18 Jul Artist Talk Featuring World-Renowned Artist, Educator, Author and Illustrator Bil Donovan (Ep. 20)

EPISODE SUMMARY

Our Breaking Distance team had the honor of interviewing Bil Donovan, one of today’s most accomplished and revered fashion illustrators. He is a respected educator and author and has traveled the world as a global artist and spokesperson for companies like Christian Dior. Bil speaks about his passion for creating and how it all started, his love of educating, fostering, and nurturing the next generation of artists, and his activism and newest protest artwork series #LiberatorToo, honoring Black Lives.

EPISODE NOTES

Our Breaking Distance team had the honor of interviewing Bil Donovan, one of today’s most accomplished and revered fashion illustrators. He is a respected educator and author and has traveled the world as a global artist and spokesperson for companies like Christian Dior. Bil speaks about his passion for creating and how it all started, his love of educating, fostering and nurturing the next generation of artists and his activism and newest protest artwork series #LiberatorToo, honoring Black Lives. 

More About Bil

Bil Donovan is one of today’s most accomplished and revered fashion illustrators. He was appointed the first artist-in-resident for Christian Dior in 2009, a position he continues to serve in today. Donovan utilizes an innate sense of selectivity to communicate the essence of glamour, luxury and style with an abstract sensibility reflecting his fine art background.

As an artist, author, educator and spokesperson Bil is a true champion of the art form. From the editorial, advertising and animation markets, his clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, Bergdorf Goodman, St. Regis Hotel, The New York Times, Harper Collins, New York magazine, Mandarin Oriental, the CFDA, L’Occitaine, Vanity Fair, Neiman Marcus and Saks.

Donovan shares the process of fashion illustration as an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He continues to  conduct master classes and shared his technique through demonstrations in Australia, China, London, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York. Bil is the author of Advanced Fashion Drawing/Lifestyle Illustration, Lawrence King Publishing.

His painting of the House of Dior’s Couture timeline adorns the Christian Dior Suite and his paintings are also visible in the Presidential Suite and the lobby.

Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned Donovan as the sole artist to illustrate fashion illustrations of iconic designs for a limited edition book for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Costume Institutes Library and visible in the recent exhibit, “Masterworks”: Unpacking fashion, 2017.

Bil Donovan has recently been recognized as one of the most accomplished fashion Illustrators of the late twentieth century, History of Illustration, Bloombury Publication 2019.

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