Trip to the Zoo Image 2

2nd image in the works :)
in this one, Francesco, the brother, is telling his parents where he wants to go for his bday.


still working on some kind of flooring......dont know yet

Finished!!

And the 2nd image is on it's way :)

A Trip to the Zoo

I'm illustrating a children's book in between classes and jobs now. Written by a former Creative Writing teacher at Drexel - he is now teaching at Union College in NY - it's about a brother and sister who stray from their parents at the zoo, and encounter animals in their habitats who help them find their way back to the zoo entrance.

I'm documenting the different stage of all illustrations.

The first page illustration (so far):






1 begun, 19 to go...and a book sleeve, almost forgot about that.

RANT BOX

I did a little story board illustrating over the weekend for Gari Media Group. RANT BOX, a forum type television show for voicing your opinion on today's politics/social issues/whatever is pissing you off.
They pitched the tvshow idea to NBC yesterday morning with these drawings:



hopefully the pitch went well, I have not heard any further developments about it, so we shall see..... :)

Goat Button

The Tate Museum - Free and all over iTunes!

Jen Graves from Seattle's SLOG - always has the best updates, such as:

The Tate galleries have made hundreds of video and audio downloads available for free on iTunes.

More than 400 files are now on iTunes U - a section of the online store which features educational content.

Projects include a series of films that use social networking site Twitter to bring the audience's questions directly to artists like David Hockney.

There are also recent interviews with contemporary artists including Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois.

ART NERD ALERT!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7998191.stm

Wynton Marsalis's Speech/Performance at Arts Advocacy Day 2009

Wynton Marsalis: 22nd Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.

New Painting

Still in progress (obviously) and this is sadly my only form of critique, so please, let the comments start rollin' in.


Stage 1


Stage 2


Stage 3

April's First Friday at Sazz Vintage, Philadelphia, PA

Old City was rockin last night for April's First Friday! (a.k.a. ArtWalk, for all you Greenvillians..ahaha villians)



Combined with vintage clothes and somewhat vintage snacks (the old vanilla sandwich cookies, gingersnaps you ate when you were 3, and Mondos! the twist off top blue sugar water refreshments) my work, titled "Animals and Adcock" got some attention. It's a more commercial series than anything, and I had a few people cooooing over the elephant drawings. People love elephants.


So go visit the store, buy some vintage shit, I plan on doing so when I actually get a paycheck.

Arts Advocacy Day 2009

Along with my fellow Arts Administration colleagues, we ruled Capitol Hill!

500+ Arts leaders showed up for the American's for the Art's 22nd Annual Arts Advocacy Day.
Pennsylvania representatives were in high numbers, with Drexel students, of course, Arts Management students from Carnegie Melon in Pittsburg, most of the staff of the Philadelphia cultural Alliance and more.


The night before Capitol Hill, the nation's arts leaders witnessed the most amazing speech/spoken word/jazz performance ever given. Wynton Marsalis delivered a passionate call for action that had the entire Kennedy Center in tears and on their feet. In my opinion, the speech seamlessly articulated why people enter the arts, why they stay in the arts and why they fight for the arts.


On the Hill, I met with Senator Spector, as well as House of Representatives Charles Dent and Allyson Schwartz. They are all arts policy supporters, so my job wasn't too difficult.

Onwards and upwards! I will be running for Arts Advocacy Coordinator on the AAGA Board this year, and after that, hopefully be sitting at the North Carolina table at all future Arts Advocacy Days :)