Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard Cowdrey graduated from The Columbus College of Art and Design in 1981. After briefly working at Hallmark Greeting Cards, in Kansas City, Missouri, he has been a freelance illustrator working with many distinguished clients, such as, Abercrombie & Fitch, Chase Manhattan Bank, Ducks Unlimited, Harcourt Brace, Harper Collins, Wendy’s International...
Floyd Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea and I Have Heard of a Land. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Cooper received a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma and, after...
Normand Chartier is a Connecticut artist, who lives in the rural “Quiet Corner” of the state. He is an accomplished rising watercolorist and an internationally celebrated illustrator, specializing in children’s literature. His luminous impressionistic watercolor paintings have won numerous awards and have found their way into more than two hundred and fifty public and private...
Marsha cannot remember a time in her life when she was not making something. Whether it was drawing, painting, making photographs at an early age with her Brownie camera, or just putting together found objects. Marsha has always known that visual creativity was her calling and passion. Her mother, Louise H. Carrington, an accomplished and...
When Gina Capaldi was ten years old she wrote a letter to Norman Rockwell telling him she loved his work and when she grew up wanted to be an illustrator, too! Mr. Rockwell wrote back to Gina and this very letter sits near her drafting table- forever encouraging and uplifting her. Gina has both written...
