Lynn Tomlinson is an award-winning director of animated short films. She animates moving clay paintings that transform and shift perspectives. Her work explores environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity’s impact. Her award-winning animated shorts, including The Ballad of Holland Island House (2014), The Elephant’s Song (2018), and Ten Degrees of Strange (2021), have screened around the world, from Ann Arbor to Annecy, Hiroshima to Hollywood. Lynn is Associate Professor Electronic Media and Film Department at Towson University, where she is researching the development of an interdisciplinary immersive fulldome production lab.