Fred Lynch (illustrator)
Fred Lynch is an illustrator and educator from Cumberland, Rhode Island. He is an expert in journalistic illustration[1] and urban sketching[2], teaching and lecturing internationally about on-site art making.
Teaching
Lynch is an illustration professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has won the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.[3] He is also the recipient of the Carlos Dorrian Award for Teaching Excellence from the Montserrat College of Art.
Notable Students
Shepard Fairey's first project to garner international attention, the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, which later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, begun in 1989 as an assignment in Lynch's class at the Rhode Island School of Design.[4]