Inspired largely by found objects and the landscape of her native city, Napolitan's work utilizes puppetry and collage to address themes of memory, history, and forgetting. Her films have screened in the Boston Underground Film Festival, and her paintings and collages have been exhibited throughout the Greater Boston area. Napolitan received her BFA in Film/Video from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003 and is currently an MFA candidate in the Experimental Animation program at California Institute of the Arts.