Thea is a senior high school student. Her passion for creativity is through animation and her own character concept development. She uses Adobe Animate and Toon Boom and TV Paint software for her animation work and prefers digital sketching to traditional materials, but when she does use traditional tools she enjoys pencil, water color and marker best.
Thea is also passionate about Entomology and the Ecosystem Sciences. She has raised an African Mantis, Tobacco Moth, Cat, Dog, Chameleon, Rabbit, Stick Mantis, Anoles, Mouse, Hermit Crabs, Pond Fish, Snails + hatchlings, Pond Frogs and Aquarium Fish. She also cultivates Sedum plants. In addition to raising her home pets, she volunteers at a local park feeding and tending forrest animals and their display enclosures. To see a video of her nature center work click here.
Thea’s pet snails.
Thea loves her pets and renders them frequently. She has a tuxedo colored (part siamese) cat named Desser who is 13 years old as well as a one year old Papillon she named JoJo. (See bellow)
Desser the cat.
JoJo the Papillon.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Since Thea was 6 months old she has been making annual trips to New York City with her mom. Art Museum’s she has visited include: Metropolitan Museum of Art (5 visits) Museum of Modern Art (4 visits) Museum of Arts And Design (3 visits) American Folk Art Museum (2 visits) The New Museum (3 visits) The Guggenheim Museum (1 visit) The Museum of Natural History (4 visits) as well as 7 visits to the world renowned Chelsea Arts District (a collection of many galleries in New York along the Hudson River docks).
A resident of Baltimore, Thea has also visited The Baltimore Museum of Art (8 visits) The Walters Art Gallery (11 visits) The National Aquarium in Baltimore (13 visits) The Zoll School Galleries (3 exhibit visits and she completed several courses at the school). She attends the very immersive annual Baltimore Artscape Festival, and she has been to a handful of other local galleries in the area.
Living so close to Washington D.C., she has also made trips to the historic Mall in D.C. as well as Georgetown. Museums she visited there are: The Smithsonian, (4 visits) The Portrait Gallery, (1 visit) The National Gallery of Art (1 visit), National Museum of Natural History, (4 visits) The Newseum, (2 visits) National Air + Space Museum (3 visits) National Aquarium in Washington D.C. (5 visits) and the National Zoo in D.C. (5 visits).
Additionally Thea has visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2 visits).
Thea has been immersed in the arts since a very young age and plans to continue to explore her love and passion for creativity and the creative life for many years to come. She also visits many zoos, nature centers and arboretums.