Abigail Severance

Doing the Work is a series profiling key recipients of HFPA Philanthropy A beloved professor and now the interim Dean at California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) School of Film/Video, Abigail Severance is not your typical academic, even by film school standards. For her, it all started in the ‘90s in San Francisco when the queer culture was booming, and Severance discovered artistic expression through photography and poetry.