About Zoe

Zoe is a painter studying multimedia art with an emphasis on animation, at Berkeley City College. Her goal is to apply her painting skills to 3D illustration and animation.

Zoe Graduated with high honors from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1986. Zoe has worked as an illustrator, designer, and painter featuring her work in Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Personal Story

"I began painting as a child because I grew up in a creative environment with a beatnik, radical, composer-playwright-pupeteer for a mom. There was a creativity ethic. This was the hippy 60's. It was not cool to have a conventional job, and money was out of fashion. The government was "bad and evil" and the workers where the salt of the earth.

I was taken to museums, the opera, intellectual gatherings, leftist political meetings, and hung out with mom and her adult friends most of the time as a preschooler. Back stage at puppet gigs and rehearsals I always had my crayons, coloring books and a sketch pad.

During the 1966 National farmer workers march from Deleno to Sacramento I sat in the back of the press van with a desk I made out of a crate, for my drawing projects while we joined Caesar Chavez in his struggle for decent wages. I was the youngest person to finish the march although I only walked about 8 miles per day.

By the age of ten I had a small subscription of 4 friends for one of my comic books and a serialized spy novel i was writing. I would send this from our hotel rooms in Hong Kong and other stops along the way during our round the world puppet tour back in 1970.

Growing up in an unstable environment, with 16 moves and at least 20 different schools, around the USA, I became used to leaving friends behind every few years. Drawing, writing and reading where the only stable things in my life.

As an adult I have always continued with my creative projects in visual art and writing while finding ways to make a living in the holistic health field as well as many other types of jobs and gigs. Although I graduated from college right before computer graphics became the standard I love the process of learning to use new technology to create visual art and design.