One of the things I love about New York City is that you never know what you might find on a Saturday afternoon stroll. This past weekend Neil and I visited West 116th Street in Harlem, to check out a West African restaurant, since it is Harlem Restaurant Week in NY. As we headed back […]
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Very happy and honored to receive news that the City Explorer children’s game installation at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital received an Honor Award from the SEGD (Society of Experiential Design.) When Matthew McNerney, then creative director at Potion, called me to do some illustration work for a new project they were beginning, I had no […]
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I had the honor and pleasure this past weekend to be one of 16 artists invited to participate in the New York Botanical Garden’s 4th Annual Plein-Air Invitational, hosted by the artist James Gurney. Mr. Gurney is so generous in his teaching, with many excellent videos online, that I was not surprised to discover that […]
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About a year ago, the talented Matthew McNerney, then a design director at Potion, asked me if I’d like to come in and do some concept art for a cool new project he and his cohorts were cooking up. I’m so happy to be finally able to post some of the work I’ve been […]
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Last night I attended the panoramic performance of “the Scottish play”, Macbeth, put on by the New York Classical Theatre. They are giving free outdoor performances in Battery Park every evening at 7 pm through August 20th. (One of the perks of summers in NYC are these kinds of events.) It was a beautiful evening […]
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As I detailed in a previous post, (HERE) I recently had the distinctly unique opportunity to document a group of students from the University of Kentucky as they embarked on a two day “creative study tour” with their professor, Dr. Ryan Hargrove. During the course of the two days, the students met many creative professionals […]
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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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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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