VISITING ARTIST LECTURE WITH MAGGE GAGLIARDI, ILLUSTRATOR: At 11 a.m., Visual & Performing Arts Center, Room 144, Westside campus. Free and open to the public; limited seating available. Reserve a seat at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/visiting-artist-lecture-magge-gagliardi-illustrator-tickets-739534957967?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Magge Gagliardi is an award-winning illustrator, designer and commercial artist from Connecticut. She has a B.F.A. in Illustration from Paier College of Art and an M.F.A. in Illustration from the University of Hartford. She is an instructor of Digital Illustration at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She is also a committee member for the Change in the Air Foundation Festival in New Haven.

Gagliardi’s work has been in many publications, including Yankee Brew News, 3×3 Magazine, Collective Arts Brewing 1st – 4th Edition Zines, Connecticut Magazine, Hartford Magazine, New Haven Living Magazine, The Sacramento News Review, Ink Magazine, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Advocate, The New London Day and Tarnished Magazine.

Her client list of breweries across the U.S. includes Austin Street Brewery, Portland, Maine; Elm City Social, New Haven; Housatonic River Brewing, New Milford; and Fifty Fifty Brewing Company, Truckee, California, among others.

Gagliardi’s work was recognized in 2021 by USA Today’s Top 10 Beer Labels. She is the recipient of many awards, recently from Creative Quarterly 53, 54 & 55; 3×3 Magazine Annual No.15 & 16; Connecticut Art Directors Awards Gold and Silver; and Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, Illustration West 56 & 58.