Channing Kennedy

Channing Kennedy is a graduate of San Francisco State University's Digital Video Intensive, a program focusing on a comprehensive guerilla approach to modern digital filmmaking. He came to video production during his tenure as founder of Cat Jams Label, a Missouri-based DIY outsider-art collective. Through Cat Jams, he curated a series of meta-media collaborations among a global affiliation of artists and musicians, using arbitrariness and humor to criticize art's role in popular culture.

Channing served in Americorps*NCCC in 2000, where he and his team worked hands-on with housing, education, and environmental concerns in the southeast United States. As a small business owner in central Missouri, he advocated to keep downtowns viable in the face of encroaching big-box stores.