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About Me

Ink-slung slam-bang shot-from-the-hip illustration at www.tedmichalowski.comPoster for the current Northeast Theatre production:Illustration copyright 2007 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.comThe Northeast Theatre Performance Space at the Hotel Jermyn 326 Spruce Street, 2nd Flr. Downtown Scranton, PA 570-558-1515 http://www.thenortheasttheatre.us/MenuSeason When I Float Backwards illustration copyright 2007 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.comIllustrator, instructor, sketchbook sniper, courtroom artist, Chinese boxer, sub-amateur drummer, rascal.Jestem zaczajona strzelota wyborowa atramentu.Ink-slinger back-to-the-wall with lightfast waterproof Uni-ball six-shooters at each side.Scribbler, squiggler, squirter.Illustrations copyright 2006-2008 Ted Michalowski. All illustrations on this web site are the sole property of the artist. No reproduction of these images is allowed in any way without the written permission of the artist.Graduate in the inaugural class of Murray Tinkelman's MFA Illustration program at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. The good old days are NOW. Life is good (and it beats the alternative).www.hartfordillustrationmfa.org/alumni_2007Univ ersity of Hartford article on this programCoordinator of DRAWING SOCIALSDrawing Socials take place at AfA Gallery , located at 514 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, PA.Drawing Socials combine a drawing group with a live musical performance; the performers being the subject as well as the entertainment. Every week presents a different ensemble of progressive and experimental musicians in a venue allowing them to perform uncompromised to an all-ages Strathmore-toting crowd with expectations extending beyond the current top-40. The music ranges from and merges rock, classical, jazz, gypsy, folk, country, blues, electronic, and the experimental and avant-garde.Draw the musicians, the crowd, or just relax and enjoy. Meet local artists, musicians, and socialites.All Drawing Socials run 6-9pm on Sundays unless otherwise noted.The admission fee is $5 general, $2 with valid student ID. All ages and skill levels are welcome. The non-drawing and non-musical are also very welcome.Check calendar below for schedule.Support art-core.Get out to draw the town black.See Drawing Socials Posters in Pics, which also include links to all the musicians' Myspace pages.

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My Interests

Illustrations copyright 2006-2008 Ted Michalowski. All illustrations on this web site are the sole property of the artist. No reproduction of these images is allowed in any way without the written permission of the artist.Portfolio at www.tedmichalowski.comPoster for upcoming Drawing Social:Drawing Socials posters copyright 2006-2008 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.com*See pics for posters of Drawing Socials past.Keystone Faculty Exhibition opens April 13 4-6pm:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Ward Roe copyright 2008 Ted Michalowski www. tedmichalowski. com
From the Drawing Synaesthetic series from the Hartford Art School MFA Thesis Exhibition 2007 (see pics for others):Ceramic Dog, Tonic NYC, July 2006 Drawing copyright 2007 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.comChes Smith & Shahzad Ismaily of Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog will be performing at the AfA Gallery Sunday, February 3, 2008, for Drawing Socials. www.tedmichalowski.comFrom the collection of James Jordan, originally shown in the AfA Madness Show, March 2007, and the Society of Illustrators, July 2007:Title: "How do you know I'm mad?" Medium: "Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils" Size: 22"x 30"SOLDCopyright 2007 Ted MichalowskiTitle: "Have some wine" Medium: "Mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness" Size: 22" x 30"SOLDCopyright 2007 Ted Michalowskiwww.tedmichalowski.comPoster illustration for recent productions of The Northeast Theatre:Click here for the current season at the Northeast Theatre.The Northeast Theatre is located at 326 Spruce Street, 2nd Floor, Scranton, PA. Call the box office at 570-558-1515.www.tedmichalowski.com"Portrait of the Genius as a Middle-Aged Neophyte" (drawing on right) copyright 2006 Ted Michalowski. Charlie Genius Show mailer designed by Ed Rushton, who also designed the web site: www.tedmichalowski.com*Press and printed antics for the Charlie Genius Show can be found in the blog section.

I'd like to meet:

Trinity: Lautrec, Schiele,Degas copyright 2008 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.comFrom the Drawing Synaesthetic series from the Hartford Art School MFA Thesis Exhibition 2007 (see pics for others):Secret Chiefs 3, The Stone NYC, May 2006 Drawing copyright 2007 Ted Michalowski www.tedmichalowski.comChes Smith & Shahzad Ismaily of Secret Chiefs 3 will be performing at the AfA Gallery Sunday, February 3, 2008, for Drawing Socials.

Music:

WHEN I FLOAT BACKWARDSWhen I Float Backwards poster illustration and design copyright 2006 Ted Michalowskiwww.tedmichalowski.comwww.myspace.com/whenifloatb ackwardsSecret Chiefs 3 drawing copyright 2006 Ted MichalowskiCeramic Dog drawings copyright 2006 Ted Michalowskiwww.tedmichalowski.comBoredoms, Mr. Bungle, Talking Heads, Devo, Tom Waits, Public Enemy Beach Boys, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantomas, Moonchild, Peeping Tom, Rahzel, Ceramic Dog, Trio Convulsant, Sex Mob, Melvins, Kaada, Lovage, Handsome Boy Modeling School, OOIOO, Melt Banana, Sparks, Soul Coughing, John Zorn, Prince, David Byrne, Messer Chups, Isms, Kurt Weill, Carl Stalling, Henry Mancini, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Chemical Brothers, George Clinton, Run DMC, Missy Elliot, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Reich, Bela Bartok, Claude DeBussey, Stravinsky, Harry Partch, Andre Popp, Peter Thomas, Spike Jones, When I Float Backwards, and huge plaudits to the musicians performing at Drawing Socials

Movies:

Run Lola Run, Down By Law, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove, Trainspotting Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation, Peter Sellers' Pink Panther, Casino Royale, What's New Pussycat?, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Beauty, Moulin Rouge (1953), Popeye, Modern Times, Seconds, Contempt, Stolen Kisses, Last Year at Marienbad, Princess and the Warrior, Stranger than Paradise, Match Point, Charade, Rear Window, Rope, Strangers on a Train, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, 8 1/2, Blood of a Poet, La Belle et La Bete, Orpheus, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Triplets of Bellville ..

