Bridget Torley (Class of 2029)
Blogger Role: On Campus Art News
Major: Illustration
Minor: N/A
I chose Marywood because they didn’t lock the art majors in the dungeons (had a very nice art building with a ton of natural light) and had a swim team.
I am majoring in Art because the visions of creation would not cease and it would prove prudent to get some formal training in the matter before venturing out into the world of publishing. I have completed 30+ sketchbooks in the past five years and have been attempting to tell stories with my scribbles for just as long. Majoring in Art gives me an opportunity to fine tune such endeavors.
When I’m not in class, I’m often in the frigid waters of the Marywood pool in the Aquatics Center, writing or drawing in my dorm, or hanging out in Naz with my friends. Similar to a platypus, I don’t do much and look great in fedoras.
So far, my favorite art class at Marywood is a tie between Mark Webber‘s Art History and Two Dimensional Design and Color with Georisell Vazquez.
The coolest thing I’ve done at Marywood so far was filming a mini-documentary on the cryptids of Pennsylvania with a friend. Further information on that subject is classified.
When I graduate I hope to publish a book or two, or three, or twenty seven. I’d like to become something of a storyteller, but since there doesn’t seem to be much prospect in travelling in a small horse drawn carriage full of knick-knacks and various furnishings as I tell tales to various souls on their own journeys, nor living in a whimsical shack emerging only to speak into lit bonfires, I figured publishing books is the next best thing.
I’d recommend the Art program at Marywood because we are allowed to gaze upon the glory of the sun instead of being confined to the depths of a concrete prison like the cardinals in the 1268-1271 papal election.