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About Alexi

Baltimore City   Baltimore County  

Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator who has worked with clients such as INSERIES opera house & Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. She recently earned her MFA from UMBC's IMDA program, where she won the RTKL fellowship. She also works as the creative coordinator at The Crow's Nest, an arts gallery & studio wholly dedicated to supporting artists whose work centers around the climate crisis. Her undergraduate thesis, A Love Letter for the End of the World was screened in… more

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Awake/Dreaming

Pollinator Portal and The Dreaming World come together for an intricate installation.

In The Awake/Dreaming video installation, the Awake channel shows unaltered footage around Baltimore County. In the Dreaming channel, an animated solarpunk world overtakes the mundane suburbia.

  • Awake/Dreaming
    Awake/Dreaming

    Pollinator Portal acts as an entrance to the two channel installation

  • Awake/Dreaming
    Awake/Dreaming
  • The Dreaming World
  • Pollinator Portal
    Pollinator Portal

    Photography taken by the CADVC

  • Monarch Butterfly
    Monarch Butterfly

    Detail-- one of many handcrafted butterflies from the pollinator portal.

  • Hummingbird
    Hummingbird

    2025

    An addition for the Peale Museum version of the installation

  • Pollinator Portal at the Peale
    Pollinator Portal at the Peale

    Pollinator Portal Detail-- December 2025

  • Awake/Dreaming
  • Awake/Dreaming
  • Pollinator Portal
  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Hummingbird
  • Pollinator Portal at the Peale

    • The Dreaming Manifesto

    April 2025

    "The Dreaming Manifesto" is a living document in more ways than one. An earlier version of this poem served as the narration of  the short film, "The Dreaming World." The manifesto details specific dreams for a better life: communities built around care and harmony with the environment. Each leaf of handmade paper has a handwritten line or stanza. The audience is encouraged to take a leaf of paper that they feel resonates with them, and then find a place to plant it. Native & pollinator-friendly wildflower seeds are embedded in the paper. By planting the dream, the audience is invited to invest emotionally in the possibility of a better future.

    • Dreaming Manifesto Installation
      Dreaming Manifesto Installation

      As seen at the Sweaty Eyeballs "Hands of the Artists" exhibit Sept 2025. In this version of the installation, the trellis work "Pollinator Portal," was combined with The Dreaming Manifesto for a unique installation. 

    • Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 1
      Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 1
    • The Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 2
      The Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 2
    • Seed Paper- Potted
      Seed Paper- Potted

      The wildflower seed paper was made with various recycled paper fibers and rain-collected grey-water

    • Seed Paper Potted (02)
      Seed Paper Potted (02)

      As displayed in "The Only Way Out Is Through," the IMDA MFA 2025 Thesis Exhibit.

    • The Dreaming Manifesto- Seed Paper
      The Dreaming Manifesto- Seed Paper

      Handmade paper dampened and ready to transform into wildflower seeds.

    • Dreaming Manifesto
      Dreaming Manifesto

      Photo documentation by Jefry Andrews Wright

      On display at the 2025 Sweaty Eyeballs Hands of the Artists Gallery Show.

  • Dreaming Manifesto Installation
  • Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 1
  • The Dreaming Manifesto- Poster 2
  • Seed Paper- Potted
  • Seed Paper Potted (02)
  • The Dreaming Manifesto- Seed Paper
  • Dreaming Manifesto

    • For The Record: Phenakistoscopes

    A collection of animations of womanhood, monsterhood and transformation from across the world. The process of bringing these stories to a phenakistoscope form embraces the non-linear sense of stories present in a lot of world mythology, which tends to favor circular structures over the modern, western linear structure. Each phenakistoscope is thoroughly researched in order to depict the myth respectfully.

    • Manananggal
      Manananggal

      2022

      The Manananggal is a phillipina vampire who splits her body in two. The bottom half hides while the upper half hunts. She is know to target babies and pregnant people, and became deemed a much more frightening spirit post spanish colonization.

    • Enchantress
      Enchantress

      2023

      Enchantress

      The Enchantress (European, Various) — most directly inspired by the Tale of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury tales. A knight who’s quested to discover what women want finds himself bethrothed to an old hag.

    • Daphne
      Daphne

      2023

      Daphne

    • Selkie
      Selkie

      2023

      the Selkie-- a well known celtic myth of shape-shifting beings, often women, who can only return to the water in their sealskins.

    • Huli Jing
      Huli Jing

      2023

      Acrylic paint on Vinyl

      The Fox Fairy/Spirit has a lot of variations throughout East Asia. I chose to base mine off the Huli Jing, and Tang dynasty dress. The shapeshifting, predominately female nine tailed fox also takes the form of a Kistune in Japan and Kumiho in Korea.

  • Manananggal
  • Enchantress
  • Daphne
  • Selkie
  • Huli Jing