30 December 2024
Our Sponsored Artist for Comic Con 2025 is...
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, KWF friends and family!
We are so thankful to be part of this community and for all of your support of our artists over the last decade. With great excitement, we are thrilled to introduce you to our SDCC 2025 Sponsored Artist:
Ryan Hungerford!
From the beginning, we have worked to showcase work that is fresh, unusual, and unique, and to enable artists to present their work to a wider audience that has not seen anything like it before: it doesn’t get much more unusual than Ryan’s out-of-this-world illustrations!
Ryan’s creative style is self-described as character-based art mixed with graphic design, influenced by mid-century modern and lowbrow stylings. Some of his earliest childhood memories were watching cartoons and drawing up his own unique characters, and he has kept on with it.
You can see the many pop culture influences in his work that will be familiar to any fan of the popular arts. From groovy horror to classic sports icons and everything in between, there’s something that will catch anyone’s eye.
Ryan lives by the mantra “Creating art is food for the soul. It’s something I have to do.”
Which may explain why is work is so prolific -- we wonder if he ever sleeps!
Please check out Ryan’s work and follow him on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ryetoons/
We look forward to seeing you at San Diego Comic Con 2025 and introducing you to Ryan and his awesome art: he’s planning a unique experience for our booth this year, so come visit us at Booth #934 and be a part of it July 24-27, 2025.
We'll see you there!
We are so thankful to be part of this community and for all of your support of our artists over the last decade. With great excitement, we are thrilled to introduce you to our SDCC 2025 Sponsored Artist:
Ryan Hungerford!
From the beginning, we have worked to showcase work that is fresh, unusual, and unique, and to enable artists to present their work to a wider audience that has not seen anything like it before: it doesn’t get much more unusual than Ryan’s out-of-this-world illustrations!
Ryan’s creative style is self-described as character-based art mixed with graphic design, influenced by mid-century modern and lowbrow stylings. Some of his earliest childhood memories were watching cartoons and drawing up his own unique characters, and he has kept on with it.
You can see the many pop culture influences in his work that will be familiar to any fan of the popular arts. From groovy horror to classic sports icons and everything in between, there’s something that will catch anyone’s eye.
Ryan lives by the mantra “Creating art is food for the soul. It’s something I have to do.”
Which may explain why is work is so prolific -- we wonder if he ever sleeps!
Please check out Ryan’s work and follow him on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ryetoons/
We look forward to seeing you at San Diego Comic Con 2025 and introducing you to Ryan and his awesome art: he’s planning a unique experience for our booth this year, so come visit us at Booth #934 and be a part of it July 24-27, 2025.
We'll see you there!
1 October 2024
Intrepid Adventurers... The Iris is Closed!
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The application period for our San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Sponsored Artist has closed, and our Selection Committee
has seriously got its work cut out for it. Our sincere thanks to everyone who applied! We’ll be posting updates to social media in the coming weeks and letting you know where we are in the selection process, so be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Best of luck to all applicants! |
24 July 2024
Heroes and heroines... the portal is open!
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The quest for our SDCC 2025 Sponsored Artist begins NOW!
KWF provides rising-star artists the life-changing opportunity to attend and exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con International. Do you know a talented visual artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, or videographer? Are YOU one? Inspire and be inspired -- APPLY TODAY! |
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, by KWF SDCC 2024 Sponsored Artist Kaysha Siemens
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15 February 2024
Our Sponsored Artist for Comic Con 2024 is...
Art is magic! It’s alchemy: the mystical infusion of base elements with emotion, experience, inspiration, imagination, and skill… to will something into being that is greater than the sum of its parts.
It is with tremendous pride and excitement that we present this year’s alchemist, our San Diego Comic Con 2024 Sponsored Artist…
Kaysha Siemens
From our inception, part of the mission of the Kevin Workman Foundation has been not only to cultivate the best and the brightest rising-star visual artists, but also to expose work that is fresh and unusual to a much wider audience that has very likely never seen anything quite like it before— we think you’ll agree our selection this year fits the bill!
Kaysha is an award-winning artist currently specializing in oil painting and graphite, with a recent delve into the Renaissance realm of egg tempera which, yes, is exactly what it sounds like: pigments made from an egg base!
