Students — Kristy Caldwell

Recent projects with Queens College students

1. Home Is the Ackee in Ackee & Salt-fish, Abigail Radway 2025 / 2. Home Is a Filled Vase, Nisa Philippou, 2025 / 3. Home Is Blooming with Marigolds, Aryan Manas 2025 / 4. Home Is a Warm Scarf, Joseph McCoy 2025 / 5. Home Is a Hibiscus in Summer, Scarlet Hernandez 2024 / 6. Home Is a Silent Plate of Fruit, Vivian Luo 2024 / 7. Home Is a Basketball, Jeremiah Rorie 2024 / 8. Home Is a Garden, Jenny Mao 2024

Home Is: Illustrating Objects of Memory, 2024/2025
Forty illustrations exploring the question, ‘What is home?’ through layers of meaning embedded in a single “memory object.” A collaboration with the Queens College Linguistics Department. On long-term public display in Queens Hall. Images © the individual artists.

1. Jia Qin Lin / 2. Jiahao Yu / 3. Farhin Puspita / 4. Thais Mendez / 5. Altish Jawaid / 6. Hayko Reyes

Portrait: Person and Place, 2024
Nineteen portraits exploring identity through connections to place, created by undergraduate illustration students. Scheduled for long-term public display in Queens Hall. Images © the individual artists.

1. Gesture drawing / 2. Creating relationships from musical triggers / 3. Group work to develop live-action, 3-panel comics

Theatrical Composition and Gesture for Illustrators, 2023–2024
In-class workshop developed with theatre director Kelly O‘Donnell, designed to connect the language of narrative across disciplines. Featuring actors Imani Pearl Williams and Kelly Letournou.