Funky Fleece

There are many uses for wool in Mochimochi Land! (Too many, maybe.)

I made this with help from Maureen Boyle. Funky music by William Steffey.

Character Portraits Book

I'm thrilled to have my work featured in Pictoplasma's new book Character Portraits. 

As you can see, the gnomes are thrilled too! 

Gnomes looking at gnomes looking at gnomes looking at gnomes... I like this theme becuase it reminds me of how I'm constantly making stuff that looks back at me. 

The image is of the Gnome Team Selfie I made for Pictoplasma's Portrait Gallery in 2014. The book is full of portraits of all manner of characters by some wonderful artists whose work I look up to. Get it on the Pictoplasma website. 

Happy Baa-lentine's Day

When love is in the air in Mochimochi Land, the results come quickly. May love blossom all around you this weekend!

Animation made with help from Maureen Boyle.

Group Show: WonderWomen at University of Minnesota

As it happens, I have work in another group show that starts with a W this month! 

WonderWomen, at the University of Minnesota's Katherine E. Nash Gallery, is a show of works by female artists who are influenced by comics and other pop culture. I sent them some animations from the past year and this assortment of tiny mochis. 

But I'm burying the lede here: I'm in a group show that also contains work by Alison Bechdel! Along with others whose work I admire, and others whose work I look forward to exploring. Here's a closer look at the show information: 

WonderWomen

January 20 - February 14, 2015

Katherine E. Nash Gallery

405 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Group Show: White Monsters at Everyday Mooonday

I'm thrilled to be a part of White Monsters, a group show opening on January 9th at Everyday Mooonday in Seoul.  

The theme of the show is self-explanatory, and as you can see, I'm in extremely good character-artist company! 

My own white monster is named Big Thwicked in Thwhite (Thwilla).

Thwilla is an extra-large thwicked, so she's extra cute and cuddly, and also extra evil. She gets her rainbow colors from all the candy creatures that she eats in Mochimochi Land. 

White Monsters

January 1 - February 22, 2015

Everyday Mooonday

9-17 Songpadong, Songpagu,
Seoul, Korea

Happy 2015

Happy 2015, year of the sheep! I’m taking that as an auspicious sign for Mochimochi Land. 

This year I want to focus more on projects that truly excite me, and I want to get less distracted by the shorter term stuff.

Exciting things are in store for 2015, including: 

– A solo show!

– A new book! (Which you can already preorder if you are so inclined.) 

– Other things! 

I'm also aiming to update this website more often. I'm definitely in the habit of ignoring it and focusing on my other website (which has a much bigger audience), but that's not a reflection of my overall interests and goals. Or I might change up my other website to incorporate more art and be less knitting-centric. Either way, I want to share my work more with people who don't knit, is the point!

Here's to a playful and inventive 2015!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

2014 Nickelodeon Reel

In November I had the pleasure of knitting characters and props for Nickelodeon for the second year in a row! The resulting animated IDs are now airing on the network during commercial breaks, so you’ll probably catch one if you tune in this month. 

Here’s a reel of all the new IDs.

Anna Hrachovec for Nickelodeon: Holiday 2014 IDs from Anna Hrachovec on Vimeo.

I didn’t participate in the animating process this time, but of course the Nick promotions team did an excellent job without me.

Big thank-yous go to Matthew Duntemann at Nick and to my agent Koko at CWC-i for making this project happen!

Happy Holidays from Nickelodeon + Mochimochi Land!

In 2013 I got to work with Nickelodeon on animated holiday IDs using Mochimochi Land creatures and some mochi-fied Nick characters. I’m happy to say that the animations are back on this month, and there are new ones too! I’ll share more soon, but you can also tune in to Nickelodeon to catch them on air.

Don Quixote Scenes for Teatro alla Scala

Earlier this year, Milan advertising agency TITA asked me to create tiny knit characters and dramatic scenes from Don Quixote for a ballet produced by Teatro alla Scala. I recently received samples of the 8"x8.5" brochure that my photographs became, which was distributed to the ballet audience in September. It's such a thrill to see them in print! 

The photos depict the major scenes from the famous story, starting with Don Quixote's literary inspiration, to his adventures with Sancho Panza (knitted windmill included, of course), to his courting of Dulcinea. 

This was the first time that I'd taken on a commercial project that involved my photographing characters in nature—I was really happy to get the experience, and I think the whole thing turned out nicely.  

The rest of the photos from this project are in my artwork portfolio.