Amy Kravitz

Amy Kravitz was born in 1956 in Wilmington, Delaware. At a summer creative arts program, she started making films when she was eleven years old and began teaching at age fourteen. She studied Anthropology at Harvard University where she received an AB, and studied Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts where she received an MFA.

Kravitz's films have won many awards and have screened throughout the world. Her film Trap was considered by Jules Engel to be one of the ten essential films through which to teach the principles, techniques and concepts of the art of animation.

Over four decades of teaching experience have enabled Kravitz to develop unusual teaching methods that encourage students to develop individual approaches to the medium. Her classes explore animation as a distinct language that employs unusual materials, unique spatial expressions and visual metaphors as its grammar. In 2011 she received the Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.