KRWG-TV producer JD Jarvis and his wife, Myriam Lozada-Jarvis, are traditionally trained artists who’ve adopted a more modern tool for creating their art – computers.   [more to story in below link]

                                                          The Wreck of the Hesperus by JD Jarvis

“I think that there’s a belief that anyone who works with computers lets the computer do all the work, when in fact that’s not true,” Jarvis said. 

The art he makes using the computer is generally the same art he created with traditional mediums, but the computer allows for exploration with more latitude.  

While he enjoys his day job, Jarvis doesn’t limit himself to it. In fact, he keeps fairly busy. He is trained in traditional mediums, but enlists the techniques and tools he uses at KRWG to create his own digital artwork.  

As an artist, a writer, a television producer and an entrepreneur, Jarvis continues to pave the way for digital artists everywhere. He shares his knowledge as a contributing writer and editor for several computer arts related magazines and websites, such as EFX Art and Design Magazine and the website for the Museum of Computer Art.  

After growing up in a small farming town in Illinois, Jarvis attended Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication with an emphasis in television production, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in mixed media and video art.  

Jarvis had very little exposure to art before attending South Illinois University, and he discovered his affinity for writing and art when he enrolled in a general studies program that later led to his MFA.  

“I enjoyed the creative, behind-the-scenes work of television production,” Jarvis said.  

After hearing about a national job search for a television production manager in New Mexico State University’s mass media department from a friend, Jarvis decided that it would be a good opportunity, and he applied.  

                                                                                    Thinga ma Gigs by JD Jarvis

He’s now in charge of all KRWG’s local production and makes sure everything goes according to plan, including budgeting, buying and scheduling.  

The Artist Directory found on www.arteffects.com describes Jarvis’s work as abstract and surrealist, and that the images vibrate between flat and 3D, paint and photograph, and illusion and reality. “The computer is a good creative tool to use to make fine art as well as commercial art.”  

Jarvis has received awards and recognition for his art as well as his writing, and has had his work displayed in far-off galleries in Tokyo, Chihuahua, San Diego and New York, as well as in Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Madrid and El Paso.  

Jarvis and Lozada-Jarvis are also the owners and operators of their own digital design and print company, Dunking Bird Productions, which caters to the needs of digital artists and fine art collectors.  

“We got started in order to support our art habit,” Jarvis joked.  

Dunking Bird Productions offers a variety of customized print jobs for visual artists, photographers and business representatives. “We have quite a few print clients from all over, mainly in the United States,” he pointed out.   

For more information on JD Jarvis and digital art, visit www.dunkingbirdproductions.com.