Schedule

CONFERENCE CHECK IN / REGISTRATION

Kansas City Marriott Downtown, East Tower

Tuesday, June 28th: 2 – 5pm
Wednesday, June 29th: 8am – 5pm
Thursday, June 30th: 8am – 5pm

Friday, July 1: 8am – 12pm

All attendees must check in at the Marriott to pick up their name badge before attending Workshops, Education Symposium, Main Stage sessions and Events.

Day One: Sunday, June 28

CONFERENCE CHECK IN / REGISTRATION

@ Kansas City Marriott Downtown, East Tower

All attendees must check in at the Marriott to pick up their name badge before attending Workshops, Education Symposium, Main Stage sessions and Events.

Breakfast + Coffee

@ Kansas City Art Institute, William T. Kemper Painting Building Gallery

Grab a lite breakfast and coffee — generously provided by KCAI.

Limited Transportation

@ Marriott to KCAI

Pick up outside Marriott East Tower. Drop off at KCAI.

Bus will make two runs from Marriott to KCAI

Bus seats 56 per run, so transportation even with 2 runs is limited. Please plan accordingly.

ICON11 Welcome

@ Atkins Auditorium

Gather for a brief welcome to ICON11. All ICON11 attendees welcome. Doors open at 8:30.

Hallmark Tour

Samantha Bradbeer, Matt Kesler, Chris Duh @ Hallmark, FREE

Hallmark, an ICON11 Platinum Partner, will take attendees on a tour of the company’s Creative Archives, Hallmark’s Fine Art collection, and more.

Sponsored by Hallmark. Registration required.

Cut Paper Mantra Workshop

Lynn Giunta, Eric Brace, Cat Hollyer @ Kansas City Art Institute, FREE

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 201

Nurture your creative wellness by developing a displayable personal mantra, with help from the Creative Studios at Hallmark. Led by Hallmark artists Lynn Giunta and Eric Brace and writer Cat Hollyer, this workshop will help you focus on self-care through writing and collage. First, you’ll explore reflective writing exercises in order to discover a meaningful personal mantra. Next, you’ll experiment with pattern making and cut paper collage, building up to creating a final cut paper collage mantra. Lynn, Eric, and Cat will guide participants through creative challenges and provide a fun and safe place to explore while participants gain confidence in their voice and creative skills. Hallmark will provide tools and supplies needed for cut paper workshop but attendees are welcome to bring their favorite mark-making tools as well.

Sponsored by Hallmark. Registration required.

Lego Press Workshop

Michelle Dreher & Angie Dreher @ Two Tone Press, $45

Tour the facilities at Two Tone Press and learn a brief history of letterpress printing. Then get a little inky by creating a relief poster design using a variety of LEGO block tiles printed over hand pressed backgrounds. Each participant will get up to 5 printed pieces of their own creation.

Odd Bodies: Illustrating Expressive, Stylized People

Tom Froese @ Kansas City Art Institute, $45

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 203

This class will teach participants how to make illustrated people more expressive and unique. Illustrator and Skillshare teacher Tom Froese leads this interactive, live-format workshop based on his most popular class.

Sketchbook Burnout Buster

Elizabeth Baddeley @ Kansas City Art Institute, $45

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 402

Much of being a professional illustrator is planning, presenting and perfecting. This workshop, aims to turn that off and let the right brain mingle with the left, combining spontaneous, messy mark-making and observational drawing to create vibrant and wildly unexpected sketchbook experiments.

Visual Comparisons: Creative Strategies for Making Meaning

Tyler Galloway & Lisa J. Maione @ Kansas City Art Institute, $45

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 404

Explore conceptual image-making through a range of visual strategies. The complexity of meaning that is produced by various combinations of images and text is what causes the revelatory moment for viewers. We will connect theoretical and intuitive processes that add to any creative studio practice.

Exploring Line and Shape in Printmaking

Laura Crehuet Berman @ Kansas City Art Institute, $60

KCAI's East Building

This workshop introduces a variety of printmaking techniques through intaglio and relief methods of printing. Students will explore hand-drawn lines, textures and layered colors through using shaped plates and stencils in their prints. The class uses water-based ink and all basic supplies are provided. Students are welcome to start from scratch or to bring sketches as a starting point for this fast-paced workshop. Instruction is hands-on from 9:00am-12:00pm and a studio monitor is available from 1:00-4:00pm for students to continue their work on their own that day after the workshop too.

Education Symposium Welcome

Marty Blake @ Atkins Auditorium

COLLABORATING OUT OF THE BOX: Blurring the lines between media, disciplines, performers and audience

Hector Casanova @ Atkins Auditorium

Students from the Kansas City Art Institute collaborated with performer/artist/musician duo Freight Train Rabbit Killer to create an immersive, multi-layered theatrical experience incorporating visual art, live music, storytelling, animation, set design, puppetry, costuming and video projections.

