Christine Sloan Stoddard, Founder & Creative Director
Christine Sloan Stoddard (a.k.a. Luna Lark) is a Salvadoran-American writer, artist, filmmaker, and the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions. A lifelong storyteller, she is the author of Heaven is a Photograph (CLASH Books), Naomi & The Reckoning (Finishing Line Press), Desert Fox by the Sea (Hoot 'n' Waddle), Belladonna Magic (Shanti Arts), Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duyvil), Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia (The History Press), and other books. Her first feature film is Sirena's Gallery and she is the director of shorts such as Bottled, Butterflies, Drunken History, Brooklyn Burial, and Virtual Caress. You can find her words, images, and videos in Ms. Magazine, Bustle, The Feminist Wire, Marie Claire, The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, Digital America, Native Peoples Magazine, and beyond. Her visual work has appeared in the New York Transit Museum, the Queens Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, the Poe Museum, FiveMyles, The UnSpace Gallery, and elsewhere. As a writer and performer, she has shared her words and the words of others at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Radio Free Brooklyn, Theater for the New City, Broadway Comedy Club, Riant Theatre, Poetic Theatre Productions, and elsewhere.
Christine also has a great deal of experience as an artist-in-residence and teaching artist. She was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, a 124-year-old settlement house in New York City. She was also part of the inaugural AnkhLave Arts Alliance Garden Fellows at the Queens Botanical Garden for both outdoor and indoor installations. She has served as the artist-in-residence at VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden-Smithsonian affiliate, the Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch, Woodlawn-Pope Leighey House, and other organizations. For nearly four years and two years respectively, she was the teaching artist-in-residence at the Art Deco Society of New York and HeartShare Human Services of New York.
Among her many honors, Christine has been named one of FOLIO:'s "Top Media Visionaries in their 20s" for founding Quail Bell Magazine, the Puffin Foundation's National Emerging Artist Grant, The Southeast Review's National Artist Feature, Style Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" in Richmond, VA, and "Top 40 Virginia Artists Under 40" by the Shenandoah Valley Arts Center. She holds an M.F.A. from The City College of New York-CUNY and undergraduate degrees from VCUarts, VCU School of Business, and VCU College of Humanities & Sciences. A proud AmeriCorps alumna, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Find out more about Christine at www.worldofchristinestoddard.com.
Christine also has a great deal of experience as an artist-in-residence and teaching artist. She was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, a 124-year-old settlement house in New York City. She was also part of the inaugural AnkhLave Arts Alliance Garden Fellows at the Queens Botanical Garden for both outdoor and indoor installations. She has served as the artist-in-residence at VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden-Smithsonian affiliate, the Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch, Woodlawn-Pope Leighey House, and other organizations. For nearly four years and two years respectively, she was the teaching artist-in-residence at the Art Deco Society of New York and HeartShare Human Services of New York.
Among her many honors, Christine has been named one of FOLIO:'s "Top Media Visionaries in their 20s" for founding Quail Bell Magazine, the Puffin Foundation's National Emerging Artist Grant, The Southeast Review's National Artist Feature, Style Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" in Richmond, VA, and "Top 40 Virginia Artists Under 40" by the Shenandoah Valley Arts Center. She holds an M.F.A. from The City College of New York-CUNY and undergraduate degrees from VCUarts, VCU School of Business, and VCU College of Humanities & Sciences. A proud AmeriCorps alumna, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Find out more about Christine at www.worldofchristinestoddard.com.