Carrie Hawks 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. Their recent documentary, Inner Wound Real, premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2022 and they lead a corresponding mental health workshop for the New York DOE.
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. They are an Assistant Professor of Illustration at Parsons, The New School.
At MacDowell, Hawks polished the script, created backgrounds, and did stop-motion animation exploration for Vamp Snail, an animated feature film. This comedy horror film focuses on the revenge plot of vampire snails battling to protect their home, enlisting a cross-species brigade in Louisiana. Vamp Snail utilizes animation, storytelling, environmental science, and biological research. This film project received a NYSCA grant in 2024.
