Morgan Riley Wilkerson

Born in Northridge, CA

Lives & works in Los Angeles, CA

 

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. I attended a dual-immersion K-12 school, in which I became fluent in Spanish. I went to Oak Park High School, and received a green cord upon graduating for excellence in environmental science and literature courses. In my senior year, I received a perfect score of 5 on the AP Art Drawing Exam, with my theme being "Exploring the Feminine Aura." 

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In my time at OTIS College of Art and Design, I have journeyed through the freshman foundational requirements, and the Toy Design major courses. I was able to do a summer internship my sophomore year with Aurora World, Inc.; and an internship my junior year with Jakks Pacific, Inc..  

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Along with these invaluable industry design experience, I also participated in a sponsored project with Paramount Pictures. The project's prompt was to conceptualize an action figure line for a property owned by the studios; and my designs won 3rd place and I was awarded a monetary scholarship! 

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Outside of school, I spend a lot of my time drawing, watching movies and shows, and collecting my favorite types of toys! I have a particular love for fashion dolls like Barbie or Monster High, and I have amassed quite the collection over the years. I use my passion and knowledge of dolls to work on an archival website called Dollect.net (if you'd like to visit, here is a link: https://dollect.net/); where I create entries for individual dolls for the Barbie line, and add them in chronological order with the goal of cataloging every Barbie doll ever made! 

Along with doll cataloging and research, I am a part of the website's graphics team. I joined the team once the base of the website had already been built, so I mostly help to provide banners for new subpages.

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My dream is to be able to work on a design team for one of the many LA-based toy companies!