Whitney Sherman
Chair of Illustration & Full-time Faculty
Trained as a photographer, Whitney Sherman’s illustration work is represented in American Illustration, Communication Arts, AIGA, Society of Publication Design, Society of Illustrators of NY, Print Regional and the Print Casebooks, as well as the Art Director’s Clubs of NY and SF. She is a regular lecturer, panelist and moderator including ICON3, ICON4, the Hallmark Symposium and the Educators Symposium at the Society of Illustrators NY on teaching typography to illustrators and the new business of illustration. She is Co-Director of Dolphin Press where she has produced limited editions by Henrik Dresher/Wu Wing Yee (Babblelab book), Michael Bartalos (Vostok book) and currently Jon Rappleye (print suite) and is the President of ICON5, The Big Picture, NYC.
Clients include New York Times, Business Week, Forbes and most national publications; Tolleson Design, Pentagram, Southern Poverty Law Center, HermanMiller, Warner Brothers Records and the Urban Forest Project. Sherman’s Breast Cancer Research stamp has raised over $51 million dollars for research, is the longest running stamp in the history of the US Postal Services issues and has been reissued in several foreign countries.
She is represented nationally by Gerald & Cullen Rapp, Inc., NY.
Selected Essay:
A Lesson Worth Repeating - for Another Voice curated by Patrick JB Flynn
Selected Exhibitions:
The Last Picture Show - Delavan Art Gallery/Syracuse, NY
Visual Literacy - (solo show) University of Baltimore Student Center Gallery/Baltimore
Vinylmore - (group show of customized toys) Atomic Pop/Baltimore
Between the Lines : Propaganda in Contemporary Illustration - Center for Creative Studies Center Gallery/Detroit, MI
Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation (a traveling exhibition) Susan & Peter
Barnett Gallery/Santa Monica College, CA; Studio Fly Contemporary Art Gallery/Charleston, SC
Beyond Commerce - Weber State University/Ogden, UT (exhibit included Ed Fella, Jordin Isip, Paula
Scher, Juliette Borda, James Victore, J. Otto Seibold, Michael Mabry, Stefan Sagmeister, Mark Ulrikson)
Venn Diagram - MICA Pinkard Gallery (a 25 year retrospective)
Women in Illustration : Contemporary Visions and Voices - Norman Rockwell Museum/Stockbridge, MA
Picturing Health - Norman Rockwell Museum/Stockbridge, MA
The Art of the Stamp - National Postal Museum/Washington, DC
Twenty Years of Cricket Covers - Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Identity - Israel Museum, Jerusalem (traveled to Axis Gallery/Tokyo & The Design Museum/London)
Curated/Coordinated Shows:
Seamless : culture meets culture - Varnish Fine Art Gallery/San Francisco (curate)
Another Voice : Political Illustration of the late 20th century - MICA Decker Gallery/Baltimore (coordinate/produce)
Comics on the Verge - MICA Decker Gallery/Baltimore (research, programming)
Selected Books:
To New Orleans with Love (anthology self-published)
Remembering Rochefort (photography self-published)
Nozone : Empire - edited by Nicholas Blechman
The 1000 Journals Project - (a transcontinental collaboration www.1000journals.com)
Heaven + Hell published by Mark Murphy Design, San Diego, CA - (a hard cover book surveying visual and verbal concepts of heaven and hell)
Dialogue published by Mark Murphy Design, San Diego, CA - (a hard cover book of visual responses to ephemera)
Teaching Illustration, by Marshall Arisman & Steve Heller
The Education of an Illustrator, by Marshall Arisman & Steve Heller
Selected Reviews/Interviews:
ICON5 (blog)
ICON5 (Step Inside Design article)
Vinylmore Show (Atomic Books blog)
Design Related (interview on designrelated.com, thelittlechimpsociety.com & designfloat.com)
Illustration Mundo/ICONIC (podcast part 1)
Illustration Mundo/ICONIC (podcast part 2)
Illustration Mundo/ICONIC (podcast part 3)
Seamless : culture meets culture (review of show I curated)
ICON4 (review)
Picturing Health : Norman Rockwell & 14 of Today’s Most Prominent Visual Communicators (keynote)
Venn Diagram retrospective exhibition (review of retrospective)
Illustration Man- (City Paper interview for article on Julian Allen
The Art of the Stamp - (exhibition review, pg 8)
New York Times Book Review, Children’s Books - (Review of The Cow of No Color)
Favorite Illustration links:
Jessie Wilcox Smith’s Water Babies
Palmer Cox Primer
Jonathon Levine Gallery
Design Sponge
Debbie Dreschler’s website
J. Otto Seibold’s Bubblesoap
Rebecca Bradley
Assistant Chair of Illustration & Full-time Faculty
British National to Baltimore. Graduate of Chelsea School of Art and Savannah College of Art.
