Resources & New Visions Podcast

Goals

• We believe in not just diversifying the stories that are told, but the illustrators who tell them, the art directors who hire them and the CEOs who approve them
• Deconstructing the visual language of “normal” and “average”
• Addressing racism in the art. Reckoning the intersection of success/talent and insensitivity/discrimination
• Fundamentally changing how our differences our addressed in the work as well as treated in the classroom
• Expanding Illustration cannon, contemporary mentors, and public awareness
• Build a documented resource of ideas, learning opportunities, stories, and initiatives to encourage and help level the playing field

Why now? The illustration industry by and large has a diversity problem. Despite a diverse range of illustrators working throughout history, a very narrow subset is lifted to the ‘top’. We must do better. We must recognize and challenge the institutions that are in place which make it harder for a marginalized artist to have the same opportunities as others.

New Visions Podcast

Click the links below to listen to our past podcast series. This series explored an ongoing conversation on a host of issues facing the contemporary illustrator including topics of diversity and inclusion, multiculturalism, and illustration’s role in a larger cultural context. Highlights include:

• Episode 4: The Long Distance Illustrator
• Episode 2: Technology and Illustration
• Stories Matter, Part 1: How do the images we make influence the world around us?

…and more!