Carrie Hawks (they/them) is a NY Emmy nominated director, animator, designer, and artist. Their clients include Carnegie Hall, Wired Magazine, Al Jazeera America, and Cartoon Network. They create motion graphics, multimedia design, and animation. Their most recent animated documentary, Inner Wound Real, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Their award-winning animated documentary black enuf* was funded in part by The Jerome Foundation, broadcast on American Public Television, and screened at over 40 events including the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Their art spans a variety of media including drawing, doll-making, and performance. They have exhibited internationally in the Brooklyn Museum, The New Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Cape Town, Toronto, and Tokyo. They hold a BA in Art History & Visual Arts from Barnard College and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University.
They have performed with Black Women Artist for Black Lives Matter, and participated in the Jerome @ Carmargo Residency in Cassis, France. They were selected for the Leslie Lohman Queer Artist Fellowship in 2018 and as a Jerome Foundation Artist Fellow in 2019 and 2014. They were selected for the 2021 Black Directors Grant with Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Black Public Media 360+ Incubator lab in 2021 when their winning pitch received generous funding.
Specialties: After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, InDesign
Experienced in Dragonframe, stop motion, Cinema 4D
Press
Hyperallergic "Queer Art Workers Reflect: Carrie Hawks wants Universal Basic Income and More"
Kansas City Star "You must love fried chicken and rap? KC filmmaker asks us what is ‘black enuf*’"
Colorlines "A Black Queer Filmmaker Seeks Intersectional Acceptance in ‘black enuf*’"
New York Times "Black Queer Brooklyn on Film Focuses on Diverse Voices"
Central Standard on KCUR "Filmmaker Carrie Hawks on ‘black enuf*"
Barnard Magazine "An Animated Life"
AfroPunk "Filmmaker Carrie Hawks talks about her racial perception-based art"
Revision Path podcast talking about design, motion graphics, and creativity.
Art is King podcast chatting about art, life, and career.
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