Television:

Courtroom Drawings for CNN, CNN en Espanol, ABC News, Fox News, WBRE, WYOU, WNEP.Videos of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Hazleton Illegal Immigration Ordinance Hearings, with courtroom drawings by Ted Michalowski can be found in the blog at the upper right of this page. Thanks for watching.www.tedmichalowski.com

Books:

SKETCHBOOKS Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass Robert Henri's Art Spirit, Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw, Charles Reid's Painting the Natural Way, The Society of Illustrators Annuals, The Illustrator in America and other Walt Reed texts, Ferrier's Art of Our Century, The Art of Looking Sideways, Ben Shahn's Shape of Content, Moholy Nagy's Vision in Motion, Roger Fry's Vision and Design, Regarding Beauty My own stacks of notebooks Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White's The Elements of Style Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Pinocchio, Harry Potter, Jack Tales, Trickster Makes this World, well-illustrated childrens books Great Gatsby, James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Gulliver's Travels, Oscar Wilde, Sean O'Casey, ee cummings Anything with good pictures, or judged by a cover Anything involving the artists listed below

Heroes:

FRED BRENNER (1920-2006)(dent-making mentor since '93, childrens book illustrator, fashion illustrator 40's-60's)Murray Tinkelman(current mentor, Zeus of illustration, master cross-hatcher)Dave Passalacqua (1926-2004)(drawing teacher 2000-2001, dynamo draftsman)Gene Hoffman (1933-2005)(bricolage teacher 2002, conceptual-blockbuster dimensional artsist)Egon Schiele, Eddie Degas, Toulouse Lautrec (greatest draftsmen)Antonio Lopez, Ben Shahn, David Stone Martin, Andre Francois, Rico LeBrun, Robert Weaver, George Herriman, Winsor McCay, Polish poster artists (revolutionary illustrators)Dadaists (radical wiseguys)Dad (handsome devil)....

My Blog

Courtroom drawings on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight

www.tedmichalowski.comThe following videos show CNN's Lou Dobb's Tonight coverage of the Hazleton Illegal Immigration Ordinance Hearing, featuring the courtroom illustrations of Ted Michalowski. They ...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:44:00 PST

Interview with Times-Tribune and Citizen's Voice

Full palette Artist Ted Michalowski thrives in creative atmosphere at school, work and play BY KRISTIN WINTERMANTEL DURKINSTAFF WRITER 04/22/2007     ..>..>..> ..> ..>..>..>..>  ...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:29:00 PST

BIO

Ted Michalowski has contributed illustrations to The New York Times, Disney, The Knitting Factory NYC, Electric City Weekly, Diamond City Weekly, Scranton Times, Stitch Magazine, Borders Boo...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 04:42:00 PST

Marquis exhibition preview in Electric City, by Alicia Grega

Electric City press for Marquis Gallery Scranton exhibition:The image of regional art scene monarch Ken Marquis is one illustration in Ted Michalowski’s "Drawings that Strike: Scrantopolis" seri...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:41:00 PST

Interview with Electric City for the Charlie Genius Show

Mad 'Genius' By: Alicia Grega-Pikul, ec/dc staff writer 10/05/2006Inside the strangest exhibit of Scranton's First Friday "Charlie Genius could conquer the world with crayons and quotation marks." - F...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:39:00 PST

The Charlie Genius Show tract,

The following text is the content of the Charlie Genius Show tract, inspired by the tracts that fanatics distribute on street corners, entrances, and stick in magazines. These pamphlets are intended ...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:48:00 PST

Instructions for the Charlie Genius Show

This Guide to the Charlie Genius Show can be printed out and carried to the Confirmation of Charlie Genius on Friday, October 6, 2006, taking place at the Test Pattern Gallery, located at 334 Adams Av...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:06:00 PST

The Pink Show: Desire & Derision, the Malarkey of Michalowski & Millard

The Pink Show Artist's Statement: Michalowski Pink is prettyPink is putridPink is sexyPink is sissyPink is sensualPink is scornfulPink is DesirePink is DerisionLee likes romance and roadkillSmeltzer l...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:11:00 PST

Electric City press for the Pink Show, by Alicia Grega

4/17/2008The Artists' StudioNew Studio Helping to Turn Town of Olyphant PinkBy Alicia Grega-Pikul http://www.ecweekend.com/arts/story.asp?id=46818There's a bit of an arts district developing on the 40...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

Ches Smith & Shahzad Ismaily (Mr.Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3) will perform AfA Gallery Sunday Feb 3

A VERY SPECIAL DRAWING SOCIAL PERFORMANCEFEATURING TWO YOUNG PROMINENT MUSICIANS FROM THE DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN/CALIFORNIAUNDERGROUND IMPROVISATIONAL/EXPERIMENTAL ROCK SCENE:CHES SMITH(Mr. Bungle, Secret...
Posted by Ted Michalowski on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:27:00 PST