Draft:Christine Stoddard

Christine Stoddard, born Christine Sloan Stoddard, is an American writer, multidisciplinary artist , filmmaker, academic , and founder of Quail Bell Magazine. In 2023, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of Brooklyn's Top 50 Most Fascinating People for her involvement in the arts, including establishing Quail Bell Press & Productions, authoring books    available in libraries worldwide , making theatre   and visual art   , and hosting the talk show Badass Lady-Folk. That same year, her play "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" premiered at The Tank; she became the keynote speaker at the College of William & Mary's Diversity & Inclusion Symposium ; editor of the Brooklyn Downtown Star, sister of the Queens Ledger ; her first feature film, Sirena's Gallery, became streamable  after premiering at the Byrd Theatre in 2021  ; and her solo exhibition "A Forest of Ancestral Dreams" opened at the Queens Botanical Garden , where she had previously shown with AnkhLave Arts Alliance.

Previously, Stoddard was named FOLIO's Top 20 Media Visionaries in their 20s and was the artist-in-residence at Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn Public Library , Lenox Hill Neighborhood House , and Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House. In 2020, she created a body of 17 murals in group homes for adults with disabilities via HeartShare Human Services of New York as an artist-in-residence. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, Bustle , Yes! Magazine, the University of Richmond's Digital America, Teen Vogue, Native Peoples Magazine, and other outlets. She has shown work via the Elisabet Ney Museum, 1708 Gallery , the Poe Museum , the Howard County Center for the Arts , and other institutions. She holds an MFA from The City College of New York, where she was a Jacoff Scholar and graduated from the same program as Puerto Rican artist Lionel Cruet, and continues her studies at Columbia University. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, and studied under cinematographer Rob Tregenza.