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| Karen Ackoff has a BFA in Illustration from Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in Medical Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Karen has been a practicing artist for more than 25 years. She began her career illustrating children’s educational textbooks. Longing to combine her love of science and art, Karen pursued graduate study in medical illustration. Karen worked for 10 years as Scientific Illustrator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. She presently teaches and coordinates the Graphic Design Program at Indiana University South Bend. |
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Sally Bensusen, formerly an astronomer and computer programmer with the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Naval Observatory, combined her science and art backgrounds to become a full-time scientific illustrator in 1981. Her clients include the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Ranger Rick and The Nature Conservancy. She developed and illustrated a monthly column for Natural History Magazine called “Biomechanics,” and recently provided visual services for NASA scientists studying the birth of the universe. She currently runs Visual Science Studio, near Washington, DC. |
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Alan Brush, Professor Emeritus, professed at University of Connecticut for 30 years, where he researched birds, specifically feathers and their evolution. He was editor of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and now serves as vice-president. He also edited CBEViews,
Volume X of Chemical Zoology, and Perspectives in Ornithology, the Centenary volume of the AOU. Alan has conducted research in New Guinea and in Melbourne, Australia—and spent three sabbatical years at University of California and Stanford. He is currently working on a book, ‘The Catesby Project,’ with his wife MJ.
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Steve Canders is the founder of Maine Legal Associates. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colby College, with a law degree from the University of Chicago, and has practiced in Maine since 1972. Steve is admitted to practice in Maine, the U.S. District Court of Maine, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court. For six years, he was general counsel to the Finance Authority of
Maine. He collects art, and that passion goes hand in hand with his interest and expertise in the legal aspects of intellectual property, copyright and trademark law. |
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John Cody is a medical doctor and medical illustrator whose spectacular, award-winning paintings of moths have been featured in magazine articles and exhibited nationally in one-artist shows, including the Smithsonian Institution. He authored the book, Atlas of Foreshortening: the Human Figure in Deep Perspective. John has taught workshops for the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and the Association of Medical Illustrators.
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| Michelle Hansen Daberkow has worked in Nebraska public schools for 14 years coordinating and leading art lessons for kindergarten through fifth graders. Her afterschool learnings as a campfire girl, dancer, artist and cellist still mysteriously appear as musical elements in her artwork. Her favorite place to be is elbow deep in clay or splattered with children’s tempera paintings, prints, and glue. She attended Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS and Wayne State College for her masters degree in art education. She is a member of the Nebraska Art Teachers Association. |
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| Marlene Hill Donnelly is a Scientific Illustrator at the Field Museum, with 25 years of experience. Free-lance clients include the Smithsonian Institution, Harper Collins Publishers, Wm. Brown Publishers, the Shedd Aquarium, and Brookfield Zoo. She has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, the Morton Arboretum, and the 2001 GNSI Summer Workshop. Marlene is the writer/author of Painting Wildlife in Watercolor, and is included in Women’s Work: Portraits of 12 Scientific Illustrators from the 17th to the 21st Century, Linda Hall Library of Science, Kansas City, Jan-May 2005. |
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Diane Dorigan is currently an art teacher at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois with about 20 years of teaching experience. She also worked for about 15 years doing free-lance illustration and working in Chicago commercial photo studios. Her artwork has been included in numerous exhibitions including several GNSI Annual Exhibits, Chicago Botanic Garden, Adler Center, Columbia College and the Suburban Fine Art Center.
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| Amanda Drinnon is Operations Manager for Microptics, Inc. She has previously worked with the Photography division within the U.S. Navy and has travelled extensively through the Caribbean, Europe, and China. |
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Jennifer Fairman is currently operating her own Medical and Biological Illustration and Animation studio, Fairman Studios, located in Waltham , Massachusetts . She received her MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore , Maryland (19990. Jennifer's background includes experience in medical and scientific illustration for publication, patient and consumer education, animation, web publishing and interactive design, as well as illustration for children's books, exhibits and television.
She has received numerous grants and awards for her work including Certificates of Merit from the AMI, a Smithsonian Women's Committee Grant, a James Smithson Society Fellowship, and a Vesalius Trust Research Grant, and the 1999 recipient of the Vesalius Trust's Inez Demonet Award.
