Cassidy Stock ✧ Teacher, Graphic Designer/ Mixed Media Artist, Framing & Curation

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 2012
Oxbow Summer program, glass blowing, Saugatuck, 2012
Ox-bow School in Napa Valley, CA, semester program, 2007

 

Commissions

Rodgers, Cheryl, Mystery at Clarke Mansion Book Cover Illustration. Published 2023. Forthcoming: Mystery at the Museum and Mystery at Camp Collins 

Pet portrait commissions, ongoing, monthly, 2021-present

Portrait commission: Dean 4”x6” acrylic on board

Portrait commission, Emily 24”x18” acrylic on board

Book Illustrations for ongoing work: “Give Out Love & Love Comes Back: A Guidebook for Teachers of Young Children” by Jim Stevens, Rochester, MI, 2021-present

 

Custom permanent signage for:

• Crosby Workshop in Grand Rapids
• Root Cafe in Fennville
• Sanctuary Gardens in Holland

 

Graphic Design

Designs for mailers and table displays at Root Cafe, 2021

Video shoot and editing for Patronicity crowd-funding and Motor-City Match Grant proposal for Root Cafe (Awarded), 2021

Wedding commission for custom acrylic table markers featuring illustrations of popular singers, Drumtochty Castle, Auchenblae, Scotland, 2021

Cover illustration and design for Disco Movers patreon-only exclusive cassette tape distribution by DJ Rotten Milk, 2021

Falling Waters Lodge in Leland, MI, custom shirt designs, 2020

Custom frisbee design for wedding between two Ultimate Frisbee League captains, 2016

 

Exhibitions

Custom paintings for all 21 rooms and reception at the Falling Waters Lodge, Leland, MI, 2018-2020

Exhibited “Carbon On Tree” collaborative graphite drawing with Peter Middleton in Holland Area Arts Council Annual west Michigan All-Media show, 2019

Exhibited collage on panel “Building, Falling, Draining” 10”x12”  in Muskegon Museum’s mixed media show, 2019

Exhibiting Artist: Rizzolo Retrospective at the Holland Area Arts Council, 2021

Recipient: Second Place, Juried Exhibition, South Haven Center for the Arts Drawing Show. Juried by Lou Rizzolo, 2018 — “Da Kine” pencil and ink on paper, 36″x24″

Recipient: Best In Show, Juried Regional High School Exhibition, Holland Area Center for the Arts, Juried by John Leben, 2008 — “Schoolboy” Oil on linen, 5’x7′

 

Published Work

Poetry featured in bi-monthly LA zine Lowly Dirt Children: “Tap Room” 2020

 

Relevant Work

Bon Watt, Self-published, self-produced album of all-original music on cassette. 30:15

(60+ distribution mailers each included custom-painted toy horse to match the theme), Released April, 2022

 

Visiting Artist and Teacher, Black River School, Holland MI, 2019

For a three-week immersive multimedia project. Using a grant from the Michigan Department of Humanities, students grades 6-12 created an immersive installation of underwater landscapes, one polluted and one healthy. Students in grade 4 made paper-mache masks of freshwater creatures to participate during the final performance. Using inspiration from the Big Read book “What the Eyes Don’t See” by Mona Hatta-Attisha, students learned about the Flint water crisis, lake pollution and the benefits of taking care of our municipal water systems. (MI Dept. of Humanities representative awarded Black River another grant after visiting the show)

Teaching technical drawing, cartooning, character design and creative writing through non-profit CultureWorks in Holland MI 2016-Present

Guest painter at Loft 310 wedding venue, February 2020

Eight hours of continuous painting, capturing the first dance and adding custom portraits of family members when requested (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQgxJf4hIU)

Guest installer at Benton Harbor site for Marc Rizzolo’s ‘Sail’ project, 2018

 

Sales and Advanced framing techniques (float framing, mat board cutting, glass cutting, double/triple mat stacking, large-format giclee printing) at Lake Effect Gallery, 2016

 

Art installation at Sullivan Galleries, SAIC 2008-2012

 

Installer, creator, performer for Black River Project Term’s Thinking Big: Large-Scale Multimedia Performance Pieces:

 

• Vices & Virtues, Curated my own performance based on Vices & Virtues. Collaborated with peers on original costume & set design, musical score and masks. Performed in Black River Gym, 2008
• Forest/Food using local donations of large foam blocks, students carved giant hot dogs and hamburgers to put them in the forest. Students crafted giant litter (cigarette butts and wrappers) and put together a handmade glass-bottle instrument. Original musical score by Dylan Perez, played live during performance, 2006
• The Brain, using two inflated domes, students learned about the left and right lobes of the brain and how they assimilate information and release energy. Original choreographed performance aided by Hope college dance professor, featuring original music score composed by students. Performed with projected lights, images and sound at Centennial Park, Holland MI, 2005
• Puppets, using techniques learned from Bread & Puppet theater, students designed, built and performed inside of giant puppets. Final performance, parade down Holland downtown area, 2003
• World Peace Flags, original silk-dyed flags made by students using ink and wax resist techniques, raised at Windmill on the Waterfront in Holland MI, 2002