Forest Stearns

Forest Stearns specializes in unique illustration, art direction, and producing artist in residence programs. He has a passion for drawing on rockets, satellites and quantum computers. Stearns loves to draw and use his creative energy to make a better world. As Principal Artist at DRAWEVERYWHERE, He is a prolific illustrator who loves to create solutions by exploring the multitude of variables through artistic mediums. He has a passion for facilitating creative permission – encouraging business executives, children, artists, and people everywhere to let go of their fears and Practice their creative language. When not drawing and painting on wild and unique places, Forest specializes in producing and facilitating Artist in Residence programs that amplify company culture, drive innovation and push the envelope of creative problem solving. Currently he is a Creative Innovation Consultant at Google: founding an Artist in Residence program, facilitating creative programming and producing giant paintings that adorn Google’s Quantum Computers and vast laboratory. From 2012 - 2018, Forest has produced the largest art show in Earth’s orbit as Principal Space Artist at Planet Labs. As Art Director, his artistic adventure of fusing arts with technology has fruitfully covered rockets, radomes and 340+ satellites with eloquent illustrations, characters and handwritten calligraphy. Collaboration is a key value and you will often find Forest teaching, facilitating, speaking, and parenting on the values of building creative community celebrating the arch between nature and humanity.