Chloe Zimmerman

Chloe Zimmerman is an artist, filmmaker, writer and educator working with analogue film, video, installation, drawing, language arts and pedagogical experiments. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary across media and modes of knowing, and centers collaborative learning and making. She holds an MFA from Brown University and teaches creative practices in spaces that have included a community biology lab, a floating food forest, public libraries and parks, museums, multilingual learner spaces, community centers, and alternative art schools and universities.

Chloe founded and facilitated the Mycological Research Playgroup, a research group for artists to learn about and with fungi, and Meshwork, a study group for poets and scholars with a focus on correspondence, entanglement and relational outcomes. Her films have screened at venues including the Criterion Channel, UnionDocs, Anthology Film Archives, the Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1. She has participated in residency programs at Banff, Sitka, Materia Abierta, and the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio.

Chloe is a trained dialogue facilitator and engaged in ongoing explorations of holding space for diverse ways of gathering, learning and making in community. As an educator, she is especially passionate about helping students transform their interests and questions into thoughtful, meaningful creative work.