Partial Client list:
BBC, House and Garden, Chronicle Books, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, Orion Books, Graphique de France.
She is represented by Lilla Rodgers in the US and Eye Candy in the UK.
Favorite Illustration links:
http://www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org/bawden/eb_home.htm
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/
http://www.legun.co.uk
Jose Villarrubia
Full-time Faculty
Jose Villarrubia just illustrated a Stephen King story for animated episodes that the New York Times described as “great to look at, as you’d expect from the comic-book artists Alex Maleev and José Villarrubia”. Villarrubia is best know for his illustrations for author Alan Moore (Promethea, The Mirror of Love and Voice of the Fire), and his coloring and digital painting for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse Comics. He is currently working on Conan the Cimmerian, Young X-Men, Batman, Manhunter, Ghost Rider, King Kull, Halo Uprising, and Sweet Tooth. He has won the Comicon award for best coloring and has been nominated for the Eisner award twice. His work has been included in the Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition and Spectrum. His fine art work is part of public collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Inter-American Development Bank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Villarrubia
Interviews:
Newsarama, August 2008 - part 1, part 2
Visit My Baltimore, December 2007
Broken Frontier, August 2006 - part 1, part 2
The Modern Word, August 2004
Comic Book Bin, April 2004
Gay League, 2003
Slush Factory, March 2003
Baltimore City Paper, June 2003
Newsarama, 2003
PopImage, March 2000
Favorite Illustration Links:
http://www.bpib.com/openfram.htm
http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/07/meta-top-ten-reasons-to-contribute-to.html#illustration
http://www.nijomu.com/blog/?p=200
Warren Linn
Full-time Faculty
Warren Linn has worked as an illustrator for virtually every major media client and exhibited in a wide range of gallery venues over the past four decades. A full-time faculty member at MICA, his work is in 10 American Illustration Annuals, most recently A-I 26, published in 2007. He is represented in The Society of Illustrators 200 Years of American Illustration and has work in the Permanent Print and Drawing Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania College of Technology, and numerous private collections.
Contact Info: wlinn(at)mica.edu
Reviews:
Exhibition review, Fall Visual Art Preview - washingtonpost.com
Exhibition review, Baltimore City Paper, Arts: These Commercial Messages
PCToday - (Exhibition article)
Another Voice - (Exhibition website, also includes Frances Jetter, David Johnson, J.D. King, David Klein, Stephen
Kroninger, Anita Kunz, Peter Kuper)
Design Taxi News - review
The Urbanite Magazine - (Contributors page)
Favorite Illustration Links:
Mike T. Moore’s Website & Blog
Visually Deficient: The Eye’s Have It! - Exquisite and goofy is not easy, ancient and contemporary even harder. This has it.
