Samuel

Okedoki is a Vietnamese born Canadian artist. She has a background in arts and design and sociology at the University of Alberta. She believes art is a medium for connection and storytelling and hopes to create art that transcends and stirs memories of happier and simpler times in our lives. When Okedoki is not in the studio, she is in the clinic working as an acupuncturist and herbalist. She currently lives in Sherwood Park, Canada with her fur baby Bobbi. This profile is a mix of all designer toys made by the artists. We may reorganize this profile in the future and an artists that creates their own toys would have a separate manufacturer profile. Donald Ross also known as “scribe” is 37 years old and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri of the United States. The animated, public murals by Scribe are readily recognizable in Midtown Kansas City and throughout different part of the United States, Canada and down into Mexico where he has both painted murals and had gallery shows. Scribe incorporates a menagerie of animal characters developed over many years representing a particular, self-referential trait that he inserts in various scenarios. Scribe intersperses personal iconography, biblical and fairytale references, animation and metaphor in works intended as contemporary parables for public audiences, hence the use of his artist name and persona. Through accessible idiom and image, Scribe incorporates humor and play in the conveyance of serious messages regarding personal integrity, attainment of knowledge, and adventure. In the past five years scribe has been focused on a diverse career in art. He is currently the Art Director at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City where he does everything from graphic design, painting murals throughout four locations around the metro and managing large scale design and installation of a Terrazzo Flooring project.His most recent project was airbrushing the hospital owned Lifeflight Helicopter.Outside of his duties