Anna Kealey grew up in Dublin, Ireland and graduated from Visual Communications in IADT in 2009.

For her BA thesis “Innovation and Exploitation: A Critique of American Apparel,” she received the Design History Society Essay Prize. She is currently conducting her MFA thesis research on the use of pastoral imagery in food packaging and advertising.

From May–October 2011, Anna worked as conference assistant at AIGA helping to organize the “Pivot: AIGA National Design Conference” that took place in Phoenix, Arizona. She is working as a research assistant for Steven Heller on his newest publication and is assistant manager of the SVA library.

Her varied work history includes starting a monthly music event of national and international performers, working for RTÉ, Ireland’s national TV station and a food magazine Clodagh Mc Kenna’s Homemade.

Anna loves cooking, live music and travel. She finds it strange to write about herself in the third person.

• Email
  akealey@sva.edu
• Hometown
  Dublin, Ireland
• Websites
• annakealeydesignnerd.com
• pukingrainbows
• Judge ___ By Its Cover
• twitter @annakealey