Louise Bodenheimer
Louise Bodenheimer, associate professor of art has been the head of the Graphic Design/Illustration and 3D Animation areas in the Department of Art at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri since 1992. She has an MFA in Painting/Drawing and an MFA in Graphic Design/Illustration, both from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.

At Southeast, she teaches all levels of graphic design, illustration, 3D animation, and a summer workshop in Computer Art. Louise has instructed art and graphic design related courses since 1986, and has been engaged many critiques and workshops regarding composition. Her own work has been shown in various solo, national and regional exhibitions.

Hannah Bonner
Hannah Bonner has been a full-time free-lance illustrator for over fifteen years. Hannah got her start in Natural Science illustration in her last year of high school, when her father asked her to illustrate a book he'd written on the plants of Mallorca. Later on, several commissions from a paleontologist friend sparked a strong interest in recreating ancient life forms and environments. Her first paleontology book for children, When Bugs Were Big, was published by National Geographic Children's Books in 2003.

Holly G. Butlett
Holly G. Butlett is a freelance artist, self-taught naturalist and instructor. She is currently enrolled in the botanical arts certificate program at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. Since 1999, she had done many interactive murals for nature museums and park districts, and in private homes. She is a member of the Nature Artist’s Guild of the Morton Arboretum , Ottawa Art League and the GNSI. She has done many demonstrations in acrylic paint, pen and ink and pencil for many groups and museums including the Kenosha Public Museum, Aurora Park Dist. and Starved Rock Audubon.

John Cody
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.

Picture by Karen Johnson.

Marlene Hill Donnelly
Marlene Hill Donnelly is an illustrator at the Field Museum’s Department of Geology. She is a seasoned illustrator, with over 28 years experience drawing and documenting the natural world. Her awards and accomplishments include inclusion in Women’s Work: Portraits of Twelve Scientific Illustrators from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Linda Hall Library of Science); Society of Illustrators The Best of Children's Illustration; and American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Best Children’s Book.

Christine Elder
Christine Elder earned a Master’s Degree in Biology at Humboldt State University where she studied carnivorous plant ecology in the mountain wetlands of California. She has since worked as a field and lab biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, Sequoia National Park and Moss Landing Marine Lab, then spent the last six years as a high school and junior college science instructor. Last year she realized a long held dream to meld her love of art with science and is thus currently completing the illustration program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Joel Floyd
Joel Floyd has an MS in entomology from the University of Arizona where he became inspired by Don Sayner while taking his scientific illustration courses. He has worked for USDA, APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine for 26 years on various invasive plant pest programs, and has been a GNSI member for nearly as long doing free-lance illustration of all natural science subject matter.

Bruce Paul Gaber and Catherine J. Gaber
 Azurite Art

Much more than a gemmy affection,
Is our treasured mineral collection,
Acquired for years,
we're up to our ears,
so, allow us to draw art's connection.

Bill Gellman
Bill Gellman teaches a variety of science courses at the Kinkaid School in Houston, Texas. He holds a BS in Biology (Penn State) and an MA in Zoology (University of Montana). For many years he was a researcher in genetics, but went into teaching after finding that dealing with people was more satisfying. After a long hiatus from drawing, he has recently picked up a pen and pencil and begun to create some artwork. With no formal training in the visual arts, Bill's goals are entirely personal and/or educational- integrating the visual learning style into his classes. He believes that drawing satisfies one's innate creative desire; while also increasing awareness of the world around us and sharpening our powers of observation.

Robert Jon Golder
Robert Jon Golder is under contract with Rhode Island’s Department of Environmental Management to produce 142 illustrations of all fishes found in state waters. An arts and sciences communicator for 30 years, Golder was Exhibits Artist at Buttonwood Park Zoo (New Bedford, Massachusetts), for which he designed over 100 full-color educational and wayfinding signage panels. While he was Scientific Illustrator at Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Massachusetts), Golder made nine trips to the North Slope of Alaska to provide technical support for fisheries studies of the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research Project. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Golder has taught scientific illustration at Tufts University and through RISD’s Continuing Education Dept.

Britt Griswold
Britt 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 freelance science artist 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.

Gail W. Guth
Gail has been a member of the GNSI and a freelance artist for 30 years, specializing in nature illustration and graphic design. She works in watercolor, colored pencil, ink, and pencil; a combination of digital and traditional art, and computer graphics in Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and InDesign.

Gail’s has exhibited her work with the Hunt Institute’s Traveling Exhibition about a century ago, in the GNSI Annual Exhibit in Denver, 2003, and a solo exhibition at a local nature center in the fall of 2005.

Nancy Halliday
Nancy Halliday has worked for almost 50 years as a museum artist for both scientific publications and educational exhibits, and she has taught scientific illustration since 1977. She recently retired from the position of Artist-Naturalist for Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. Nancy completed twelve watercolor plates for the Field Guide to North American Mammals by Wilson and Kays. Her awards and accomplishments include first prize recipient for color category, GNSI Exhibition at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1979, and she won second prize in watercolor at the National Wildlife Federation Exhibition, Vienna, Virginia, in 1983. She teaches in the Botanical Art Education program at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle IL.
Her guild accomplishments include authoring the bird illustration chapter in the GNSI Handbook of Scientific Illustration, and GNSI Historian since 1995.

