Saturday, October 5, 2024 | 10:30a -12p
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Using Nikkolas' vast experience designing superheroes as an illustrator, Nikkolas will guide students as they explore character design and all of the aspects that make a superhero. Students will then create their own superhero self-portrait using a variety of materials. This event is NOT open to the public.
Nikkolas Smith is the illustrator for "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water" by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and (Penguin Random House, 2021), that is featured in the current MMAM exhibition, Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity.
About Nikkolas Smith
After designing theme parks at Walt Disney Imagineering for 11 years, Nikkolas Smith (b. 1985) is now an artivist, concept artist, children’s book author, film Illustrator, and movie poster designer. In addition to illustrating numerous works by other authors, he is the author/illustrator of the picture books The Golden Girls of Rio (Sky Pony, 2016), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award); My Hair is Poofy & That’s Okay (VJS Productions, 2017), and World Cup Women (Sky Pony, 2019). Smith describes himself as an artivist, marrying art with social activism. As an illustrator of color, he creates art that can spark important conversations around social justice in today’s world and inspire meaningful change. His 2023 picture book The Artivist (Kokila) shows how children can combine art and activism in their daily lives.