Yuko Shimizu
Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator, fine artist, and educator at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her clients include Rolling Stone Magazine, VISA, TIME, Target, Microsoft, Pepsi, and the New York Times. She has received numerous awards in her field including Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, Magazine of the Year Award from the Society of Publication Designers, as well as Gold and Silver Awards from 3x3 Magazine Annual. Ms. Shimizu continues to lecture at universities and museums across the globe.
Ms. Shimizu was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2008.
Syd Mead
Syd Mead is one of the most celebrated concept designers, artists, futurists and illustrators of our time, having been responsible for many memorable designs from feature films to interiors and even toys. Over the last 50 years, Syd Mead has created startling pictures for clients all over the world. His technique infuses finished scenarios with a vivid reality, allowing the viewer to gain a look into many visions of future worlds. He has designed and illustrated for corporations, motion pictures, themed entertainment, and a wide range of transportation projects. His most well-known works include production designs for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, TRON, Aliens and 2010, the pivotal science fiction movies that got many budding visual effects artists inspired to enter professional careers in this field. Off screen, Syd has designed a 747 interior, a yacht and the Spaceship 2056 pavilion in Japan. Numerous magazines have featured his art and he has published several books of his work including Sentinel, Sentury, Kronolog, Kronoteko, KronovectaandOblagon.
Mr. Mead was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2007.
Dennis Allain
Dennis Allain, AIA is an award winning architect, artist, and designer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1967, and from an early age demonstrated an unshakeable desire to create. He attended Wentworth Institute, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. Dennis Allain was the winner of the prestigious Hugh Ferris Memorial Prize for “Architecture in Perspective 21.” “Architecture in Perspective” is the preeminent exhibition of architectural illustration in the world. Each year the best works of architectural illustration from around the globe are assessed in the competition organized by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators. This year’s competition drew nearly 500 entries from five continents. Sixty pieces were selected by an esteemed jury including the special category awards. The exceptional works in this 21st annual exhibition--60 pieces selected by a jury of respected professionals in architecture, illustration, fine art, or design--were culled from hundreds of entries. Mr. Allain presented and discussed his work, demonstrated his digital drawing process and reviewed portfolios of Communication Arts students.
Mr. Allain was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2007.
Anita Kunz
Anita Kunz was born in Toronto, Canada in 1956. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1978. She has worked for international magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies, including The New York Times, GQ, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others. Using a combination of watercolors and gouache, she has produced critically acclaimed paintings which have been featured in Graphis (Switzerland), Communication Arts Magazine (USA), Idea and Creation magazines (Japan), and Applied Arts (Canada). She has been honored with many prestigious awards and her paintings and sculptures have appeared in galleries worldwide. Her works are in the permanent collections at the Library of Congress, the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, the MusEe Militaire de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, and a number of her Time Magazine cover paintings are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. In 1997 she received the Les Usherwood Lifetime Achievement Award from the Advertising and Design Club of Canada. Anita was recently named one of the fifty most influential women in Canada by the National Post Newspaper.
Ms. Kunz was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2006
Brad Holland
Brad Holland is a self-taught artist and author whose work has appeared in nearly every major American publication as well as in feature films. In 1999, he was voted by the editors of RSVP, the artist’s directory, as the one artist who has had the single greatest impact on the illustration field during the last twenty-five years. He has been awarded the prestigious Hamilton King award and in 2005 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
Mr. Holland was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005-2006
Robert Cottingham
"For decades, my paintings have examined familiar, yet somewhat obsolete, objects from our recent past. Whether these canvases have depicted houses, movie marquees and other commercial signs, railroad cars, cameras, typewriters, or machine parts, the reference, for me, has always been to our mid-twentieth century consciousness, and the ingenuity and imagination prevailing in our culture at that time. I want to continue exploring the iconic power of these artifacts and the impact they have had on my life. In so doing, I hope to also convey to the viewer some sense of the American experience."
- Robert Cottingham
Mr. Cottingham is an internationally known painter whose work is represented in the following collections:
The Tate Gallery in London, The Art Council of Great Britain in London, The Ludwig Collection in Cologne, Germany, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Mr. Cottingham was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2006.
Steven Assael
Steven Assael was born in New York, NY in 1957. He attended Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York. Mr. Assael balances naturalism with a romanticism that permeates the figures and surroundings of his paintings and drawings. The focus of his work is the human figure, either individually or in a group, rendered in glowing relief by gentle beams of warm and cool light.
Mr. Assael is represented by the Forum Gallery in New York and his work is in the collections of The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, TN; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, MO; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Mr. Assael was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2006.
Alice Carter
Alice Carter is an award winning illustrator and a professor in the Animation/Illustration Program in the School of Art and Design at San Jose State. Her illustration clients have included Lucas Film Ltd., Rolling Stone Magazine, and The New York Times. Her illustrations have been exhibited at the New York Society of Illustrators, in the Communication Arts Art Annual, and the Print Regional Design Annual. She has won Best of Show Honors from the AR Show USA: 100 Best Annual Reports, the Hatch Awards of the Boston Ad Club, Simpson Printed Paper, and the Western Art Directors West Coast Show. Her recent publications include: The Art of National Geographic, The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love, Thomas Eakins, and Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age.
