CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

Happy to announce the 2017 CBIG Postcard has been printed and mailed! The front of our postcard gives a peek at the range of illustration styles among our members. The back of the card lists all of our 2017 members. Member illustrators on the front of the card, starting from the top are: Row 1: Lisa Falkenstern, Patricia Keeler, Lisa Cinelli, Suzanne Morris, Nancy Armo. Row 2: Doris, Ettlinger, Madonna Davidoff, Melissa Iwai, Marylouise Alu Curto, Deborah Cuneo. Row 3: Barbara DiLorenzo, Donna Miskend, Claire Lordon, Christine Mix, Annie Zygarowicz. Row 4: Mike Ciccotello, T. T. Tyler, Beth Ann Bogert, Susan Bednarski, Sybel Cohen. Row 5: Stephanie Ruble, Sharon Holm, Yuko Katakawa, Lexi Hart, Marilyn Papas. Row 6: Kimberly Batti, April Kim Tonin, Wallace West, Sibu Puthenveettil, Susie Lee jin. Row 7: H. Ruth Karpes, Katia Wish, Diana Ting Delosh, Leeza Hernandez, Yuko Torii. Please visit  cbig-nyc.com  to find out more about us. OR...

Master Storytellers Exhibit  EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 27   due to popular demand. CBIG members join more children's book illustrators in a return to Poe Park Visitor Center for the MASTER STORYTELLERS exhibit, on view April 1 - May 30, 2015   EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 27 Illustrations inspired by the classic tales of the brothers Grimm, Aesop, Kenneth Grahame, Joseph Jacobs, Shakespeare and more master storytellers. Participating Members:  Melissa Iwai, Lisa Cinelli, Angelique Anderson, Roberta Rivera, Donna Miskend, Clare Pernice,Yuko Katakawa, Nancy Doniger, Christine Mix, Kitty Leech, Delphine Henault, Robin Meeks, Vicky Rubin, Cheryl Taborsky curated by Donna Miskend Poe Park Visitor Center 2640 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10458 718.365.5516   WWW.NYCGOVPARKS.ORG HIGHLIGHTS:  artist panel, cbig: L Nancy Doniger, far R Donna Miskend Kitty Leech Melissa Iwai, art top art Robin Meeks bottom   Donna Misken...

Members of CBIG have contributed to ABFFE's on-line auction of children's book illustrations in support of Kids Right To Read.   CLICK HERE to be taken to the auction. The Kids Right To Read Program  is  co-sponsored by   ABC Children’s Group  of the  American Booksellers Association   and  American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE)  with the National Association Against Censorship. The on-line auction  open to the public click  HERE   (opens:  at noon, June 2, 2014 and closes , June 9, 2014 at noon) ,   and there will be a holiday auction in the fall. For more information visit the web sites highlighted .   Examples of books that have been banned or challenged effecting availability: To Kill A Mockingbird  by Harper Lee;  Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley;  Angels in America  by Tony Kushner,  Harry Potter  by J.K. Rowling. Click  HERE  to ...

Mary Mary Quite Contrary  © Donna Miskend2012 , ink & watercolor,  This is one of my paintings in the Mother Goose Re-Imagined exhibit at the Flinn Gallery on view through Jan. 16th. my web site: www.donnamiskend.com my blog: donnamiskend.blogspot.com for the first in a series of interviews with the exhibiting artists click here  and join us on Jan. 6 at 1:30pm in the gallery for a panel discussion moderated by me with: Marilyn Papas, Clare Pernice, H. Ruth Karpes, Lisa Lavoie and Roberta Rivera who will also do an art demonstration.

Marley's Ghost ©Donna Miskend 2012   Scrooge sees his old partner Marley's ghost in the door knocker. Here Lies Ebenezer Scrooge ©Donna Miskend 2012  I chose to focus attention on the moment when Scrooge sees his name on the tombstone in a neglected cemetery, destined to be forgotten if he doesn't change his ways. Both illustrations are from Dickens'  A Christmas Carol. My web site: www.DonnaMiskend.com  or click here blog: www.DonnaMiskend.blogspot.com or click here new blog, conversations with people in the arts: click here  theater, art, literature