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Dan DosSantos

Enroll Now For Fall 2013 Classes With:
Donato Giancola 
Todd Lockwood 
 Rebecca Guay  
  Greg Manchess  
Dan DosSantos

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Our intensive summer class is taught
by Marc Scheff and Lauren Panepinto
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SAS Faculty: Donato Giancola . Greg Manchess . Dan DosSantos . Todd Lockwood . Rebecca Guay

Because SAS is committed to teaching the BUSINESS as well as the ART( it just doesn't work if you don't know both!), we have some outstanding art directors who will be our special guests for the Fall semester!

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David Saylor

David Saylor is vice president and creative director at Scholastic Book Group and is responsible for the design the Harry Potter Series!
David will be a guest in Greg Manchess's Mentorship
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Judith Murello

Judith Murello is the Executive Art Director at the Berkley Publishing group,( Mercy Thompson, Covers by Dan DosSantos) and will be a guest in Dan DosSanto's mentorship.
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Jeremy Cranford

Jeremy Cranford is the senior Art Director at Blizzard ( Worlds of Warcraft). Jeremy will be a guest in Todd Lockwood's mentorship
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Dave Stevenson

David G. Stevenson is a senior art director at Random House. He has designed covers for George R. R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Brooks, China Miéville, H.P. Lovecraft, and Michael Chabon, among others. David will be a guest in Donato Giancola's mentorship.

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Matthew Kalamidas

Matthew Kalamidas  is the Senior Art Director for The Science Fiction Book Club. Matthew will be a guest in Rebecca Guay's mentorship

Work ONE on ONE with your instructor, in a very small mentorship class. Whether you live in San Diego or Sydney...be Inspired, be Educated, be Passionate, be SmART!
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See some of our excellent mentorship students from 2012-13

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Beth Sobel did this fantastic painting in Donato Giancola's mentorship class. For more of Beth's work check out her web site http://www.bethsobel.com/

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"Never in a million years would I have thought that I would get the chance to learn in a pretty much one on one level from someone like Greg Manchess or any of the other accomplished teachers. And to top it all off I can do it from my living room or office or where ever is convenient at the time. Opportunities like this don't come often in the midwest!"
-Ashley Corbello, a student in Greg Manchess's Mentorship
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Faculty Clients, Awards, Honors, Gallery Shows, Accolades:
The United Nations, LucasArts, Marvel Comics, Carus Publishing, Topps, Houghton Mifflin, MTV, Easton Press, Dark Horse Comics, The Science Fiction Book Club, Barefoot Books, Farrar Strauss&Giroux, National Geographic, Scientific American, CNN, DC Comics, Microsoft, The Village Voice, Playboy Magazine, US Postal Service, Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, Scholastic, Simon&Schuster, Tor Books, Random House, Time/Warner, The Scifi Channel, OMNI, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Smithsonian, Time, Federal Express, Paramount, Columbia, Disney, Milton-Bradley, Hasbro, Atlantic Monthly, Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, Nineteen Chesley Awards, 2 Chesley Nominations, 2 Eisner nominations, 1 Caldicott nomination, Three Artist Hugo Awards, Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators, notable awards from the Art Renewal Center, and multiple silver and gold medals among all faculty from the juried annual Spectrum: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art, The Roq la Rue Gallery,The R. Michelson Gallery, The Allentown Museum of Art, The Eric Carle Museum of Picturebook Art, Jonathan Levine Gallery, LeBasse Projects, The American Museum of Illustration.......and more

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"I have studied and taught online art classes, and what Rebecca created with her mentorship is nothing short of revolutionary. She has an ability to not just teach what she knows, but to see into the essence of who you want to be as an artist and draw it out. No matter what style you work in, she can push you in the right direction. The evolution in my work through the mentorship was incredible and I look forward to more with SmArt School."

-Marc Scheff (http://www.marcscheff.com/)

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Contact: smarterartschool@gmail.com