Screwgun Records - Steve Byram is both a professional commercial artist and a fine artist. Byram is responsible for the distinctive and much-imitated look of the releases
http://www.warddraw.com - The website of Ward Schumaker and Vivienne Flesher
Allan Comport
Full-time Faculty
Allan Comport has been working in the creative imagery industry and all levels of education for the past 25 years. In that period he has worked with scores of notable illustrators and photographers to a wide variety of ad agencies, design firms, magazines, newspapers, publishers and corporations internationally. He has served on the faculty of the Ringling School of Art and Design and is currently in his sixth year on the Illustration faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has been a frequent speaker on the business of illustration and marketing of artists, including three of the five Illustration Conferences (ICON). Allan served as C. O. O. at Blue Pixel, America’s leading digital photography training experts and prior to that with Shannon Associates, one of the country’s premiere artists agencies with offices throughout the US and the world. He holds a B.A. in education and an M.T.S. in counseling. He is co-owner of two companies with his illustrator/wife Sally Wern Comport; W/C Studio Inc. and Art At Large, Inc. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with Sally and their two daughters.
Link to my blog on the Business of Illustration:
http://www.allancomport.typepad.com
Link to Art At Large:
http://www.artatlargeartwalk.com
Contact Info: acomport(at)mica.edu
Favorite Illustration Links:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org
http://www.shannonassociates.com
http://www.kidshannon.com
Alain Corbel
Full-time Faculty
Born in 1965 in Brittany, France. He received a BFA in Sequential Art from the Institut Saint Luc in Brussels, where he met Eric Lambe. In 1990 Together they published Mokka and Pelure Amare, two pioneer alternative comic anthologies which influenced publishers like Amok and Freon. He was also the director of the children’s section in a Breton weekly newspaper, Nekepell, from 1996 to 1997.
In 1997 he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where he lived until 2007, and worked as a sequential artist, illustrator and writer for book publishers, magazines and newspapers. Currently he lives in Baltimore, MD, where he continues to work for both the French and Portuguese markets and he is a faculty member of the Illustration Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since 2000, he has traveled often to Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, where he has organized workshops on illustration and writing in public schools.
Between 2001 and 2004 he traveled to the Portuguese-speaking African countries of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique with his dear friend Pedro Rosa Mendes, a well-known Portuguese author. They completed a project about the daily lives life of local communities, which became a book: Ilhas de Fogo (Islands of Fire). It was promoted by a Portuguese non-governmental organization. In 2004 and for the same publisher, they traveled to East Timor.
He confronts his work as an illustrator as a deep personal journey and approaches each book with a specific graphic language. Flexibility and freedom in style and technique are very important for him.
Alain Corbel has an inquiring mind and likes to spend time to discovering new places and to be in the company of friends and local people. His work as an artist is the aspect of his life that continually gives him positive. To dream in Portuguese is a great pleasure for him.
Children’s books published in Portugal:
2003 : A cor instavel.
Afrontamento publishing. Written by Joao Paulo Cotrim.
2003 : A cereijeira e outras historias chinesas.
Asa publishing. Written by Antonio Torrado.
2003 : Lendas e contos judaicos.
Ambar publishing. Written by Jose Jorge Letria.
2003 : A viagem de Djuku (written by himself).
Caminho publishing. Illustrated by Eric Lambe.
2003 : A travessa do calado.
Novo Embondeiro publishing. Written by Joao Paulo Cotrim.
2004 : O Pai Natal Preguicoso e a Rena Rodolfa.
Caminho publishing. Written by Ana Saldanha.
2004 : Todos os rapazes sao gatos.
Asa publishing. Written by Alvaro Magalhaes.
2005 : A maquina infernal.
Caminho publishing. Written and illustred by himself.
2006 : O livro que falava com o vento e outros contos.
Texto publishing. Written by Jose Jorge Letria.
2006 : O pais Azul.
Porto publishing. Written by Teresa Balte.
2006 : O ladrao de palavras.
Caminho publishing. Written by Fransisco Duarte mangas.2007 : Afonso de Albuquerque
Zero a Oito publishing. Written by Ana Oom.
