Illustration, BFA

Faculty

• Ryan O'Rourke

  

  Associate Professor, Illustration
  Phone: 603.428.2649
  Email: rorourke@nec.edu
  Professional website: ryanorourke.com

  Expertise and Awards
  Illustration: children’s books, editorials, advertising, institutional, and murals

  My work has been awarded by The Society of Illustrators, SILA, 3×3 Magazine, Children’s Book Council, and The International Reading Association.

  Educational Background
  MFA in Illustration, University of Hartford
  BFA in Illustration, University of Hartford

  Bio
  Ryan O’Rourke has taught in higher education since 2006. Since he started teaching at the former New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) in 2010, Ryan has taught a wide variety of classes focused on the various markets and mediums essential to the field of illustration. He has enjoyed working with a wide range of students across various levels of development, continually helping students discover their own unique way of telling a story visually.

  In his tenure teaching at NHIA and NEC, Ryan has helped develop a robust illustration curriculum implementing a broad variety of digital and traditional approaches to solving visual problems. His classes put a heavy emphasis on consistent process, building images from initial ideation and sketch to final output for print or web format. One of Ryan’s greatest achievement as an educator has been the numerous professional opportunities he has obtained for his students prior to graduation. Many of his students have continued to develop successful careers off of the professional relationships established under Ryan’s tutelage with real-world clients.

  His professional work outside of academia includes illustration for a wide variety of editorial, advertising, institutional, and book publishing clients. Ryan has written and illustrated two children’s books—Bella, Lost and Found and Bella Up, Up, and Away—for HarperCollins Publishers. He has also illustrated 12 other children’s books for clients such as Clarion Publishing, Boyds Mills Kane Press, Sterling Publishing, and Charlesbridge Publishing. His editorial clients include The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Hawaii Magazine, Honolulu Magazine, Houston Press, New Jersey Monthly, New Hampshire Magazine, Spider Magazine, Cricket Magazine, The Hartford Courant, TIME for Kids, Rhode Island Monthly, Yankee Magazine, and more.

• Rich Pellegrino

  

  Associate Professor, Illustration
  Phone: 603.428.2645
  Email: rpellegrino@nec.edu

  Bio
  Rich Pellegrino is an award-winning illustrator and Assistant Professor of Illustration and Comic Arts at New England College. He has a BFA in Illustration rom Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from New England College Visual Arts Program. His clients include: NFL, Microsoft Xbox, AMC Breaking Bad, Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), WWE, Valiant Comics, BOOM Studios Comics, Rovio (Angry Birds), Blue Moon Brewing Co., Planet Rock Magazine, MARVEL STUDIOS, Warner Bros., Lucasfilm and Eric Clapton’s Guitar Festival 2010. His illustration for Planet Rock was awarded the Bronze medal by the Society of Illustrators West 56. He is recognized by Spectrum 22, 24 and 26, Richmond Illustrators Club 2012, and CMYK 37. He is currently working on the 2022 follow up to his solo exhibition from earlier this year at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles.