Diana Sudyka, Artist and Illustrator, Talks About Making a Creative Life

Diana Sudyka talks about creating a life as an artist and illustrator. Sudyka is known online as Tiny Aviary (@tinyaviary) and specializes in illustrative works that feature birds, animals and humans in intricate design. Her early career featured event posters promoting musicians like The Black Keys and Neko Case and is now exploring book illustration work. Her work and online store can be found at dianasudyka.com

She now lives in Evanston and works out of her basement studio, with her husband Jay Ryan (The Bird Machine) and child, and is contributing to the creative community that makes this town a unique and interesting place to live.

We mention the event poster she donated to the Nasty Women Evanston fundraiser for Planned Parenting in June 2017, see below, and is available for purchase online. Visit her website and online store at dianasudyka.com

Bio from dianasudyka.com

Diana Sudyka  (pronounced soo-dee-kah) is a Chicago based illustrator. She started out by designing and screen-printing posters for musicians including: Andrew Bird, St. Vincent, The Black Keys, Neko Case, and The Decemberists. Examples this early poster work can be seen in Gigposters Volume 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century (Quirk Books). Following, she began illustrating YA books, illustrating several volumes of the award winning and NYTimes bestselling series The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Secret Keepers also by Stewart, and Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley. She is currently illustrating the first of several upcoming children’s picture books to be released in 2018 and 2019. Working mainly in gouache, ink and watercolor, subject matter and aesthetic choices for her paintings are largely informed by a deep passion for the natural world, and inspired by a love of various folk art traditions. When not working or with her family, she volunteers in the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History bird lab. Her instagram feed sometimes has a disproportionate amount of pictures of lichens and moss.

Select Client List:
Andrew Bird, Abrams Books for Young Readers, Beach Lane Books, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, EMI Records, The Field Museum of Natural History, Folio Society, Harper Collins Publishers, Intercontinental Hotels, Habitat Skateboards, Little, Brown, and Company (Hachette Group USA), Penguin Random House, POETRY Foundation, Scholastic Books, Simon and Schuster, Spirituality & Health Magazine, The Washington Post, Whole Foods Market.

CONTACT:
For book related inquiries, please contact agents Andrea Morrison and Rebecca Sherman at Writers House: amorrison@writershouse.com & rsherman@writershouse.com.
For all other inquiries: diana@dianasudyka.com

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The Lisa D Show with Kathy Halper

Meet Kathy Halper, artist and co-producer of the Nasty Women Evanston Art Fundraiser at 1100 Florence in West Evanston. Full disclosure, I'm the other producer of this event, but we keep the podcast real and I do the interviewing, walking you through why Kathy brought this event to Evanston and how you can get involved. Below is her art donation, Lying Liars Lie, available for purchase at the event.

From nastywomenevanston.org

ONE NIGHT ONLY! 
Saturday, June 3  Join us! Through art we can raise awareness, raise money, raise our voices and raise hell! Nasty Women Evanston is inspired by the Nasty Women Exhibition in NYC and the growing number of sister shows all over the world supporting women’s causes. 

Saturday, June 3 from 6-9 this one night only special event takes place at 1100 Florence in Evanston. All art will be priced at $100! 100% of our proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. So let’s get nasty together! Join us to make and support art for a great cause. 

Help Nasty Women Evanston Raise $10,000! Buy Custom Commemorative Poster by Diana Sudyka!

We are so excited to offer this beautiful 11"x17" art poster by Chicago illustrator Diana Sudyka to memorialize our Nasty Women Evanston Art Exhibition! She's designed posters for Andrew Bird, The Decemberists, St. Vincent, Neko Case, The Black Keys and us!!!
We are offering it for $40 here on the website. All proceeds (minus printing costs) will go Planned Parenthood. We are encouraging all artists and event goers and supporters to buy it now! Your copy will be waiting for you at the event!

We will have a limited edition of prints available to the public on June 3 but expect them to fly out the door quickly!

Click below to reserve your copy now.

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100 years ago, I had a live talk radio show in El Paso, TX, "The Lisa D Show" on KHRO 1650 AM. Live, call-in radio is where it's at; I LOVED the spontaneity and silliness of conversations with strangers.

Fast Forward to 2017 in Evanston, IL, "The Lisa D Show" is a podcast celebrating creatives, featuring 20-minute, unedited conversations that mimic the live-radio vibe, very low tech on purpose. 

I interview the creatives, the people who make our world a more connected, interesting and beautiful place to live. Podcasts are posted at thelisadshow.blogspot.com and on Sound Cloud at @lisa-degliantoni

Mostly recorded at 1100 Florence, an art event space in West Evanston, IL, owned and operated by Lisa Degliantoni and Dave Ford.1100 Florence is a former Polish meat shop, probably not the BEST place to record a podcast (boomy to say the least) but we're new and it will get better. Reach out to thelisadshow[at]gmail.com