Project overview 10/30/25

 Pre project skill build:

Anatomy of the face

My process break-down:

 

Student process/project development:

Student 1

Student 2

 

Student 3

 

Student 4

 

Some other student projects:

 

Who AM I? A Timeline.

 

Dani

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Origin - Migration - Jersey

       

2002: Moved from Santa Cruz, Bolivia to Jersey City, NJ with my family

2016: Graduated from Henry Snyder High School - Jersey City Arts Program

2016 - 2020: Went to School at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• Received a BFA in Illustration
• Began Freelancing for authors while waitressing
• Graduated during the covid 19 pandemic

2020 - 2021: Got hired as a secretary/assistant at a steel fabrication and company. 

• Made me realize what I did NOT want to do

 

 

 

2021 - 2023 : Began prioritizing art-making with different groups of people

• Got hired at my first Sip&Paint shop + Got my first gig as an after school Teaching Artist
• Continued to freelance with a new set of clients + focused on graphic design, product design, occasional graphic novel projects + Completed my first mural
• Began art-vending + sold my first painting

   

   

   

2023 - Onward

• Became a Teaching Artist full-time.
• Am working different programs/schools/age groups to cultivate spaces where we can all explore, learn and create. 
• I focus on character design, murals, alternative ways to explore art mediums and art-making, but am looking to expand. 

 

Abby

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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