Lee Post is Post Marks, LLC

About

Lee Post is a lifelong Alaskan, growing up in Palmer and living in Anchorage. He has spent his career working with youth, beginning as a social worker with child protective services, then twenty years as a Juvenile Probation Officer for the State of Alaska. He retired as the the Chief of Juvenile Probation for the Anchorage area in 2021.

Lee is also a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, who had a comic strip, “Your Square Life” published in the Anchorage Press for six years, a total of 300 comic strips from 2001 to 2007. He produced several books, including a “Best of Your Square Life” and “Alaska!: Big and Small”, contributed a chapter to a collaborative Alaska history graphic novel, “A Native Lad”, and produced the book "Portraits" for the Alaska Immigration Justice Project and the Humanity Forum.   His work has been shown in several galleries in Alaska, including a solo retrospective at the Dorothy Page Gallery in Wasilla.  He’s presented at the Anchorage Museum and had his work published as far afield as Omaha, NB and Johannesburg, South Africa.   He's done live "visual harvesting" for a number of large audiences including the Salmon Project, the Foraker Group's Leadership Summit, and several sessions of Step-Up AK.  He's also taught many drawing classes for young children, teens and adults across Alaska at sites such as the Homer Library, the Anchorage Library, 49 Writers, and at McLaughlin Youth Center.

Lee is constantly developing new curriculum using his years of teaching visual thinking to help youth and adults to express themselves more clearly, reflect on their strengths and life experiences, and nurture their love of drawing.