2019 Krider Prize for Creativity

The 2019 UCDA Foundation Krider Prize for Creativity was awarded to Gabriel “Gabi” Campanario, a Seattle-based visual artist, illustrator, and journalist best known for his work as a staff artist at The Seattle Times and as the founder of Urban Sketchers.

Gabi is the author of Seattle Sketcher: An Illustrated Journal, and several books on urban sketching. Gabi’s work has been recognized by The Society of News Design, The Society of Professional Journalists, and The Society for Features Journalism, and was the subject of a five-month solo exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in 2014. As the founder of the Urban Sketchers nonprofit, his advocacy of on-location sketching helped launch a global movement of artists and drawing enthusiasts whose motto is “showing the world, one drawing at a time.”

Gabi Campanario accepted the award at the UCDA Design Conference in Portland, Oregon, October 12, 2019.

During the conference, Gabi also led a group of conference attendees on a travel sketching workshop through Portland.

Following his awards acceptance and presentation, Gabi signed posters that included actual size reproductions of spreads from his sketchbook. The locations sketched have a special significance for him: from Barcelona, where he was born, to Seattle, where he and his wife are raising their children, to Cannon Beach (near Portland!) where they like to go on family escapades. And a few other places in between.

The posters were provided by UCDA Design Conference sponsor Mingo Press.