Nicole Emmons

Nicole Emmons is a Citizen Potawatomi Nation filmmaker and mixed media/installation artist specializing in stop motion animation from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She received her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts School of Film and Video as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, and her Bachelors in Animation and Film from Columbia College Chicago. Her experimental animation short films “The Wing Eater,” and “Domesti City, OK” have screened in film festivals across the world. Her directing work has been featured on the Obama's Higher Ground Productions/Netflix children's series, "Waffles and Mochi.” She has worked in an animation capacity for Adult Swim, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Shadow Machine, MTV, Bix Pix, Starburns, Discovery Channel, Elastic, and others on television shows and commercials. The music video “A Prayer,” which she created for Oklahoma musician Andy Artus, won Best Music Video at deadCenter Film Festival in 2022. She was recently hired by Pawnee Nation’s Randi Le Clair in conjunction with Vision Maker Media to direct animation and puppetry on Le Clair’s long form short “Circle of Chawce,” which is slated to premiere in 2024.