BIO


Dar Freeland was born and educated in Los Angeles, California. In 1994, she seized an opportunity to relocate her company Cricket Studio, to Las Vegas; opening her graphics and illustration studio upstairs in The Arts Factory.

Freeland specializes in animation, design, illustration and writing and enjoys a number of artistic pursuits, including work in film production and publishing.

Freeland's education focused on fine art photography, and she enjoys photo composition, creating large scale collage work. In addition, every couple of years, she creates a Mandala sand painting done in the Tibetan tradition - once created, it is deconstructed -or swept away.

Co-founder of Cricket Studio in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Dar Freeland has introduced her line of fine art illustrations and works on canvas in the Face Up Gallery in Las Vegas, inside Cricket Studio. Her single panel cartoons can be seen on her weblog called Face Up Blahg.

Dar's work is being shown in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and will show in New York and San Francisco in 2008.
Also in 2008, Freeland will launch her first animated film and numerous products based on the Face Up characters and philosophy. She currently resides in Las Vegas.

Download Dar's Resume (pdf 3.7mb)