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

Some questions I would love to know - Name 3 things that...

+ Feel like home to you

+ Remind you of who you are

+ Are really important to you

+ You wish were different, or that you could change

+ You hope people know/understand about you