Welcome to my personal page, I'm so glad you made it!

My name is Apollo Umbra and I am a recent graduate of Northwestern University with experience in visual art, design, and writing. My practice spanned the realms of theatre, games, interactive art, photography, comics, and more - including three capstone projects in games and animation, theatrical design, and experimental writing. These passions have all aligned in my current work where I aim to push the boundaries of visual and written art beyond traditional expectations. 

Who am I and how did I end up where I am? I grew up in the beautiful natural landscape of Candler NC, in a unique situation to say the least. I was raised in foster care by the same people who had fostered my mother before me. As a result, I grew up with an extremely unique perspective on the world, honing my independence from a young age and navigating a life of chaos. Eventually, I found my way into the world of fine arts, exploring every aspect of traditional art and theatre as I could at my rural high school. During this time, I found it difficult to connect with LGBTQ+ role models who were living a life I could see myself in down the road. Ultimately, I applied to fifteen universities around the country, all of which would take me far from the home I had known my entire life.

After the dust had settled on my college application process, I was committed to Northwestern University as a theatre major, due to their generous financial aid offer and quarter system allowing plenty of time to explore other subjects. While theatre was not the exact major I intended to graduate with, Northwestern offered flexibility within my schedule and graduate-level courses in costume design that would push me to explore character design and communicative illustration in a new manner.