Second year student Ikumi Kayama received a certificate of merit for her Asymmetric Metamorphosis of Paralichthys dentatus from the Illustrators Club 14th Juried Exhibition. Her work will be on display at Pepco's Place Gallery in Washington, DC from May 8 to June 27, 2008.

Previously, she had received the Member's Choice Award from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Juried Exhibition.

Class of ’08 celebrates after final surgical illustration critique!

The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine's Annual Surgical Illustration Critique was held on Friday, December 7th, 2007.

Faculty from the School of Medicine, departmental alumni and other guests reviewed surgical illustrations created by our second year graduate students.  Ten pieces were critiqued in depth, with discussion on the content, clarity, accuracy, media use and storytelling of each image. Congratulations to our second year students!

It has just been announced that Ian Suk, Assistant Professor, Art as Applied to Medicine and Neurological Surgery, is the winner of the 1st annual Dr. Pascual Award in the International Medical Illustration Competition (www.ccmi.es/mediic) for his illustration of Endoscopic Image-guided Odontoidectomy.  Ian, a 1993 graduate of the University of Toronto, Department of Biocommunications, joined the full-time faculty of the Department at Johns Hopkins in 2002 to continue his work with Dr. Ziya Gokaslan in the Department of Neurological Surgery following their move to Baltimore from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. 

This award, given by the family and friends of Dr. Netter, will provide financial aid to students in the graduate program of medical and biological illustration. New advances in medicine now challenge the illustrator to create more innovative communication skills.

The Scholarship Fund recognizes Frank F. Netter’s legacy to medical art; his insistence on thoroughly understanding the subject matter and his high artistic standards.

For many decades Frank Netter’s name has been synonymous with medical illustration. Doctors, medical students, health-care providers, and sometimes, curious patients have looked through copies of the CIBA Clinical Symposia for Netter’s illustrations providing sought-after information. Then, later, numerous bound volumes, the CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, again offering Netter’s works depicting both the anatomy and pathology of particular systems and organs.

Frank Netter lives on as an educator in the medical sciences and an inspiration to students developing the skills of medical illustrator.

Shizuka Aoki

Stephanie DePalma

Beatriz Martin Villalba

Neil McMillan

Joseph Samson

Up in Flames: The Art of Flame Painting

Up in Flames: The Art of Flame Painting (MBI 2006) celebrates a truly American art form that has invaded and changed the face of popular culture. The book features the life histories of 18 famous flame painters, their working style and full color images of their creatively crafted cars. Flame painting history and its practitioners have never been fully recognized for the art that has always signified hot rods and motorcycles. The art form's legitimacy lies in the world of true ornamentation-art for beauty, art with a purpose. Many of the stories are coming from first generation painters who initiated the art form just 60 years ago. Colorful words-and-colorful ART-indeed!

In preparation for this book and since, Tim has flame painted over 400 miniature diecast cars and has authored over 2 dozen history and how-to articles for a variety of rod, art and toy magazines.