2007 : Coordinator of Historias do Quelele, Bairro de Bissau
ACEP publishing. Illustrated and written by teenagers of Guinea Bissau.
2008: Bruxas, published by Texto Editora. Portugal.
Books :
2006 : Lenin Oil, written by Pedro Rosa Mendes, Dom Quixote publishing. Portugal.
2007 : Coup Theatre a Sao Tome. Written by Jean Yves Loude. Actes Sud publishing, France.
2007: Bestiario. Poems written by Encandanscente, Polvo publishing, Portugal.
Stamps :
2007/2008: 13 stamps for the Portuguese Postmail Office CTT (Companhia de Telefones e Communicacoes).
Subjects: Infertility. Education. Children and drawing.
Individual exhibitions:
2005 : Yaylalar, Festival de Banda desenhada, Beja, Portugal.
2005 : Portuguese period, Institut Franco-Portugais, Lisbon, Portugal.
2007 : Crow’s archipelago. MICA, Baltimore. USA.
2007: Alain Corbel, Festival de Banda Desenhada. Amadora. Portugal
2008: S’en fout la mort, with poems written by Isabelle Lebastard, French Institute. Sofia, Bulgary.
Awards:
2001 : Award of excellence, Society for News Design (USA).
2002 : Premio Nacional de Ilustracao (Best Portuguese Illustrator).
2004 : Award of Excellence, Society for News Design (USA).
2005 : Melhor Ilustracao Portuguesa (Best Portuguese Illustration for : O pai Natal Preguicoco e a Rena Rodolfa, written by Ana Saldanha).
2006 : Melhor Ilustracao Portuguesa ( Best Portuguese Illustration for : A maquina Infernal, written by himself).
2006 : Portuguese candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
2006 : Prêmio Henriqueta Lisboa for Contos de Macau de Alice Vieira. Brazil.
2007 : Literary Prize RFI Témoin du Monde for Coup de théâtre à Sao Tomé, written by Jean Yves Loude. France.
Links
FIDBA 2007
Caminho Publisher
ACEP N.O.G.
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Adjunct Faculty
Jonathon Scott Fuqua graduated from the College of William & Mary with a Fine Arts degree and spent two decades as a professional illustrator, painter, and teacher of art. He worked for two years as a naturalist painter and illustrator for the Center of Marine Biotechnology, illustrated book covers for various publishing houses, and created two historical coloring books, one on the history of the American rowhouse and another on the history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He is the author of four much lauded, award-winning young adult novels, The Reappearance of Sam Webber,Darby, The Willoughby Spit Wonder, and King of the Pygmies. He has also written and designed In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, a groundbreaking graphic novel as well as penned an innovative graphic/chapter book for children called Catie and Josephine. Gone and Back Again, his most controversial and highly praised book, came out in 2007. In the Wake of the Boatman, a novel, and Defining Middle Ground, a new illustrated look at urban landscapes, were both published in 2008.
Danamarie Hosler
Adjunct Faculty
With a BFA in Illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art, Danamarie Hosler has contributed work to several publications, including Cricket, the award winning Children’s Magazine, The Progressive, The Hopkins Undergraduate Research Journal and has illustrated three books for Two Lives Publishing. Her interests in story telling have also made her a successful muralist, with clients spanning from non-profits & elementary schools, to museums and restaurants; private residences to the city of Baltimore. Shortly after graduation, Danamarie starting looking for a way to reach children off the pages of a book, and in 1998 she began bringing her characters to life in the form of soft sculpture. Combining her passion for early education, knitting and illustration, Knitimals were an instant hit of huggable proportions, inviting the world to truly LIVE with art. The Knitimals are award winning, soft sculpture art dolls, collected & displayed all over the world. Today, Danamarie runs greenstarstudio, a one-woman art machine, creating handmade decorative & collectible art for children of all ages. Her work can be found at over a dozen exhibitions and art shows each year & retailers all over the nation. Her workshops & lectures have taken her all over the country, but closer to home, she teaches at The Walters, School 33 & MICA. Her whimsical & inspiring murals can be found in Baltimore, Philadelphia & Miami.
