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Allyn grew up in San Diego, California, where they earned bachelor’s degrees in Studio Art and Psychology from San Diego State University. After pursuing various creative projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Portland, Oregon, Allyn moved to the Midwest during the summer of 2020. They established their Bloomington studio in May of 2023 and received an Emerging Artist Grant from the City of Bloomington Arts Commission the following November.

Allyn has trained in a wide variety of media. Before re-rooting in Bloomington, they spent a decade making monsters in the Halloween & Haunted Attractions Industry. Working adjacent to film and television artists, they developed skills in horror makeup artistry, cast management, and performance. (View a sampling of their haunt portfolio). Allyn was also formerly the resident artist at Fjällräven Portland stores, customizing Kånken products to ship widely across the United States and Scandinavia. Though the gig ended shortly into the pandemic, they completed over 60 hand-painted Kånken Art by Allyn pieces between Jul. 2019 and Aug. 2020—an abbreviated archive is available on their Instagram page.