Who AM I? A Timeline.

Home town: Gainesville Florida

2001: 9/11 happens a month into my Freshman year of High School

2005: Graduated from Gainesville High

2009: Graduated from Ringling School of Art and Design

        + Voted in my first Presidential Election

        + Entered the Workforce during the Recession - no jobs, Santa's Helper, spent a year in Richmond VA

2010: Moved to NYC with no job and no help - responding to craigslist posts, working in markets etc

2011: Got hired at a steel shop - changed my life and sense of self, became angry at my college peers, stopped drawing - began building shows for large experimental theatres, Fashion Shows, film etc

 

2015: Yoga Teaching Certification, meeting my mentor, learning about child development

2019: First Teaching Artist Gig with a Mural company

2020: City shuts down due to Covid - my teaching artist work continues as broadway goes dark

2021: Full time teaching artist, all of my other work had died

 

2021 - 2024: Expanding my teaching into new and different areas, doing puppetry/stop motion movies/ photography/ graphic novels etc

     

     

 

     

 

  

  

  

 

 

2025: Joined Mime School, Started teaching with Robotics program, Prop Master for an experimental off-Broadway show - starting to change shape and see what is coming for me next!

Feel free to do a deeper dive into my work by checking out my portfolio: abby walsh

What we did last semester:

    

Plan for this semester:

Unit 1 - Exploring Self + Other

Graffiti Prints with Oil Pastel

Symbolism - Exploring Opposition via Printmaking

How To Draw A Face / Profile / Body

Interactions

 

Unit 2 - Illustrating + Collage Elements

Pattern Play

Manipulating photos

Thumbnail Play

Poetry books

 

Unit 3 - Introduction to Puppetry + Mask Making

Designing Dragon Play

Pizza Box Dragon Puppets

Self Directed Project

Designing Metaphorical Masks

Creating real versions of Mask Design

Creating a Stick Puppet

 

Final Project - Playing Together 

Board Game Design

Some questions for you:

+ If you had me last semester - tell me which project you enjoyed the most + what you enjoyed about it

+ If you are new to me - tell me an art project you really want to do and why it is interesting to you