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.
Their art confronts self-imposed and external assumptions about identity in order to promote healing, particularly in relation to Blackness, gender, and queer sexuality. They work in animation, drawing, collage, sculpture, and performance, often incorporating humor. Their film black enuf* was nominated for a New York Emmy, won Best Documentary Short at Trans Stellar Film Festival, was broadcast on American Public Television’s World Channel, and screened at over 40 festivals including Ann Arbor and BlackStar. They have received grants from the Jerome Foundation (2014, 2019), Black Public Media, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia. They curated programs for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and ASIFA-East, and were a fellow at the Leslie Lohman Museum. Their recent documentary, Inner Wound Real premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2022 and they lead a corresponding mental health workshop for the New York Department of Education. They are an Assistant Professor of Illustration at Parsons, The New School.
Artist CV
Specialties: After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, InDesign
Experienced in Dragonframe, stop motion, Cinema 4D
Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective member
Press
GLAAD | Voices of the Industry: In Conversation with Filmmaker, Artist, Animator and Designer Carrie Hawks
BlkWmn Animator Interview Carrie Hawks: Animation, Identity, and Mental Health
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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