Olga Moroz is a student at Emma Lazarus High School that moved to the USA only 2 years ago. Day by day she's learning what is America in all possible aspects and the CAW program was new, full of colors and emotions, an opportunity to do so.
Read MoreWendy Perez lives in Queens, NY and is attending the Washington Irving YABC High School. She has always loved animation since she was little - she loved to watch cartoons and movies when she came home from school and take her sketchbook out and draw what she saw on TV.
Read MoreShelly Alcantara is a 14-year-old girl, raised in Manhattan. She has been drawing ever since she was in 6th grade and she has been designing her characters.
Read MoreIrene Leung is 15 years old and a freshmen attending Millennium High School. She writes in her free time, and also has a passion for painting with watercolors.
Read MoreZidon Smith is 19 years old, raised in Jamaica and lives in Maryland. He is a graduate student from Olympus Academy. He likes to play soccer and he likes to play video games and stream. This is his first time doing something with art and design.
Read MoreYunshan Zhu is a 17-year-old girl studying at Bayside High School as an art program student. She likes painting very much and has studied sketching for almost three years.
Read MoreWillie Gao is anticipating graduation from Bayside High School. He has been exploring and creating art and illustration throughout his life, including drawing, painting, traditional, and digital art.
Read MoreTiffany Depena is a 17-year-old raised in Corona, Queens. She is still attending high school and desires to pursue art and writing as a career.
Read MoreTierra Jones is a 17-year-old junior attending Walter G. O’Connell High School on Long Island. Getting into an art class was very competitive growing up, so she hasn’t been able to get into one since elementary school. That doesn’t mean she hasn’t learned and practiced on her own. She currently works at McDonalds and has realized how difficult it is to juggle school, work, and doing the things that she loves (such as designing characters).
Read MoreTamia Lowe is a 16-year-old who is still in high school and doesn’t plan on expediting her school years because she wants to relish every component of it before moving on to adulthood. She hopes to make a vocation out of something she relishes which is art in hopes that it will inspire someone to chase their dreams.
Read MoreSimeon Coulter is currently a Hunter College student as a Media Studies major. Simeon has had a passion for the arts since his tenure at the Academy For Software Engineering.
Read MoreSilvano Spagnuolo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he also attends high school as a junior. Silvano is inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Pendleton Ward, and some of his favorite pieces of animation have come from Studio Ghibli, Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Read MoreSamuel Hernandez is 15 years old and is currently a sophomore at Curtis High School. During his free time, he likes to play video games, draw, listen to music and go on rides on his bicycle. Samuel has past artistic experiences in Photoshop, art classes, and artist internships.
Read MoreSamantha Rodriguez is a 17-year-old born and raised in New York. She's a junior at Curtis High School and wishes to continue doing art in her free time while working to advocate for human rights, whether that’s becoming a social service worker or a lobbyist.
Read MoreSamantha Pool is an 18-year-old young adult and a senior in high school. She is very creative in her own way and likes to think outside of the box when it comes to her work, whether in school or at home. Samantha was introduced to an organization called Creative Art Works where she had the opportunity to learn new skills for character design, both digitally and by hand drawing.
Read MoreSam Hamilton is a sophomore attending Bayside High School. They are currently enrolled in the digital art and design program at their school and actively work with programs such as Photoshop and other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite.
Read MoreRuth Alejandro was born and raised in New York City and is currently a junior high school student. She has always loved learning new experiences and art itself. During her middle school years, she attended an art class that made her realize that art was something she wanted to learn and explore more in depth.
Read MorePascale E. McCutchin-Mossin is a student at The Brooklyn Latin School. Her only other art experience before this internship was being in her school’s art club. During this program, Pascale has learned to be more dramatic with posing and expressions, as well as the importance of a character’s color palette.
Read MoreNowshin Rahman is a highschooler born and raised in Queens. She took up sports such as bowling and badminton. Hoping to further her creative mindset, Nowshin joined CAW in the hopes of getting introduced to the aspect of character design.
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