Chantal Feitosa-Desouza is a Brazilian United Statesian from Queens, NY. She is a filmmaker, a learner, and a facilitator of workshops and public events beyond the traditional classroom setting. Her practice is guided by the visual process of collage and its potential to create new histories from found fragments.

Chantal holds an MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University, where she focused on the interplay between experimental documentary and pedagogy. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts is from the Rhode Island $chool of De$ign, majoring in Film/Animation/Video. Her work has shown at film festivals, art book fairs, and commercial galleries and exhibition spaces in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil. She participated in artist residencies at Smack Mellon, Residency Unlimited, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She was nurtured as a teen through the wealth of free arts programs available to youth in New York City. She has recently co-designed and facilitated out-of-school programs for the Queens Council on the Arts, Apple, The Hill Art Foundation, and Artists' Literacies Institute.

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📧 : chantal [dot] feitosa [at] gmail [dot] com