Maddie Saunders

Maddie’s work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

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HI-HO! I'm Maddie! I was born and raised in bright n' sunny California. I majored in Illustration and fine art and graduated from ArtCenter College of Design in 2017. My work has been shown at galleries throughout LA including Pop Secret Gallery, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, GR2, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, and others. I am skilled in both digital and analog media, including sewing and printmaking. I'm inspired by all things kitsch, retro, and wonky. My work deals with human nature, body image, and finding both meaning and humor in life’s mundane moments.

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Brenda Salamone

A long career in children’s educational software has informed my illustration style. I love creating artwork for the kids entertainment market and working with authors to make their stories come alive. A lifelong love for traditional animation has enabled me to create art for the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and develop a portfolio of animation background work reminiscent of the Looney Tunes style.

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Carrie Hartman

I have worked on many kinds of illustration projects; editorial, corporate, children’s books, character design and development for a nationally animated commercial, advertising, greeting cards, comic books, stationary, surface design, murals, animated projects and more. I enjoy immensely the challenge each new project brings. I love telling stories through my work whether that is for a picture book, an editorial piece or other type of project. I love creating characters that have something to say. I work in many different ways; sometimes with traditional media such as inks, pastels and colored pencils, digitally or a combination of both.

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Preston Craig

Painting and drawing allows me freedom to address some of the social ills that plague our modern society and to paint what I feel, not necessarily what I see. Having grown up in a rural setting and having had opportunities to travel and live overseas, I decided to paint what I saw in my mind’s eye while referencing what I experienced around me.
The nature of my work is that through the use of varied imagery, classical and digital painting techniques and humor, I sometimes utilize teddy bear images to address contemporary, social issues that are relevant and that affect the human race on a physical and spiritual level. Some paintings are a result of investigating my Native American roots (Choctaw), while others are a result of my spiritual quest and studies in Jungian symbology, Shamanic practices and Aboriginal Dreamtime myth. Through my Twisted Teddys” series and other imagery, I hope the viewer is inspired to be more aware of their global connections to each other and to take personal responsibility for effecting positive change in society.
I’ve worked with drug addicts, the homeless, victims of sexual abuse, young people who have been incarcerated, and have friends in the porn industry so I have definitely seen some of the seedier side of life. I’ve seen how people can make a bad decision and get trapped in that decision. They are unable to figure out how to get out of the situation in which they find themselves. With that in mind, my artistic goal is that I aspire to achieve positive social change with my art.

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