Evan Allen

I come from your average middle class family of four in the simple tourist city of Virginia Beach. My artistic awakening was never discovered within one day; I've been drawing since before the Crayola phase. Growing up I wasn't aloud to have toy guns, so I would make my own out of paper towel rolls and foil. I was born a problem solver.



After I finished middle school, I decided to enroll at Salem High School's Visual and Performing Arts Academy where I studied metalsmithing, painting, architecture, graphic design, sculpting, ceramics, animation, photography, printmaking, and product design. I loved the classes, I loved art, and I loved to create; but I had to choose a route.



During the summer of 2007, I went to Ringling's Pre-College Perspective Program to help narrow down my direction in art. Hoping to overcome the waiting list for the computer animation and illustration courses, I ended up getting placed into web design and expressive typography, leaving me frustrated yet a little open minded. A few weeks later, I incidentally fell in love with design, then returned to Ringling as a full-time student a year later under the curriculum of graphic interactive communications. The rest is history.