Kittens in Wonderland
Tail Town Cats is gazing down the rabbit hole to our next community-based art show: Kittens in Wonderland!
Artists were encouraged to seek inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Tea parties, gardens, flowers, animal friends in all their finery, whimsy, and more nonsense than you can shake a croquet mallet at.
Read more about our participating artists and support them below!
Reception takes place on Feb 14, 6pm
Show runs through Sun March 29.
This event takes place inside our adoption lounge, includes light refreshments and first dibs on art pieces to help raise money for our kitties!
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Pranav Nair
Pranav Nair is a Concept Artist and Designer from India, who lives and work in the Los Angeles area. An ArtCenter Alumni, Pranav has a background in illustration, product design, and visual story-telling.
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Beka Kamemoto
Beka was born on the beautiful island of Oahu. In her free time she enjoys walking, spending time with her cat ( the muse to all of her work) and painting. Beka typically uses acrylic paint and pastels, but she also loves digital art.
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Faheema Chaudhury
Faheema Chaudhury creates art that is not only colorful but honors the little girl that still lives inside of her heart. Faheema loves to design everything from jewelry and stationery to ceramics and housewares.
She enjoys putting her own spin on the fandoms she loves as well as creating her own original art pieces. Recently, she has been exploring her own Bangladeshi culture for inspiration in both her personal style with fashion and in her art.
Faheema lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and is always accompanied by her fur babies, Tali and Khushi - who are either napping or asking for a snack.
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Tatiana Orellana
Tatiana mixes illustration with graphic design, inspired by the art in games like Pokemon and childhood stories like Peter Rabbit. She likes to capture the whimsy and magic of what we see in the every day. She’s primarily a digital and sketchbook artist, painting is sometimes on the table if she feels like dealing with the clean up and inevitable stains.
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Srimoyee Acharya
Srimoyee Acharya is a LA-based, South Asian American artist. Her brand Srimoyee Handmade offers joyful animal and nature designs. Srimoyee is using her art to create a better world for furry and feathered friends.
As a BIPOC artist, Srimoyee uses her art to express herself as a first-generation South Asian American artist whose identity is rooted in nature and color.
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Sue Johnson
Susan C. Johnson is a painter currently living in Pasadena, CA.
She was born in Middletown, CT and received her degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University. After a 30 year art teaching career at the elementary level, Susan retired and is enjoying painting full-time. She has taken workshops with professional artists in Connecticut, Florida, Colorado, and California.
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James Asuncion
James Asuncion is a Mexican/Filipino artist. For 20+ years, he has worked as an Art Director and Sr. Graphic Artist developing designs for some of the industry’s most recognizable brands including Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal Studios.
A multi-talented artist, James has worked with many different mediums: paintings on wood, metal, fabric, using a mix of pencil, inks, watercolors, oils, enamels, and acrylics. He’s experimented with staining wood with wine, learnt welding, and showcasing at various art shows through out the state. -
Halley Hemphill
Halley Hemphill and is an illustrator, visual development artist, and surface designer from Pasadena, California. Graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) you can find them creating under HawkEyeArt.
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Nellie Le
Nellie Le is an artist/illustrator and soon to be archivist living in Los Angeles.
Raised in the suburbs to the east of Los Angeles. Nellie grew up watching mid-century Disney shorts, which has a huge influence on her work today. Most is painted using gouache and acrylic gouache with a color palette is influenced by the colors from her childhood.
With a BFA in Graphic Design with Honors from California State University, Long Beach, she worked at a Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA, also under Amanda Visell and Michelle Valigura. Past and present clients include Hermès, Christian Louboutin, VaynerMedia, Facebook, The Disney Channel, and Mama Musubi. -
Beth Atkins
Beth Atkins is the Queen Bee of Busy Bee’s Hive in Pasadena, CA. Supervised by a highly skilled team of rescue pets that help and support, Beth creates the unique custom artwork for you. Check out her prints and whimsical watercolors!
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Kevin Chan
Los Angeles (born & raised) Illustrator, designer and maker of many things!
Kevin Chan regularly have my art displayed at Giant Robot Store for their monthly themed exhibitions, and is always open to freelance & commission opportunities!
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Avalon Baker
Avalon Baker is a 19-year-old painter and student of Pasadena Community College, where she is majoring in Studio Arts and Child Psychology. Her dream career is to become a children’s art therapist.
For this show, Avalon dove into the origins of Alice in Wonderland, particularly the story of Alice Liddell.
“I am drawn to the uncertainty and underlying chaos within the book, and I find it so interesting how a story originally created just for Alice Liddell in 1862 has influenced so much of pop culture today.”
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Sophie Shimazu
Sophie is a Los Angeles-based artist and cat lover. She specializes in traditional and digital illustration, but she also enjoys dabbling in crafts such as bookbinding, papermaking, and crocheting. Her work is largely inspired by nature, animals, travel, people, culture, her own life experiences, and anything cute. She loves to use pastel colors to give her drawings a light, whimsical feel.
