NEW ARTIST OPENING AT OUR MT LEBANON TAPROOM!
Join us Friday, May 2nd for the opening event of the newest artist to adorn the walls of our Mount Lebanon Taproom, Frederick H. Carlson!
Fred Carlson grew up in rural Connecticut and came to Pittsburgh in 1973 to attend Carnegie Mellon University graduating in 1977 with a degree in Design. He drew his first paying free-lance commissions for The Carnegie magazine while still a student 51 years ago.
He is one of the most well-known illustrators in the mid-Atlantic market having completed works as large as room-sized murals and as small as one of his 400 music packaging covers. His work has been used to educate in national zoos and parks, as portraiture in national magazines, and in books. Fred’s recent book project, completed in late 2021, with author Barbara Burstin “America and the Holocaust” has been publicized in the Times of Israel and the Jewish Chronicle, and is listed on the WETA/Washington DC Public Television website as an educational resource. Since 2015, Fred has built an online retail poster sales shop and has orders coming in from Australia, England, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and all over the United States. https://frederick-h-carlson.square.site
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His awards have included two acceptances into the NY Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition. Recent nationally recognized assignments have included a DVD cover series for Guitar Workshop of famous blues guitarists Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Son House, Bukka White, Lead Belly, Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Charley Patton. Other nationally recognized clients have included: NY Times, SONY Music, BMG/RCA/County, Koppers Corp, Westinghouse, WQED, Saturday Evening Post, The Wall Street Journal, Shanachie and Yazoo Recordings, Yankee, PNC Bank, Home Depot, National Science Foundation, Boy Scouts, AMERICA Magazine, Mel Bay Publications, Dartmouth University, United Steelworkers, and Carnegie Mellon.
Frederick will be hanging with us Friday evening from 5-7pm in our Taproom space and will have postcards, giclée posters, and softcover versions of his book “America and the Holocaust” for sale at that event.
We encourage you to visit his website at:
https://carlsonstudio.com
Check out samples of his work on this page and we’ll see you at the Taproom on May 2nd!
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