Location: Graham Auditorium

Chris Oatley is a Visual Development Artist and Illustrator for Disney, The host of iTunes’ #1 Illustration Podcast and the Director of The Oatley Academy Of Visual Storytelling. In this deeply emotional and inspiring presentation, you’ll learn: How Chris almost destroyed his own animation career before it even got started (and what to do if the same thing happens to you). The best way to harvest oranges in Southern California (and what that has to do with maintaining a successful art career). What a great mentor can do for you that you probably can’t do for yourself. …and the one, major mindset shift that will improve your art instantaneously