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Alex Salsberg

Digital Storytellers Lab

2024 Fellow

ARTIST + JEW

Are you a Jewish artist or an artist who’s Jewish? This effervescent animated documentary series asks 4 unique artists this question as the slightly off-putting jumping off point for raw and lovely conversations about creativity, identity, audience, intention, fear, grief, love and so much more.

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Alex Salsberg is an independent animation director who loves telling stories through funny, weird and heartfelt cartoons. Alex has directed videos for Billy Ray Cyrus and Utkarsh Ambudkar, and has worked on projects for MTV, Nickelodeon and WGBH. He is also co-writer and director of the award-winning comedy short "Class of 84," about a Jewish family facing anxiety and mortality, and host of "I Loved This Conversation," a podcast about people living creative lives.