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Ukrainian illustrator Olga Shtonda uses her art to call for peace after seeing her home country destroyed

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Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. Olga believes her visual style was influenced by studying printmaking and graphic art at Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. "I © Olga Shtonda.

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The winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed

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Gérard - who was commissioned to illustrate a new edition of Cormac McCarthy's The Road published by The Folio Society – impressed judges with his acrylic paintings that perfectly capture the beauty and brutality of McCarthy's text. Kerry's primarily digital work used hand-drawn textures and layers to add depth and detail to her cover.

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November 2023 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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BLINK Cincinnati Call for Artists (International) BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave, is calling for artists working in light-based experiential installation, murals, projection mapping, digital art, or animation to submit proposals. Deadline: December 15, 2023. Deadline: February 15, 2024. Deadline: November 1, 2023.

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Picky Eaters and Critters in Knits Populate Strangford’s Playful Animal Prints

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” With a background in ecology, Strangford discovered printmaking when she joined local Extinction Rebellion groups, decentralized initiatives designed to persuade governments to act on the climate emergency. “I had previously done a bit of digital work but fell in love with the process of carving and printing,” she says.

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February 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (International) The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides one-time interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen catastrophic incident and who lack the resources to meet that situation.

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June 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Six projects will be selected for publishing at no cost. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (International) The foundation welcomes applications from actively exhibiting visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Deadline: June 1, 2024. Deadline: June 7, 2024.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Six projects will be selected for publishing at no cost. CIRC Artist Grant (International) Three $1,000 unrestricted grants will be awarded to artists at any stage of their career working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, photography, sculpture, fiber, wood, glass, ceramics, and digital art.

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