Who is she?

Alison King is an artist and design educator living in Phoenix, Arizona.

She's crazy for cacti and succulents
obsessive about early education antiques
mad about modern desert architecture
and dazzled daily by her students

...which explains all the web sites hosted under pixelpixie.net. Its a personal catalog of sorts.

Often known online as the PixelPixie, Alison believes that digital media can bring out the same intensity of magic that traditional media can.

But if you must know the mundane truth, Alison teaches digital design skills to young designers at the Art Institute of Phoenix and is their Director of Faculty Development. And in this, too, she manages to find much happiness and yes, sometimes everyday magic.

Alison has been a digital artist for as long as she can remember using computers. Even if it did mean coding in vectors by hand in Basic.

She spent ten years in New York City to attend Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College in Manhattan. She studied Printmaking and World Art History in their unique dual degree program.

In 1999 she graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University with a Masters degree in Art and Art Education.

Somewhere inbetween she spent a summer at Arcosanti, which is important enough to mention right alongside those degrees.