Author: Dean Wills
Sealife
Paintings from under the sea
Studio Discovery
Cleveland Institute of Art FNDN 150B. 2026. Studio Discovery is an opportunity to explore, discover interests, realize…
Illustration I
Cleveland Institute of Art ILL 205; 2024 To prepare illustration students to become working professionals by providing…
Familiar Places
Familiar Places (2023) Materials: Illustration board, gouache, acrylic paint, linen tape, prepared paper Paper sculpture inhabited by…
The Shuk
This lively, communal atmosphere of people together in the Shuk is an accurate and authentic representation of…
Welcome
Hello and Welcome! I’m an Ohio based artist, illustrator and author known internationally for my colorful paintings…
La China Poblana
Worn together in this chorus, we are the wardrobe of La China Poblana. Today we are a costume for folk…
Zadie + Teju
Snapshots from October’s 20th Anniversary New Yorker Festival Writing Workshop with novelist, essayist, short story writer at…
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond the Mind
Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how…
Open Dialogues and Material Memory
What Is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care, and Carrying. Read the entire article in Repair –…
Time Through Screenshots
Time and space bring intimacy into the everyday, yet we experience these two ideas in our own…
Drawing the Splinters
Reading and listening to testimony from the war and Jewish history, harrowing stories of blood and violence…
Sardine Artist Book
Artist book within a paper sardine can
Sketchbook
Drawings from life and work around the world.
Book Design
A selection of spreads from my self-designed and self-published books including RISD Thesis (NCSS 2021), artist books,…
Shore birds and Poppa’s narrative
Educational poster featuring shore birds found around Newport Beach, California. Text is developed from a narrative of…
Family Stories
The subjects of my paintings are all members of my family, from my maternal side. These include…
Illustration
Cleveland Institute of Art ILL 464B; 2026. A senior-level course focused on contemporary themes and concepts, designed…
Life Drawing
Cleveland Institute of Art FNDN 131; 2024 Life Drawing continues to build on basic drawing concepts, methods,…
Observational Drawing
Cleveland Institute of Art FNDN 130. 2024. The primary goals of Observational Drawing focus on core drawing…
A Day of Seeing
Stop-motion animation for RISD Illustration MFA Thesis, 2024
Embroidery: Material As Storyteller.
Rhode Island School of Design ILLUS 3770; 2024 Material as Storyteller Designed and co-taught undergrads and graduate…
Experimental and Foundation Studies
EFS Rhode Island School of Design; Spring 2024 Supported professor Mark Millof in teaching Foundation Design class….
Manna (2024) Stop-motion Animation
Official Selection ATHENS ANIMFEST 2024 A paper prayer for neighborhood care. Shot frame by frame—in between glass…
Perspectives on Piranesi
On Site Graduate Teaching Assistant Rhode Island School of Design Global. Intensive travel course with group of 13…
Train Ride (2023) Stop Motion Animation
Official Selection, ATHENS ANIMFEST 2023. Stop motion animation made at Rhode Island School of Design, Winter session…
Neighbors—stop-motion
Stopmotion animation made at Rhode Island School of Design, Wintersession 2023.
Digital + Analog.
Rhode Island School of Design. ILLUS-3722-01. 2023. Worked with professor Susan Doyle. Illustration undergraduate studio elective that…
Portrait of an Embroidered Purse
A Conversation with Christina Bevilacqua “It probably started out as something fairly simple, and then it got…