Watson has an MFA from CalArts. Her largest painting to date is currently at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Her comic, Unlovable, is published in Bust Magazine and with Fantagraphics. Blood Lady Commandos, appears weekly on Vice online. She currently teaches at Art Center College of Design.

Melinda Beck is an award winning illustrator, animator and graphic designer. For the past 25 years she has worked for many internationally renowned clients. She has received two Emmy nominations and a series of her prints was acquired by the Library of Congress for their permanent collection.

Put Mark Kaufman in a time machine. Set the controls for 1978. Ask him what he wants to do by 2016. He'll say he wants to be an award-winning designer and illustrator, and serve on the boards of AIGA Seattle and ICON. Set the controls for now. He'll tell you he's done all this and wants to do more.

Katherine Streeter illustrates for clients around the globe. Her mixed media collages are her main focus for illustration, but her personal projects extend to making books and experimenting with moving images. Her clients include The New York Times, NPR, and Asset International, among others.

Brooklyn based Illustrator James Yang has won over 250 awards for design and illustration including Best of Show for 3x3 in 2010. His work has appeared in Communication Arts, 3×3 Magazine, Graphis, HOW, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Step x Step and The Art Directors Club of New York annual.

Calef Brown is an illustrator, writer and educator. He has created book covers, posters, billboards, packaging, and character development for a wide range of clients. Calef has also written and illustrated a dozen award-winning picture books, including Flamingos on the Roof, a #1 NYT bestseller.

By day, Martin Gee is a Senior Art Director at TIME and by night, he’s a freelance illustrator and cat whisperer. Against his parents’ wishes, he studied illustration and graphic design at San Jose State University where he fell in love with publication design.

Holley is an illustrator, exhibiting artist and most recently, set designer. He is also an educator who has served on the faculty at ArtCenter College of Design for the past 20 years. He enjoys sad country music, and prefers pie over cake.

Rod Hunt is an award-winning London based Illustrator who has built a reputation for retro tinged Illustrations, detailed character filled landscapes & the artist behind the bestselling Top Gear Where's Stig? books. Rod is also the former Chairman of the UK Association of Illustrators

Rick Lovell is the Illustration Program Coordinator at the Atlanta campus of Savannah College of Art and Design. He was the Illustration Chair at Atlanta College of Art from 2002 until 2006. Clients include Delta, Simon and Schuster, Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, Doubleday, Showtime and Disney.

Julie Murphy lives in Chicago where she draws, paints, edits video and illustrates for clients. She studied film at Northwestern University and illustration at Art Center College of Design. In 2014, she experienced her first solo exhibition of drawings at the historic Water Tower.

Brooklyn, New York-based Scheff was born and raised in Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science and went on to earn a BFA in illustration from The Academy of Art University. Scheff is a freelance illustrator, educator with SmArt School, and curator at Every Day Original.

Owen Smith-s clients include The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, New York Times, Simon & Schuster, and Viking-Penguin Books. Smith designed public art for a Brooklyn Subway Station and a San Francisco Hospital. He is the Chair of the Illustration Program at California College of the Arts.

Len Small is art director at Nautilus magazine (nautil.us). He previously served as art director for Tablet Magazine and co-designed the American Illustration 33 annual. He earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts Design program and his BFA in Fine Arts from Washington University in St Louis.

Hellen Jo is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Los Angeles. She is best known for her coming-of-age comic, "JIN & JAM", as well as her girl gang watercolors. Her television work includes storyboards and design for Stone Quackers, Steven Universe, and Regular Show. Visit her at helllllen.org

Adam McCauley's illustrations have appeared in magazines, books, collateral and campaigns world wide and his work has been included in group shows in New York, San Francisco, Osaka, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Nashville. He currently teaches illustration at California College of the Arts.