Her mind is peopled with the tales and figures of myth and legend, and she brings elements of these into fusion with her close observation of nature. She uses them to convey a sense of narrative in her work, drawing attention to moments of folklore, mythology, and literature that may otherwise go overlooked, and imbuing her paintings and drawings with meaning and mystery.
We encourage you to follow Kaysha on Instagram, and to visit her website to see more of her incredible work:
https://www.instagram.com/kayshasiemens (@kayshasiemens)
https://www.kayshasiemens.com/
We look forward to seeing you all at Comic Con and to introducing you to Kaysha and her incredible work— come visit us July 25-28, 2024 at booth #934 / 936!
It is with tremendous pride and excitement that we present this year’s alchemist, our San Diego Comic Con 2024 Sponsored Artist…
Kaysha Siemens
From our inception, part of the mission of the Kevin Workman Foundation has been not only to cultivate the best and the brightest rising-star visual artists, but also to expose work that is fresh and unusual to a much wider audience that has very likely never seen anything quite like it before— we think you’ll agree our selection this year fits the bill!
Kaysha is an award-winning artist currently specializing in oil painting and graphite, with a recent delve into the Renaissance realm of egg tempera which, yes, is exactly what it sounds like: pigments made from an egg base!
Her mind is peopled with the tales and figures of myth and legend, and she brings elements of these into fusion with her close observation of nature. She uses them to convey a sense of narrative in her work, drawing attention to moments of folklore, mythology, and literature that may otherwise go overlooked, and imbuing her paintings and drawings with meaning and mystery.
We encourage you to follow Kaysha on Instagram, and to visit her website to see more of her incredible work:
https://www.instagram.com/kayshasiemens (@kayshasiemens)
https://www.kayshasiemens.com/
We look forward to seeing you all at Comic Con and to introducing you to Kaysha and her incredible work— come visit us July 25-28, 2024 at booth #934 / 936!
16 January 2024
Vault Doors Closed!
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The application period for our San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Sponsored Artist has closed, and our Selection Committee has seriously got its work cut out for it.
THANK YOU to all of the artists who applied! We’ll be posting updates to social media in the coming weeks and letting you know where we are in the selection process, so be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and/or Twitter ("X"). Best of luck to all applicants! |
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15 September 2023
The search for our 2024 SDCC Sponsored Artist starts NOW!
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Starfleet Operations has cleared us for departure – course plotted and laid in: second star to the right, and straight on ‘til morning.
Warp engines… ENGAGE! This will mark our 11th year in service to the art and fandom communities, where we provide an early-career artist a life-changing opportunity to attend and exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con International. Do you know a talented visual artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, or videographer? Are YOU one? Inspire and be inspired -- APPLY TODAY! |
27 March 2023
Our Sponsored Artist for Comic Con 2023 is...
Remember when you were a child, following along as a teacher had you fold paper, then cut shapes into it with scissors— unsure about exactly what you were doing— only to unfold it and discover that you’d created a wondrous, magical snowflake?
Now imagine increasing the degree of complexity a hundredfold, cutting the paper by hand with a scalpel, doing it in 3-D— and you’ll begin to understand what we’re about to unveil.
After much consideration and deliberation, it is with tremendous excitement that we present our San Diego Comic Con 2023 Sponsored Artist…
Daria Aksenova
From our inception, part of the mission of the Kevin Workman Foundation has been not only to try to cultivate the best and the brightest rising-star visual artists, but also to expose work that is fresh and unusual to a much wider audience that has very likely never seen anything quite like it before— we think you’ll agree that our selection fits the bill!
Daria uses ink as an unforgiving medium that precludes editing and demands precision. Individual elements are then hand-cut with a scalpel and suspended against each other, achieving the desired depth. Her technique demands a steady hand and unfailing commitment, often requiring over a hundred hours of dedication and intimacy with each piece to create her enchanting shadowboxes -- she even makes her own frames!
We encourage you to follow Daria on Instagram, and to visit her website to see more of her incredible work: https://www.instagram.com/dariaaksenovaart (@dariaaksenovaart)
https://dariaaksenova.com/
We look forward to seeing you all at Comic Con and to introducing you to Daria and her work— come visit us at booth #934!
