Tala Rae Schlossberg is an American animator and experimental artist. She is known for her unique combination of pictures, sounds and words. Tala’s most recent video collection,“Field Studies”has shown pieces in Paris, Beijing, Madrid, Porto, and in New York City, projected onto the Manhattan bridge. Her independent work has been commissioned by The New York Times, The New Yorker, MoMA, Burberry, Herman Miller, The Mellon Foundation and she has created music videos, tour visuals and sound visualizations for internationally recognized musicians such as John Cale, The Rolling Stones, Devo and Remi Wolf. 

Before her independent work, Tala founded and ran Two Toes, a design studio she created with her best friend, Kika Macfarlane based in their shared collaboration. Together, Tala and Kika made over 35 animated videos, branded 9 companies, 3 games, 2 albums and a deck of cards called Chicken Lessons that can tell the future. While running Two Toes, Kika and Tala invented “Idea Camp,”a retreat for highly creative people. So far, there have been 7 iterations of Idea Camp across North America, taking place in Joshua Tree, Vancouver Island, the Willamette Valley, rafting down the Salmon river, a vineyard in the Willamette Valley, and most recently on a ranch outside of Dubois, Wyoming. 

Tala graduated in 2019 from Quest University, an experimental liberal arts school in Squamish, British Columbia. As per the university's program, all studies were structured around a central question, chosen by each student. Tala’s question was “How Can We Better Communicate Science?” and she studied mostly mathematics during her first years at school. Tala learned to animate during a summer course at the University of Oregon following her sophomore year at school. While Quest didn’t have a formal arts program, her teachers were encouraging of her new excitement towards animation and let Tala turn in her essays in the form of animated videos. In her final year of college, Tala independently produced her first animated mini series, “You Have Probably Never Heard of Hornita Calypso”which debuted at The National Film Festival for Talented Youth,  and went on to land her a spot in the inaugural fellowship class at The New York Times, working jointly between the Opinion Video and Graphics teams. During her 3 years working with the video team, Tala wrote, pitched, animated, edited and sound designed video essays rooted in the intersection of life, current events, and modern irony.

Tala has always liked to draw, paint and write. Her work lies at the intersection of sounds, words and pictures. It is always experimental, and it is always evolving. If you have any questions or would like to get in contact, please reach out to answers@talaschlossberg.com.

Field Studies