Board Member
Christi Bertelsen is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in 2D traditional animation with explorations in live-action film and street art. She has worked as an animator, storyboard artist, animatic editor, and animation director on various advertising campaigns and cartoon series.
Her award-winning personal animated films Ark City and Late have been showcased on PBS (Channel 13) and with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Shaped by her identity as Native, queer, and a xennial, Christi blends playful surrealism with emotional depth across her creative endeavors. She is driven by curiosity, playfulness, and a DIY ethos.
Christi has been an ASIFA-East board member since 2015 and has contributed design to projects within the organization: the current ASIFA-East logo, the 50th anniversary signal film, postcards, and award certificates, as well as DJ for some ASIFA-East post holiday parties.
Christi teaches in the School of Visual Arts’ BFA Animation and MFA Computer Arts Departments, where she is currently developing her live-action graduate thesis film Two Socks for the SVA Master’s in Film Directing Program.