Madison Russell is a professional artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She has over a decade of professional experience, both corporate and freelance, and has worked on Telly-award-winning projects. She specializes in 2D puppetted animation, portraiture, and paper carving (a technique of her own invention). In 2010 Madison graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation. She is conversationally fluent in Japanese and has worked domestically and abroad as a trainer. Madison also actively volunteers for the local animation community, currently as Treasurer for ASIFA Portland. She has also juried for the Northwest Animation Festival from 2014 to 2019, and for the POW Fest 2017 animation block.

Selected Clients

• Vooks, Inc.

• Happy Trails Animation

• DesignWise Art

• John L. Scott Real Estate Woodstock

• John L. Scott Real Estate Lake Oswego

• Biscuits Cafes

• Moving Walkway Productions

• Motown Records (internship)

Selected Showings

• Homebrew @ the Fertile Ground Festival 2017, 2018, 2019

• Warrior Painters Group Exhibition @ Gallery Nucleus 2019 (juried show)

• Northwest Animation Festival 2016, 2018

• Recycled Rain Project 2013, 2014 (juried show)

• Made @ MCAD 2010 (juried show)

Volunteer Work

• ASIFA Portland (Current Treasurer, Former President) 2015-present

• Northwest Animation Festival (jurying, photography, miscellaneous)

• Cascade SIGGRAPH Vice Chair 2013-2016

Questions? Commissions? Drop Madison a line!