Zoe Dirks is a 2D animation major and teaching artist minor in her senior year at MCAD. She specializes in anything in the realm of cartoons, from comics to animated shorts. Her work often finds itself at the crossroads of comedy, tragedy, empathy, and horror. She has experience working with very young children in a day-care setting, but educating children is exciting uncharted territory. Zoe's insatiable appetite for learning and a penchant for talking ceaselessly made her a shoe-in for the educational disciplines. She has gathered a nearly off-putting quantity of strong opinions towards cartooning and character design, and as those anecdotes evolved into advice to other artists, they found a home in helping others. Seeing other artists struggle with liking their own art burns her up, and to her nothing is more important than helping someone learn how to love drawing again, so that they never give up. She is mainly experienced with teaching people her own age about the right attitudes toward drawing, but she would love to broaden her experience to children of any age, as that is when an artist's inspiration first blooms.

Please click on the headshot for her practicum journal!