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Jia Liu is a Baltimore based illustrator and educator who grew up in rural China. Her work spans children’s books, editorial illustrations, and 3D installations. Illustrating the positive side of life has become her way of finding inner peace. She likes to create a calming space where others can pause, breathe, and feel a sense of peace.
Jia Liu explores illustration as a powerful tool for storytelling. Like many illustrators, she has wrestled with the tension between the graphic precision of digital tools and the tactile unpredictability of traditional media. Her true spark comes from seeing images break free of the flat surface into animation and dimensional space. In this session, she shares how she uses story as a foundation to push her work beyond the static page, spanning a variety of outcomes from children’s illustrations and editorial projects to public art and 3D installations.