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Ligel Lambert

Ligel is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist, visual art educator, graphic & web designer living and working in New York City, New York, USA.

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Ligel is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist, visual art educator, graphic & web designer. He attended Savannah Arts Academy, high school of music, visual arts as well as the performing arts located in historic Savannah, Georgia. Ligel attended the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) briefly before joining the United State Marine Corps in December of 2000. After serving four honorable years in the United States Marines Corps, Ligel was honorably discharged from active duty in December of 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in graphic design (2011) and a Masters degree in Fine Art (MFA). He received his masters from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on December 18, 2013. He has also completed coursework for a Masters degree (M.Ed) in Curriculum & Instruction for Secondary Education from the University of West Florida in 2019.

From 2006 until 2010, Ligel worked at Savannah States University’s Upward Bound Program where he mentored and instructed high school students in both visual art and graphic design. In 2006, Ligel was selected to be the official visual artist for the 2006 Jacksonville Jazz Festival. His painting entitled “Great Sounds” was selected as the official image that branded this musical event during that year. In 2007, Ligel became the artist in residence, a board member for the Coastal Jazz Association and artistic director for the Savannah Jazz Festival until the fall of 2011. His works of art were used for the promotion of the Savannah Jazz Festival from 2007 until 2011. The Capital Jazz Festival also used one of Ligel’s musical-themed artworks in 2007 as the promotional brand for that year’s event.

In 2011, Ligel traveled abroad to teach, study and to grow as a professional artist and educator. He has taught internationally in South Korea, Japan, and his last teaching assignment was in China. Ligel has taught three content areas: ESL, graphic design and visual art. Specifically, regarding teaching visual art, Ligel has taught the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) Visual Art at a top local high school located in Shanghai, China from 2015 until 2017. From the 2017 to 2018 school year, Ligel taught visual art at a private a Secondary school in Beijing, China. He is currently living in New York City, New York, creating and teaching Visual Art & Graphic Design at a Catholic High School in the Bronx, New York, USA.

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