Website: www.greenstarstudio.com
Blog: www.greenstarstudio.blogspot.com
Online Store: www.greenstarstudio.etsy.com
Contact Info: knitimal@gmail.com
Favorite Links:
http://herzensart.blogspot.com/
http://www.diterlizzi.com/
http://illustrationfriday.com/about_p.php
http://www.rednosestudio.com/
http://www.wmskrips.com/
Selected Reviews:
http://baltimoremagazine.net/article.asp?t=1&m=1&c=32&s=671&ai=77498
(Baltimore Magazine)
http://www.smallmagazine.net/issue.asp?issue=7&page=25
(small magazine)
http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/community/6017429/art-knitting/
(Baltimore Messenger)
Caroline Hwang
Adjunct Faculty
Caroline Hwang was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, grew up in Southern California and earned her BFA with honors at Art Center College of Design. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Hwang’s work is influenced as much by her grandmother’s crocheting and knitting as it is by crafts, graphic arts, quilting, films and music, among other things.
She has been featured in Paper Magazine and Swindle Quarterly and has done illustrations for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and, HOW Design, among others. Her work has most recently been shown at Clementine Gallery (New York), New Image Gallery (Los Angeles), and Leonard Street Gallery (London).
Links:
www.carolinehwangillustration.com
www.carolinehwang.net
John Malloy
Adjunct Faculty
Born in rural northern Pennsylvania to a cemetery caretaker and a coal-miner’s daughter, John Malloy began drawing at very young age. He later earned a background in painting with a classically trained trompe l’oeil artist, and has since been self taught in fine art, illustration, comics, and design.
Illustration & Apparel Design clients include Paste Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Business Week, Minus The Bear, Tiger Beer, 55DSL, BPM Magazine, These United States, Mojo LLC, and more.
His most recent personal series - “One Out of a Hundred” explores drug side effects as a metaphor for the long-term effects of consumer culture on the human spirit. His piece “Sedation” from this series was featured in the Semi-Permanent 2009 Exhibition book in Sydney, and “Dry Mouth”, also from the series, is featured in Spectrum Fantastic Art #16.
His first graphic novel, “Amnesia” [2001] combined pen & ink, painted, and digital media. He is presently working on a new graphic novel titled “Channel One”. He has illustrated and concepted musician-interview comics for the award-winning Lemon Magazine. His ongoing autobiographical comic, “Queasy”, will be featured in Image Comics’ PopGun Anthology #4.
Exhibits:
02|09
ONE OUT OF A HUNDRED
Solo exhibit at ART WHINO GALLERY
National Harbor, MD
www.artwhino.com
10|08
THE GRIND 2.0
Group Skate Deck exhibit/auction at THE RABBIT HOLE GALLERY
to support Swift-Cantrell Skatepark
Atlanta, GA
http://www.myspace.com/zakcochran [the Grind website]
www.therabbitholegallery.com
09|07
QUEASY
Solo exhibit at GSPOT:AUDIOVISUAL PLAYGROUND
Baltimore, MD
www.gspotavp.com
01|03
MOBTOWN ARTISTS
2-person exhibit at LA MAMA LA GALLERIA
New York, NY
www.lamama.org
Homepage:
http://www.johnmalloy.net
Interview at Design Inspiration:
http://designinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/04/john-malloy.html
Sean Murray
Adjunct Faculty
Sean is a video game concept artist and fantasy illustrator living in downtown Baltimore. His current fulltime gig is as the Lead Concept Artist for Big Huge Games in Timonium, MD.
Freelance clients have included: Wizards of the Coast (Dungeons and Dragons), Privateer Press, EA Games, Lego.com, Steve Jackson Games, White Wolf Games, and several others.
