The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 9, February 29, 2004, Article 18

U.S. MINT ARTISTS CHOSEN

Dick Johnson sent the following Associate Press article
about artists chosen by the U.S. Mint to submit coin
design ideas. He writes: "Interestingly, only one of these
artists mentions that they create in bas-relief and only one
is a medallic sculptor! Yet more than half a dozen are
graphic designers and flat illustrators. Look for more
flat coin designs.

They must be trained to think, dream, create, sketch
and model in modulated relief before they can create a
coin design."

From the Associated Press article:
"Two dozen artists were chosen to periodically submit designs
for circulating coins for the U.S. Mint. They also will be asked
to submit designs for non-circulating commemorative coins
and medals.

The Mint said that the "master designers" are:

Leonard E. Buckley, Damascus, Md., former currency
designer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, now doing
watercolor painting and calligraphy.

Stephen M. Clark, Post Falls, Idaho, wildlife painter, freelance
designer and medallic sculptor.

Thomas S. Cleveland, Houston, Texas, commercial graphic
designer.

Charles Danek, Los Angeles, photographic producer.

Joe Fitzgerald, Silver Spring, Md., computer graphics,
woodcuts, pastels and oil paintings.

Jamie Franki, Concord, N.C., illustrator, associate professor,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Sharon Fullingim, Socorro, N.M., sculptor in bronze,
limestone and marble.

Susan Gamble, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., graphic
designer and illustrator.

Howard Koslow, Toms River, N.J., painter and illustrator.

Bill Krawczewicz, Severna Park, Md., currency designer,
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Justin Kunz, Sandy, Utah, contemporary realist painter
and graphic designer.

Michael Leidel, Marietta, Ga., graphic designer, acrylic
and oil painter.

Richard Masters, Appleton, Wis., illustrator, associate
professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Erik Must, Lakewood, N.J., illustrator.

John Nordyke, West Hartford, Conn., graphic designer
assistant professor, University of Hartford.

Garland "Neal" Taylor, Durant, Okla., western and historical
illustrator in oils and sculpture.

Joanne C. Wasserman, Silver Spring, Md., commercial
designer and calligrapher.

Mary Beth Zeitz, Marlton, N.J., graphic designer and illustrator

The "associate" designers are:

Rebecca Armstrong, illustration major, Virginia
Commonwealth University.

Analee Kasudia, graphic design major, Columbia College,
Chicago

Joseph LiCalzi, Bas-Relief study, Fleischer Art Memorial,
the Frank Gasparro Studio, Philadelphia.

Amy Mortensen, photographic illustration major, University
of Connecticut, Storrs.

Patrick J. Quill, marketing and art studio double major,
University of Notre Dame.

Georgina Smigen-Rothkopf, painting, drawing and illustration,
The School of Art Institute of Chicago."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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