Tala Rae Schlossberg is an American animator and experimental artist. She is known for her unique combination of pictures, sounds, and words. Pieces from Tala’s most recent video collection, Field Studies, have been exhibited in Paris, Beijing, Madrid, Porto, and in New York City, projected onto the Manhattan Bridge. Her independent work has been commissioned by The New York Times, The New Yorker, MoMA, Burberry, Herman Miller, and The Mellon Foundation. Tala has created music videos, tour visuals, and sound visualizations for artists such as John Cale, The Rolling Stones, Devo, and Remi Wolf.
Tala graduated in 2019 from Quest University, an experimental liberal arts school in Squamish, British Columbia. As part of the university's program, all studies were structured around a central question chosen by each student. Tala’s question was “How Can We Better Communicate Science?” and she studied mostly mathematics during her first years. Tala learned to animate during a summer course at the University of Oregon following her sophomore year. While Quest didn’t have a formal arts program, her teachers encouraged her new excitement toward animation and allowed her to turn in essays in the form of animated videos. In her final year, Tala independently produced her first animated miniseries, You Have Probably Never Heard of Hornita Calypso, which debuted at NFFTY and led to her joining the inaugural fellowship class at The New York Times. During her three years with the NYT Opinion Video team, Tala wrote, pitched, animated, edited, and sound-designed video essays exploring the intersection of life, current events, and modern irony.
From 2023–2025, Tala cofounded Two Toes, a design studio she created with her best friend, Kika Macfarlane, based on their shared collaboration. Together, they produced videos for Substack, Planned Parenthood, Patagonia, and The Nature Conservancy, among others. In 2023, Kika and Tala invented Idea Camp, a retreat for highly creative people. There have been 7 iterations of Idea Camp across North America.
Tala has always liked to draw, paint, and write, and maintains a studio practice alongside her video work. She debuted her first collection of studio art at her 2025 solo show, Explations.
Tala’s work is always experimental, and it is always evolving. If you would like to work together, please reach out to hello@talaschlossberg.com.
Instagram & Substack: @talaschlossberg