Mathijs Stegink

Tag: Illustration

  • Educator at WDKA and other art education institutes

    Educator at WDKA and other art education institutes

    Willem de Kooning Academy (BA), Rotterdam – since 2015 – teacher and curriculum developer in the departments of Animation, Illustration, Audio Visual Design, and Social Practice, focusing on participatory projects, storytelling, co-creation, and reflective design.

    Previously, I worked at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (departments Animation & Illustration) teaching experimental stop-motion, material exploration, with non-human storytelling as the core. I also have several years of experience in MBO Media and Design Schools and various Media Labs (2002-2015).

    Making an Encyclopedia about Kralingen Oost with the illustration students: 2024. Binding phase 🙂 Photo by Kim Hospers

  • Illustrations for article SaxNow

    Illustrations for article SaxNow

    I am a little proud of these, covid was good for training my drawingmuscle. This series is inspired by quotes from my students. It was so much fun to work on this during covid! Used in print and online. https://www.saxnow.nl/nieuws/achtergrond/2020/december/reconstructie-het-wonder-van-saxion-en-het-verdriet-dat-het-meebracht

    I was far away from home, living in a new city,I couldn’t go home and the only meetings i had with people I knew was online., but most of the time I was online with the people i was supposed to be in a class with. I am not sure if I liked them..
    All the luggage, bags, backpacks slowly became ghosts, why did we have these things? They were so big in my room, yet they had no function.
    You were over there in a bustling city living a great live with bars and meetings and i was stuck in the Netherlands with my psychotic roommate. I did go out on my bike though, that was good. I wanted to go home so bad.
    Flirting is hard. The camera adds 15 pounds. I wanted to hug people, I organised a tonguekissing event with my festivalfriends.
    I was pretty fast at getting used to working online technically. Emotionally it was something different.
    Students trying to hide their roommates, students in bed (with eachother), students with their whole family there while they are trying to study, students at parties, students walking in nature, students cooking, cats, lots of cats.