Ray Troll
Ray Troll is a Ketchikan, Alaska-based artist.[1]
Troll attended high school in Witchita, Kansas.[2] He has a bachelor's degree in printmaking and a MFA degree in printmaking in drawing[1] from Washington State University.[3] He came to Alaska in 1983 at age 29.[2] He is a guitar player and vocalist in the Ketchikan band called The Ratfish Wranglers.[1] His arguably most prominent and controversial work is titled SPAWN TILL YOU DIE.[4] The design has been printed onto hoodies and is very popular with the citizens of Ketchikan and Southeast Alaska.
Spawning sockeye salmon
Books
- Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip
- Planet Ocean : A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record
- Raptors, Fossils, Fins & Fangs: A Prehistoric Creature Feature
- Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll
- Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from A to Z
- Shocking Fish Tales: Fish, Romance and Death in Pictures
- Something Fishy This Way Comes: The Artwork of Ray Troll
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Woolsey, Robert (12 November 2010). "Troll's latest book has 'just the funny stuff'". Raven Radio, KCAW (Sitka). Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ray Troll: A story of fish, fossils, and funky art". Washington State Magazine. Spring 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ↑ Lyke, M.L. (22 October 1991). "Artist Ray Troll's Creations Are Filled To The Gills". Seattle Post Intelligencer (Seattle). Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ↑ Open Thread – "Spawn Till You Die.", The Mudflat Forum