Artist Biography
Molly O’Neill is a senior at Endicott College studying Interior Architecture. She is graduating at the end of May with a BFA in Interior Design. While at Endicott, Molly has completed the design program while also being a four year member of the softball team. She has completed three internships during her tenure in several different areas of design. After studying and experiencing various types of design over the past four years, she has found specific interest in educational and healthcare design. This interest was amplified by her semester-long internship at the architecture program at Dana Farber Cancer Institute last fall. Upon graduation, Molly plans to stay in the Northshore/ Boston area and work full time.
Molly’s thesis project was inspired by her personal experience in the public education system growing up. For her final project, Molly paid tribute to her educational career by designing an education facility that encourages individual learning in early childhood. “Crescent Classrooms” is designed to allow children to discover themselves and their personal learning styles, which they can then take forward with them into their future.
Thesis Abstract
Every child learns, understands, and grows differently, which is crucial to consider in early childhood education. An environment that challenges current mainstream education and instead prompts students to explore multiple learning modalities throughout the school day will allow them to discover their own specific learning styles, habits, and intelligences in their early childhood.