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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Santa Monica, Ca

The World is Just a Book Away (WIJABA) is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Santa Monica, CA that seeks to build leaders for the future by empowering children to change their own lives and communities through books, libraries, and educational programs.WIJABA'S MISSION:To promote literacy and education by developing libraries and programs that plant the seeds of leadership, environmental consciousness, and community connection.WHERE WE WORK:WIJABA currently works with disadvantaged communities that have suffered through great adversity in Indonesia (since 2009) and Mexico (since 2012), including:Sidoarjo, Indonesia: Devastated by world's worst mudflow disasterPadang, Indonesia: Recovering from a tsunami and numerous earthquakesBali, Indonesia: Coping with a significant orphan populationChihuahua, Mexico: Afflicted by major social and economic upheavalLos Angeles, California: Expansion into Los Angeles in March of 2016WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED:WIJABA libraries are centers of literacy and learning that also serve as community centers and classrooms for WIJABA facilitated programs. All libraries are within a 2-hour radius of a hub office to facilitate community partnerships. WIJABA's libraries and impact have reached over 400,000+ children with:5 Educational Programs100 Libraries3 Mobile Libraries

I illustrated 60 portraits for "The World is Just a Book Away" which is an anthology edited by USC professor James J. Owens that captures the stories of how books and reading inspired some of the world's most prominent people. This book takes readers on a unique journey through personal stories from five Nobel Peace Prize laureates, actors, royalty, world leaders, scientists, humanitarians, and many more.

Project Description: 5 character illustrations and 1 landscape illustration for USC Libraries 500 Years of Utopia exhibit. Exhibition Description: For 500 years, utopia—a word coined by Sir Thomas More to describe the ideal city—has been used as popular shorthand for a perfect world and lies at the heart of the Western political imagination. But what does it really mean today in the context of 21st-century urbanism, especially in a megacity like Los Angeles that has been the setting for utopian and dystopian thinking almost since its founding? A new exhibition of materials from the USC Libraries' collections explores these questions, the history of utopian thinking, and the fine line between utopia and dystopia.Exhibition Location: USC Doheny Memorial Library - Treasure Room

Berkeley, Ca

Fresh Fizzy Publishing is a boutique publishing house designed to showcase a meeting point between fine art, literature, poetry, academia and music. As believers in the elevation of comics to objects of art and literary relevance, our goal is not only to create our own works that combine these varied mediums, but also to encourage other female creators who are inventive and intellectually rebellious.

San Francisco Bay Area

Project: 10 illustrated looks from New York Fashion Week's Spring 2016 runway collections.

San Francisco Bay Area