BRIAN HAWKINS

brian.christopher.hawkins@gmail.com

2014 MFA in Visual Art – Printmaking, with honors, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas

2011 BA in Studio Art and Art History, summa cum laude, University of Missouri -
      Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

Exhibitions and Screenings

2026 Missouri History Day Filmmakers Showcase, Center for Missouri Studies,    Columbia, Missouri
   New Orleans French Film Festival, Prytania Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana
      Pawpaw Tales, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri
2025 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Lafayette, Louisiana
Francophone Short Films in Harlem, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, New York
French Heritage Festival, Center for French Colonial Studies, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
      GLAS Animation Festival, Los Angeles, California
Minnanimate, Trylon Cinema, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota
   Rassemblement de la Louisianophonie, Centre Internationale de Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
Tales of the Franco-Midwest, L’Alliance Française de Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2024 Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New
    Brunswick
Festival international du cinéma d’auteur de Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Plein(s) Écran(s) sur le Festival d’Annecy, La Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, Quebec
   St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, Missouri
2023 Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Musée McCord Stewart,
Montreal, Quebec
Tricentennaire de La Vieille Mine, École Lamarque, Old Mines, Missouri
2022 Boston Short Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts
Brussels Independent Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Lafayette, Louisiana
Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Stanica, Žilina, Slovakia
Festival Francophone Short Films in Harlem, Maysles Documentary Center,
New York, New York
    GIRAF 18 Festival of Indepedent Animation, Alberta, Canada
Le français, langue mondiale : l’exemple des États-Unis,
Representation de l’OIF, New York, New York
Verona International Film Festival, Verona, Italy
2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, France
GLAS Animation Festival, Berkeley, California (online)
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, Missouri
2020 Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Stanica, Žilina, Slovakia
2019 The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists, Spencer Museum of Art,
Lawrence, Kansas
2018 Open Spaces, Murmurations, Jewish Vocational Services, Kansas City, Missouri
2017 10x10 Small Works Showcase, ArtsKC Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2015 Salad Days Are Gone, PrintSpace, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
2014 Paper Trails (solo), Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
   CINESONIKA 4, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pint n Print, Sweetie’s Art Bar, San Francisco, California
Print Sounds, Love Garden Sounds, Lawrence, Kansas
   Prints & Paupers Salon, Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
2013    SIGGRAPH Dailies, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
Crown Heights Film Festival, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York
Darkness at the Edge..., Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Juried Student Art Exhibition, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
  Peep Show, Hashinger Hall Black Box Theater, Lawrence, Kansas
2012 A Night of Animation and Syncopation Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
Don’t Look Back, HTL3 Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
Print Invitational, Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Jonathan Metzger and Brian Hawkins, Kansas Union Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
2010 Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Kansas 4-State Regional Exhibition, Springfield
Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
Dossier Magazine Exhibition, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Honors & Awards

2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video
Charles Balesi FHC Vision Award
Missouri Living Traditions Fellowship
2025 Best Animated Short for “Les Vouèsins, (The Devil’s Neighbor)” Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
2024 Rocket Grant for “Les Flammes à l’envers / It Was a Hell of a Mix-up”
2023 GLAS Animation Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
Nous Foundation, Le Lab laureate
Vimeo Staff Pick, Chasse Galerite
2022 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
Best Animated Short, Chasse Galerite, Cinema on the Bayou Festival,
Lafayette, Louisiana
Best Animation, Chasse Galerite, Verona International Film Festival,
Verona, Italy
The Puffin Foundation Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
The Tarkovski Grant, Chasse Galerite
2020 Terra Foundation for American Art, Summer Residency Artist Fellow,
Giverny, France
(cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
2017 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Round Three, for “Asiminier: Folklore of the Missouri
   French Creoles
    Rocket Grant, for “Asiminier: Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles
2014 School of the Arts, Student Travel Grant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
2013 Best Animation, the Archivist, Crown Heights Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York
Frans Masereel Centrum Student Residency, Kasterlee, Belgium
School of the Arts, Student Travel Grant, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas
2010 Southwest Missouri Museum Associates Purchase Award for the Springfield Art
Museum’s Collection
2002 1st Place, National History Day Competition in Missouri, Junior
   Individual Documentary
3rd Place, National History Day Competition, Junior Individual Documentary
Loman D. Cansler Folk History Prize
Strickland African-American History Prize

Presentations & Publications

2026 “Fleuve St. Louis: Understanding French-Speaking American Culture in the Illinois     Country,” with Will Thompson in One Single Place: Louisiana and the Shaping of the Early American Republic, 2026 History Symposium of the Historic New     Orleans Collection and NOUS the New Orleans Foundation for Francophone
Cultures, Williams Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2025 Mulryan, Michael, and Brian Hawkins “La figure du chasseur dans les contes
populaires du Missouri et du Canada : un creuset culturel uniquement franco-
américain.” Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest, vol. 36, no 2, 2025, p. 105-136.
   “Forgotten Missouri French Folktales: Cultural Nexuses from the Wilderness,”
with Michael Mulryan in “New Perspectives on ‘New France’ and the Colonial Caribbean,” Modern Language Association Convention, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
2024    “Missouri’s French History and Culture” History on Elm, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
2023 Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of NYU, panel, New York, New York.
   Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of Columbia University, panel, New York, New York.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” University of Missouri School of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Columbia, Missouri
2022 “Toujours Icitte,” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, Episode 93
2020    Rafiner, Tom. R.L.Y. Peyton: An American Journey, 1824-1863. Harrisonville:
Burnt District Press, 2020.
2019 “Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Big Muddy River Speaker Series,
Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Murmurations,” Global Roots Radio with Nilufar Movahedi, KKFI,
   September 23, 2018.
Lakin, Max. “Can Kansas City’s Open Spaces Biennial Help Bridge the Divide in
   One of America’s Most Segregated Cities?” Artnet 31 August, 2018.
2017    “Missouri French Creoles,” Central Standard with Gina Kaufmann, KCUR,
November 9, 2017.
   “Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Missouri Valley Sunday Speaker Series, Kansas City, Missouri
2015 9th International DRAWING Annual (INDA 9) An Annual Juried Exhibition-In-
   Print, 2015.
2011 Ostmeyer, Andy. “Burnt District.” Joplin Globe 25 September, 2011, A1+5.
Engle, Tim. “Naked Ambitions.” Kansas City Star 24 January, 2011, D1.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.2, 2011.
2010    Rafiner, Tom. Caught Between Three Fires. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2010.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.1, 2010.

Teaching

2024 - present Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Media, Art, and Design
2024 Adjunct Instructor of French, University of Missouri - Columbia,
School of Languages Literatures and Cultures
2017 - present Lecturer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2016 - 2017 Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Art and
Art History
2015 - 2020 Photographer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2015 - 2016 Teaching Faculty, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking, The Illustration Academy, Kansas City, Missouri