Applied Arts Awards 2025 Winner - Editorial Series
AD: Jason Chenier, Claudia Royston
Our State is the official monthly publication of North Carolina. The Book Club section features a different local author and one of their works in every issue. As the current resident artist of this section, I have the pleasure of creating the accompanying illustrations for the monthly write-up based on the book.
March 2025
The Returned by Jason Mott
"The Returned" opens with an elderly couple named Harold and Lucille Hargrave as they receive the shock of a lifetime: Their son, Jacob, who died decades earlier at the age of 8, is standing on their front porch as if no time has passed at all.
The Returned by Jason Mott
"The Returned" opens with an elderly couple named Harold and Lucille Hargrave as they receive the shock of a lifetime: Their son, Jacob, who died decades earlier at the age of 8, is standing on their front porch as if no time has passed at all.
January 2025
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus
In the short story "Decoy", a man recounts the story of a beloved town doctor who discovers an obsession with carving and painting wooden ducks just as the narrator realizes his own obsession with the doctor he’s long admired.
Local Souls by Allan Gurganus
In the short story "Decoy", a man recounts the story of a beloved town doctor who discovers an obsession with carving and painting wooden ducks just as the narrator realizes his own obsession with the doctor he’s long admired.
February 2025
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap by Judy Goldman
Judy Goldman, from Charlotte, tells the story of her marriage, in good times and in bad, with gratitude for the man with whom she’s shared a life.
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap by Judy Goldman
Judy Goldman, from Charlotte, tells the story of her marriage, in good times and in bad, with gratitude for the man with whom she’s shared a life.
