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Hugo Crosthwaite

A Home For The Brave

Animation | mp4 | black and white | 3:29 | Mexico | 2020

"A Home For The Brave" is a stop-motion drawing animation short that tells the story of a Mexican migrant family crossing the border into the United States.

Hugo Crosthwaite is a visual artist from Tijuana, Mexico. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1997 with a BA in Applied Arts. Crosthwaite lives and works in San Diego, CA and Rosarito, Mexico. Hugo Crosthwaite is the 2019 winner of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; The Progressive Art Collection, and numerous private collections around the world.