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Kelly Sears is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studio Arts in Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado. She also serves as Interim Director of the Brakhage Center. Sears holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and has taught at Pitzer College, Scripps College, Rice University, and the University of Houston. Her work focuses on experimental animation that critiques American social and political legacies through collage, archival intervention, and speculative storytelling. Films blend historical documents with fictional twists to create uncanny narratives merging history and myth.
- Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego
Her research explores animation as a critical practice, using cut-and-collage techniques to disrupt source material contexts. Films like Applied Pressure (2019) and In the Vicinity (2016) have screened at Sundance, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Pacific Film Archives. Awards include the Core Program Fellowship (2018) and juror roles at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Sears has participated in residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, and the Galveston Artist Residency. Her work emphasizes art's role in resistance and activism, exemplified by collaborative exhibitions like Tear It Up, Tear It Down (2017), which coincided with Trump's presidency.
