Elizabeth Stehling Snell is a filmmaker and digital media artist in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up riding horses and going to folk dances in the foothills of Appalachia. Her work often uses symbolic movements, communal dances, and loaded gestures as the basis to explore emotional landscapes. She is currently organizing a conversation series called Earth/Work: Artists & Sustainable Living at the Charlotte Street Foundation.
Elizabeth worked as Creative Content Producer at Kansas City Ballet for seven years and now is Communications Manager at Mid-America Arts Alliance.
Elizabeth’s work and collaborations have taken her to the Currents New Media Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, Omaha Film Festival and more. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Wassaic Project, Rensing Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Plug Projects. She received the Robert Altman Emerging Filmmaker Award, a grant from Kansas City's Art in the Loop, Plug Projects, and was recently a Studio Resident with the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City.
She earned her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 2010 and her BA from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC in 2005.