Visiting Artist Lecture - Pheobe Jane Hart, Interdisciplinary Artist

WCSU MFA Visiting Artist Lecture with

Phoebe Jane Hart is a filmmaker, fabricator, and stop-motion animator based in NYC. She is an alumna of WCSU, graduating Summa Cum Laude in the Kathwari Honors Program with a BA degree in Studio Art. Since 2018, she has created work across a range of mediums, exploring the awkward, tender, and often absurd dimensions of human psychology and relationships through dark humor and surreal, hand-crafted visuals.

Phoebe’s short film Bug Diner received the Jury Award for Animation at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It also received a Special Jury Award at SXSW and premiered internationally on MUBI in 2025. Her first short film, JamieSonShine, is an experimental mixed-media documentary exploring her relationship with her brother following his diagnosis of schizophrenia. It screened at Slamdance 2022 and won Director's Choice at the Thomas Edison Film Festival.

Phoebe earned her MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2023. She was awarded a post-graduate Teaching Fellowship for her proposed course Compositing in Claymation, which she taught at CalArts in 2024. She continues to create both personal films and freelance work for studios, including Little Monster Films, BentoBox, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, and Bix Pix Entertainment. She takes puppets very, very seriously.

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