Laurence Arcadias is an award-winning animator and professor of animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she previously served as department chair. Her films, including Tempest in a Bedroom (short-listed for a César Award) and the TV series Alex, which won Best Short Animation TV Show at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, have been screened at international festivals. She has received the Lavoisier Scholarship from the French government, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and was Animator in Residence at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group. At MICA, she co-created an Astro-Animation course with NASA scientists, bridging art and science, and she is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at Liverpool John Moores University/Transart Institute, exploring the role of animation in making astronomy more accessible to public audiences.