Jennifer is a professional member and serves on the Board of Governors of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI), the Graphic Artists Guild (GAG)/ Boston Chapter, and a second-term board member of the Vesalius Trust. She is also a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), and the Massachusetts Business Association. |
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David Fierstein has eight years of experience as a freelance science illustrator and animator. Recent clients include Scientific American and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). He graduated from the UCSC Science Illustration program in 1996. |
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Donald Gambino, computer artist, digital photographer, Macintosh trainer & consultant; teaches ground-breaking real-world and on-line digital photo, video, and graphic courses; graduated from F.I.T.; was Chair of the Computer Art Dept. at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and created the BFA program; has exhibited in numerous locations and has been teaching in the digital arts field since 1983. |
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Britt Griswold is a multimedia graphics specialist working with the infrared Space Sciences Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center . He has also work for many years as a free lance scienc eartist for the Smithsonian, National Geographic, and USDA. Britt has been a member of the Guild for 24 and has served as GNSI membership secretary, Board member of Science Insights Inc., and project manager for the Science Illustration Creative Source Directory and Science-art.com. Britt is a Recipient of the GNSI's Distinguished Service Award. |
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| Gretchen Halpert has worked as a research scientist for 22 years and as an illustrator for 15 years. She teaches natural science and medical illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design/CE and Brown University, and leads workshops for a variety of organizations. Gretchen holds a BA in Botany from Connecticut College, and a certificate in scientific illustration from RISD/CE. Her drawings have appeared in books, journals and scientific publications. “My sketchbooks ground me; others inspire me and often I find sketches more alive and informative than finished works.” |
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B. Gary Hoyle is a Maine native who worked at the Maine State Museum as an exhibit artist and the Curator of Natural History for 28 years. His work has been exhibited in major museums and corporations around the country and has been featured in publications internationally. In 2001 Gary retired from the Maine State Museum to pursue a free-lance career as a museum exhibit consultant, designer and fabricator. One of his more recent projects has been as a consultant for the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis to aid in the relocation of historically important wildlife dioramas.
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Frank Ippolito has worked as a scientific illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for 20 years. He rewrote the paleontology chapter of the recently published 2nd edition of the Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. His freelance clients include Scientific American, The New York Times/Science Times, New York City Parks Department, and the Audubon Society. Frank continues to teach illustration and animation classes at Fairleigh Dickenson University in Teaneck , N.J. and has taught a variety of GNSI workshops on natural media and digital techniques. |
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| Lana Johnson has worked at the University of Nebraska for 13 years designing interactive web sites, print media, slides, and posters as well as teaching. Lana grew up in a large family on a Nebraska farm, with a mother who wanted to be a sailor, a father who rode a Harley, and older siblings who did fascinating things like sail around the world, fight forest fires and jump out of airplanes. This inspired her to follow her own dream of becoming an artist and teacher. Her studies took her to many places, especially significant was completing Donald Sayner’s scientific illustration course at the University of Arizona. |
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Kristine Kirkeby is a scientific illustrator educated in biology and fine arts. Combining her two talents, she was Director of Biological Sciences Art Services at the University of Minnesota where she did illustration, photography, graphic design and instruction. With over 20 years of experience, she is a free-lance natural science illustrator, and also teaches nature drawing, drawing journals, and basic drawing classes in schools, colleges, and community art centers for students ages 4-74. She is a
former GNSI President and serves on the Nominating Committee. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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| Mark A. Klingler, a scientific illustrator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was the recipient of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s (SVP) John J. Lazendorf PaleoArt Prize for Scientific Illustration, 2003. The winning artwork was a fossil reconstruction of Hadrocodium wui (the earliest mammal ever discovered) that appeared in the May 25, 2001 edition of Science. The artwork was featured on the cover. The illustration was picked up by almost every major newspaper in North America, Europe and Asia. |
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Roy Larimer is C.E.O. Of Microptics, Inc. He has pioneered many new ideas in the realm of photonics, creating new forms of digital micro and macro photography in a multitude of fields, including aerospace, forensics, entomology, biology, and art conservation and restoration. With his background in Engineering and design he has enhanced many facets of Sciences and Arts. He has worked with specialists in many fields to develop new and ground breaking apparatus and techniques in the field of high resolution digital micro and macro photography. He is known for his unconventional approach at successfully creating new and unique solutions. |
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Joan H. Lee is a self-employed free-lance artist and writer with way more than 30 years of experience in the illustration field. Her work has been included in many solo exhibits and national and regional juried competitions. She has received purchase awards (watercolor), and an award for publishing excellence. Joan’s work is in numerous private and public collections in the U.S. and overseas.
