My NYC neighborhood of Jackson Heights is home to a large Muslim population from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Since this weekend was Eid, the end of Ramadan, our local park (Travers) was turned over to a Muslim prayer service on Sunday morning. As I live near the park, I decided to walk over and draw […]
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At the end of May, I had the incredible opportunity to do live drawings in Mental Canvas on the Surface Studio at the Microsoft launch events in Shanghai and Tokyo. It was a whirlwind tour, but action packed! I was there with Panos Panay and the Surface team, and they are super serious about what […]
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A few months ago, I received an email from Professor Ryan Hargrove, of the University of Kentucky. He teaches a course called Living on the Right Side of the Brain, that “challenges students to explore their creative thinking process through the framework of metacognition (thinking about thinking.)” What a class! One of the supplements to this […]
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It seems like April and May have gone by in a flash – the end of the semester, a studio move, a few illustration assignments, and a whirlwind trip to China and Japan for Mental Canvas and Microsoft. Will post more on all of that in the next few days, but today, I just wanted to […]
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My reportage illustrations of the NYC rally against the immigrant ban have been published in the May/June issue of Spirituality & Health. The drawings are illustrating an article titled Being Honorable by Brady Kiesling, who writes about his decision to leave the state department after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and his thoughts on the first attempted Executive Order […]
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A friend of mine (thanks Jen!) just sent me a link to a New York Times article about the American Writer’s Museum, which opens in Chicago on May 16, 2017. Very excited to visit the museum during my stay in Chicago for the Urban Sketchers Symposium in July – especially since my illustration work will be […]
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Something I always tell my students is, “you never know.” As in, you never know what making art and putting it out there in the world will create in your life. About two years ago, I received an email from a man named Josh. He had written a poem about the humanity on the NYC subway and […]
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Sakura – the cherry blossoms – those fleeting, etherial flowers that arrive in early spring. No matter how much work you may have to do, or things you may have on your mind, when the cherry tree blooms you must take a little time to sit and appreciate it’s beauty. Ahhh….spring.
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When I was doing the research for my picture book, I Was Dreaming to Come to America, I had the privilege to be present at a few interviews with people who had entered the US through Ellis Island. This is Jacob Levine, a Russian Jewish man who “stole the border” and emigrated from Russia in […]
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Saturday, March 25 at noon there will be a rally: People For Free Press! The group will meet at the Bryant Park Library and march to the offices of the New York Times. See info HERE. I can’t join them on site, but decided to do a reportage-inspired illustration to mark the event. Congress shall make no […]
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