With the Hopkins Center currently closed for renovation, the HOOD Museum is hoping to provide campus with a new lineup of unique and enriching events. Aiming to bring out students from all corners of campus, this series is focused on making a living as an artist today. Upcoming events included a resin ashtray making workshop with several TikTok small business owners, an immersive Twitter experience featuring Dartmouth’s own improv groups, and headlining this exciting series, a two month-long art exhibition of my cousin’s furry art!
Furry art involves detailed anthropomorphic drawings of animal characters often through a science fiction or dystopian lens. It’s actually one of the most rapidly growing platforms among young artists today. “It’s a quite Orwellian concept when you think about it” stated Vixen Alpha Kitty Woofer, a prominent Reddit user in the furry art community, “Us artists have our paws and claws on the pulse of America right now.”
The specific artist in question, my cousin Jakxon, who goes by RoxtheFox22, age 13, first got into furry art when an ad appeared during his allotted 45 minutes of screen time. “I was in the middle of absolutely dominating my Roblox lobby, when something popped up on my screen,” Jackson shared on our Discord call, “It had these fine specimen type drawings, it blew my mind! I knew it was the place for me.” For the past three years, Jackson has been devoutly dedicated to his craft, speaking of nothing else even at important family events like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and our Grandfather’s funeral- where he insisted on using his half-wolf interpretation of our grandfather as his memorial portrait.
Jackson claims to have found real community amongst furry artists like himself. Other family members have noticed the rise in his confidence and passion these past few months. “Before, he would hardly ever look up from his Nintendo switch and talk with us,” his father, Richard told us, “Now he looks up occasionally to yell ‘posers!!’ while we all watch the Masked Singer as a family.” Jackson’s mother is also incredibly supportive of his artistic aspirations. “It was either this or the alt-right pipeline,” my Aunt Sheila shared as she emptied her Franzia box, “At least now he’s stopped referring to himself as an ‘alpha provider’ when I pay him his allowance.”
-L.E. ’25
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