• Esther Sitver is a Knoxville, TN-based illustrator who merges vintage aesthetics with contemporary progressive ideas and humor. She started drawing as a kid, which eventually led to creating postcards sold out of a shoe box. Since then, she has expanded into stickers, prints, and so many more postcard designs. Under the same theme of breathing new life into old things, she upcycles lightly used shoes with leather paints. Sitver draws with an old-fashioned dip pen and colors digitally in Photoshop. Her love for traditional pen and ink drawing pulls together her specialties: portraiture/figure drawing, editorial illustration, pattern design, and plein air painting. Sitver graduated in Ringling College of Art + Design’s Illustration BFA Class of 2020, (yes, Ringling like the circus). She honed her design skills and aesthetics further by working at Pioneer House Letterpress and Vintage. When she’s not scribbling, she can be found rollerskating and hiking around East Tennessee.

    • Blackheart Records- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    • Southern Skies Music Fest

    • Knoxville History Project 

    • Walmart via Now Art LA

    • The Maker City

    • Berea College

    • Dogwood Arts

    • Gritty in Pink

    • East TN PBS

    • SoKno Pride

    • Sketch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Emily Grace Hanks, Berea College, Berea, KY 2023

    • The Haunted Art Show, Rala, Knoxville, TN 2023

    • Featured Gift Shop Artist, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN 2023-24

    • ART SHOE (Solo Show), Rala, Knoxville, TN 2023

    • The Dolly Show, Rala, Knoxville, TN 2022-24

    • Maker Space Grid, Maker Space, Tennessean Hotel, Knoxville, TN 2022-24

    • Esther Sitver: Collected Works, Dogwood Arts, Knoxville TN, 2021

    • King, Frances. The Scout Guide Knoxville, Tennessee Vol.7 City Guide, Illustrated by Esther Sitver, 2023, pp. 4.

    • Nichols, Abigail. “Dream Big.” Invitation Oxford, Illustrated by Esther Sitver, Sept. 2021, pp. 80–83. 

    • Criss, Leslie. “Time-Honored SEC Traditions.” Invitation Oxford, Illustrated by Esther Sitver, Oct. 2020, pp. 36–42. 

    • Neely, Jack. Historic Bearden. Edited by Paul James, Illustrated by Esther Sitver, Knoxville History Project, 2020, p. 89, p. 166

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