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Marjorie Leggitt, a professional scientific illustrator, started her career at Chicago’s Field Museum of Nature and Science dissecting and illustrating Australian land snails. Free-lancing full-time since 1985, her clients include the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Monterey Bay Aquarium, The Miami Metro Zoo, McGraw-Hill and John Wiley Publishing companies, to name a few. She has been a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators since 1979 and a Board member since 1998.
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| Anne Llewellyn is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Natural History Illustration program and Deputy Head of School in the School of Design, Communication and Information Technology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. As well as teaching, Anne is currently conducting research for her PhD titled ‘The Development of an Innovative Fieldwork Methodology for Natural History Illustrators’. After completing her undergraduate degree Anne co-founded and managed ‘Wildlife Encounters’ a freelance art studio and environmental education business as well as teaching part-time at the University of Newcastle. The desire to learn lured Anne back to part-time University study and in 2002 she was awarded a Master of Design by research with a thesis and exhibition titled ‘The Art of Communicating Environmental Information’.
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Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts), Graduate Diploma in Art, Master of Design |
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| Cassio Lynm is the senior medical illustrator of the Journal of the American Medical Association in Chicago , Illinois. His work at JAMA includes development for scientific (review) articles, patient education-level illustration, and the exploration of new means of delivering and presenting journal content. Cassio received his MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins. |
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| Peggy Macnamara has been painting wildlife in watercolor for over 20 years. She is the only artist-inresidence at the Field Museum in Chicago and is an associate Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibits widely in galleries and has work in the permanent collections of the Field Museum and the Illinois State Museum. She illustrated and co-authored Painting Wildlife in Watercolor with Marlene Hill Donnelly, Watson Guptill 2003, and illustrated Illinois Insects and Spiders, to be published this spring by the University of Chicago Press. |
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| Diana Marques completed a biology degree and several drawing and science illustration certificate programs in Portugal before graduating from the Science Illustration Program in Santa Cruz, CA. She did practical training at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane (Australia) and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and is currently doing free-lance work in Portugal and in the U.S. A GNSI member since 1999, she was part of the executive committee of the GNSI Conference in 2000. She is also free-lancing in calligraphy and has attended workshops in calligraphy and typography. |
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| J. Marie Metz is a scientific illustrator at the USDA/ Washington, D.C. NMNH (Smithsonian), department of Systematics Entomology. She had previously worked as a scientific illustrator at The University of Illinois Urbana/ Champaign and as an instructor in the Department of Art and Education at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield IL. Her interest in Beatrix Potter began when she discovered a book documenting Potter’s illustration work. Beatrix Potter has not only influenced Marie’s views of illustration but has substantiated the important role illustrators play in the world. |
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Paul Mirocha has free-lanced since 1985. His first illustrated book, Gathering the Desert won the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History, and an Art Director’s Club of NY award. In 1991, he quit a full time graphic design position at the University of Arizona to work on his first children’s book, Moon of the Wild Pigs, which was included in “The Very Best of Children’s Illustration,” compiled by the Society of Illustrators. Paul now paints almost exclusively with digital tools. His work has appeared in picture books and pop-ups, books, magazines, museum exhibits, scientific journals, and commercial work.
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| Elizabeth Morales received her BA in Anthropology/ Archaeology from SUNY Binghamton, NY. In 1975 she moved west for art training at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco and U.C. Berkeley, then continued on with graduate work in archaeology at San Francisco State University. For the past 20 years she has worked as a scientific illustrator and art development editor for most of the major textbook publishers in the US, creating and illustrating the art programs for college level texts in the life sciences. Elizabeth returned from the West Coast to the Northeast in 1999. |
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| Merri Nelson is a free-lance artist, illustrator and instructor. Clients include Longwood Gardens, Winterthur, VA Native Plant Society. She has done interpretive exhibit plans of several National Parks, including Grand Teton NP. Merri teaches workshops for the Smithsonian Associates, US Botanic Garden, the VA State Arboretum, NY State Museum and USDA. A GNSI member since 1981, Merri served as Education Director and Board member for 6 years and taught the GNSI Master class. Merri works from her home/studio in rural Virginia and spends time each summer painting the landscape on a Maine island. |
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Jane K. Neroni is a free-lance illustrator and painter. She is the coordinator of both the Natural Science Illustration Program and the Children’s Book Illustration Program at the Rhode Island School of Design/CE and she also teaches courses in Botanical Illustration and Drawing for RISD. She conducts a variety of painting and drawing workshops in the New England area. The primary focus of her work is the landscape, which serves as the subject of her sketchbook and her “plein air” paintings. Jane is an active member of the GNSI New England chapter, is on the Board of the Pawtucket Artists Collaborative and is a past board member of GNSI.
