Chip Neville
biography •
Chip Neville is a new media artist working both traditional and electronic mediums including, music, animation, video, installation, and performance. His work covers a diverse set of topics ranging from humor to politics with an emphasis on local environmental issues.
Chip has worked for over 30 years as an Art Director, illustrator and graphic designer producing work for both public and private employers. Most notably he was art Director, and primary illustrator for more than twenty internationally published, award winning children’s books.
As an traditional, and new media artist Chip has worked with local art organizations such as the Salvador Dali Museum, The Tampa Museum of Art, and the Emit Series. He has exhibited work at film festivals and galleries locally, and across the country showing experimental video, photography, animation, and video installation combined with performance.
Chip has written and performed music with the Tampa Artist and Writer's Group, Tampa Bay Composer’s forum, performed as a guitarist and singer in musical ensembles, and toured with the Florida Orchestra. He has also worked teaching guitar and music lessons privately and through the USF Community Music Division.
While active in the local music and arts community, Chip Neville has most recently been working as a college instructor. He specializes in animation, digital audio, video production, visual theory, and new media. He is currently teaching at St. Petersburg College. Previously he worked for the Art Institute of Tampa, and instructed in various capacities on the faculties of the International Academy of Design and Technology (Tampa), University of South Florida, and the University of Tampa.
