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Shea Ramone Justice, Illustrator, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After attending Boston English High School (’88) He went to Boston University (SFA ’93), where the majority of the time he studied Art Education and Political Science. Shea has taught in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and in the Boston Public Schools.
The Boston People’s Voice newspaper and various other small print publishers have hired him to do freelance illustrations for their publications. He now teaches at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Shea counts Romare Bearden, Charles White, and assorted cartoonists such as Alex Raymond as influences.
Currently he lives in Jamaica Plain, where he continually draws sketches of his son in various stages of growth for an exhibit he’s planning for his kid’s eighteenth birthday. He is a member of BMAG, Boston’s Metropolitan Artists’ Guild.
Shea's
work is displayed window of the CVS at the Grove Hall Mecca
Some of Shea's long terms goals are: 1. Illustrator for local and national newspapers. 2. Illustrate children's books about African Americans. 3. Sell my work online and get published as a stock illustrator. 4.Exhibit my rice paper mural after the Iraq war ends. 5. Become a viable contributor to the tourism industry of Boston. There are no postcards or posters showing African Americans contribution to the commonwealth and it's rich history. The Freedom Trail and the Shaw Memorial needs to be represented in a way so that visitors have something to take home.
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Review in the February 13, 2008 edtion of the Boston Globe
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