The Layered Universe – Gray Area Festival Workshop

Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler is a writer and animator from the Detroit Metro. She is the 2nd daughter of a Filipino nurse and a German-American scientist. Her work and research utilize fiction and myth to deconstruct how power, race and colonialism are entangled in political and personal narratives of worth and value. Her chapbook, A Drop of Sun, received special mention for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize, Digging Press, and was published in 2023 by Fauxmoir Lit Press. Her films and multimedia work have been exhibited and screened at festivals and venues around the world including the 46th Asian American International Film Festival, CAAMFest, The Wrong Biennale, NOW Gallery, Singapore Biennial, Anonymous Gallery, Feminist Media Studio, among others. Her debut animated short film, The Roaring of the Carabao (2023), supported by The New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA), received Honorable Mention from San Diego Filipino Film Festival and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Her work has been awarded fellowships and supported by Asian Cultural Council, The Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA), and Harvestworks. Residencies include Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, Kala Art Institute, Yaddo, VONA and more. Her collaborative work as an technical and environment artist has been featured in The New York Times and exhibited at MUDAM Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Carnegie Mellon University, the New Museum, Rhizome, de Young Museum, Istanbul Biennial 2019, Ringling Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Basel, Rubin Museum, Sadie Coles HQ, the 2019 Whitney Biennial and more. She received her MFA through Georgia Institute of Technology and the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago as a New Artists Society Scholar.