Stephanie Angela Maxwell is an animator, filmmaker and Professor Emeritus in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
She specializes in hand-painted experimental abstract animation.
Her techniques include direct-on-film painting, motion painting, object animation, copier techniques, and live action manipulation.
Stephanie Maxwell's works have been presented in many international festivals and solo retrospectives, including the Northwest Film Forum,[1] the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival,[2] and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
She was co-founder and co-director for 12 years of the ImageMovementSound festivals, an annual festival of collaborative productions by interdisciplinary artists.