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Jason Dowd has been a professional freelance illustrator and fine artist for over thirty years. His clients include Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, UCI, Anheuser-Busch, and Chase Bank, among others. Most recently, he has completed sixty full color illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which will appear in 2025 for the 125th anniversary. In 2019, he received a commission from a UCI astrophysicist to illustrate the future
capabilities of the James Webb telescope. The digital diagram produced was needed as a visual presentation tool for NASA, to show how deep into space the telescope would actually see. Jason graduated with distinction from Art Center College of Design in 1990, majoring in Illustration. In 2006, he and his family moved from the Midwest to
Orange County, CA. In 2007, former LCAD President Jonathan Burke hired Jason as an Adjunct Faculty at LCAD, where he has been teaching talented and inspired students for fifteen years.