About

Charlotte Hildebrand is an artist and teacher living in Los Angeles. She moved to LA in 1985 to attend the American Film institute after making a short film featuring a giant lizard. After AFI, while raising her children, she worked as an editor and writer for various community newspapers, magazines and museum non-profits, and taught ESL to refugees and immigrants. She kept a blog for many years, where she began to illustrate her stories. In the last decade, she's incorporated her knowledge of film, drawing and writing to start an art practice,  first, spending a year making street art, then working with graphic narrative to create zines, comics, illustrations and work on a graphic memoir. As a break from the focused effort of writing and illustrating a graphic memoir, she paints. 

Charlotte teaches graphic narrative classes to students in her studio as well as teaching online at diverse art centers and colleges. For inspiration, she travels often to Mexico and New York, as well as make time for long hikes in the many beautiful parks in and around LA. 

(Disclaimer, Charlotte does not smoke, but thinks if it weren’t for the dire health consequenses, it would be a preferable way to procrastinate rather than cleaning the house or eating a box of cookies.)