About

My name is Annie Rose Murphy. I live my life in reverence to arts of all kinds. Besides growing up in art museums (I was esentially raised between the Weisman Art Museum and the Walker Art Center), in 2008 I ventured to Perpich Center for Arts Education where I honed this broad interest to a focus on Theater, although I continued to pursue interests in music (mainly singing and guitar), dance, and media (photography and film theory analysis and criticism). In 2010 I began studying theater and film at the University of Chicago Loyola. Since then I have been involved in a range of production aspects from performing to sound design, set and costume construction to lighting.

 

More recently, I have become increasingly interested in creative writing (mainly poetry) and drawing. Although my skills in drawing in particular are highly amateur, I have come to enjoy precisely this aspect of my work. I am inspired by the somewhat new, if not revived enthusiasm for DIY art as I believe it achieves a level of intimate meaning which is often lacking in this modern age of globalization. The arts are not immune to our society's push toward perfection, an endeavor that usually means some degree of conformity in pursuit of an established, accepted aesthetic, and I believe this extremely humble and personal form of art offers a fortifying jolt of humanity back into this stifled realm.

 

However, I am forever in awe of artworks at any level of production, and am constantly grateful for their existence. I don't claim to know any better, with my beginner's mind I approach the universe as an unassuming student, open to all, especially to the pure goodness that art provides. In all honesty, I merely hope that there is room in this world for the work that I do, which is not really work at all, but simply pieces of myself. 

 

With the utmost sincereity (sometimes its hard  to adecuately communicate through the formality of text), I do hope that you find something in my modest collection that resonates with something that you find true and beautiful and worth sharing.

 

Thank you.