SUPERIOR, FULLY INTERACTIVE, ONLINE INSTRUCTION
FALL TEACHERS AND SCHEDULES WILL BE UP BY WEDNESDAY MAY 27th
ENROLLMENT FOR THE FALL 2015 Session will open to all
on FRIDAY May 29th at NOON EST.
Full Mentorships with Dan DosSantos, Greg Manchess, Scott Fischer, Todd Lockwood, Rebecca Leveille-Guay, and introducing new classes: Boot Camp Basics & Beginning Illustration with Marc Scheff and The Seminar Series with Donato Giancola
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Our Spring 2015 Guests!
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 special guests who will join us next semester!
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OUR Fall 2014 GUESTS!
The the industry innovator who led Vertigo Comics for over 20 years:
Karen Berger will join our illustrious guests this fall!

Karen Berger is an award-winning editor and founder of VERTIGO, the acclaimed, influential and ground-breaking imprint of DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. As an industry leader of creative risk-taking and innovative comics storytelling in a wide range of genre fiction, Karen led Vertigo for 20 years, transforming the comics medium by publishing many of the most acclaimed and best-selling comics and graphic novels in the past two decades. Sandman, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, Fables, John Constantine: Hellblazer, Preacher, Y–the Last Man, 100 Bullets, The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, DMZ, Scalped, and American Vampire together with hundreds more properties changed comics forever. Under her tenure, Vertigo generated countless New York Times Graphic Novel Bestsellers, and have won scores of awards: Eisner's, Harvey's, Eagle's, Hugo's, Reuben's, and numerous American Library Association citations.
Susan Sherman has been designing children's books since 1977. She is presently art director at Charlesbridge Publishing, in Massachusetts. She has been Art Director of Children's Trade Books at Houghton Mifflin, Creative Director at Little, Brown and Company, as well as running her own graphic design business, Ars Agassiz. She has taught at the Radcliffe Publishing Program, has been a member of the Rhode Island School of Design's Illustration Department Thesis Review committee, and has given workshops on children's book illustration at the University of Southern Maine.
She has been fortunate enough to have worked with David McPhail on his recent Pig Pig books as well as The Searcher and Old Tree; David Macaulay on his Caldecott winner, Black and White; Allen Say on The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, a Caldecott honor book; Lois Lowry's Newbery: Number the Stars; Mitali Perkin's very first book as well as her latest, Bamboo People; and several of Chris Van Allsburg's books, including the Polar Express. Susan received a bachelor of fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974, and a master of liberal arts degree in archeology from Harvard University in 2002. |
Andrew Navaro has worked at Fantasy Flight Games for over eight years, and has been the Managing Art Director there for the last two and a half. In that time he has had the great fortune and pleasure of directing many amazing illustrators including Alex Aparin, Anders Finer, Daarken, Ralph Horsley, Mathias Kollros, and Chris Rahn. In addition to work on FFG's own properties such as Arkham Horror and Android: Netrunner, he has worked on products for several major intellectual properties including Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000. While Andrew has spent nearly his entire life practicing art, a brief infatuation with writing resulted in him earning his B.A. in English from Ohio University in 1996.
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Doug Gregory is a celebrated illustrator and the creator of over 80 Magic the Gathering card illustrations and has over 22years experience in the industry. Currently Doug is at Blizzard Entertainment, where he has Art Directed for the World of Warcraft TCG, Diablo: The Book of Cain, and oversaw the production of Blizzard’s first children’s book, Snow Fight. He was the creative director for Diablo: The Book of Tyrael. He directed over 100 pieces of art for it, and greatly contributed to its overall graphic design.
His most recent project saw him in the role of director of a 6-part series of animated shorts for World of Warcraft’s Mists of Pandaria expansion, titled The Burdens of Shahao. The series was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews and fan approval. |
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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:Is this program for everyone?
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