About

Magge Gagliardi is an award winning professional illustrator, designer and commercial artist from Connecticut. She has a BFA in Illustration from Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT and a MFA in Illustration from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT. She is an instructor of Digital Illustration at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. She is also a committee member for the Change in the Air Festival.

Publications
Yankee Brew News, 3x3 Magazine, Collective Arts Brewing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Edition Zines, Connecticut Magazine, Hartford Magazine, New Haven Living Magazine, The Sacramento News Review, Ink Magazine, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Advocate, SCBWI Bulletin, Yale Child Study Center and Cambridge Publishing, The New London Day, Tarnished Magazine.

Clients
Austin Street Brewery, Portland, ME, Buzzed Viking Brewing Co, Concord, NC, Collective Arts Brewing, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Elm City Social, New Haven, CT, Empty Pint Brewing, Dover, NH, Front Porch Brewing, North Haven, CT, Housatonic River Brewing, New Milford, CT, Fifty Fifty Brewing Co., Truckee, CA, Labyrinth Brewing, Manchester, Weha Brewing & Roasting Co., West Hartford, CT.

Awards and Recognition
USA Today’s Top 10 Beer Labels 2021, 30 Best Looking Beer Cans in America 2021 by ceros.com, Creative Quarterly 53, 54 & 55, 3x3 Magazine Annual No.15 & 16, Honorable Mention, Connecticut Art Directors 2018 Awards Gold and Silver, Society of Illustrator's Los Angeles (SILA) Illustration West 56 & 58, Winner of the Two Roads Brewing CONNARTIST Competition, 2017, Featured artist by Microsoft Surface, Featured artist by Masslive.com, June 2016, Girl Scouts of Connecticut's "Top Female Professional in the Arts - STEAM Panel" 2015, Connecticut Magazine's Best of Connecticut Exhibit 2015, Tassy Walden Awards Finalist, One of CTnow.com's top artists of 2012, Wingsite Display’ s Artist of the Year 2012, Connecticut Magazine Sponsor's Choice Award, Winner of the Oil & Acrylic Category at the 39th Annual Members Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, 2008