Edwin Aguilar
Aguilar embodied triumph against the odds in a stark way. Born in El Salvador’s San Miguel province in 1974, he fled the country in 1982 to avoid being drafted as a child soldier in the army. Growing up in East L.A., he dodged gang life to win scholarships to art schools. Intimidated by the test to join
The Simpsons, he passed and went on to become a mainstay of the show.
In the 22 years he spent on the Fox show, Aguilar served in a wide range of roles, most notably character layout artist (1999–2021) and assistant director (2007–21). He also worked at Graz Entertainment, Hanna-Barbera, and Warner Bros. with Chuck Jones an artist whose characters he’d idolized as a child in El Salvador.
mocked up a T-shirt that reads in Hindi and Urdu: “Help India Breathe.”
In a matter of days, she’s raised more than $1,000 in T-shirt sales and donations for the distribution of oxygen cylinders through the Hemkunt Foundation.
Part of Rathore’s motivation in designing T-shirts was to alert people outside of India to how dire the situation is there contrary to the rosier picture painted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Premature Victory Called
In January, while Los Angeles County was struggling through a deadly surge, Modi declared his country’s triumph over COVID during a speech to the World Economic Forum.
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Contemporary artist Kim McCarty is best known for her delicate watercolor portraits of young, unclothed men and women. Inspired by transparency, the artist builds layers of monochromatic hues using a wet-on-wet technique to dramatize her portraits’ blurred, afterimage effects. “I wish to convey the transitory and emergent state,” The artist has said, “The watercolor is so translucent that the medium expresses both flaws and perfection.” Born in 1956 in Los Angeles, McCarty spent a majority of her young life in Geneva, Switzerland. She later returned to Los Angeles, and in 1980, she received her Bachelor of Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in California. In 1988, she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California in Los Angeles, and she was included in
ArtCenter College of Design to Receive $25,000 Grant From the National Endowment for the Arts
The NEA award to ArtCenter will support SAFE & SOUND ARTS: Raising National Awareness of Ethical Interactions in Art and Design. by BWW News Desk
ArtCenter College of Design has received a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects award to continue to explore research ethics in art and design in collaboration with the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD).
The NEA award to ArtCenter will support SAFE & SOUND ARTS: Raising National Awareness of Ethical Interactions in Art and Design, a project intended to develop and share introductory ethical considerations and frameworks for artists and designers engaging with people in their creative work. Focused primarily on design and the visual arts, the project is a collaborative effort between ArtCenter and AICAD, a membership organization of the leading specialized arts and design colleges
Tata Motors appoints Martin Uhlarik as global design head
April 29, 2021
He will take over Pratap Bose
Tata Motors announced on Thursday that Martin Uhlarik has been appointed as the new Global Design Head of the company.
Uhlarik was till recently the Head of Design for Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) and takes over his new role from Pratap Bose who has chosen to pursue opportunities outside the company, Tata Motors said in a statement.
Over the course of his 27-year career, Uhlarik has been involved in the design of successful nameplates with leading global OEMs. Since joining Tata Motors in 2016 as Head of Design, UK, he has led the development of the Impact 3 generation of vehicles.