Featured Artists - Beyond the Barrelman: An Exhibition of Contemporary Filipino Art

Raised in Virginia Beach, VA, Tim Saguinsin spent much of his childhood with a pencil and a paintbrush in hand. He continued on with his artistic endeavors attending high school at the Governor's Magnet School for the Arts in the Hampton Roads and later attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his BFA in General Fine Arts in 1995.

After graduating, Tim traveled overseas to London, England where he transformed his talents of painting and sculpture to animation and graphics to create educational CD-ROMs. While in London, Tim co-founded re-Animate Educational Software producing over thirty awarding winning educational products. After 5 years working overseas, he returned to America in 2001. Tim is currently an Art Director at k12, Inc in the DC Metro area where he continues to educate through graphics and animation.

In 2006, Tim founded Rice Cooker Studios to help cultivate his artistic endeavors. Initially started to promote his freelance graphics and animation capabilities, Rice Cooker Studios took off and has turned into an artistic endeavor. In the past two years, Rice Cooker Studios has created animations for Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and Pnoy Apparel and is looking into development of cartoons for our young Filipino-Americans. Also in 2006, Rice Cooker Studios published www.barriors.com, the first online web comic about growing up Filipino-American. The website has had much success with hundreds of thousand hits and plenty of positive feedback from the Filipino-American community.

Both of Tim's proud parents were born in Angono, Rizal, in the Philippines. Tim's father, Timoteo M. Saguinsin, is retired from the US Navy and is a poet who recently published his book of writings titled "Buhay Sa Angono: Life in Angono." Like his father, Tim has enormous pride about his cultural heritage.

Tim's passion is to educate and create content for the future generations of Filipino-Americans to promote our cultural heritage. His latest endeavor is a personal animated short titled "Teach a Man to Fish."

Taking time off developing his animated short, Tim has created a series of prints on canvas for the Beyond the Barrelman Exhibition. These prints reflect some of the Filipino scenes and characters in "Teach a Man to Fish."

Please contact sales@ricecookerstudios.com to order your print on canvas. To view addition prints, please go to http://www.ricecookerstudios.com or the Rice Cooker Store at http://www.ricecookerstudios.com/store/store.html.

To purchase any of the jury-selected or non-selected artworks listed for sale, please contact Ray In, exhibition sales coordinator, at (773) 419-4117 or Sales@BeyondTheBarrelman.com. Items marked "nfs' are not for sale.

Return to the GALLERY for a catalog of artworks selected for the 2008 exhibition.