May McKernan is an award-winning animator and educator with over 5 years of experience bringing indie, nonprofit, and commercial animation to life. In her music video work, she has explored queer repression through the prism of candle wax, authoritarian treatments of trans autonomy as physical property, and surgery as a lens to view the afterlife. In other works, she has made triptychs memorializing her mother’s childhood and short-form animations of seas, mountains, and cities recalling the landscapes of her youth in Southern Oregon. Her work has screened competitively in the United States, Spain, and Canada.

As a motion designer and video editor, May is proud to have worked with partners like SAMHSA’s 988 Suicide Hotline, National Geographic, The League of Women Voters, No Kid Hungry, and Anacostia Community Museum, amongst others.

Recently, May animated the music video Hurt No Comfort for Portland hyperpop duo Surgery Season. Earlier this year, May was a colorist on Christina Fidler’s Adult Swim Smalls series Meeble & Creeble and has collaborated with several independent films from local DMV filmmakers since. Quietly when no one is looking, she is developing a feature-length animated musical.

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