Carrie Hawks
Carrie Hawks is a gender non-conforming director and animator. They are known for their work on Black Enuf.
Carrie Hawks
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- Name
- Carrie Hawks
- Birthplace
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
- Occupation
- Director, Artist, Animator, Designer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Barnard College · Georgia State University
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Carrie Hawks is a gender non-conforming director and animator. They are known for their work on Black Enuf.
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Carrie Hawks was an American animator, designer and film director, among other activities. The animator was born in Grand Rapids.
Carrie Hawks studied at Barnard College and Georgia State University. The animator worked for Parsons School of Design and lived in New York City.
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• Name — Carrie Hawks • Birthplace — Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. • Occupation — Director, Artist, Animator, Designer
Early life and education
Early life and education
Carrie was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. They hold a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University.
Career
Career
They work in a variety of media including drawing, doll-making, performance and animation. Carrie’s first documentary short film, Delilah, won the Best Experimental Award at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival in 2012. Their second documentary short film, black enuf*, was funded in part by The Jerome Foundation and included in Black Public Media’s AfroPop series. This film included first person narratives and memories that they collected. The film won Best Animation at the First City Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Women’s Short film at the Out on Film Festival in Atlanta. They have performed with Black Women Artist for Black Lives Matter in the New Museum of Contemporary Art and selected for the Set on Freedom Artist Residency in the Queens Museum and awarded the Jerome Camargo Residency in 2019.
Selected exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
• 2018 Solo – black enuf*, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art • 2018 Group – Family, Community, and Shorts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • 2017 Group – Black Queer Brooklyn on Film, Brooklyn Museum • 2017 Solo – black enuf*, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
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- 1.FEATURE: FILMMAKER CARRIE HAWKS TALKS ABOUT HER RACIAL PERCEPTION-BASED ART AND DOCU-MEMOIR BLACK ENUF*. afropunk.com. 6 January 2016.
- 2.Carrie Hawks' Award-Winning Short Film 'black enuf*' is a Quest for Acceptance and Identity. bkreader.com. 17 October 2017.
- 3.An Animated Life. barnard.edu.
- 4.You must love fried chicken and rap? KC filmmaker asks us what is 'black enuf*'. kansascity.com.
- 5.Carrie Hawks. camargofoundation.org.
- 6.We're Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #2. uniondocs.org.
- 7.Carrie Hawks. jeromefdn.org.
- 8.Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. archive.newmuseum.org.
- 9.Set on Freedom and Hot Cabinet Present. queensmuseum.org.
- 10.black enuf*, a film by Carrie Hawks. nelson-atkins.org.
- 11.FAMILY, COMMUNITY & SHORT FILMS: A PROJECT ROW HOUSES / MFAH COLLABORATION. mfah.org.
- 12.Black Queer Brooklyn on Film: black enuf*, The Personal Things, and Happy Birthday Marsha Preview. brooklynmuseum.org.
- 13.Post Office Herb Garden; Carrie Hawks' Film 'black enuf*' (R). kcur.org.
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