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SIA International Art Education
Beijing & Shenzhen, China | 2018

In this two week workshop, undergraduate students were challenged to enhance their image-making and material-use skills using exercises from my book Playing With Sketches, handletttering exercises, gif making, rubber stamps and more!

 
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Beihang University
School of New Media Art and Design
Beijing, China | 2017

My 10-day residency at Beihang University included a lecture and week-long workshop co-taught with Rebecca Bradley. The Speaking with Pictures residency was part of the month-long International Art Exchange and ended with a student exhibition on our last day.

 
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The Illustration Conference : ICON9 : Playing with Silhouettes
Austin, Texas USA | 2016

This workshop included a short talk and hands-on making. Using their personal sketchbooks, illustrator attendees completed interview portraits, silhouette challenges and dynamic action drawing with scissors, paper and ink. By the end of this workshop, everyone had illustrated a new sketchbook cover.

 
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Escuela de Artes Visuales Rubén Herrera
Autonomous University of Coahuila
Saltillo, Mexico | 2015

Illustrator and educator Federico Jordan invited me to conduct workshops for a number of illustration undergraduate students during the Semana de Arte Diseño [Art Design Week].

 
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Howard County Art Teachers Conference : Playing with Sketches
Ellicott City, Maryland USA | 2015

As part of their professional development, this group of art teachers invited me to conduct a day-long workshop based on exercises found in Playing With Sketches. They created artwork using examples concentrating on collage, silhouette and collaborative Post-It note quilt exercises.

 
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Norman Rockwell Museum
Summer Art Workshops
Stockbridge, Massachusetts USA | 2014

Invited by the Norman Rockwell Museum to conduct two workshops based on exercises from my book, Playing With Sketches.

The first workshop was a week-long daytime class. Each day began with a short talk to prompt the exercises that day. Attendees with various skill levels were challenged to create artwork using traditional and digital lessons including a collaborative Post-It note quilt, used book sketchbooks, drawing with an iPad, collage, blogging, and Photoshop manipulation.

The second event included an evening public lecture followed by a Drink-and-Draw using quick exercises from the book.

 
 
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Miami Ad School
Miami, Florida USA | 2014

Because of my training in photography and varied career as a graphic designer, creative director, illustrator, educator, and entrepreneur, I was invited to the Miami Ad School to be in residence with their Art Direction majors.


A retrospective lecture and concept-building workshops were part of this
three-day residency.

 
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China Academy of Fine Art
9th China International Cartooning and Animation Festival
Hangzhou, China | 2014

As part of a week’s worth of events, I joined a number of visiting artist from around the world to give workshops or lecture students about Western illustration processes. This lecture gave attendees an advanced look at my then -upcoming book, Playing With Sketches.

 
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