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Christine Sloan Stoddard (born 1988) is a writer, artist, performer, filmmaker, and theatre-maker. In 2023, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of the Top 50 Most Fascinating People. [1] for her work in theatre, visual art, film, and publishing. [2]
Stoddard was born to a Salvadoran mother and American father in Arlington, Virginia. [3] She began earning recognition in art, writing, and theatre as a teenager. [4] [5] [6] She won the honor of Miss Virginia in the Al Neuharth Free Spirit in Journalism Conference, a national scholarship program for high school journalism students, in 2007. [7] After attending Grinnell College for one year [8], she transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University. She graduated from the VCUarts Cinema program [9] with a B.A. in Film. She simultaneously earned a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University's College of Humanities and Sciences and a C.E. in Product Innovation from the daVinci Center for Product Innovation. [10] She went on to earn an M.F.A. in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York. [11] There, she won the Helen and Sydney Jacoff Scholarship [12] for additional graduate study in the M.P.S. Photography program at The School of Visual Arts. She postponed further study, opting to work professionally full-time until the pandemic hit. [13] She resumed her studies in 2023 in the M.A. Oral History program at Columbia University, where she is a current Master's candidate [14].
Stoddard began creating public-facing art and writing projects starting in her youth [15]. Her zine Cognitive Chaos: an itty bitty zine, made at age 18, is archived in the Barnard College Zine Library [16]. She continued producing, presenting, and publishing her creative work professionally throughout college and graduate school [17]. As an undergraduate, she was named one of Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40 in Richmond, VA [18]. The honor recognized several achievements, including her founding of Quail Bell Magazine [19]. Her words, images, videos, and performances have appeared in Cosmopolitan [20], the Poe Museum [21], Annmarie Sculpture Garden [22], The Feminist Wire [23], and elsewhere [24]. She has been part of several inaugural artist and writer residency cohorts, including at Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House [25] and the Brooklyn Public Library in Crown Heights [26]. She performs original comedy and musical acts and shows, ranging from Art Bitch [27] to Quail Tales [28], and also appears in shows created by other artists, such as Melanie Maria Goodreaux [29] and Aaron Gold [30]
Stoddard started contributing to others' books and zines while in high school and college [31]. She began her post-college journalism career on the editorial staffs of Virginia Living Magazine [32] and the Arlington Catholic Herald [33] before she began writing, photographing, and illustrating for Bustle and other national outlets [34]. Her first chapbook was Ova from Dancing Girl Press [35]. She published her first stand-alone, full-length book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, in 2016 [36], and has presented it at various venues, including the Virginia Museum of History and Culture [37]. The book launched from her work on Mixteco RVA, her Puffin Grant artist book [38]. Her next full-length book was Water for the Cactus Woman, a poetry and photography collection [39]. She also authored Desert Fox by the Sea [40], Heaven is a Photograph [41], New York: The Living And Dead [42], and Naomi & The Reckoning [43], which has a film version<, and other books. [44].
After showing with the likes of ArtBridge [45], the New York Transit Museum [46], and The Living Gallery [47], Stoddard became in the inaugural artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City in 2018 [48]. That same year, Ms. Magazine chose her for the honor of "Ms. Muse," [49] a poetry feature. In 2020, 1708 Gallery awarded her a space residency [50], where she created her first feature film Sirena's Gallery [51] [52] after experimenting with her single-actress short film Bottled [53]. She was selected to present outdoor public art at the Queens Botanical Garden with the AnkhLave Arts Alliance that year [54]. She created and hosted the first official children's video program for the Art Deco Society of New York [55], which began distribution during the pandemic. In 2021, Old Dominion University made her its keynote speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month [56]. She showed at the Howard County Center for the Arts with Dulce Pinzon and Julia Justo in a nationally curated exhibition called "Resilencia." [57] Throughout 2022, she presented comedy plays and storytelling shows at the Broadway Comedy Club[ citation needed], Greenwich Village Comedy Club [58], and other venues. Her company, Quail Bell Press & Productions, staged a workshop of her play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" [59] at Gene Frankel Theater. Shortly after the run, the play was chosen for a developmental reading by Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA [60]. In 2023, The Tank selected "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" as a core production [61] [62] [63]. As of that same year, Radio Free Brooklyn [64] and Manhattan Neighborhood Network [65] began airing her talk show Badass Lady-Folk [66]. She has been selected as a keynote speaker for Fall 2023 at the College of William & Mary [67]
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Christine Sloan Stoddard (born 1988) is a writer, artist, performer, filmmaker, and theatre-maker. In 2023, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of the Top 50 Most Fascinating People. [1] for her work in theatre, visual art, film, and publishing. [2]
Stoddard was born to a Salvadoran mother and American father in Arlington, Virginia. [3] She began earning recognition in art, writing, and theatre as a teenager. [4] [5] [6] She won the honor of Miss Virginia in the Al Neuharth Free Spirit in Journalism Conference, a national scholarship program for high school journalism students, in 2007. [7] After attending Grinnell College for one year [8], she transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University. She graduated from the VCUarts Cinema program [9] with a B.A. in Film. She simultaneously earned a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University's College of Humanities and Sciences and a C.E. in Product Innovation from the daVinci Center for Product Innovation. [10] She went on to earn an M.F.A. in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York. [11] There, she won the Helen and Sydney Jacoff Scholarship [12] for additional graduate study in the M.P.S. Photography program at The School of Visual Arts. She postponed further study, opting to work professionally full-time until the pandemic hit. [13] She resumed her studies in 2023 in the M.A. Oral History program at Columbia University, where she is a current Master's candidate [14].