LOOK IT UP: THE ROLE OF THE WEB FOR THE RISING STUDENTS

Karen Jiyun Sung @ Atkins Auditorium

The web has been demonized for creating a gap between the students and staff. However, is that true? Is the web the root of all misunderstanding? The session investigates the true role of digital for rising students and other key higher ed trends.

Modern but Wonky Still Life

Sarah & Colin Walsh @ Sarah & Colin’s Studio, $60

Spend the day at Sarah & Colin Walsh’s sunny River Market art studio listening to chill music & painting quirky still life arrangements composed of art objects, toys, food with fun and interesting labels, plants and more. They’ll briefly go over some basic acrylic gouache tips & techniques for those who aren’t familiar & also share a bit of their creative process. Supplies will be provided but feel free to bring your own favorite tools. There will be a mid day break & an option to visit the nearby city market square to enjoy a variety of food vendors, coffee houses & shops, including a three tiered antique mall.

Discussing and Developing Style

Robert Young @ Atkins Auditorium

This presentation will examine the importance of style in the classroom. We will explore various exercises designed to help students address questions of influence and style.

TWISTS AND LOOPS: ILLUSTRATING ECOLOGICALLY

Jamie Mills @ Atkins Auditorium

This paper seeks a more ecological view of illustration practice, situating interdependence at the center. Focusing on a recent body of work responding to small-scale ecosystems and the value of field-study and observation in embedding traits of curiosity and specificity in illustration methods.

Limited Transportation

@ KCAI to Marriott

Pick up at KCAI. Drop off at Marriott.

Bus will make two runs.

Bus seats 56 per run, so transportation even with 2 runs is limited. Please plan accordingly.

Opposites Attract: A Character and Visual Development Workshop

Mary Jane Begin @ Kansas City Art Institute, $25

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 201

This lecture focuses on contrast in developing characters and their stories. Attendees will review expression sheets, turnarounds, mood boards and color to develop more expressive characters for narrative illustrations. A drawing exercise is also included.

Everyday Sketchbook

Grant Kratzer @ Kansas City Art Institute, $45

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 402

This workshop is about the importance of keeping a sketchbook. It will go through different drawing prompts that are designed to overcome creative block, include journaling daily life or special events, and create a visual catalog to use throughout a creative career.

Introduction to After Effects

Allison Kerek Williams @ Kansas City Art Institute, $45

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 203

Participants will turn one of their own illustrations/designs into a short looping animation and learn how to render their work for social media. This workshop is perfect for artists who love Photoshop and Illustrator but have little to no knowledge of After Effects. Laptop required.

Oil Painting Demo

John Ferry @ Kansas City Art Institute, $25

KCAI's Tony Jones Studios for Animation & Illustration, Room 401

John Ferry will be doing an oil painting demonstration using an urban scene as subject matter.

Editorial Illustration: Audience Interaction through Space and Time

Andrew Selby @ Atkins Auditorium

How is editorial illustration adapting to publishing formats beyond the printed page and a fixed publishing workflow? This paper investigates new digital platforms and questions how they may change the face of content consumption in global communication media.

BRIDGING THE GAP: EQUIPPING ILLUSTRATORS FOR LIFE AFTER THE CLASSROOM

Shreyas R. Krishnan @ Atkins Auditorium

This presentation explores classroom practices, exercises and projects that enable illustration students to sustain their practice and hold their own outside the scaffolding of a classroom and university.

Race, Responsibility, and Educating Illustration Students

Robyn Phillips-Pendleton @ Atkins Auditorium

This presentation discusses understanding the history of illustration and race and promoting intercultural tolerance, exploration and incorporation of underrepresented groups in imagery. Through extensive research as part of illustration curriculum, students can explore their own cultural stories and others through the guidance of programmatic pedagogy to better understand their place in the creative world.

Entrepreneurship in the Classroom

Christina Hess @ Atkins Auditorium

Discussion on the implementation of entrepreneurship in the classroom as a springboard for personal projects, intellectual properties and a conduit for client acquisition.

STIR IT UP: STEP AWAY FROM THAT ROUTINE, EXPAND AND EXPLORE

Dave Szalay @ Atkins Auditorium

This presentation shares experiences from coteaching a special topics, multidisciplinary course in illustration. Explorations in Visual Narratives was written to elevate awareness, experimentation, inclusivity, creativity and new potential outlets for the field.

Limited Transportation

@ Marriott to KCAI

Pick up outside Marriott East Tower. Drop off at KCAI.

Bus will make one run from Marriott to KCAI

Bus seats 56 per run, so transportation is limited. Please plan accordingly.

KCAI HAPPY HOUR

@ Kansas City Art Institute, William T. Kemper Painting Building Gallery

All ICON11 attendees are welcome.

Motion Commotion

@ Atkins Auditorium

MOTION COMMOTION is a curated screening of animation and motion shorts.

 

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Limited Transportation

@ Nelson Atkins to Marriott

Bus will make one run from Nelson Atkins to Marriott.

Bus seats 56 per run, so transportation is limited. Please plan accordingly.