Ms. Carter was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005.
Barron Storey
Born in Dallas, Texas, Barron Storey was educated at Art Center School in Los Angeles. He has worked for Ziff Davis, Time, Boys Life, The New York Times, Saturday Review, The Franklin Library, National Geographic, American Heritage, as well as corporate clients and the United States Information Agency and NASA. His awards include the gold medal of the New York Society of Illustrators, and its Distinguished Educator Award. He is represented in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The American Museum of Natural History and the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. He received the Eisner Award for his work for DC Vertigo’s Sandman comics. He is a painter, a musician and has worked in theater and the performance art in San Francisco for the past twenty years. Barron’s visual journals, a daily endeavor since the 70’s, are in their 137th volume. He has taught at SVA, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University in New York and at Art Center, the Academy of Art, Pixar, and the California College of Art and San Hose University in California.
Mr. Storey was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005.
Jerome Witkin
Jerome Witkin is well known for his historical narratives, particularly those dealing with atrocities of the Holocaust. He skillfully depicts the passage of the time - simultaneously fast and slow - using panels to divide the picture plane like a storyboard, a technique familiar to screen writers and stage directors. Within the panels, figures are repeated in altered poses to suggest the sequence of time and movement. His paintings are often unsettling and difficult to look at, and once seen impossible to forget. Witkin’s extraordinary composition and skillful handling of the paint surface add a strange beauty to an otherwise disturbing subject.
Mr. Witkin was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005.
Jon Foster
Jon Foster is an internationally known illustrator & painter. His work has graced the covers and interiors of books and magazines by publishers such as National Geographic, Del Rey, Harcourt, Tor, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, White Wolf, and Wizards of the Coast. He has won a Gold and two Silver Awards for Excellence from Spectrum, the standard of excellence in contemporary fantastic art. He is also a recipient of the David P. Usher Award/Greenwhich Workshop Memorial Award at the Society of Illustrators in New York in 2001.
His work has been in both the Society of Illustrators and the Spectrum annuals. He has exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Attleboro Massachusetts Museum of Fine Art, and the Warwich Rhode Island Museum of Fine Art.
"I am an illustrator based in Providence, Rhode Island. Life is filled with getting work done and trying to improve little by little. In-between time is filled with walking dogs along with the occasional nap. Most of my learning seemed to have happened after art school, but I did indeed graduate form Rhode Island School of Design way back in 1989. There were many years of jobs in retail stores, or trudging through the stacks at the local library as a circulation clerk, before I was able to make a living with my art.
One great help in getting work and feeding the cycle of being seen to get work has been Spectrum, the best in contemporary fantastic art. I have been included in many of the volumes and have won awards on a few occasions. I have also been included in a couple of the Society of Illustrators volumes, one in which I received the David P. Usher Award.
The kind of work I am currently doing can vary from movie storyboards and concept work to editorial illustration for such magazines as National Geographic. In-between these two I find some of my most satisfying work, that being paperback and comic book covers, as well as interior art. In these worlds of symbol and metaphor, I find the spring of imagination and, well, it just seems more satisfying."
- Jon Foster
Mr. Foster was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005.
George Pratt
George Pratt was born in Texas. He earned a BFA cum laude in Drawing and Painting from Pratt Institute in New York, where he taught Sequential Storytelling, Methods and Media for seven years. George is also one of the nationally and internationally known faculty who teach in the Illustration Academy summer program.
He is an internationally acclaimed artist/writer whose graphic novels have been translated into eleven languages. George’s first novel, Enemy Ace: War Idyll, DC Comics/Warner Books, has seen four American editions, has been translated into nine languages, and was on the required reading list at West Point Military Academy. The book was nominated for both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Novel, as well as Best Foreign Graphic Novel in Angoulême, France where it won the prestigious France Info Award for Best Foreign Graphic Novel. Wolverine: Netsuke a four-issue mini-series written and painted by George for Marvel Comics became the bestselling mini-series during its release and won George the coveted Eisner Award for “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist.” It was also nominated for “Best Mini-Series” by Wizard Magazine. His documentary film, See You In Hell, Blind Boy, about his travels through the Mississippi Delta researching his blues novel of the same name, won “Best Feature Documentary” at the New York International Independent Film Festival, and was shown in the Santa Barbara, Nashville, and Hot Springs Film Festivals.
George was included in Walt Reed’s book The Illustrator in America 1860 – 2000. He was also awarded a Gold Medal in the Spectrum Awards of 2002 and has had his work exhibited many times at the Society of Illustrators in New York.
George continues to illustrate and design books and book jackets for various publishers, including: Random House, Henry Holt, Inc., Warner Books, Clarion Books, and Columbia Studios.
Mr. Pratt was a Visiting Artist in the Department of Communication Arts in 2005.
