A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - Mural and Lantern!

Hello, its been a long time since I last posted and many things have happened.

Here is, for example, a short list of things that have happened to me recently:

1. The Rivals of the West 2011 Spring Season is no longer consuming my life

2. I was one of the winners for the Words on Wheels project

3. Recently received a large scholarship from the Undergraduate Competitive Scholarship competition at MICA and I need to thank some people for making that happen~

There have also been some truly terrifying events: I heard a terrible decapitation story.

Below are a few photographs of the installation my sister, Frog, and I put together with the help of Kimberly Hiles and Dan Talbot. We designed and built the lantern and created the mural in the MICA Gateway building for the Rivals of the West 2011 Spring Season. This Installation was for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

Take a look at my sister's blog: http://frog-wang.blogspot.com/

There is a lot to say about the experience of working with so many people on a theatre project but I will save that for some other time.

For the time being I leave you.

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Alhambra Source # 2

A few months ago I did an illustration for the Alhambra Source on an article about disappearing homes in Alhambra. This is the illustration and a link to that article:

http://www.alhambrasource.org/stories/alhambra-danger-disappearing

I just finished another article on the dangers of biking in cities without bike lanes. The article hasn't been posted yet, but here are the sketches I sent and the finished illustration:

I think Michael has a point in his article.

" Upbeat" poem by Rasethamir El

At MICA there is this project with the MTA and a few other folks where we take poems written by local school children and create illustrations based off those poems. This project is called "Words on Wheels." The chosen poem/illustrations are then integrated into the MTA system by being displayed in busses so that passengers can gawk at them.

My poem is titled "Upbeat" and it was written by Rasethamir El (3rd Grade) who is a student at Windsor Hills Elementary and Middle School.

Here is the poem:

You don't have to fight.

Take flight to right.

Don't use your hands.

Be the better man.

Use verbals to get

Through your hurdles!

Here's what I came up with. I hope Rasethamir thinks its okay.

The Play's The Thing and more

This past month has been hectic. Being Head Publicist for The Play's The Thing has turned out to be so much more than I thought it would be. I mean that both negatively and positively.

Anyhow, I am posting 3 things tonight. One page from my sequential arts class and one finished poster for the play Dutchman and one nearly finished poster for A Streetcar Named Desire.

I will eventually post more information on the plays but not until the second poster is done.

This page is from a short comic I created titled Gary and Po.

Charde Fuller is the graphic designer I am currently working with on these posters. Look her up! She's great!

A Streetcar Named Desire

Its been a while since I've posted since I have been busier than a bumblebee.

This semester I am participating in Christopher Shipley's "The Play's The Thing" class and am head of publicity.

We are producing two classic American plays:

1. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

2. Dutchman by Amiri Baraka

These are two sketches for Streetcar-- we will see where they end up.

You should come watch the plays and invite everyone you know!

Check us out on rivalsofthewest.org!

For 3 weeks I spent time in Taiwan, amassing a bunch of sketches and stuff. I will share those images with you soon also.

I had my feet eaten in Taiwan.

a few scenes from a recent sketchbook

I realized that I don't share my on-site drawings, so:

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She lives on the inside cover of my current sketchbook.