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*Creative Quarterly* Awards Illustration Student and Faculty with Silver Honors

Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009, by Sarah Owens

The CCA Illustration Program began 2009 with two silver-lined nods from Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design. Illustration student Kevin Wada and faculty member Owen Smith were each honored with silver medals in the student and professional categories, respectively.

Entries were ranked on a scale of zero to 4 with Creative Quarterly editors comprising the voting team. Each medal winner will be featured in the magazine's March issue.

Kevin Wada is a fourth-year Illustration student who describes his win as a "complete surprise." His awarded illustration originated as a class project for which he was challenged with creating a movie poster. Wada chose the science-fiction thriller Dark City as his inspiration.

One of Wada's current projects is for "Sequential Imagery," a course for which he is crafting a story and illustrating it as a graphic novel. Visit his blog to see additional recent work.

Illustration faculty member Owen Smith has been teaching at CCA since 2006. He has illustrated for such renowned magazines as Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and the New Yorker, collectively producing 15 cover illustrations.

View Smith's online portfolio to see more of his work, and read more about the San Francisco Arts Commission's "Art on Market Street" program for which his winning work was originally created.