Annie Daley is an artist who currently lives and works in Philadelphia. She continually is investigating how art and community can coincide with one another through public art and theatrical parades. While studying art and art history at Temple University she explored various methods of printmaking, traditional film photography along with a special interest in alternative process photography. In addition to the study of art at Temple she also was involved with different activist groups that addressed social justice issues, including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jobs with Justice: an off campus activist organization. Along with her studio and art history courses Daley also took Women Studies, Sociology, and African American History courses at Temple. She was always trying to make the connection between activism and art throughout her college career. In 2007 she started working with Spiral Q Puppet Theater as an intern, a result of her involvement with a street theater performance with her activist group SJP.

Daley started as a program assistant at Spiral Q Puppet theater in 2007 assisting in various teaching residencies, workshops, tours and assemblies. Her experience as an intern taught her a range of skill sets and methods that gave her an extensive understanding of teaching art within a social justice realm. In 2009 at the end of her college career she was promoted to a teaching artist in training, one of the first interns to move up to a teacher position at Spiral Q. She taught at schools during that year in after school programming. She educated students about puppet making with recycled objects, music and noise and also theatrical performance. In 2010 Daley was promoted again to a lead teacher position at Spiral Q. Since then Daley has taught varied educational residencies, with children ranging in age from 2nd grade to incoming 9th grade students. She has a teaching philosophy of inclusion no matter what level of art experience the student has. She also specializes in teaching children who have had little to no art education, puppetry and theater education. Daley has had numerous trainings while being involved with Spiral Q, including, teaching artist training, and trainings dealing with racism and discrimination. She believes that everyone is an artist and that art is for everyone not just a certain group of people. She has also assisted and taught various adult workshops, including, Girard Medical Center and Park Pleasant Senior Center.

Daley is also a studio assistant for Richard Hricko at the Crane Arts building. In addition, she also curates at the Last Drop Coffee Shop wall. Her curatorial experience is with young artists and helping them understand how to hang shows, write their artist statements and helping them make the transition from student to professional artist.

Daley is also a practicing printmaker and photographer in Philadelphia. Currently her studio space is out of her home in South Philadelphia where she loves to to make puppets and art. In 2010 Daley and her business and creative partner Rayhan Blankinship produced and performed a shadow puppet show “Narsi and Nokia: Kill Time.” One of the spaces they performed was in the ICEBOX at the Crane Arts building which is a space that brought die hard puppet enthusiasts and fine art admirers together in the audience. This first show is part one in their series of shadow puppet performances that are planned for the future.