Before taking the job at Big huge Games, Sean worked for Turbine, Inc. in Massachusetts where he worked on “Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar”, and “Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach”, both large-scale mass-market multiplayer online games (MMORPGs). And previous to that, he lived in New York City where he worked as a web-game designer for Funny Garbage Inc., whose main client at the time was The Cartoon Network website.
Sean dabbles in many side projects but has recently begun exploring showing his personal work in galleries.
Accolades:
Spectrum 16 - Notified that my work will appear in “Spectrum 16”, The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art”, due out in November of 2009.
ImagineFX Magazine - Notified that my sketchbook work will be featured in a 4-page article in ImagineFX Magazine.
Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Annual Juried Fantasy art competition) – Illustration titled “Globe Chaser” chosen to be in the annual publication – 2008
Dominance War III (world-wide online video game character-art competition) – 11th place in the 2D category for “Cardinal Birmbauer” – 2008
Society of Illustrators LA – Piece chosen for the student portion of the annual – 1997
Deanna Staffo
Adjunct Faculty
Deanna Staffo received her BFA with honors from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and lives in Philadelphia. Her work has been recognized by American illustration, The Society of Illustrators West and The Altpick Awards (2nd place series illustration). She was also featured in Communication Art’s “fresh list” (Aug. 05), and the Taschen published book, Illustration Now (2006). Some of her clients include: Business 2.0, How Design, Runner’s World, Slate.com, L.A. Weekly, Lobster Press, and Playgirl Magazine.
Contact Info: deannastaffo(at)yahoo.com
Favorite Illustration Links:
http://www.illustrationmundo.com
http://www.designiskinky.net (a mix of illustration, design and “fine art”, but the lines are so blurred now anyway),
http://www.drawn.ca
http://tropicaltoxic.blogspot.com (Tomer & Asaf Hanuka’s awesome personal blog)
Rachel Salamon
Adjunct Faculty
Working as freelance illustrator since 2002 in Brooklyn, NY. Graduated from Art Center College of Design with honors in Illustration 2001. Graduated from Brown University with degree in Visual Art 1997. Grew up in Park City, Utah. Clients include Blue Note Records, Leo Burnett, NY Times, Penguin, Little, Brown & Co.
Matt Rota
Adjunct Faculty
Matt Rota recieved a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003, where he studied in the Fine Arts program. He then received his MFA in illustration from The School of Visual Arts. Matt’s illustrations have been featured in the New York Times Op-Ed section, The Utne Reader, the LA Weekly, Russian Esquire, Philadelphia Weekly, The Columbia Journalism Review, Science News, and other publications. His work has been shown in galleries in New York, Hollywood, Baltimore, Maine, and Toronto. He has also contributed comics to anthologies including McSweenies, Rabbid Rabbit, and online at topshelfcomix.com. Matt is now living in Brooklyn NY.
Contact Info: rotamatt(at)hotmail.com
Favorite Illustration Links:
http://www.illustrationmundo.com
http://www.drawn.ca
http://www.lostateminor.com
Jaime Zollars
Adjunct Faculty
Jaime Zollars is a Baltimore-based illustrator inspired by fairy tales and Flemish painters. She has a BA is Photography from the University of Maryland, and a BFA with distinction from The Art Center College of Design.Jaime has painted pictures for commercial clients including United Airlines, Ten Speed Press, The American Red Cross, and LA Weekly. Her work has been recognized by American Illustration, 3×3 Magazine, Spectrum, The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and the SCBWI. Jaime also creates narrative images for gallery walls, including those at Gallery Nucleus, Copro Nason, and Lunar Boy Gallery.
Interviews etc:
Iconic Radio interview
Design Taxi interview
Paper Forest Blog (my paper arts blog)
Contact Info: jaime(at)jaimezollars.com
Favorite Illustration Links:
http://www.drawn.ca
http://www.thelittlechimpsociety.com
http://www.si-la.org
http://www.illustrationfriday.com
http://www.illustrationmundo.com