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| Trudy Nicholson received a BS degree majoring in Fine Arts at Columbia University, and completed the Medical Illustration program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has worked as a medical illustrator at the National Institutes of Health as well as free-lance natural science illustrator in a variety of scientific fields for many years. Awards include AMI bio’84 Best Illustrated Book, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence, NIH Superior Performance Award, the Federal Design Council Award of Merit, and the GNSI Distinguished Service Award. |
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| John Norton has been working for textbook publishers, nature centers and ad agencies as a free-lance illustrator since 1986. Although he has worked mainly in pen and ink for much of this time, he now uses Adobe Photoshop to colorize his scientific illustrations, logos and cartoons. His educational background includes a BS and MS in biology and a stint as a biology teaching assistant in graduate school. |
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| Mary Parrish has been working for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History since 1979 and as the staff artist in the Department of Paleobiology of that museum since 1983. Her illustrations have appeared in Science, Nature, National Geographic, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Paleontology, Geology and many other journals as well as in several museum exhibits. She received the award for “Best Scientific Illustration” at an international juried exhibit of paleo art at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in 2004. |
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Gregory Paul has been researching and illustrating dinosaurs since the 1970s. Author of numerous technical papers on various aspects of paleontology and evolutionary science, his books include Dinosaurs of the Air (Johns Hopkins University Press), Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, and The Scientific American Book of the Dinosaur (editor). He was science advisor and contributing artist to
the new dinosaur hall at the Maryland Science Center, and designed its giant sculpture of two dinosaurs. |
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| Dorie Petrochko is a painter and natural history illustrator who has taught art for over 20 years. She has instructed in both public and private schools and offers private lessons in her studio in Oxford, CT. Dorie is currently focusing her work on the study of birds, bird anatomy and feathers and has been granted artist fellowships at Skidmore College and recently in Costa Rica through the Julia and David White Foundation. She has exhibited widely throughout CT and has been awarded numerous awards for her watercolor illustrations. |
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| Consie Powell is a free-lance illustrator and writer. Over the past 25 years, she has created books and magazine articles for kids, illustrated scientific works and made limited edition woodcut prints. She has taught natural science illustration in the field, and gives presentations about picture book creation at schools and libraries. She edits, designs, illustrates and occasionally writes the WILD Notebook, the young readers’ feature in Wildlife in North Carolina magazine. Her sixth book for children debuts in 2005. |
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| Scott Rawlins holds degrees in biology, museum education and medical & biological illustration. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Arcadia University where he teaches scientific illustration, drawing and design. Scott is on sabbatical during the 2004/ 2005 academic year, working on a series of botanical illustrations. His free-lance clients have included the National Museum of Natural History (DC), the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Scott is currently president of the American Society of Botanical Artists. |
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Arena Reed is an artist and designer with a versatile style and a keen interest in nature. Her work ranges from content development for graphics software (including patterns and other graphic content for Painter), web design and development (some of which can be seen at visualarena.com) and illustration. She holds a degree in Biology and Art from U. C. Santa Cruz. She finds the Guild a great source of inspiration and knowledge for all of her work including the non-scientific. She plans on bringing her mountain bike to Bar Harbor and encourages you to do the same. |
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Kevin Rich came to Hunter Editions from the Interactive Media Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He aided in the growth of Hunter from a small gallery and printmaking studio to a state of the art facility that has earned an international reputation as a leader in fine-art digital printmaking. By focusing his studio on producing outstanding digital reproductions, he has created a benchmark of superior understanding and savvy in color theory, color and print management, and developed a level of technical expertise at Hunter Editions that is second to none in the field.
