Molly Garrett
hi@mollygarrett.com
Education
Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) — Kansas City, MO
BFA in Art History + BFA in Animation
University of Tasmania, Hobart — Hobart, TAS, Australia
Semester Exchange Program
Professional Experience
2023
GPS Impact — Kansas City, MO
Lead Motion Designer (2019 – current)
Motion Designer (2016 – 2019)
Interactive Designer (2015 – 2016)
Nicolas Gogan Foundation — Kearney, MO
Founding Board Member & Secretary (2021 – current)
2018
PLUG Projects — Kansas City, MO
Co-Director & Curator (2017-2018)
2016
KCAI: School of Continuing Education & Professional Studies — Kansas City, MO
Instructor, Metamorphosis Animation
2015
KCAI — Kansas City, MO
Assistant Instructor, Pre-College Animation
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — Kansas City, MO
Internship, Exhibition Management
HINT — Kansas City, MO
Internship, Motion Design
Corticrawl Productions — Kansas City, MO
Studio Assistant for Benjamin Meade
2013
The Studios Inc — Kansas City, MO
Assistant Curator (2013)
Exhibition Internship (2012)
Exhibition Coordinator (2012)
Festivals & Screenings
2019
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) — Minneapolis, USA
Frame Forward 1: Women In Film
2018
Seattle Queer Film Festival — Seattle USA
Saturgay Morning Cartoons
Portland Unknown Film Festival — Portland USA
Fingertips Shorts Selection
Melbourne Queer Film Festival — Melbourne, Australia
Animation Shorts
Berlin Feminist Film Week — Berlin, Germany
Shorts: Body Capability
Montreal Feminist Film Festival — Montreal, Canada
Fiction & Experimental Shorts
qFLIX Philadelphia — Philadelphia USA
Looking: Women’s Shorts
2017
KC Contemporary Music Festival — Kansas City, USA
Screening in collaboration with KCEMA
Soft Center: Films from the Midwest — Ashville, NC & Minneapolis, MN USA
Curated Screening by Mechanical Eye Microcinema
2016
Illumaphonic — Kansas City, USA
Screening, curated by Charlotte Street Foundation
2015
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art — Kansas City, USA
KCAI’s Frame by Frame Festival
2014
Animation Block Party — New York City, USA
Experimental Films Program
Please Hold Magazine Festival — St Louis, USA
Shorts: Somebody’s Reality
CinemaKC — Kansas City, USA
Group Television Screening
Screenland Theater at Crown Center — Kansas City, USA
Double Feature: Phantasmagoria & Cottontail Premiere
2013
Middle of the Map Festival — Kansas City, USA
KCAI Animated Shorts Block
Exhibitions & Residencies
2017
Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency — Kansas City, MO
Residency, Visual Artist
La Esquina Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Group Exhibition, Against The Screen, curated by Lynette Miranda
Thrive Studio — Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibition, 12 Frames
2016
Epsten Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Group Exhibition, Fresh: KCAI Alumni
H&R Block Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Group Exhibition, Flat File & Digital File
Paragraph Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Group Exhibition, The One Thing That Can Save America, curated by Jessica Baran
2015
Vulpes Bastille Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibition, A Theory of Human Motivation
2014
Vulpes Bastilles Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Group Exhibition, Progress & Prosperity
2013
Rag & Bone Gallery — Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibition, A Fugue State
Honors, Press & Talks
2017
University of Missouri-Kansas City — Kansas City, MO
Artist Talk
Front/Space — Kansas City MO
Panel Discussion — Radical Visibility for Midwest LGBTQ+ Arts Organizers
Informality
Press, “When Viewing Molly Garrett’s Artwork, Consider This” by Yisa Fermin — August 28, 2017
Autostraddle
Press, “Exclusive: Slothrust Premiere Sweet New Video For “Pigpen”, graphics & compositing — June 2, 2017
2016
USA Today
Press, “Progressive Groups Team Up to Hit Trump with 6 New Ads”, lead animator — July 12, 2016
The Washington Post
Press, “The Deadliest Weapon Against Donald Trump? His Own Words”, lead animator — July 12, 2016
KC Studio
Press, “Fresh: KCAI Alumni at The Epsten Gallery”— September 30, 2016
KC Metropolis
Press, “Not Your Average Gallery”, — September 6, 2016
Stereogum
Press, “Slothrust – Horseshoe Crab Video”, lead animator — August 11, 2016
Noisey by Vice
Press, Quench Your Thirst for More Slothrust with Their New Video for “Horseshoe Crab”, lead animator — August 10, 2016
Heartbreaking Bravery
Press, Slothrust – Horseshoe Crab (Music Video, Live Video), lead animator — August 11, 2016
2015
KCAI — Kansas City, MO
Academic Award, 1st Place Art History Paper, Art History Symposium
Academic Award, Dean’s List, Fall 2010 – Spring 2015
2014
CinemaKC— Kansas City, MO
Interview, Director’s Inverview of Phantasmagoria — Spring 2014
2013
8 1/2 x 11
Review, A Fugue State — Summer/Fall 2013
The Bohemian Magazine
Review, A Fugue State — October 2013
Freelance
2022
Nicolas Gogan Foundation — Kearney, MO
Graphic Designer + Web Design
Lanita Blue — Oklahoma City, OK
Brand Identity + Social Media design
2021
Midwest Innocence Project — Kansas City, MO
Video Editing
2019
Sateen — NYC, NY
Compositing Assistance, “Gotta Give Me Your Love” Music Video
Topeka Freedom Singers Documentary — Topeka, KS
Production Assistance
2017
Private Birthday Party Documentary — Kansas City, MO
Production Assistance
Slothrust — Los Angeles, CA
Graphics & Compositing, “PigPen” Music video
2017
Slothrust — Los Angeles, CA
Lead Animation & Compositing, “Horseshoe Crab” Music video
Curation
2019
Festival of Cinematic & Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE3) — Minneapolis, MN
Curated Shorts: Not Found
2018
PLUG Projects — Kansas City, MO
The View by Elizabeth Sterling (Time Trials Video Screenings)
Unfaithful Landscapes of the Here and Now (Group Exhibition with Noel Morical and Lindsay Anna Jones)
How to Know Somebody (Group Exhibition with Emily Culver, Jenny Odell and Emily Mason)
Slow Time (Group Exhibition with Alida van Almelo and Kevin Townsend)
2017
PLUG Projects — Kansas City, MO
Collective (Solo Exhibition by Julie Schenkelberg)
Open Fracture (Group Exhibition with Catalina Ouyang and Benjamin Rosenthal)
Terraform (Group Exhibition with Alexandra Phillips, Caleb Taylor and Gillian Tobin)
Future Human (Group Exhibition with Shelby Burchett, Kevin Heckart, Thad Kellstadt, Anne Vieux and Angela Washko)