First Looks Portfolio Booster with Art Director Amelia Mack
Dec 07, 2024
Online event
What do industry professionals look for when they view illustrators’ portfolios, postcards, websites, and social media posts? Amelia Mack, art director at Union Square & Co, will offer live feedback on anonymous submissions. Whether you choose to submit a file or just watch, you'll gain insights on how to improve your art.
Webinar Date and Time
Saturday, December 7, 2024, at 10:30 AM Eastern
The webinar is 90 minutes long.
Registration will close at 5 PM, Thursday, December 5, 2024.
Please note registration confirmations are no longer emailed. You can find your confirmation and the Zoom link on your member home page under My events. The button is located between your News feed and Resources buttons.
A link to a recording of this event will be emailed the day after the webinar and will be available to registered attendees for 30 days.
Amelia is open to receiving digital/snail mail postcards from attendees after the event.
In-Webinar Image Submissions
Please send one .jpg or.png file (5 MB max) of your latest portfolio image, postcard, IG post, or other illustration to mddewv-ic@scbwi.org by 11:59 PM Eastern on Thursday, December 5, 2024. Images will be shown in the order received, and we will get to as many as time allows.
Prices
Premium member price: $15
Regular price: $30
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About the Presenter
Amelia Mack
was the art director and designer for Society of Illustrators 2024 Original Art Show Gold Medal winning book, PEPPER & ME by Beatrice Alemagna (Hippo Park). Previously a children's art director at Chronicle Books for 14 years, then founding art director of Astra's boutique imprints, Hippo Park and Minerva for two; Amelia is now children's art director at the newly rebranded Union Square & Co. (formerly Sterling). Collaboration, visions, and crazy ideas coming together and being realized, and uncovering the beating, playful, wide-open child's heart of the story are the things Amelia loves most about creating children's books. She also loves all the itty-bitty details of making the "book as object" an experience to hold and read (over and over again).
