Next Sunday will see the premiere of Cab Calloway Sketches on PBS (check your local time), which is a wonderful doc by Gail Levin in which I was asked to render Cab almost life size on a wall.  The amazing animation at the end has Cab jumping off the wall and dancing with Alvin Ailey’s brilliant Matthew Rushing.  Animation by Asterisk Studios. Very honored to be involved in this tribute to the hide-e-ho man. Always a big fan of his and the great Harlem Renaissance. I saw Cab when I was a kid. Unforgettable.

Watch Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 2 on PBS. See more from American Masters.

Opening Thursday Dec. 1 and going through Dec 21 is a remarkable show I am delighted to be a part of.  Being American (at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 W.26 St. 15th fl. NYC) has been conceived and mounted by the staff led by curator Francis Di Tommaso:

“The twenty artists in this show have twenty stories to tell about the experience of being American today. Though many would not normally exhibit in the same venue-the work of some is almost never seen outside of the printed page-they all have immediately accessible and also exquisitely nuanced commentaries to make on American culture.”

I am very honored to be a part of this wide review of visual commentary on American life, and very grateful to Francis and the gallery for putting so high a value on art done as journalism.  This field is also represented by work by Christoph Neimann, Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss.

Reception: Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm

Here are a couple of my pieces in the show:

This Lincoln was done in Crayola on camera for “Picturing America” on PBS.

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On November 6th, on the way to the protest to surround the White House against the proposed XL pipeline horror, I was delighted to find Washington’s own Occupy encampment.

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