NEWS:

06.01.08: I will be part of a street art exhibition this month >>>
06.01.08: I am currently working on my first children's book illustration project (more details soon)
05.01.08: Blogs about Smile Boston Project >>>
04.01.08: Michele Leong & Andrew Thompson wrote a paper about my JFK School mural >>>
03.01.08: I am going to have a show at the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square next month
02.01.08: I am collaborating with a local animation company on a project (details coming soon).

See News Archive >>>

Art Grants (Fuller Foundation, Make the Dash Count and the Natick Public and School System)

EXHIBITS, COMMISSIONS, AND TALKS:

- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2007 >>>and 2008 >>>

Karmaloop mural in Boston, MA >>>

Berryline in Harvard Square >>>

Morse Institute Library in Natick, MA >>>

Washington School Mural version 2 >>>

Central Square mural >>>

Jackson School, Newton, MA >>>

Newton South, Newton, MA >>> + you tube clip >>>

John F Kennedy School mural >>>

Washington School Mural >>> + >>>

- Boston's Mass General Hospital >>>

- One of my characters is now on a patch that Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts can earn for their community service efforts >>> read background info about the Spread the Bread Patch >>>

Natick Public Library >>>

- Talks at Boston College >>>, Northeastern University and Lesley University in 2006

Harvard Business Association >>> and the winner >>>

The School of Fashion Design, Boston, MA >>>

- Children's Music Center in Jamaica Plain >>> Beyond the Canvas >>>

Suffolk University, Boston, MA >>>

Boston University School of Medicine's Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Center (permanent collection) >>>

Karmaloop Mural, Boston, MA >>>

Trotter Elementary School mural >>>

Boston's Children's Hospital (permanent collection) >>> + >>>

Happy Hollow Elementary School (six 48" x 36" food related paintings) >>>

- The 3 new characters I designed for the iParty chain of stores >>>

Lesley University >>>

- Super 7, 1630 Post St., San Francisco, CA. February 2005 >>> New characters for the exhibit >>>

- Arts Build Community >>>

- Press event photos with Mayor Menino and the Smile Boston Project paintings for the Democratic National Convention Delegations >>>

Wild Child, Arlington, MA (storefront art) >>>

- See one of my cool open studios display >>>

- All Asia, 334 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA (Updated 5.24.6) >>> Opening 7.2006 >>>

- WGBH Fine Arts Auction 2005 >>> 2006 >>> 2007

SEE CURRENT AND PAST SHOWS LIST >>>

Watch my first youtube.com clip >>>

A BB&N student, Dorothy Thurston, just wrote about my project (The purpose of the essay is to profile a subject at work. It is a description of how the work is performed, and also an explanation of the subject through his work) >>>

Hear my Podcast on www.artfilmdesign.com

Michele Leong & Andrew Thompson wrote a paper about my JFK School mural >>>

Katherine Macy's, Boston University's graduate program of Arts Administration, paper about Free Art (my work is one of the paper's topic). Download Word file >>>

The Smile Boston Project documentary won the "Best Short Documentary" award at the Woods Hole Film Festival on Austust 4th. The film was also shown the Newburyport, New Hampshire, Northampton Film Festivals (Best Regional Film), the Chicago Filmmakers Art Docs Series and the Europen Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden this fall(official website >>>) Watch the trailer >>>

PBS/WGBH's TV show, Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, features my paintings (airing on 5.30, 9.11 + 10.16)
The Boston Globe featured my paintings/project as one of their "Best of the New" >>>
Channel 5's Chronicle on Nov. 30th @ 7:30 PM. Boston Magazine Article >>>
Fox 25 News Friday March 12th @ 10 PM >>>
other media coverage >>>

SMILE BOSTON PROJECT PAINTINGS HAVE BEEN DONATED TO:

- WGBH 2008

- Nepalese Orphanage

- MS Walk

- Love for Lilli

- Triangle

- The Dance Complex

- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Massachusetts

- Boston Boy's Choir

- Nora Theater Company

- WGBH 2008 Auction

- The Jackson School

- Garden Nursery School

- Brattle Street Theater

- Dedham School System

- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Massachusetts

- Federation for Children with Special Needs

- Red Cross

- National Multiple Scleoris Society

- Garden Nursery School at Harvard

- Sam Yoon

- WGBH 2006 Auction

- Avon Breast Cancer Walk

- Spread the Bread >>>

- Garden Nursery School

- Beyond Shelter

- artconnection.com

- WGBH 2006 Fine Arts Auction

- Gulu Gulu Cafe's Hurricane Katrina fund raising

- Garden Nursery School

- PFLAG

- London, U.K.'s Filipino Community Center

- Red Cross (Hurricane Katrina vicitms)

- Oxfam (Tsunami victims)

- Boston Public Library

- WGBH (2004 and 2005 auctions)

- Lynn Community Health Center

- Lincoln Sudbury High School's Math Team

- National MS Society, New England Chapter

- Spruce Street Nursery School

- Friends of Boston's Homeless

- Cambridge Nursery School

- Families First

- Washington Gateway Main Street

- Charles River Public Internet Center

- Annual Head of the Charles Celebration

- HRC

- Artist Group of Charlestown various fundraising events

- Identity Magazine fund raising event at All Asia, July 9, 2004

- 2004 Run for Research Marathon at DKNY's

- Hyde Square Task Force

- American Heart Association

- WNPR/CPTV Online Auction

- Shelter Legal Services Foundation

- Avon's Walk for Breast Cancer

- Relay for Life

- GLSEN Boston

- Cambridge Public School System

My Paintings are also being featured at the following stores:

- Art Etc. Gallery in Newton, MA >>>

- World Maps in Harvard Square

- Tokyo Kid, 36 JFK St., Cambridge, MA >>>

- Audrey K, 1411 1/2 W. Kenneth Rd, Glendale, CA 91201 >>> Store picture >>>

- 9 Months, 286 Newbury St., Boston, MA and 182 Wayland Ave., Providence, RI >>>

- Bruce McGaw Graphics

- Picklepot, 29 Washington St., Salem, MA >>>

- karmaloop.com

- A Hog on Ice Gallery. One Water Street, Newburyport, MA 01950

- Out of the Blue Gallery. 106 Prospect, Cambridge, MA 02139

Photo by Yuri V.