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Courtesy of Landis Blair
DeKALB – The NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Art Museum will host a virtual artist talk with Chicago-based illustrator Landis Blair at 6:30 p.m. Thursday via Zoom.
The event will display Blair’s work as an illustrator as well as Blair openly discussing with students “the unexpected paths that develop storytelling and a great career,” Blair said. This event will be free to the public, according to the event’s webpage.
Blair has spent his artistic career as an illustrator for books that visually solve problems for the author and creates visual elements to accompany written work, Blair said.
detail of: Landis Blair, Whetting Engines, 2019, Sastergoodment Press, Chicago. Drawing, 2018, (6 x 8 in.
Mirth and Mayhem: Landis Blair Selections of Drawings and Books contains illustrations from books by Landis Blair, whose stories contain elements of taboo, nihilism and whimsy. Blair’s black and white imagery evokes inspiration from Edward Gorey and often includes dark and absurd humor, lulling the reader through rhyming descriptions of vignette scenes. On view are illustrations from The Envious Siblings and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes; The Progressive Problem and The Regressive Solution; A Toasted Passion; and Whetting Engines.
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