Draft:Christine Sloan Stoddard

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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. for her work in theatre, visual art, film, and publishing.

Early life and education

Stoddard was born to a Salvadoran mother and American father in Arlington, Virginia. She began earning recognition in art, writing, and theatre as a teenager. 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. After attending Grinnell College for one year, she transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University. She graduated from the VCUarts Cinema program 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. She went on to earn an M.F.A. in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York. There, she won the Helen and Sydney Jacoff Scholarship 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. She resumed her studies in 2023 in the M.A. Oral History program at Columbia University, where she is a current Master's candidate.

Career

Stoddard began creating public-facing art and writing projects starting in her youth. Her zine Cognitive Chaos: an itty bitty zine, made at age 18, is archived in the Barnard College Zine Library. She continued producing, presenting, and publishing her creative work professionally throughout college and graduate school. As an undergraduate, she was named one of Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40 in Richmond, VA. The honor recognized several achievements, including her founding of Quail Bell Magazine. Her words, images, videos, and performances have appeared in Cosmopolitan, the Poe Museum, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. She has been part of several inaugural artist and writer residency cohorts, including at Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House and the Brooklyn Public Library in Crown Heights. She performs original comedy and musical acts and shows, ranging from Art Bitch to Quail Tales, and also appears in shows created by other artists, such as Melanie Maria Goodreaux and Aaron Gold

Stoddard started contributing to others' books and zines while in high school and college. She began her post-college journalism career on the editorial staffs of Virginia Living Magazine and the Arlington Catholic Herald before she began writing, photographing, and illustrating for Bustle and other national outlets. Her first chapbook was Ova from Dancing Girl Press. She published her first stand-alone, full-length book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, in 2016, and has presented it at various venues, including the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. The book launched from her work on Mixteco RVA, her Puffin Grant artist book. Her next full-length book was Water for the Cactus Woman, a poetry and photography collection. She also authored Desert Fox by the Sea, Heaven is a Photograph, New York: The Living And Dead, and Naomi & The Reckoning, which has a film version<, and other books..

After showing with the likes of ArtBridge, the New York Transit Museum, and The Living Gallery, Stoddard became in the inaugural artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City in 2018. That same year, Ms. Magazine chose her for the honor of "Ms. Muse," a poetry feature. In 2020, 1708 Gallery awarded her a space residency, where she created her first feature film Sirena's Gallery after experimenting with her single-actress short film Bottled. She was selected to present outdoor public art at the Queens Botanical Garden with the AnkhLave Arts Alliance that year. She created and hosted the first official children's video program for the Art Deco Society of New York, which began distribution during the pandemic. In 2021, Old Dominion University made her its keynote speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month. She showed at the Howard County Center for the Arts with Dulce Pinzon and Julia Justo in a nationally curated exhibition called "Resilencia." Throughout 2022, she presented comedy plays and storytelling shows at the Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, and other venues. Her company, Quail Bell Press & Productions, staged a workshop of her play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" at Gene Frankel Theater. Shortly after the run, the play was chosen for a developmental reading by Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA. In 2023, The Tank selected "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" as a core production. As of that same year, Radio Free Brooklyn and Manhattan Neighborhood Network began airing her talk show Badass Lady-Folk. She has been selected as a keynote speaker for Fall 2023 at the College of William & Mary