CultureWorks Playing Cards

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This piece was designed to emulate playing cards. The cards will be used by juggler and magician Jonathan Austin to promote Richmond's CultureWorks. The concept behind the piece was to utilize Austin's card tricks as a point of departure to promote the arts non-profit.

Wayside Center Art Auction

Support the Wayside Center with me at their art auction.
Saturday, October 1st at 9PM
Hosted by The Celler Door and Team Totally Awesome
located at 1600 Monument Ave
Richmond, VA

Artists donating work include:
Walker Allen
Amy Black
Wil Blanton
Rober Cataldo
Scarlett P. Diaz
Thea Duskin
Lana Gentry
Dave Gustine
Mattie Hinkley
Adam Juresko
Bizhan Khodabandeh
Grieg Leach
Aaron Samsel
Virginia Samsel
Oura Sananikone
Diana Vincelli
Lauren Vencelli
Eric Wolfe-Hanson
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and more!

No You Can't Go To The Bathroom...

"No You Can't Go To The Bathroom, Because You're Bored and Don't Really Have To"
-Taylor Mali

Appomattox Regional Governor's School Teachers Art Exhibition

I will have various illustration pieces in this exhibition. You will also be able to see a sneak peak at some original art of my comic adaptation of "The Little Black Fish"


Artists:
David Bartlett
Patricia Lyons
B. Khodabandeh
Susann Whittier

Opening 6-9PM Nov. 11th at
Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old Street
Petersburg, VA 23803

Up through December 3rd

October 2nd The Richmond Monuments are watching you...

Richmond Monuments, a webcomic, will launch October 2nd with a bi-weekly schedule on Sundays.

Richmond Monuments is illustrated and written by Bizhan Khodabandeh, a graphic designer and educator that works under the name Mended Arrow.

Richmond Monuments is about anthropomorphizing Richmond, VA monuments as if they were objective observers of the populace. The intent is not to overtly make political commentary on the historical figures that the monuments were intended to represent. Nor is the strip intended to delve into esoteric Richmond politics or ethnography. The mission of the strip is to find humor in our own humanity through the eyes of voyeuristic monuments – something people from most cities could relate to.

The Future of City invitational exhibition.

Poster


Participants


My contribution

I will be in two exhibitions called, "The Future of City" curated by Xu Li. The exhibition is of 12" by 12" pieces that have been laser cut out of paper.

The exhibition will be held the 10th of October at:
Xinhua Arts District in FuZhou city of China
and Rohanský ostrov in Prague of Czech Republic

Current list of participants and more can be found here.

Renovations

I have been working on a website redesign so the blog is going to look a little crazy and constantly shift for the next couple of days. My apologies for any inconvenience...

Augustfest: A taste of VA micro brews at Gallery5

Poster by Bizhan Khodabandeh

I'm super excited about a new genre of event to enter Gallery5.
You should be too.

7PM - 11PM, Friday, August 5th
At Gallery5
200 W. Marshall St
Richmond, VA 23220
804.644.0005

FREE to Attend
21+ to enter tasting floor.
Tastings Tickets: $1 Each
(Crafts range from 1-3 tickets p/ tasting)


Over the past six years, Gallery5 has produced a wide array of art events featuring some of our region’s greatest talents and has served as Richmond’s launching pad for countless emerging artists. We are proud to be a part of this growing arts community and for being a catalyst for many creative initiatives.

On First Friday, August 2011, Gallery5 is excited to present a new form of art to the Richmond community; selected crafts from breweries across Virginia. Featuring the top microbreweries in the state! Representatives from each brewery will be there to present tastings and talk about their crafts.

We are excited to present brews not readily available to the public. Featuring.....

Starr Hill presents their
“Double Platinum” IPA
”Lucy” English Pale Ale
Seasonal “Festie” Amber Lager

Legend Brewing Co. presents their
“Quad” Belgium Style Ale,
“Triple” Belgian Style Ale
“Hefeweizen” seasonal

Ronoake Railhouse Brewery presents their
“Track 1” and “Loose Caboose”

Blue Mountain Brewery presents their
“Full Nelson”
“Kolsch 151”
..and their brand new soon-to-be-opened
Blue Mountain Barrel House organic line
with “Mandolin” and “Dark Hollow”


O'Connor Brewing Co. presents their
"Great Dismal Black IPA"
Bull and Bones Brewhaus "Maroon Effect Brown"


Featuring LIVE Performances By:
Birds and Arrows
Brett Harris
Skylar Gudasz & the Ugly Girls

VCU Summer Intensive Work

3 samples from almost every project by my students from the VCU Summer Intensive. I realize it is a lot of work. (6 hours every day, 5 days a week, for 3 weeks) It felt like I taught an entire year of design in three weeks. I'm very proud of them.


Andrew Hawkins


Jill Ferree


Hana Sunny



Maleah Cooper


Jennerfer Osaki


Cullen Whitmore


Cullen Whitmore


Becca Medearts


Andrew Hawkins



Hana Sunny


Maleah Cooper


Cullen Whitmore


Becca Medearts


Jennifer Osaki


Cullen Whitmore


Adrienne Atkinson


Jessica Perez


Cullen Whitmore


Preston




Andrew Hawkins


Cullen Whitmore


Adrienne Atkinson


Cullen Whitmore


Andrew Hawkins


Jessica Perez


Andrew Hawkins


Becca Medearts


Cullen Whitmore


Jill Ferree


Jennifer Osaki



Sarah Erickson



Preston


Various

2nd place in Style Weekly's 2011 Comic Strip Issue!

Won second place in Style Weekly's 2011 Comic Strip Issue. There was some great competition this year. More info here.

PS I plan on continuing this strip as a web comic - including the stories of various monuments in Richmond. I'll keep you posted.

Class Illustrator Portrait Demo

My students and I were amused by this illustrator portrait demo I did. As soon as I added the type the entire class erupted in laughter.