For commissions, collaborations, or to chat more "professionally", email
ellystern6@gmail.com <3
Elly Stern is an award-winning artist, animator, and community organizer who uses visual storytelling and advocacy to inspire change. Based in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish lands, her work is shaped by life in diverse urban landscapes and by the surreal relationships between people, cities, and the natural world.
Holding a BFA in Animation from Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Elly’s practice is rooted in her passion for experimental stop-motion filmmaking, using mixed media and repurposed trash to explore the textures of human experience. Her film
Waste Away has screened at festivals internationally, winning awards worldwide and leading
YouTube strangers to comment "wtf did I just watch". She has worked as a props, sets, and puppets fabricator and animator at the Indigenous led studio
Spotted Fawn Productions, and later as a youth worker & program coordinator, facilitating educational workshops in her community.