2023 Sponsored Artist Selection
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Dear Friends and Followers:
In the interest of transparency and full disclosure, we wanted to update you on the status of our Sponsored Artist Search for SDCC 2023. Due to some scheduling issues, we're running a little behind. We've selected our finalists for this year, and we are in the process of interviewing them and reviewing their applications (again). Our sincere thanks to *everyone* who applied -- as usual, our selection committee is not having an easy time of selecting a winner! We anticipate being able to announce our selection before the end of March. In the meantime, follow us on Instagram for some awesome cosplay pix from WonderCon this weekend (March 24-26). |
AIRLOCK SECURE!
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The application period for our San Diego Comic-Con 2023 Sponsored Artist has closed, and our Selection Committee has really got its work cut out for it.
THANK YOU to all of the artists who applied! We’ll be posting updates in the coming weeks and letting you know where we are in the selection process. Best of luck to all applicants! |
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Launch Control...
WE HAVE LIFTOFF!
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The search for our SDCC 2023 Sponsored Artist begins NOW!
This will mark our 10th year (a decade!) in service to the art and fandom community, where we provide early-career artists a life-changing opportunity to attend and exhibit at San Diego Comic-Con International. Do you know a talented visual artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, or videographer? Are YOU one? Inspire and be inspired -- APPLY TODAY! Click Here for more information and our application form! |
Our Sponsored Artist for Comic Con 2022 is...
It's not deja vu... it's not a glitch in the Matrix!
We originally made this announcement on March 11, 2020 -- about a week before the world went all Stranger Things and turned upside-down.
Here we are nearly 2.5 years later, and we're happy to announce that we'll be back at San Diego Comic Con for 2022, along with our Sponsored Artist originally selected for 2020!
It is with great excitement that we present our Comic Con 2022 Sponsored Artist...
Daniel Ibanez!
From our inception, part of the mission of the Kevin Workman Foundation has been not only to try to cultivate the best and the brightest rising-star visual artists, but also to expose work that is fresh and unusual to a much wider audience.
Daniel is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based husband, father, teacher, and artist who is as talented as he is prolific, and exhibiting at Comic Con will present him with an amazing opportunity to accomplish just that.
Excelling in a number of traditional mediums as well as digital, Daniel effortlessly transitions between myriad styles and subject matter: everything from neo-impressionist landscapes and still-lifes to otherworldly, Frazetta-inspired fantasy scenes.
We encourage you to follow Daniel on Instagram to see his latest updates, as well as visit his website to see more of his incredible art: https://www.instagram.com/mambobon (@mambobon)
https://www.danielibanez.net
We look forward to seeing you all again at Comic Con and to introducing you to Daniel and his work -- come visit us at booth #934!
We originally made this announcement on March 11, 2020 -- about a week before the world went all Stranger Things and turned upside-down.
Here we are nearly 2.5 years later, and we're happy to announce that we'll be back at San Diego Comic Con for 2022, along with our Sponsored Artist originally selected for 2020!
It is with great excitement that we present our Comic Con 2022 Sponsored Artist...
Daniel Ibanez!
From our inception, part of the mission of the Kevin Workman Foundation has been not only to try to cultivate the best and the brightest rising-star visual artists, but also to expose work that is fresh and unusual to a much wider audience.
Daniel is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based husband, father, teacher, and artist who is as talented as he is prolific, and exhibiting at Comic Con will present him with an amazing opportunity to accomplish just that.
Excelling in a number of traditional mediums as well as digital, Daniel effortlessly transitions between myriad styles and subject matter: everything from neo-impressionist landscapes and still-lifes to otherworldly, Frazetta-inspired fantasy scenes.
We encourage you to follow Daniel on Instagram to see his latest updates, as well as visit his website to see more of his incredible art: https://www.instagram.com/mambobon (@mambobon)
https://www.danielibanez.net
We look forward to seeing you all again at Comic Con and to introducing you to Daniel and his work -- come visit us at booth #934!
Sponsorship Program
Offered to promising artists or creative professionals who use technology in novel ways to inspire or advance the fields of popular arts, videography, photography, game design, writing, and social media.
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Educational Program
Provides skill development, tutoring, and mentoring for future generations of artists and creative professionals with the aim of maximizing each individual's opportunity to pursue work in or be inspired by the fields of popular arts.
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