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1993

12Began Scrapbooking

Middle School art classes with Mrs. French: Andy Warhol and Georgia O’Keefe

13Teen Vogue and New York City

14A “future career” project introduced me to graphic design.I wanted to apply to the College of Design at NCSU

15Joined the high school year book staff: Learned the Adobe creative suite

5-11Art classes in middle school and projects at home

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18Wasn’t accepted into graphic design and was placed in design studies

"If the ends have not always justified the means, they have at least inspired them." -Henry Petroski”

Political views became more liberal-Feminist (Henrietta Lacks poster, WGS final project)

Preparing to re-apply to graphic design

17Began to put my portfolio together.

I met Brandon Johnson, learned how to develop websites using basic html coding, and made a personal site

Editor in chief of high school yearbook, which was inducted into Walsworth Publisher’s gallery of excellence

Won Principles choice in t-shirt design contest

Developed a website for my senior project

Submitted application to the college of Design for graphic design

16Became section editor of the yearbook staff with Mrs. Haley

15Interested in environmental sustainability and developed liberal political views

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6After my mom and dad separated, my mom moved my sisters and I up to Virginia.

Sometime in Lorton, Miche started drawing. And I wanted to be just like her, so I did the same. At some point, She stopped drawing,

I was born in Augusta, Georgia, my parents’ second child. I was the wedding night baby!

12We moved from Lorton, Virginia to Clayton, NC. It was terrible leaving everything that I knew.

I got depressed. It got to the point where I couldn’t sleep, and I’d just stay awake and cry.

We got Patches—he helped a lot with my depression. It didn’t seem to cut as deep whenever I got sad.14Started school at Clayton High. Elijah is one of the first people I met

Learned a big lesson: seconds never come first.

15Learned a big lesson: seconds never come first.

16Started school at KHS

15Art: Discovered hyper-realist sculptor Ron Mueck

17Met Devin in art class. It started off with me getting guitar lessons, and ended up with us having a relationship! Nov 2011 is one year!

Made it to my 60th art award

Found out about NC State’s design program at Walnut Creek

Decided that I wanted to be an illustrator, and discovered the title because of VCU

College applications are so incredibly difficult

Discovered the art of Kehinde Wiley

Decided that I wanted to be an illustrator because of the work of Sam Weber in Time magazine, and discovered the title of what I wanted to be because of VCU

"If everything is design, then design has no meaning" Matthew Turner, pg. 21

18Graduated high school

Student at NC State University College of Design

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I preferred to do puzzles or played with blocks, an early sign of my problem solving and interest in design

7-10I was inspired by my brother to take up art

13I discovered Alphonse Mucha

16Became aware of design at NCSU Design Camp

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17Accepted to NCSU College of Design

Made a timeline

16Worked at an engineering program and discovered how similar design and engineering are

Decided that I want to do Industrial Design

I made my portfolio for College of Design

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1991

11I get a B in middle school art class because I cant draw

12On a trip to Arizona, I visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio,

Taliesin West

13Shop class cements my love for woodworking

15I develop a passing interest in art: Andy Warhol was a

significant artist

7Join Cubscouts- Woodcarving and designing Pinewood

Derby cars are favorite activities

19I build my portfolio from scratch and develop a new

awareness of design

16My dad gives me his old SLR camera and I become

fascinated with photography

18First year at Appalachian State. My best friend is studying design at Cincinnati and suggests architecture to me. I do some research and decide to transfer to NCSU to pursue it

17Visit Falling Water

19I take my first art class since middle school

19I’m accepted into the College of Design

16I go on a first date to the art museum

1993

7Began art classes

9Began jewelry making

12Became interested in fashion design and styling

14Discovered Photography

15Took Art I in high school

5Kept an art box

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15Took summer fashion course at the Art Institute of

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16Took Art II

16Went to photography camp at VCU

17Took Art III, Photography I, and Ceramics

18Took AP Studio Art, Photography II, and Ceramics II

18Gained more knowlede of the freedom of art from my new art

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18Accepted to NCSU COD as a Design Studies major