This Jazz Portraits Folio of six jazz musician portraits by illustrator Bill Russell were created digitally on an Apple iPad Pro using the Procreate drawing app. Depicted in these prints are Brazilian instrumentalist Hermento Pascoal, cellist Zoe Keating, jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, eclectic bandleader Sun Ra, jazz vocalist Gregory Porter and upright and electric bass player Esperanza Spalding. They were printed with archival pigment-based inks on Epson Velvet Fine Art acid-free paper and packaged in a limited edition of 12 at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. Learn more here. Bill also created animations found here.
Tags: Berkeley California, Bill Russell, Esperanza Spalding, Gregory Porter, Hermento Pascoal, Jason Moran, Jazz Portraits, Kala Art Institute, Limited Edition, Sun Ra, Zoe Keating
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July 17, 2017
Sylvie Fong is creating one piece of art for every month. Here’s her latest painting for June.
Tags: Animals, Critters, June, June Painting, Nature, Painting, Reactor, Summer, Sylvie Fong
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July 6, 2017
R.O. Blechman was featured in this morning’s edition of The Daily Heller.
Blechman was the creative and entrepreneurial force behind The Ink Tank, a highly innovative animation studio in New York City from 1977 to 2004. Steven Heller talks with Douglas Dowd about the Ink Tank archive finding a home within the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University.
The Ink Tank archive is a goldmine of production materials for more than 350 commercials as well as the films Simple Gifts and The Soldier’s Tale, based on the Stravinsky composition, plus short animations for NBC, CBS and other clients.
Processing and cataloguing is expected to be done by year’s end.
Tags: R.O. Blechman
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June 21, 2017
Tomio Nitto painted the Polar Prince ship before it departed Toronto on June 1st to embark on the epic Canada C3 (Coast to Coast to Coast) expedition. The former coast guard vessel will navigate 12,000 nautical miles, traveling from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage in celebration of Canada 150.
Tags: Canada 150, Canada C3, coast guard, Coast to Coast to Coast, expedition, Northwest Passage, Polar Prince, Reactor Art, ship, Tomio Nitto, Travel, vessel
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June 5, 2017
Deshi Deng’s latest piece for Spencer William’s article on VICE about disability and sex surrogacy.
Tags: Deshi Deng, Disability, Reactor, Reactor Art, sex, sex surrogacy, VICE
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May 26, 2017
Alëna Skarina is in a collective installation art show featuring customized designer vases from Charuta Living Solutions. Opening tonight at DAIS Gallery.
DAIS Gallery
1196 Queen Street West.
8pm-12am
The show runs April 28 – May 7, then will be shown at Design Exchange from May 9-13. Check out the Facebook event for more details.
Tags: Alëna Skarina, Charuta Living Solutions, Dais Gallery, Reactor Art, Shape
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April 28, 2017
Deshi Deng’s illustration for Vice’s article on going to bars as a disabled person.
From inaccessible bathrooms to weird looks, drinking with your friends at a pub isn’t such a piece of cake. Read the full article here.
Tags: Bars, Deshi Deng, Disability, Disabled, Inaccessible, Reactor art + design, VICE
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April 6, 2017
