Charlie Wilcox is a designer, animator, embroiderist, musician, artist, collaborator, and friend who hails from Lindstrom, Minnesota, also known as “America’s Little Sweden.” Charlie’s social practice involves exploring what it means to turn the creation of animation into a hands-on event that can focalize and generate community. By developing animation into a collaborative act that integrates qualities from textile craftwork and participatory art, Charlie explores new situations and purposes for animation as a method for collective expression and visioning. His work creates methodologies for representations of social design and collaboration that favor embodied realities beyond sheer logicism and consensus. Charlie makes his own embroidered animations, curates and organizes the Frombelow Microcinema, helps organize Portland Textile Month, works in the performing arts departments at Reed College, and plays tuba in the punk band Horsebag.

Email Charlie at charliecwilcox@gmail.com