About

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For design examples, please visit montgomerydesign

Awards, Exhibitions

  • Lürzer’s Archive 200 Best Illustrators worldwide
  • Creative Quarterly
  • Society of Illustrators Los Angeles
  • Communication Arts Illustration Annual
  • Amazing Adventures Jules Verne Exhibition, London, 2019 – Hire An Illustrator
  • National ADDY nominee (American Advertising Federation)
  • Nineteen local and regional ADDYs
  • Obelisk Home Gallery Group show, Springfield, MO
  • Interview and feature in The Bluegrass Standard
  • Interviewed by Lisa Sorrell and featured in The Honky Tonk Times, Finest Fashions in Country Music
  • Interviewed for Voyage KC 

Memberships

    • Hire an Illustrator (HAI)
    • International Bluegrass Music Association professional (IBMA)
    • American Advertising Federation (AAF)
    • Springfield Creatives

Clients

    • Birthplace of Route 66 Festival, Springfield, MO
    • Springfield Cardinals Baseball (St. Louis AA), Springfield, MO
    • Amphorae Publishing (children’s book)
    • WellSpring Publishing
    • Patuxent Music (Alan Munde Excelsior album design)
    • Noteworthy Music
    • The Acoustic Shoppe, Springfield, MO
    • Rated SGF Film Festival
    • Rhonda Vincent
    • The Grascals
    • JigJam Band (Ireland)
    • The Kody Norris Show
    • The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
    • Echo Valley band
    • The Cleverlys band
    • The Hellroys band
    • The Undeadbeats
    • Ryan McClure
    • Park University, KC
    • Missouri State University Jazz Studies
    • Drury University, Springfield, MO
    • Run For Hope, Nashville
    • Moxie Cinema, Springfield, MO
    • Springfield Jazz Festival
    • Modern Money Network
    • The Mystery Hour (Late Night Talk Show)
    • Blackbox Advertising, KC
    • Asia Pacific Missions (AGWM)
    • TAME Magazine
    • Springfield Regional Arts Council
    • Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce
    • Springfield Creatives
    • 417 Magazine
    • Loehr Chiropractic
    • Springfield Little Theatre
    • City of Springfield, Missouri
    • Greater Ozarks Blues Festival, Springfield, MO
    • Rock-n-Ribs Barbecue Festival, Springfield, MO
    • GCBA Bicycle Club

Testimonials

“Mark Montgomery … was the designer of the CD package of my recent release Excelsior on the Patuxent label. I was totally pleased with the results. Mark took what few and somewhat vague ideas I had, listened closely to the music of the album, and created a package that was in concert with the music inside.”
– Alan Munde, five-string banjo player and bluegrass musician

“The Acoustic Shoppe has had the pleasure of collaborating with Mark on numerous occasions, and without fail, he surpasses our expectations each time. Mark Montgomery’s art immediately captures your attention, and the longer you study his work, the more details reveal themselves.”
– Jason Chapman, The Acoustic Shoppe, Springfield, MO

“…This process from start to finish was a breeze. He was open minded and willing to take a stab at anything I could dream up. And boy did he ace it! …”
– Mary Rachel Norris, The Kody Norris Show

“Yeah dude that’s dope.” – Ricky Lloyd Cleverly, The Cleverlys

“Tremendous thanks to Mark A Montgomery (aka Mark A Montgomery Illustration) for creating a stunning banner image for Job Guarantee Now!: Teach-In for Economic Rights. The contemporary visual culture surrounding full employment politics is narrow and impoverished. Case in point: even pro-Job Guarantee articles tend to only feature pictures of white men in hard hats or nostalgic images from the WPA. Montgomery’s banner, by contrast, conjures myriad types of persons and professions, while pointing to multiple forms of socially useful work. It thus represents an important step forward in developing a diverse, inclusive, and forward-looking visual imagination for #JobGuarantee politics.”
– Modern Money Network

“You do GREAT work.”– Bradford C. Leali, Associate Professor/Jazz Saxophone, Director/ 3 O’Clock Lab Band, The University of North Texas

Mark is an old soul from the suburbs of Kansas City. Some of his greatest inspirations are bits of Americana: Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, Old Movies, Baseball, Barbeque and the Dust Bowl Era of the 1930s. His artistic heroes include Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Al Hirschfeld, Thomas Hart Benton, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Diego Rivera and Miguel Covarrubias. He loves vintage texture and explores color, shape and movement from Cubism, Futurism and Synchromism. He is a BIG fan of illustration. He still works and lives in the Midwest with his family. On his birthday, he eats dry ribs and takes the family to a movie. Follow along on Instagram @offbeatchopshop or my discontinued page:  @markymopictureshow

Examples of Mark’s work can be found in, but not limited to:
Children’s books • Band merch • Advertising • Editorial • Prints • Posters • Commissioned Gifts • Fine Art • Logos • Invitations • CD covers • Newsletter comics • Street banners • Travel and tourism • Theatre • Sports • Celebrities • Personalities