Special event:
As a baby and toddler, Mayli lived three of her first four years with her family in Indonesia. She brought her eclectic, often fantastic Asian art style back with her. She lives with her parents, Michael and Lina Grady, both Independent Scholar presenters, and her sisters, Carissa 20, and Carina 17.
May 29th. 2014:
The Fantastic Anime Art of Mayli Grady, aka Koda-Soda
Independent Scholars Evenings.
7:00 p.m.
Moline Commercial Club
1530 Fifth Avenue. Moline
Sixteen year old Mayli Grady, a student at Davenport West High School, is the recent 3rd place Iowa state finalist in the US Fish and Wildlife duck stamp drawing competition.
She is an active online art collaborator on DeviantArt.com, known as Koda-soda, with over 155,000 page hits and 5,000 followers to date. Her art style of anime, manga and animated gifs, reflect a new international generation of young 21st century artists that know no borders. Mayli and her primary collaborator artist friend in Florida, Nikmat, collaborate daily on a comic book adventure series which they hope to publish some day. Doors will be open at 6:30 p.m.
We continue to meet on the 2nd. Floor of the Moline Commercial Club.
The event is free and open to all.
Light snacks and wine, and beverages are provided.
A cash bar is available.
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Phone: 309-762-9202
The Independent Scholars evenings are sponsored by The Institute for Cultural & Healing Traditions, Ltd. A 501(c)3 organization under US laws since 1996.
All contributions are fully tax-exempt.
