Author: Dean Wills

Hello and Welcome! I’m an Ohio based artist, illustrator and author known internationally for my colorful paintings…

Worn together in this chorus, we are the wardrobe of La China Poblana. Today we are a costume for folk…

Snapshots from October’s 20th Anniversary New Yorker Festival Writing Workshop with novelist, essayist, short story writer at…

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how…

What Is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care, and Carrying. Read the entire article in Repair –…

Time and space bring intimacy into the everyday, yet we experience these two ideas in our own…

Reading and listening to testimony from the war and Jewish history, harrowing stories of blood and violence…

The subjects of my paintings are all members of my family, from my maternal side. These include…

Educational poster featuring shore birds found around Newport Beach, California. Text is developed from a narrative of…

A selection of spreads from my self-designed and self-published books including RISD Thesis (NCSS 2021), artist books,…

Drawings from life and work around the world.

Artist book within a paper sardine can

Cleveland Institute of Art ILL 464B; 2026. A senior-level course focused on contemporary themes and concepts, designed…

The Alcove, Providence, RI  Founders and Inventors Who Shaped Our World is a declaration that women and gender…

Rhode Island School of Design Celebrating 75 years of RISD Illustration  To honor the department’s milestone, we…

The title of this piece, Friday I’m in Love, is a nod to my love of dance…

Cleveland Institute of Art FNDN 131; 2024-2026 Life Drawing continues to build on basic drawing concepts, methods,…

THE ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN Teaching fellowship program that aims to help increase…

Cleveland Institute of Art FNDN 130. 2024. The primary goals of Observational Drawing focus on core drawing…

Sol Koffler Gallery

Stop-motion animation for RISD Illustration MFA Thesis, 2024

Rhode Island School of Design ILLUS 3770; 2024 Material as Storyteller Designed and co-taught undergrads and graduate…

Brown/RISD Hillel Visual narrative excerpted from Illustration MFA Thesis. Published in the Brown Jewish Journal and in [Re]Imagining Illustration, a…

The Athens Animfest is organised by the Center of Animation, Audiovisual and Performing Arts (Ars Anima), a…

Visual narrative excerpted from Illustration MFA Thesis. Published in the Brown Jewish Journal and in [Re]Imagining Illustration,…

EFS Rhode Island School of Design; Spring 2024 Supported professor Mark Millof in teaching Foundation Design class….

Awarded Prize for Fine Arts to participate in a workshop with Neta Weiner, Stav Marin, and Samira…

Official Selection ATHENS ANIMFEST 2024 A paper prayer for neighborhood care. Shot frame by frame—in between glass…

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On Site Graduate Teaching Assistant Rhode Island School of Design Global. Intensive travel course with group of 13…

Interviewed by Simone Solondz for an article discussing the career strategies of graduate students across disciplines at…

Rhode Island School of Design ISB Gallery | RISD 

The Athens Animfest is organised by the Center of Animation, Audiovisual and Performing Arts (Ars Anima), a…

Official Selection, ATHENS ANIMFEST 2023. Stop motion animation made at Rhode Island School of Design, Winter session…

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Stopmotion animation made at Rhode Island School of Design, Wintersession 2023.

Rhode Island School of Design. ILLUS-3722-01. 2023. Worked with professor Susan Doyle. Illustration undergraduate studio elective that…

A competitive program that supports creative open-ended explorations and goal-oriented projects.

A Conversation with Christina Bevilacqua “It probably started out as something fairly simple, and then it got…

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Rhode Island School of Design Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies (NCSS) applies the conceptual and theoretical rigor of the liberal…