Picture by Karen Johnson.

Gretchen Halpert
Gretchen Halpert has worked as a research scientist for 23 years and as an illustrator for 15. 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 around the country. Gretchen holds a BA in Botany from Connecticut College, attended UNH Graduate School and completed a certificate in scientific illustration from RISD/CE. Gretchen is president-elect for the GNSI. “My sketchbooks ground me; other’s books inspire me and often I find sketches more alive and informative than finished works.”

Russell J. Hawley
Russell J. Hawley is the education coordinator at the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College in Wyoming, where he gives tours and produces artwork for museum displays. He also contributes a paleontology question and answer column to the museum newsletter. Russell has worked at the museum for 8 years, has been digging up fossils in Wyoming for 15 years, has taught elementary school students about paleontology for 20 years and has been drawing prehistoric animals for over 30 years. He produced artwork for the America's Smithsonian 50th Anniversary Traveling Exhibit.

Frank Ippolito
Frank Ippolito has worked as a scientific illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for 20 years. He recently (re)wrote the vertebrate paleontology chapter of 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, The Audubon Society, The National Zoological Park, and The Washington Post. 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.

Tyler Keillor
University of Chicago
Sereno Fossil Prep Lab since January 2001

It is my pleasure to share with you the process and techniques I've used to reconstruct the flesh-model of a new Devonian fish. Dinosaurs have been the "usual suspects" for me as a preparator/paleoartist in Paul Sereno's Lab at the U of C, where I reconstruct both skulls/skeletal elements, as well as life-restorations. Science and art have been life-long passions of mine, and I'm proud to be working in a field where I can contribute my artistic abilities to worthwhile scientific endeavors.

Copyright 2005 Tyler Keillor.

Kristine Kirkeby
Kristine Kirkeby is a freelance natural science illustrator, educated in biology and fine arts. She has worked as a research histologist. Combining these backgrounds, she served as illustrator, graphic designer, and photographer while Director of Biological Sciences Art Services at the University of Minnesota. She held this for fourteen years before beginning her freelance career. She has designed, written and teaches a multidisciplinary art and science curriculum for students ages 4-84. She also teaches for and trains instructors for an Audubon in the Schools education program. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Larry Lavendel
Larry Lavendel creates freelance illustration, graphics, web and exhibit design through his company, Ikitomi Design. He is also a lecturer/teacher of computer graphics with 10 years experience with the Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz. Larry currently teaches at the Carden El Encanto School in Santa Cruz. He is a contributor to the GNSI Handbook of Scientific Illustration, 2nd edition chapter on "Basic Computer Graphic Techniques". Larry has 15 years of experience and his specialties include: Illustrating marine subjects; User interface design, usability and information architecture; Graphic design and production for on-line and print media; Exhibit design and construction.

Diana Marques
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, in 2004. 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 US. A GNSI member since 1999, she was part of the executive committee of the GNSI Conference in 2000. Besides her work in illustration, she has developed her interest in lettering by attending several classes and workshops in calligraphy and typography.

John Megahan
John Megahan received Bachelor’s degrees in both Art and Biology from Boise State University and earned a Master’s Degree in Marine Biology from University of Oregon in 1990. He then worked as a field biologist for three years, free lancing in his spare time. In 1994, after building a client base, he began free lancing full time as a scientific illustrator. In 1996 he accepted a position as Graphic Artist for University of Michigan’s Museum of Zoology where he currently works. Much of his work involves computer graphics.

Kalliopi Monoyios
Kalliopi Monoyios is a scientific illustrator at the University of Chicago where she works for the Chair of the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Neil Shubin. For five years she has been involved in every step of the process from planning expeditions in far-off lands to fossil hunting to preparation and illustration. It took four years, but her first halftones and stipples are finally in press! Previously, her illustrations appeared in Science and Nature and in 2004, on the cover of Science.

Rhonda Nass
As Rhonda Nass states, “My high school art teacher’s declaration that I could never be an artist was probably the impetus that catapulted a stubborn German girl like me into the world of art.” Several years later Rhonda graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an art education degree and shortly thereafter (along with her artist husband) began a design/illustration business. Approaching 30 years of making a living drawing and painting, they gratefully continue to operate Ampersand, an illustration studio within their log home in the woods 15 miles from Madison.

Artists most influential in developing Rhonda’s style are Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Bateman, Bill Nelson and Rick Nass.

Rhonda Nass at drawing table amidst the process of an acrylic painting of a chokecherry.
Copyright 2004 Rick Nass.

Trudy Nicholson
Trudy Nicholson is an illustrator of nature, whose main interest is portraying animals and plants in their natural habitats with accuracy and detail. Receiving Fine Arts and Medical Illustration degrees, she worked as a Medical Illustrator and free-lance natural science illustrator for many years, using primarily scratchboard techniques. Her work is featured in Ruth Lozner’s “Scratchboard for Illustration”. Among the numerous nature books that she has illustrated is Warner Shedd’s “Owls Aren’t Wise and Bats Aren’t Blind”. One of her illustrations is in the Morton Arboretum collection and she has exhibited widely.

