010 - Artist, Author, & Entrepreneur Dax Tran-Caffee

Dax holds a BFA in Painting/Drawing from the California College of Arts & Crafts and an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A freelance illustrator for the last dozen years, Dax has also been a Course Director of academic drawing at Ex'pression College for Digital Art and Company Apprentice to Blair Thomas & Co. chamber puppet theater, with whom he performed at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art among other venues. He has been an artist in residence for the Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium, and his cardboard artwork has been commissioned by the Exploratorium and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as being featured in The Art of Tinkering (2014). His forays into sequential art go back to 2004, in the form of cantastoria, which are currently performed under the title Villainette. Shifting gears away from live performance, Failing Sky is his first attempt at a graphic novel, and was nominated for an Eisner Award within six months of publication.