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| Carol Jean Rogalski is a clinical psychologist who has studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy and worked in the addictions field for three decades. While researching the active ingredients of narcotics and herbals at The Morton Arboretum library, she also completed a Botanical Art Certificate Program. She has been integrating her pursuit of objective knowledge with the mysteries of the mind in relation to their selection of objects of beauty and desire. Her writings and interest in culture, the arts and humanities and their impact upon personal happiness have been noted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. |
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| Dorothia Rohner has a bachelor degree in illustration. Her work has been featured in magazines, scientific journals and has been licensed to Hallmark Cards and Western Woods. She works as an illustrator from Painted Wings Studio (www.paintedwings.com) where she paints and designs botanical and butterfly artwork for nature gifts which are sold around the country in museum, nature and botanical centers including the Smithsonian Museum Shops, The Field Museum, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Lewis & Clark Interpretive Centers. Her first picture book, Effies Image, written by N.L Sharp, was published in 2004. |
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Roberta Rosenthal, 
owner of RSR Designs Squirrel Nest Studio.
Teaches at NYBG, CAS, and IES where students’ never brood.
Thirty five years of clients include:
The New York Times, Republics of Palau
Fine and Kitchen Gardening, Simon and Schuster and Weston Nurseries
To name just a few, always puts me in a very good mood.
Given a Mona Lisa award for my web site,
Bronx Council on the Arts gave me a grant,
Asia Society bestowed my art with honorable mention
Which put me in the spotlight. I
’ve sat on GAG’s and CAS’s Board of Directors,
Most recently created a new logo for IES’s Cary Conference on
Infectious Disease Ecology showing plant, insect and animal vectors. |
| Diane T Sands is a naturalist, cartoonist, librarian, and free-lance scientific illustrator, who also uses the sketchbook as a medium for recording the natural movements of the world around her. |
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Dolores R. Santoliquido has been free-lancing since 1977,
Hardly ever like being in hell but rather like being in heaven.
She’s known for rendering all things large and small,
Known as the retentive one by one and all.
Working for publishers, ad agencies and scientists alike,
She now also teaches students with verve and delight.
Fine art a directive for the past fourteen years,
Painting nature fervently with her blood, sweat and tears.
Show credits include the Smithsonian and the Hunt,
And since right knee replacement surgery her main goal is to again punt. |
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Margaret Saul, is an internationally recognized botanical artist and teacher from Australia who began her career as a museum artist after four years at art school. She has worked in the field of botanical art since 1976, and is represented in private and public collections worldwide and in numerous science and art publications. Four of her paintings are owned by Dr. Shirley Sherwood, for whom she presents master classes at Orient-Express Hotels. She currently resides in the USA, and is director of the newly established “Brookside Gardens School of Botanical Art & Illustration” in Maryland. View her art on-line at: www.botanicartist.com
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Mario Costa Sousa, professor of Computer Science , University of Calgary, Canada, is Brazilian born. His research focuses on Non-Photorealistic Rendering through digital techniques and the development of a comprehensive NPR framework, methodology and software environment focusing on five main aspects--materials, imaging, modeling, rendering, composition. |
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| Alice Tangerini has been employed at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), in the Department of Botany as a staff illustrator since 1972. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region. Her work has been exhibited in numerous GNSI and joint AMI-GNSI exhibits since 1973. Alice has taught classes for Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, USDA Graduate School, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Montgomery College and recently at the Corcoran School of Art in 2004. Alice recently worked on a Flora of the Marquesas Islands. |
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| Louisa Rawle Tiné has taught color theory and botanical watercolor for the past 15 years. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and The Institute for Ecosystem Studies, as well as numerous workshops throughout the Northeast. She has worked as a commercial and fine artist for thirty years. |
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| Lorie Topinka has kept an illustrated journal for several years and frequently teaches Sketching and Journal Keeping for the Science Classroom at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco where she is manager of teacher services. Lorie has a master’s degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University, Seattle. |
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Suzanne Wegener earned her BGS in Scientific Illustration from Northern Illinois University and a MS in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is currently the Coordinator of Botanical Art Education at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois and is free-lancing in medical and natural history illustration. Suzanne has taught traditional art techniques at various institutions for over ten years and co-taught the 2003 and 2004 GNSI Summer Workshop.
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| Amy Bartlett Wright interned at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), in the Botany and Entomology Departments while earning a BA (1980) in Scientific Illustration from University of Maryland. She earned a Scientific and Technical Illustration Certificate from Rhode Island School of Design, Continuing Education in 1990 and now teaches core course work in that program. She has been a free-lance illustrator since 1982. She paints in small format for publications as well as large scale murals for science museums, nature centers, zoos and by private commission. In 2003, she became a member of Society of Animal Artists |
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