"I have been doing art since I could walk, essentially," Linkhorn said. "My grandfather worked for GE but he did cartoons on the side, and he taught me how to draw at a very young age. I've just been doing it ever since."
Linkhorn planned to study engineering and physics, but quickly declared a studio art major and digital arts minor her sophomore year.
"[It] was a huge mistake because I don't like math," Linkhorn joked of her original plans. "I was trying to look for something creative and denied the whole art thing for a while. College was really a wake-up call because I didn't realize until I was here that there were career paths for art."
Linkhorn concentrates on drawing and animation specifically.
"I do a lot of pen and ink work that is very illustrative," she said, citing comics-style drawings as one of her focuses.
Outside her coursework, Linkhorn remains committed to infusing the arts to her extracurricular life.
She works at TiltFactor Laboratory, an interdisciplinary innovation studio that designs and studies games for social impact and is led by digital humanities professor Mary Flanagan.
After Dartmouth, Linkhorn said she hopes to continue working on graphics, art and animation for the game and film industries.
This spring, Linkhorn is busy preparing for exhibitions in both the studio art and digital arts departments. The studio arts senior majors show will open on May 14.
