Self portrait Mariah Graham 2015 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
Our subscribers usually ask how we discover the gifted instructors featured in our College of Style video library. The reply is easy: we hunt down the very best from each academia and the style business. Lots of our instructors are seasoned school professors who at the moment train—or have taught—at famend colleges reminiscent of Parsons, FIT, and different main style establishments. Others come immediately from the business, bringing many years of real-world expertise {and professional} perception to our classes.
This publish spotlights Mariah Graham, a gifted style illustrator whose creativity shines not solely by way of her style work but in addition by way of her high quality artwork apply.
Mariah Graham paintings 2016 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
From the Cotton Subject to the World of Style
Mariah Graham was born in Kingstree, South Carolina, one in every of seven kids in a household of sharecroppers. From the age of 4 till eighteen, she and her household labored within the cotton fields below Jim Crow. In 1964, searching for new alternatives, they migrated north to 128th Road in New York Metropolis. Your complete household shared a single studio house, and Mariah usually did her homework within the toilet, the one quiet nook she may discover.
She attended Benjamin Franklin Excessive College—now the Manhattan Heart for Science and Arithmetic—the place she graduated as class salutatorian. As the one lady amongst six brothers, Mariah discovered early the worth of willpower and resilience. Refusing to let gender bias or circumstance outline her, she adopted her ardour for artwork to Manhattan’s College of Visible Arts. In 1968, she was one in every of solely 5 African American college students on the faculty.
Through the years, Mariah has constructed a multifaceted profession that spans modeling, instructing, printmaking, graphic design, and illustration.
Mariah Graham paintings 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
For twelve years, Mariah lent her expertise to The New York Occasions, illustrating for its style pages. Her artistic versatility spans each digital and hand-drawn strategies, producing work for shoppers reminiscent of Saatchi & Saatchi, Gray Promoting, The Day by day Information, Ogilvy & Mather, and HBO, together with editorial illustrations for The Josephine Baker Story. She has additionally created editorial items for Vogue and collaborated with main beauty manufacturers together with Revlon, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Elizabeth Arden. Her portfolio has reached a world viewers, showcased to high artistic administrators and editors in Beijing and Singapore—the place she was featured as an “Artist of Right now.”
Mariah Graham paintings 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
Mariah Graham paintings 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
View extra and buy Mariah’s paintings: http://www.mariahgraham.com/
At College of Style, Mariah shares her experience on how to attract and ink a number of style poses together with males, ladies, tweens and plus measurement.
Right here’s a hyperlink to view her collection of classes:
