Baker Artist Portfolios

Lynn Tomlinson is an artist and award-winning director of animated short films. She uses a unique clay-on-glass animation process, manipulating thin layers of oil-based modeling clay frame by frame to create painterly images under the camera in a stop-motion workflow. This handcrafted approach allows her work to come to life through shifting perspectives and on-screen transformations. Her films explore environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity’s impact.

Lynn’s films have screened around the world at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Pompidou Center, as well as international animation festivals such as Annecy and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Her music video for Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn’s Ten Degrees of Strange (2021) won Best Commissioned Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Best Commercial Film at the ASIFA East Festival. For her body of work, she received the 2021 Edison Innovation Award from the Thomas Edison Film Festival, and throughout her career she has received Independent Artist Awards from the state arts councils of Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

Her expanded animation practice includes several collaborative fulldome films that have screened in planetariums and immersive domes and spheres around the world. As a Professor in the Department of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University, she frequently collaborates with colleagues and students and is developing an interdisciplinary fulldome research group.