SAM Greene (she / her )
Skills/Mediums: Art Teacher, Ceramics/Clay, Digital, Drawing, Illustration-Graphic Design, Jewelry, Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Underserved
Member of ACW since: April 15, 2020
Biography
SAM Greene
sam@sciencepiction.com
www.sciencepiction.com
• Fine Art Prints in digital media, watercolor, and gouache
• Polymer Clay Creations
SAM earned her BA in Graphic Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco CA. After freelancing in Japan for a few years, she moved to New York City, where she worked on projects for clients such as Nickelodeon and Encyclopedia Britannica before taking a position as head art director for M&M/Mars Inc. Skittles and Snickers at a design and advertising firm. After 911, she worked independently on editorial illustrations for the New York Times, Business Week, New York Magazine, and educational illustration including ninety illustrations for a book entitled Gardening with Children for Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, fifty illustrations for signage for the children’s garden at New York Botanical Gardens and nature-themed illustrations for Oxford University Press’s Oxford English Picture Dictionary.
SAM’s personal work focuses on science and fantasy subjects such as a series of humorous illustrations of Extremophiles–extreme life forms–and a second series depicting The Planets and Planettes, which relies heavily on astrological metaphors and magical realism. This work was exhibited at the Flushing Hall of Science in Queens NY and Brooklyn Public Library.
Her involvement with social justice began in New York City, where she worked as a teaching artist both for the New York City Department of Education and the New York Department of Juvenile Justice. She facilitated art workshops for underserved, marginalized populations in New York City public schools and also for residents of juvenile detention sites in Brooklyn and Bronx, New York.
Currently, SAM lives in Saint Paul Minnesota where she creates polymer clay sculpture and fine art prints in digital media, watercolor, and gouache.