Alumnus Anthony Baker's illustration was featured on the cover of "Cell Magazine."

Illustration alumnus Anthony S. Baker (CCAD 1986) returned to campus to share his medical illustration expertise with CCAD students Monday, February 21 in Canzani Center Auditorium Auditorium.

Baker is a medical illustrator and graphic designer who also does project planning and management. After earning a degree in medical illustration from The Ohio State University (OSU), Baker worked at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Neurosurgery and Mayfield Clinic.

Baker’s illustrations have been published in professional journals, medical textbooks, and other print and web material. He currently works for the Center for Knowledge Management at OSU. He is a Certified Medical Illustrator (CMI) and a professional member of the Association of Medical Illustrators.

His lecture was presented as part of the Visiting Artists Series, which is sponsored in part by the Skestos Endowment Fund for Visiting Artists & Lecturers, the Ohio Arts Council, and Downtown Columbus’s Renaissance Hotel.

For more information about upcoming presentations in the Visiting Artist Series, visit the CCAD Event Listings.

Presentations take place on Mondays from 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in CCAD’s Canzani Center Auditorium, downtown at Cleveland Ave. & E. Gay St (unless otherwise noted)

Spring 2011 Schedule:

• Jan. 31: Eric Homan (CCAD ’98), videographer, more …

• Feb. 7: Bevil Conway, artist and neuroscientist, more …

• Feb. 21: Anthony S. Baker (CCAD ’86), medical illustrator, more …

• Feb. 28: Christopher Cole (CCAD ’89) creative director, art director, more …

• March 14: Gabriel Esquivel, architect, assistant professor, more …

• March 28: Nora Sturges, associate professor of art, more …

• April 4: Erika Meitner, author, poet, more …

• April 11: Arthur Liou, associate professor of digital art, more …

• May 2: Stephen Fellner, poet, author, more …

Check the full schedule for updates and additions as well as other CCAD lectures.

Ongoing support for CCAD’s Visiting Artists Series is received from the Skestos Endowment Fund for Visiting Artists & Lectures, Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, and the Ohio Arts Council, which helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Baker majored in Illustration, Cole majored in Advertising & Graphic Design, and Homan was a Media Studies-Time Based major at CCAD.