about jim
Jim Dryden
lives in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. Jim studied art
and music at the University of Minnesota, and has a BFA
in painting and printmaking from the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design. A love for travel and exotic places
has been a primary influence in Jim's work. He draws
inspiration from many diverse cultural and ethnic
traditions, and paints with a color palette that speaks
of latitudes far south of Minnesota.
A partial list of Jim's corporate clients includes: 3M,
Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honda, General Mills,
GMAC, GTE, John Deere, Marriot, NWA, Payne-Weber, Target,
and Viacom. Concurrently, he provides artwork to a wide
variety of fine arts organizations and non-profit causes:
The American Red Cross, Chicago Jazz & Blues
Festival, Children's Crisis Nursery, the Guthrie Theater,
Minnesota Arts Council, MacPhail Center for the Arts, and
the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Jim's work has also been published in numerous trade
journals and educational texts, and has been awarded
recognition by the American Society of Illustrators.