Self portrait Mariah Graham 2015 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
Our subscribers typically ask how we discover the proficient instructors featured in our College of Vogue video library. The reply is straightforward: we search out one of the best from each academia and the style trade. A lot of our instructors are seasoned faculty professors who presently train—or have taught—at famend colleges equivalent to Parsons, FIT, and different main style establishments. Others come immediately from the trade, bringing many years of real-world expertise {and professional} perception to our classes.
This put up spotlights Mariah Graham, a gifted style illustrator whose creativity shines not solely via her style work but additionally via her effective artwork observe.
Mariah Graham art work 2016 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
From the Cotton Area to the World of Vogue
Mariah Graham was born in Kingstree, South Carolina, one in every of seven youngsters in a household of sharecroppers. From the age of 4 till eighteen, she and her household labored within the cotton fields below Jim Crow. In 1964, looking for new alternatives, they migrated north to 128th Road in New York Metropolis. The whole household shared a single studio residence, and Mariah typically did her homework within the toilet, the one quiet nook she might discover.
She attended Benjamin Franklin Excessive College—now the Manhattan Middle for Science and Arithmetic—the place she graduated as class salutatorian. As the one lady amongst six brothers, Mariah discovered early the worth of willpower and resilience. Refusing to let gender bias or circumstance outline her, she adopted her ardour for artwork to Manhattan’s College of Visible Arts. In 1968, she was one in every of solely 5 African American college students on the college.
Over time, Mariah has constructed a multifaceted profession that spans modeling, instructing, printmaking, graphic design, and illustration.
Mariah Graham art work 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
For twelve years, Mariah lent her expertise to The New York Occasions, illustrating for its style pages. Her artistic versatility spans each digital and hand-drawn strategies, producing work for shoppers equivalent to Saatchi & Saatchi, Gray Promoting, The Day by day Information, Ogilvy & Mather, and HBO, together with editorial illustrations for The Josephine Baker Story. She has additionally created editorial items for Vogue and collaborated with main beauty manufacturers together with Revlon, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Elizabeth Arden. Her portfolio has reached a world viewers, showcased to prime artistic administrators and editors in Beijing and Singapore—the place she was featured as an “Artist of As we speak.”
Mariah Graham art work 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
Mariah Graham art work 2018 (Picture credit score: Mariah Graham)
View extra and buy Mariah’s art work: http://www.mariahgraham.com/
At College of Vogue, Mariah shares her experience on how to attract and ink a number of style poses together with males, girls, tweens and plus measurement.
Right here’s a hyperlink to view her collection of classes:
