Christen Smith

Christen Smith's artistic practice applies the process of animation to explore the spiritual shape of the Self and the Other. Ms. Smith is a filmmaker, educator and entrepreneur who teaches animation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, and the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. Ms. Smith has provided creative leadership in a wide range of classrooms and contexts: from graduate film students at a private university to young women incarcerated on Rikers Island; from freelance TV animators to editorial staff at a tech startup, to vo...