Randy Akers has directed and designed award-winning international television commercials, movie titles, music videos, and print for Fortune 500 companies for over 30 years. He has been affiliated with Curious Pictures (NY), R/GA Digital Studios (NY), Yarra Films (Singapore), Kessler-Irish Films (Toronto), and AFI Films (Miami). He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design and Cazenovia College. Akers is a member of the Director's Guild of America, Broadcast Design Association, and served as an advisor to the Delphi Conference exploring the convergence of art and technology. Gallery exhibits include an NEA funded show at the Stables Art Gallery in Taos, New Mexico as well as the University of New Mexico's Harwood Foundation. He has also shown at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Anchorage Art Museum, the University of Northern Colorado, Valdosta University Art Museum. Akers was a recipient of the Presidential Fellowship at the Savannah College of Art and Design for his traveling exhibition, the Dogs of Todos Santos. Currently he is working on the Skidaway series and three dimensional indigenous wood forms on the lathe.
