# @creighton1878 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CR4XyWos2d9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15962970-creighton1878-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-07-28T18:24:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Creighton University (@creighton1878) — https://gondola.cc/creighton1878

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As a backstage dresser for New York’s Metropolitan Opera singers, Chelsey Hill (illustratingdiva), knows a thing or two about thriving amid chaos.

Her job duties truly run the garment — dressing as many as 20 singers at a time, sewing basic repairs, managing multiple costume changes per show and multiple productions per day. For one show, she assisted a fuel-soaked fire dancer. For another, she hung out with a python.

The Met — the largest classical music organization in North America — had to cancel its 2020-21 season because of the pandemic, but this fall the show goes on, and Hill returns to the dressing room.

When the metopera shut down last year, most of Hill’s income went with it. Fortunately, she also happens to be a very talented illustrator. During the pandemic, her number of illustration gigs tripled. She’s done work for such artists and organizations as the Met Opera Chorus Artists, Lara Downes and the Boulanger Initiative, for which she illustrated the Women Composers Alphabet poster.

Hill (also known as “The Illustrating Diva”) calls her drawing style “a cross between Chanel and a clown.”

“If there’s an elegance to it, there’s also usually some type of humorous undertone. I love things that are eccentric, bright and colorful. I like to put a funny twist on things.”

One of her bestselling prints is Breakfast at Mickey Ds, which features Holly Golightly shortly after grabbing some McDonald’s and Starbucks. (See it in the photo carousel above!)

“I draw things that make me smile,” Hill says. “And hopefully they make others smile, too.”

How does Hill manage juggling the jobs of opera dresser and illustrator? 

Caffeine helps. So do the skills she picked up at Creighton.

Read our entire Q&A with her at the link in our bio!
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