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Illustration Alumni News:

Jeansoo Chang IL’ 08

Jeansoo’s work was selected for the Association of Illustrators Images 34 book student section. The book is
going to release during the summer 2010. In other news, another work of hers will appear in the February issue of CMYK magazine. Jeansoo is working freelance in NYC.

Her work can be seen at http://www.jeansooart.com

Alex Uyeno IL’09

Alex reports he is freelancing in NYC, working part-time at a museum, going to GAG events and networking semi-regularly to talk about illustration and

to show current work with Ellen Stedfeld, Jessie Walker and Hwayoun Lee (all IL’08.). Alex created the smart and witty art for the MICA IL Showcase last year!

His work can be seen at http://www.alexuyeno.com

Jessica Rose IL ‘07

Jessica was selected from 236 applicants for the Accelerate, a juried exhibition for emerging artists with disabilities. Participants were asked to describe the source of their motivations and to explore the relationship between life, art and disability. Jessica describes her work as a dance: “If I cannot physically propel myself like a dancer, I will move through drawing— pushing, pulling, gaining momentum. I will dance out-of-body.”

Jenna Bowles IL ‘05 | www.jennabowles.com

Jenna Bowles IL’05 has a new line of children’s wall art at her Etsy site. She has also launched a “survival” blog for young creatives at littleteapotsguidetolife.blogspot.com.

Check out her sites and give her some feedback! Jenna is living and working in Philadelphia. Her website is: http://www.jennabowles.com

You can call her at 410-961-8769

Aimee Wang IL ‘09 | aimee-wang.com In June’s issue of CMYK Portfolio, you’ll find two pieces by Aimee Wang. She was chosen among many emerging artists to display her work. The judge, Kathy Osborn, praised her selections: “Unbelievable talent! I don’t see how most of these artists could ever quit.”

Emily C-D IL ‘05 | www.emilycd.com

For First Friday this May 1st from 6-9pm, I am showing new artwork at
SHINE in Hampden, located at 1007A w.36th St. ”PAPELES POR MIS OJOS is a series of collages created from paper
materials mostly collected in Mexico that Emily made in response to
her brief but intense journey there during the Day of the Dead
celebration last year. The series is also inspired by her work
teaching art to Latino students in the Mi Espacio program in East
Baltimore and considering the challenges they face as teenagers who
live lives split between two cultures. Emily C-D hopes to return to
Mexico next year on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue art, become
fluent in Spanish, and eat a lot of tortillas.” You can contact Emily at: shout@emilycd.com

Kali Ciesemier | IL’08 and Jeremy Enecio | IL’08 and Sam Bosma | IL’09

“Koi” © Jeremy Enecio ‘09

Jeremy carried home the Gold Medal in the Unpublished Category in the Spectrum Art #16 competition for his piece “Koi”. Jeremy currently works as a concept artist at Big Huge Games. His website is at: http://www.jenecio.com and his blog is at: http://jenecio.blogspot.com. Jeremy completed this piece while at the Illustration Academy: www.illustrationacademy.com

Kali got 2 pieces in the same competition for “The Naturalist” http://www.ciesemier.com/images/king.jpg, “Catch of the Day” http://www.ciesemier.com/images/swamppinup.jpg. Kali’s blog can be seen at: http://kalidraws.blogspot.com/2009/04/spectrum-stuff.html

Sam Bosma’s piece “The Monkey King” was also included in Spectrum #16. It can be seen at:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3V0EgafMNvo/SePp-oOzJiI/AAAAAAAAAu8/C_v-m8dq6qE/s1600-h/monkey+king+final.jpg

Sam’s blog is at: sambosma.blogspot.com

The official Spectrum website is at: http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com

Jingyao Guo | IL’08 Jingyao has placed in the 3×3 Students Show competition. She was one seven students to get multiple pieces in the show. The work will be exhibited in the upcoming 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 due out later this year. You can see more of her work at http://www.guojingyao.com

Justin Winslow IL’98 | http://www.justinwinslow.com Justin was recently commissioned by the design firm Primal Screen to work on the branding of PBS Kids Sprout Network Identity Spot. Check out his cheeky blog at: http://cartooncurio.blogspot.com

His clients have included: PBS Kids, Cartoon Network, King Features, HBO Family, HGTV, and Nickelodeon.
You can contact Justin at:

Justin Winslow Illustration
412 W 56th St.
#13
New York, NY 10019
(917) 558-6895
justinnw@gmail.com

Colin Johnson IL’95 | www.colinjohnsonillustration.com and www.illoz.com/mossgreenafterglow

It’s a triple header from Colin!

