Neutra VDL Research House for LALA Salon, Los Angeles, CA

2008

  • Artist talk on water at California State Monterey Bay for Enid Baxter Blader’s new media class, Seaside, CA

2007

  • Artists talk on Failure at California State Long Beach for Linda Day’s graduate seminar, Long Beach, CA

  • Co-Organized Creative Strategies for the Salton Sea Panel with Christopher Metzler, Enid Baxter Blader in conjunction with the Salton Sea Projects at Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

  • Presentation with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest on “Failure” at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

  • "Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful "(Exhibit Co-organized with Robby Herbst and Irene Tsatsos), Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA


GRANTS AWARDED AND COMMISSIONS

Internal Grants

2022-ongoing

Year 1: Facilitated the production of Ingrained, an animated film collaboration and service-learning opportunity with Flowers & Bullets community farm located in Tucson, AZ. Animation I students volunteered at the farm learning how to cultivate blue corn as the basis for their short fully animated documentary “Ingrained.” Members of Flowers & Bullets leadership also contributed assets to the final animation. 

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: Facilitated the production of Small Seeds; Big Change, an Animation I film collaboration and service learning opportunity with Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN), based in Patagonia, AZ. After a site visit to BRN where the students volunteered in the seed nursery and agave farm, students animated a short film about their experience, intended to advocate for BRN’s mission of restoring binational water systems. (2023)

Screenings:

  • 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/THE WONDER STUDIO 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

  • Part 3: Successfully organized and facilitated two “Moving Science” animation residencies at Biosphere 2, impacting 14 students, each receiving a stipend to participate. 

In Fall of 2024 the Wonder Studio secured a permanent home at Biosphere 2 where Aaron Bugaj and I hosted the Liverman Scholars in our inaugural stop motion workshop 

  • Part 4: Co-PI with Aaron Bugaj ARTS/RESEARCH/RESILIENCE grant for Expanding Design-Based Data Visualization at the Wonder Studio at Biosphere 2  

  • Part 4: Co-PI with Aaron Bugaj Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Catalyst Seed Fund

2022

EDI award to fund ART504 “The Borderlands: Animated” to support visiting artists, performances, and fieldwork. 

2022-Present

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. 

  • Collaboration with FIRPP and Animation II using their data sets on immigration and immigration law to visualize through animation 

2015

  • Awarded the Jerome Foundation film/video grant for Fred’s Rainbow Room and Other Stages on the International Border (working title)