![]() ![]() Nelson says, “I was hired as a conceptual artist for the film to illustrate key moments throughout the story to give the director, Steven Spielberg, an idea of what the film could look and feel like.” ![]() His work eventually found its way to Dreamworks/Amblin Studios where Amistad was in pre-production. ![]() A series of breaks boosted his career-an art scholarship to Pratt Institute, an internship at the Society of Illustrators, and various early commissions. “My uncle gave me my foundation in art,” Nelson says. It felt pretty special to me.”Īrt is in Nelson’s blood his uncle, artist Michael Morris, apprenticed ten-year-old Nelson. I remember thinking to myself, ‘This is beautiful.’ I was a six-year-old kid savoring the moment. I stood there feeling warm, wrapped up in my heavy winter coat, enjoying the breeze and the scenery. It was cold and breezy, and warm streetlights reflected off the shiny bluish sidewalk. “My family was piling into my grandmother’s white Cadillac and I stood and waited for everyone to get inside. He remembers one rainy winter day in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Throughout childhood, Kadir Nelson viewed the world through the lens of an artist, drawing by the age of three and painting by the age of ten. ![]()
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