Anyone Can Animate! An Intro to Stop-Motion & Hand-Drawn Animation

In this workshop, artist-in-residence, Teresa Nicolella, will teach you how to harness the power of technology in your pocket to create your own stop-motion animation using various methods. Level up those little flip books from childhood by adding in cut paper and more colors and details.

Participants must have a smart phone with the ability to download the free stop motion animation app Teresa introduces in order to create their own film. All other materials provided!

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!

About the Artist:

Teresa Nicolella is a painter and experimental animator from Seattle, Washington, now based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work explores surreal world-building  that investigates ideas of queer domesticity and cartoon performance. In 2022 she graduated summa cum laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art with her BFA in Painting and minor in Animation. She currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art through the Open Studies Department. She has received awards such as the Winston Art scholarship and was an AXA Art Prize finalist. She has shown her work at the New York Academy of Art and the Parkway Theater in Baltimore, Maryland.