PARTICIPANTS

Esther Pearl Watson has an MFA from CalArts and is the author of the comic Unlovable for Bust Magazine and Frantagraphics Books. Watson’s illustrations have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including New York Times and Lucky Peach. Her paintings have been exhibited at The Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. She has lectured extensively including “Teaching Design Responsibility and the Millennium Dream Project,” UNESCO NGO/DPI CONFERENCE, Paris, France. She has taught at Oxbow Artist Residency, The Lexicon of Sexicana at Columbia College in Chicago, and will attend an Artist-in-Residence through Grafikiens Hus at the old royal barn of Gripsholms Castle in Mariefred, Sweden. Watson Currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.