Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Christen Smith, an experimental animator crafting meditative installations that reveal hidden movement and emotional layers.
Christen Smith
Christen Smith
Christen Smith (she/her) is a multimodal artist and animation faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Through meticulous frame-by-frame drawing, Christen explores unseen movement and layered emotion. Her immersive installation “Blessed Are Those Who Are Angry” received a 2024 NYFA grant. During her Catwalk residency, she is developing a new site-specific experiential animation inspired by the ecological and cultural histories embedded in the Hudson River Valley.
