She has created illustrations and animated GIFs of celebrities including Cardi B for The Nation Cecile Richards, Valerie Jarrett, London Breed for LENNY Cartalk's Tom and Ray Magliozzi for NPR's yearly calendar Michelle Obama for BUST Magazine Serena Williams for ESPN Jackie Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, Denzel Washington, Chadwick Boseman and Rob Morgan for The Undefeated and nine power couples of social media for The New York Times. įrom MTA Posters for The LGBTQ Center, NYC to Podcasts for WNYC Caught the Lives of the Juvenile Justice to female video game characters for the exhibition Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote for The National Archives, DC, Bertman's work appears in magazines, newspapers, podcasts, social networks, and film festivals including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, ESPN's The Undefeated, GQ, The Root, and The Nation. Her illustrations, GIFs, and animated shorts bring attention to social awareness and social justice. She received an MFA in Visual Narrative from The School of Visual Arts.Įmbracing the intersection of illustration, technology and social media, Louisa Bertman is an illustrator, GIF artist, animator, filmmaker, and producer of creative nonfiction visual narratives. She received her BFA in illustration from Parsons The New School for Design.
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Initially Bertman attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and was a professional modern dancer in New York City. Her two siblings include, David Bertman - a television and film director, editor, and winner of the 2017 ACE Eddie Award for the This Is Us pilot episode and Jonathan Bertman, a physician, entrepreneur and founder of Amazing Charts and Afraid To Ask. Her parents are Richard Bertman (sculptor, author, and founding partner of CBT Architects ), who has worked with her on occasion, and Sandra Bertman PhD, Ft, author, and thanatologist who pioneered applied arts and humanities in clinical, academic and public settings founding director of University of Massachusetts Medical School's Medical Humanities program. Louisa Bertman is from Newton, Massachusetts.
She is also known for "untraditional portraitures of celebrities, influencers and personalities" She is known for incorporating humor and extreme graphic imagery in her work. Bertman utilizes the power of visual narratives to enable activism and change. Whether it's GIFS focusing on Climate Awareness for The New York Times video game characters for The National Archives Rightfully Hers exhibition, or animated shorts for NPR's WNYC Podcast series, " Caught The Lives of Juvenile Justice ", Bertman's works address a range of political and social justice issues including sex, race, age, and cultural identity.
Her interest lies in creating art for advocacy. As a visual narrative artist her work pushes illustrations, gifs, animated shorts, and visual narratives in conjunction with technology and social media to advocate art for social awareness, social justice and social innovation. Louisa Bertman is a digital activist, feminist, illustrator, animator, GIF artist and filmmaker living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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