Vanessa Sweet
Vanessa Sweet is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker currently residing in Rochester, NY as an Assistant Professor at the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Vanessa's work often touches upon themes of social and environmental advocacy, activism, and sustainability through the use of 2D animation.
She has created animations, illustrations, and graphic design for such clients as Fandango, Hallmark, "General Hospital", the BBC, and more. Her motto is "think globally, act locally" and she has sought to embody this in her practices while she lived in various U.S locals like Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, New York, and Alaska too. Her films have been screened internationally in over 80 film festivals, with her most recent work "Amplifying Feedback Loop" now closing out its festival run.
She loves going on walks with her two kiddos to forage and identify local flora. Currently, she's writing and editing a script for an upcoming film, and in the pre-production phase of a collaborative animated documentary she is co-directing.