Picture by Karen Johnson.

Mary Parrish
Mary Parrish began working for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in 1979 and became staff artist in the Department of Paleobiology in 1983. Her illustrations have appeared in Science, Nature, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and many other journals and museum exhibits. She received the award for “Best Scientific Illustration” at the Denver Museum's paleo art exhibit in 2004. Mary launched a Smithsonian Paleo Art website in 2005 that appeared in over 70 newspaper articles via the Associated Press. She also takes care of her department's historical art.

Photo by Carlita Sanford, copyright 2005 Smithsonian.

Jean Probert
Jean Probert is a self-employed illustrator with 25 years of experience in graphic communications and commercial illustration. Her work is featured in print and on the Web in advertising, promotions and corporate communications for major clients such as Coca Cola, Nestlés, and Seaworld.

Jean began her career in traditional media illustration, but moved eagerly into the digital graphics field as the software and hardware capabilities advanced through the 1990's. She has a particular interest in digital 3D modeling and rendering, and uses this technology extensively in her current work. http://www.jeanprobert.com

Copyright by Rex Probert 2000.

Scott Rawlins
Scott Rawlins graduated from Earlham College with a degree in biology, and holds graduate degrees in museum education and medical & biological illustration from the George Washington University and the University of Michigan respectively. Scott is an Associate Professor in and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Arcadia University where he teaches scientific illustration, drawing and design. Scott’s freelance clients have included the National Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

The photo has been supplied by with the permission of Arcadia University.

Clara L. Richardson
 I learned to draw after completing my formal education in Zoology (BS, MS University of Wisconsin-Madison). Suddenly everything made sense about how I could best contribute to the field of biology, which I had grown to love as the study of the living world.
 A run of extraordinary good luck brought me a job as scientific illustrator at The Field Museum in Chicago, where for over 20 years my skills have grown with the help of generous colleagues and the people of GNSI.
 My adult discovery of drawing as a tool for understanding the world and some of my drawing experiences have gradually led me to my current exploration of the processes involved.

Carol Jean Rogalski
Carol Jean Rogalski is a clinical psychologist who has studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as art in New York City. She has worked in the addictions field in the Midwest for three decades. While researching the active ingredients of narcotics and herbals in The Sterling Morton Library, she discovered the botanical art program at The Morton Arboretum. She returned to her study of art, completed a Botanical Art Certificate Program, demonstrated and taught illumination techniques, and also became the featured artist during the fall 2004 exhibition of The Nature Artists’ Guild. She continues to pursue her interest in creativity as it is affected by the human environment and technological advances. She has been fascinated by the artistic productivity of the Middle Ages, a time when the world was “lit only by fire.”

Dolores Santoliquido
Being blessed with a natural talent for drawing and originally trained as a sculptor, my passion for art has provided me with a unique and diverse career for the past twenty-eight years. Last year I wrote in poetry, you now know I am not a poet. However, I am an artist. Being an artist is not just what I do but rather an integral part of who and what I am. I have experienced amazing opportunities in a variety of venues including fine art, advertising, publishing and education. Although I protested in my youth against becoming a teacher, I acknowledge, in the autumn of my life, a teacher is exactly what I have been for the past twenty-two years. It is my goal during this year’s conference workshop to share what I have learned about the business of art during my twenty-eight years as a professional freelance artist.

Photo by Keith W. Confalone.

Patricia Savage
Patricia Savage has been a fine artist since 1989. She was awarded “Best” and “Honorable Mention” in Wildlife in The Pastel Journal’s 6th Annual Pastel Top 100. She served as Artist-in-Residence in Denali National Park and expedition artist for the “1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced.” Her work has appeared in The Best in Wildlife Art 1 and 2, Focus (Italy), US Art, and Wildlife Art. Exhibitions include the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Bell Museum of Natural History, National Geographic Society, U. S. Botanic Gardens, and Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.

Copyright 2001 Patricia Savage.

Rick Simonson
Rick is a freelance scientific illustrator and a senior lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.  He’s been illustrating professionally for the past four years and has taught biology and been involved in research for the past six years.  Most of Rick’s artwork is created using Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop.  He has a wide range of clients but focuses primarily on textbook illustrating.

Amy Bartlett Wright
Part time faculty at Rhode Island School of Design, Continuing Education in Scientific Illustration Certificate Program;
Society of Animal Artists;
RISCA Artist Roster Member; and selected as one of 25 Rhode Islanders to watch in 2006 by Rhode Island Monthly magazine.

Amy is a successful freelance muralist, illustrator and author. She has painted murals for Save The Bay: Narragansett Bay, Museum of Science in Boston, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Virginia Polytechnic University and Buttonwood Park Zoo. In 2005 she painted 3 works for Guinness' "Calories Campaign". Over 27 years she has illustrated 50 books and 250 magazine articles, but she prefers projects requiring big brushes and large canvases.

Picture by Donna DeForbes.