Stoddard began creating public-facing art and writing projects starting in her youth [15]. Her zine Cognitive Chaos: an itty bitty zine, made at age 18, is archived in the Barnard College Zine Library [16]. She continued producing, presenting, and publishing her creative work professionally throughout college and graduate school [17]. As an undergraduate, she was named one of Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40 in Richmond, VA [18]. The honor recognized several achievements, including her founding of Quail Bell Magazine [19]. Her words, images, videos, and performances have appeared in Cosmopolitan [20], the Poe Museum [21], Annmarie Sculpture Garden [22], The Feminist Wire [23], and elsewhere [24]. She has been part of several inaugural artist and writer residency cohorts, including at Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House [25] and the Brooklyn Public Library in Crown Heights [26]. She performs original comedy and musical acts and shows, ranging from Art Bitch [27] to Quail Tales [28], and also appears in shows created by other artists, such as Melanie Maria Goodreaux [29] and Aaron Gold [30]
Stoddard started contributing to others' books and zines while in high school and college [31]. She began her post-college journalism career on the editorial staffs of Virginia Living Magazine [32] and the Arlington Catholic Herald [33] before she began writing, photographing, and illustrating for Bustle and other national outlets [34]. Her first chapbook was Ova from Dancing Girl Press [35]. She published her first stand-alone, full-length book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, in 2016 [36], and has presented it at various venues, including the Virginia Museum of History and Culture [37]. The book launched from her work on Mixteco RVA, her Puffin Grant artist book [38]. Her next full-length book was Water for the Cactus Woman, a poetry and photography collection [39]. She also authored Desert Fox by the Sea [40], Heaven is a Photograph [41], New York: The Living And Dead [42], and Naomi & The Reckoning [43], which has a film version<, and other books. [44].
After showing with the likes of ArtBridge [45], the New York Transit Museum [46], and The Living Gallery [47], Stoddard became in the inaugural artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City in 2018 [48]. That same year, Ms. Magazine chose her for the honor of "Ms. Muse," [49] a poetry feature. In 2020, 1708 Gallery awarded her a space residency [50], where she created her first feature film Sirena's Gallery [51] [52] after experimenting with her single-actress short film Bottled [53]. She was selected to present outdoor public art at the Queens Botanical Garden with the AnkhLave Arts Alliance that year [54]. She created and hosted the first official children's video program for the Art Deco Society of New York [55], which began distribution during the pandemic. In 2021, Old Dominion University made her its keynote speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month [56]. She showed at the Howard County Center for the Arts with Dulce Pinzon and Julia Justo in a nationally curated exhibition called "Resilencia." [57] Throughout 2022, she presented comedy plays and storytelling shows at the Broadway Comedy Club[ citation needed], Greenwich Village Comedy Club [58], and other venues. Her company, Quail Bell Press & Productions, staged a workshop of her play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" [59] at Gene Frankel Theater. Shortly after the run, the play was chosen for a developmental reading by Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA [60]. In 2023, The Tank selected "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" as a core production [61] [62] [63]. As of that same year, Radio Free Brooklyn [64] and Manhattan Neighborhood Network [65] began airing her talk show Badass Lady-Folk [66]. She has been selected as a keynote speaker for Fall 2023 at the College of William & Mary [67]
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