CBIG - Children's Book Illustrators Group

Please join us at the opening of The Wonderous World of Children's Book Illustrators on Thursday, June 22, 5:30-7:30 in the galleries of the Interchurch Center at 475 Riverside Dr. in NYC. Michelle Lockamy Patricia Keeler Naroth Kean Yuko Katakawa Melissa Iwai Mike Ciccotello Curated by, Frank DeGregorie Show runs from June 22 - August 18 Gallery Hours Mon-Fri, 9 - 5pm Note: There are two entrances to our building (which takes up the block between 119th Street and 120th Street) --- 475 Riverside Drive and 61 Claremont Avenue--one block west of Broadway, at 120th St. Subway Directions: The Interchurch Center 475 Riverside Drive  (or 61 Claremont Ave., one block west of B'way at 120th St.). Take #1 train to 116th Street, the Columbia University stop. Walk up Broadway to 120th Street, turn left, walk one block to Claremont Avenue. We are at 61 Claremont Avenue.

YUKO KATAKAWA P - 15 STEPHANIE RUBLE P - 16 MARILYN PAPAS P - 17 Please click on the images to enlarge. Check out out both directories in the sidebar. Click to view all the pages. 2016 COLOR Illustration Directory 2016 BLACK & WHITE Illustration Directories or download from our website at  cbig-nyc.com

Yuko Katakawa P - 12 Stephanie Ruble P - 13 Marie McCann P - 14 Please   click on the illustration directory links in the sidebar to view:  2015 Black & White Illustration Directory  and  2015 Color Illustration Directory.

YAY! - the 2015 Black & White Illustration Directory is out! Please click here to flip thru the   2015 Black & White Illustration Directory   CBIG Pages. The 2015 cover art winners of this years Black & White Directory are:   Kimberly  Rose Batti ,  Allyn Howard ,  Barbara Wilcox DiLorenzo ,  Yuko Katakawa . Please   click on the illustration directory links in the sidebar to view:  2015 Black & White Illustration Directory  and  2015 Color Illustration Directory. We will be featuring the illustrator pages in the upcoming posts for both directories. First up will be the 28 illustrators that participated in the Black & White directory.

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 due to popular demand. 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 Poe Park Visitor Center 2640 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10458 Schedule of events:  Saturday April 11 12pm - Artist panel includes CBIG members Nancy Doniger and curator, Donna Miskend 1pm - A conversation with guest Michael Patrick Hearn, author and children's literary historian followed by reception Saturday May 30 time tbd Learn Pen &; Ink with CBIG artist Rob...

Yuko Katakawa Illustrator P- 15 Kristine Lombardi Illustrator P- 16   Jennifer Ball Illustrator P- 17 To flip thru the directory pages click on:  2014 COLOR Directory PDF   CBIG-NYC.com

  2014 Color Illustration Directory PDF Finally the 2014 Color Illustration Directory featuring the art of 29 CBIG 2014 members.  As the  theme of our 2014 Color was the 4 seasons,  members were asked to submit 1 image for any 1 of the seasons for the cover. We then asked our members to vote on the illustrations that they felt were the best for the season.  The cover winners are for: Fall -   Allyn Howard , Winter - Melissa Iwai , Spring - Jason Kirschner , Summer -   Yuko Katakawa .  Many of the remaining cover submissions were used throughout the book as spot art on the table of contents and member index pages. Please click on the thumbnails of the  2014 Color Illustration Directory and/or the   2014 Black & White Illustration Directory  in the sidebar to flip through the PDF booklets.  Please go to   CBIG-NYC.com   to see more of our illustrators art. Upcoming posts will feature the 39 promo pages in the...

Lisa Falkenstern Author, Illustrator P-6 Yuko Katakawa Illustrator P-7 Catherine Stine Author, Illustrator P-8 2014 Black & White Illustration Directory . CBIG-NYC.com

2014 Black & White Illustration Directory PDF Tah Dah - the 2014 Black & White Illustration Directory! With the current rage in publishing centered around Middle Grade, Young Adult and even New Adult Books, we thought we'd give our 2014 members a chance to showoff their black and white illustrations. We envisioned this as a section in the 2014 illustrator directory but we gathered enough illustrations from our members to warrant it's own PDF Booklet. Please click here to flip thru the 2014 Black & White Illustration Directory CBIG Pages. To create the cover we asked members to submit cover art and than the submissions were voted on by the 2014 membership.  The four winners are: Yuko Katakawa , Patricia Keeler , Allyn Howard , Barbara DiLorenzo . The remaining cover submissions were used throughout the book as spot art on the table of contents and member index pages. Please go to CBIG-NYC.com to click on the link to our Illustrator Directories:  2014 Bl...