Ligel Lambert (born May 20, 1982) is a Haitian-born American interdisciplinary artist, entrepreneur, educator and

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for publishe ...

who primarily works in painting, collage,

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and sculpture. He is best known for his colorful,

Fauvist Fauvism /ˈfoʊvɪzm̩/ is the style of ''les Fauves'' (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early 20th-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retai ...

, rhythmic and abstracted interpretations of musicians, interpretations of sounds and musical themed paintings.

Education and military service

Ligel (pronounced Lee - Jeal) received a

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from

RMIT University RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...

( RMIT School of Art),

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in 2013. He received a

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degree in Curriculum & Instruction from the

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in 2021. Ligel also holds a

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in Graphic Design. Ligel graduated from the

United States Armed Forces School of Music The Naval School of Music (formerly and still widely known as the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music) is a United States Navy school located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school's missi ...

in 2001. He is an honorably discharged

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of the

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(USMC).

Life

Ligel grew up in

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, United States. He attended the

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, High School of the Visual & Performing Arts and graduated in 2000. He then attended the

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(SCAD) briefly before enlisting in the United States Military (The United States Marine Corps). After his honorable military service, Ligel attended Armstrong Atlantic State University, now the

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. In an article written by Amy Morris, which was published by the

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as well as the

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, documented in the Spring of 2006, Ligel was chosen as the Artist for the 2006

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poster design contest. At the time, Ligel was the first out of state resident to win the jazz festival's poster design contest. In 2007, Ligel's Art was selected for the 2007 Capital Jazz Festival. From 2007–2011, Ligel was the Artistic Director, board member and graphic designer for the Savannah Jazz Festival, presented by the Coastal Jazz Association of Savannah, Georgia. In 2010, Ligel was selected as the Artist for the Black Heritage Festival. In 2011, Ligel was briefly an

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at the

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, located in Savannah, Georgia. In 2012, Ligel became one of the finalists for the Runway-to-Win design challenge. His works have been exhibited in many venues in the United States and abroad. Ligel founded a business, ''The Art of Ligel,'' in October 2018. Ligel is currently based in New York City.

Academic publications

* Technology in the Art Classroom (Grades 9–12)

Teaching

In an article written by Nathan Driskell and published in June 2016, Ligel is listed to have taught high school students in the United States, South Korea, Japan and in China. In China, Ligel taught the

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Visual Art at

Shanghai Shixi High School Shanghai Shixi High School, also known as Shanghai Shixi Middle School (), is an experimental-model public high school founded in 1870 and is located in the Jing'an District of Shanghai, China. Introduction Shanghai Shixi High School was one o ...

Collaborations

For more than a decade, Ligel has collaborated with musician and professor,

Wycliffe Gordon Wycliffe A. Gordon (born May 29, 1967) is an American jazz trombonist, arranger, composer, band leader, and music educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. Gordon also sings and plays didgeridoo, trumpet, soprano trombone, tuba, and piano. ...

on numerous projects. In 2011, Ligel collaborated with musician, President and CEO of Benedetto Guitars Inc., Howard R. Paul and Grammy Award-winning performing artist and songwriter,

Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show ''Taxi.'' According to VICE (magazine), music fro ...

Selected collections

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* The Beach Institute/the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation Inc. * Coastal Jazz Association/ Savannah Jazz Festival * The City of

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(

) * Ligel is also a featured artist on

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, Ligel Living people RMIT University alumni Interdisciplinary artists 1982 births Haitian artists Haitian emigrants to the United States American male painters Abstract painters 21st-century American educators People from Savannah, Georgia Modern painters People from Cap-Haïtien University of West Florida alumni American graphic designers Album-cover and concert-poster artists American poster artists American contemporary painters American collage artists Fauvism American conceptual artists American printmakers 21st-century American painters 21st-century American businesspeople American company founders American people of Haitian descent Educational research