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2016 was my first full year in New Jersey. Though most of it was spent in Surf City, in my studio which is just a block from the ocean, I did travel some. In July, I made it back to Oregon for a conference to promote Cory Huff’s How to Sell Your Art Online, a book which features my career as an example.
![Gwenn Seemel at an opening for Crime Against Nature in Belgium](/images/2016/Press16CANPointCulture.jpg)
In October, I flew to Belgium for an exhibition of my 2012 series Crime Against Nature. The whole adventure was organized and funded by a creative team in Liège who had made thoughtful and hilarious performance art about the queer intersection of science and culture.
![Gwenn Seemel on the Redbubble Blog](/images/2016/Press16RedbubbleBlogEditor.jpg)
My marketing expertise was recognized in interviews with Your Creative Push, the Redbubble Blog, and Jackson’s Art Blog as well as in a mention on 99U. This shout-out from a fellow artist made me very happy, as did an article in The SandPaper. I got a bit of French press in the form of this post on Mr Mondialisation.
“The stakes are high in this seemingly playful and light children’s book, [Crime Against Nature].”
“[Seemel’s] style is at once explosively colorful and tightly controlled—expressive faces on evocative backgrounds and pleasing shapes in elaborate settings.”
“Seemel infuses her art with passion, color and confidence.”
![Gwenn Seemel’s art in Valérie Chansigaud’s book](/images/2016/Press16ValerieChansigaud.jpg)
2016 was the year I got published in other people’s books. Not only was my career used as a model in How to Sell Your Art Online, but my art was featured in Valérie Chansigaud’s Enfant et Nature as well as in Chris Cozen’s Acrylic Color Explorations.