First, see Colin’s work in the exhibition “Curio-logicals” at Grass Hut Gallery in Portland, Oregon: http://grasshutcorp.com/blog/?page_id=3&category=28 To purchase work from the show, contact the Gallery via e-mail at grasshut@grasshutcorp.com or by phone at 1.503.445.9924

Second, Colin has also done an incredible shopper bag for Blue Q, the notoriously funny company that brought you Miso Pretty, Mullet and Dirty Girl products.

http://www.blueq.com/shop/item/114-productId.125845289_114-catId.117440652.html

And third, he’s got some wonderful prints available from the great folks at Thumbtack Press

http://www.thumbtackpress.com/browse/index.php?cPath=34

Aaron Campbell IL’00 | www.aaroncampbell.reliquum.com

Aaron recently began working on a comic book project for Dynamite Entertainment. It is a 5 part mini-series based on Sherlock Holmes entitledThe Trial of Sherlock Holmes, written by John Reppion and Leah Moore (daughter of Watchman author Alan Moore!). The book is scheduled to be out this May. Aaron will also be interviewed about the project by Newsarama and Comic Book Resources. Check out the Newsarama interview at:Newsarama
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030916-Holmes-Campbell.html

The interview with Comic Book Resources will be published later this week, followed by an interview with Comics International, Europe’s largest comic book trade magazine.

Contact Aaron if you are interested in hearing more at:

Aaron Campbell
525 Morningside Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
505.720.4372

Dominik Taylor IL’07 | dartist04@aol.com Dominik is a designer for a urban clothing line called Shmack Clothing/Azzure Denim in Virginia Beach, VA. He says “it’s real exciting to see illustrations and graphics that you make printed on clothing and in stores. I work alongside fellow past student Mr. Jhawn Jones, he works mainly for Azzure Denim. We still keep in good contact with Mr. Kent Floris who also works in the same industry as us for Ecko’s/Cut & Sew line, an urban clothing line in NYC.” Dominik won the Society of Illustrators Student Competition top prize, the Memory of Arthur Zankel Award and the Illustration Academy Award in 2007.

Jhawn Jones IL’07

Jhawn works with Dominik at Azzure Denim.

Kent Floris IL’07

Kent works as an apparel designer at Ecko’s Cut & Sew in NYC.

Reuben Negron IL’04 | negron.reuben@gmail.com

Feb 2008, Reuben is exhibition The Dog Came Out Of The Woods… open to an excited crowd. It prompted a call from the publishers of the “For Beginners” line of books. He’ll be illustrating their newest publication on Democracy.

Feb 2007, Reuben worked on a mural for a traveling exhibition for the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. He and a friend he collaborated with went on a photo expedition to South Dakota, Wyoming and Puerto Rico to collect images for a 78′ x 10′ photo-digital mural. You can check it out here:

http://www.lucyexhibition.com/default.aspx

http://www.cobotenuss.com

Rama Hughes IL’97 | rama@ramahughes.com

The April 2008 issue of The Artist’s Magazine has an article on Rama’s portrait project: http://www.theportraitparty.blogspot.com. See pages 14 and 15. Visit his site at ramahughes.com

Emily Flake IL’99 | emily@eflakeagogo.com

Emily’s most recent book These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves won the PRISM Award for accurate depiction of drug, alcohol, or tobacco use in a comic book story line. She says “I did not cry, but I did giggle like a damn fool, and I also got to be in the same room with Dolph Lundgren, thus fulfilling a life-long dream. Here is a picture of me looking absolutely psychotic next to the pretty young thing that presented me with the award. Can you tell which one of us had lessons in how not to make yourself look in a picture?”

Lauren Castillo IL’03 | info@laurencastillo.com

My new book, Buffalo Music written by Tracey Fern [June 08 release]

My other book, The Pig and Miss Prudence by Linda Stanek [Feb09 release] See it at Amazon

Interview at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog

Christiane Holzheid IL’04 | c@holzheid.com

Completed her 2nd semester in Media Design Studies at Art Center. See her work on her site: http://people.artcenter.edu/~cholzheid/index.html

For those of you who want to see the “Super Studio Mooments” click on http://people.artcenter.edu/~ljohnson1/video_m2.html