Hi as stated before my name is Paige Kelly and I am currently a senior at Agnes Scott College. I have achieved a Bachelor’s in Science in Chemistry and a minor in creative arts. I hope to become an art conservator or a preservationist and plan to take a gap year before pursuing a masters in science in historic preservation, MSHP. This portfolio serves as an archive of the work that I am proud of, inside and outside of school. 

I am from Northwest Arkansas and lived through a period of drastic economic growth in the region, for better or worse. I also consider myself from New Orleans because my family is from there and we visit three to five times a year. I believe I have a strong attention to detail, in both my work and in daily life. I love world mythologies, birdwatching, creating art, and just learning in general. My Clifton strengths are: content, relator, consistency, developer, and strategic, which I believe are accurate. 

STEAM

As a chemistry major pursuing a career in a humanities field, I truly don’t believe there is such a big difference between the arts, humanities, and STEM. Art and the humanities are necessary in science and science is necessary in the arts and humanities. Art can be incredibly mathematical like traditional Islamic art. I recently started relying on triangles or the Fibonacci spiral for positioning subjects in my own art. Nature is incredibly beautiful and the original artist. Neither art nor STEM would be anywhere without the humanities either. 

My Education at Agnes Scott

I have had opportunities at Agnes Scott that I don’t think I would have at other universities. I have been able to study abroad in Malta, take more than just chemistry classes, travel to Belize, get an internship at the Fernbank Science Museum, and shadow at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Most of these were possible through Agnes’s SUMMIT program. As someone who believes in combining scientific and artistic disciplines, I don’t think I would have been able to do all that I wanted to do academically without a liberal arts education. Even through the trials and many, many tribulations Agnes Scott has put me through I believe I made the right choice in attending.