GLAS ANIMATION GRANT RECIPIENTS 2020
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma // Maria Constanza Ferreira
We are excited to announce the recipients of the third cycle of the GLAS Animation Grant. We couldn’t be more thrilled to support these artists in the creation of their next projects. Meet the artists and a look at their work below!
Project Title: Colony
Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma is a freelance animator and fine artist who currently resides in New York. She is an alum of the Laguardia High School of the Arts in New York and received her BFA in Animation at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. While you could describe her as being a very talkative person, she has always found it easier to express her emotions and feelings through visual mediums rather than words, making her work take on a very intimate and emotional quality overall. She enjoys making both 2D animation and stopmotion films, and often uses elements of mixed media in her films by combining traditional and digital elements through compositing. Her work as a whole ranges from fiction and fantastical to poetic and metaphorical, and often deals with memory and human interaction paired with themes of womanhood, family, and our relationship to the natural world.
Project Title: In The Garden
Maria Constanza Ferreira (b. 1994 Caracas, Venezuela) is an interdisciplinary artist creating artwork across a range of media including video, photography, and interactive installation. Ferreira’s practice consists of a series of experiments exploring a profound fascination with materials science, natural structures, and light optics. In March of 2019, Ferreira began an ongoing Artist Residency at the Kahr Research Group within New York University’s department of Chemistry to continue her work with chemical crystallography. Her work has showcased internationally at places such as Times Square’s Midnight Moment, IndieLisboa Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, SFO Museum, GLAS Animation Film Festival, and NYU Abu Dhabi’s Art Gallery. Two of her videos have been nominated for Vimeo’s Best of the Year Awards in 2018 and 2019. Ferreira earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design as a double major in Film/ Animation/Video and Graphic Design.
