GNSI
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
2012 Conference and Annual Meeting
July 8 – 14, 2012
Biographies
Alphabetical by Last Name: A-G H-L M-T U-Z
Deborah K. Haines (Deb)
Deb has been a member of GNSI for 23 years working in both traditional and digital media from the first Mac to PC. She believes in using the right tools for problem solving effectively and efficiently. Working in a variety of settings creating scientific graphic presentations to medical illustration for human, forensic, and veterinary medicine has helped to refine these skills. She has been at the University of Tennessee CVM for 19 years collaborating and developing teaching material as well as exhibits and illustration for scientific journals.
Gretchen Kai Halpert
Gretchen Halpert has a background in botany (Connecticut College) and illustration (UNH and RISD/CE) She was employed as a research scientist for 25 years at Yale University and RI Hospital while teaching at RISD/CE and Brown University. Gretchen is past-president of the GNSI. Now living in NY State, she teaches and leads docent tours at the Corning Museum of Glass. Gretchen’s work is included in “Today’s Botanical Artists”, by C.B. Marcus and L. Kyer. This spring she traveled to Taiwan and Thailand, mounting a solo exhibition and teaching scientific illustration.
Barbara Harmon
Barbara Harmon is a science illustrator who divides her time between Ocala, FL and Cape Cod, MA. Her work can be found in science publications, museum exhibits, books, and fine art collections across the U.S., Canada and England. Primarily self-employed for the last 20 years, she holds a Bachelor’s degree with double major in Fine Art and Zoology (University of California, Berkeley), and a Master’s degree in Medical and Biological Illustration (University of Illinois at Chicago). Barbara’s art and illustration has received national attention: awards and collectors include the National Parks Academy for the Arts, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the American Academy of Equine Art. In recent years Barbara's work has been taken to a larger scale: she is creating murals for various visitor centers and museums with natural science themes. The murals are created through a combination of traditional and digital techniques.
Nancy Halliday
Nancy Halliday is a founding member of the GNSI and authored the bird illustration chapter in the GNSI Handbook. She has been employed as an exhibits artist at the Smithsonian Institution and as a scientific illustrator at the Florida State Museum, in addition to over 50 years freelancing for publishers and individual scientists. She won the Curator’s Choice award for mammalogy in the GNSI exhibition at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in 2004-5. Nancy began teaching in 1977 and has contributed many lectures and workshops at Guild conferences.
Paul Hudson
Paul Hudson began his career as an Imagineer for Walt Disney designing future habitats and vehicles for EPCOT before working for Boeing Aerospace, where his illustrations of the International Space Station and infrastructures for a return to the moon and a manned mission to Mars earned him the National Wernher Von Braun Media Award. He has painted murals for The National Air and Space Museum and served on the President’s National Commission on Space. His wide range of clients include Time-Life Inc., National Geographic, The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Center, and the NASA Houston Manned Space Flight Center. His knowledge and sculpting skills in anatomy have recently been sought by Paleontologists Mark Goodwin and Jack Horner, the Dinosaur Resource Center and Museum of Colorado and by Dr. Xu Xing, State Paleontologist of China to sculpt forensic reconstructions of newly discovered Overaptoroid, Dromaeosaurid, and Ceratopsian dinosaurs. He currently is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design where he has taught for 12 years sculpture, anatomy, and conceptual design.
Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter was a graphic designer and art director before completing the UC Santa Cruz Science Illustration program in 2006. She interned at California Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian, and has been Sally Ride Science’s primary illustrator since 2007. Erin has taught botanical illustration and field sketching at UCSC, and now leads workshops through the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. Erin is currently illustrating her fourth children’s book for Sylvan Dell Publishing. Her personal work can be seen in various group and solo art exhibits.
Frank Ippolito
Frank Ippolito has worked as scientific illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for 29 years. An early adopter of digital media, he proactively moved from traditional drawing towards a hybrid of digital illustration techniques he employs today. His freelance clients include Scientific American, Natural History Magazine, The New York Times/Science Times, American Scientist, The National Zoological Park, U. S. Geological Survey, New York City Parks Department, and the Audubon Society. His artwork hangs on permanent exhibit at The American Museum of Natural History, The National Zoo, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. Frank presented the keynote speech at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual conference at Bar Harbor in 2005. In 2008 he presented the keynote speech at The Digital Content Consortium hosted by the Digital Academy at University of North Carolina, Pembroke NC. He has taught a variety of GNSI workshops on natural media and digital techniques, and he continues to teach illustration and animation classes at Fairleigh Dickenson University in Teaneck, NJ. Frank authored the paleontology chapter of the 2nd edition of the Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration.
Greg Johnson
Greg has been a Professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design for 16 years in the Computer Art, Game Development and Scientific Illustration majors. He works in digital media using a diverse array of programs that includes Maya, 3dsMax, Zbrush, Photoshop, Illustrator and many others. Greg also works as an art lead and consultant in the video game industry, as a freelance illustrator, and as an exhibiting artist. His work can be found in "Military Times, issue 2, Nov 2010, 'The Zeppelins of WW1'", the 6x6x2011 and 6x6x2012 exhibitions, the National Cell Phone Photography Exhibition, the 2nd Annual Southeastern Aviation Art Expo and online at GregTheArtist.com.
© 2012 Greg JohnsonIkumi Kayama
Ikumi is medical and scientific illustrator of Studio Kayama, creating illustration, animation, graphics and web design since 2008. Ikumi holds a MA in Medical and Biological Illustration from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a BFA in Scientific Illustration from the University of Georgia.
Her work has appeared internationally in juried shows, exhibits, textbooks, scientific journals, presentations, and websites. Ikumi is also the recipient of numerous awards from a variety of organizations including GNSI, AMI, and the Illustrators Club.
Jennifer Landin
Dr. Jennifer Landin is an Assistant Professor in Biology at North Carolina State University. She integrates illustration and close observation to teach comparative anatomy in her newly-developed Biological Illustration course. Dr. Landin's research focuses on visual attention, misconceptions in science education, and scientific communication. In addition to Biological Illustration, Dr. Landin teaches Introductory Biology for non-science majors and NeuroEducation.
Marjorie Leggitt
Marjorie became a GNSI member in 1979 while drawing reproductive organs at the Field Museum. Since then, she’s “graduated” to external parts of a wide variety of subjects working in pen and ink, graphite, transparent acrylics, watercolor, and electronic media. Marjorie owns her own scientific illustration business, teaches 25 different botanical illustration courses at the Denver Botanic Gardens, and holds field sketching workshops around the world. Her art has hung in GNSI, the Hunt Institute, Focus on Nature and DBG exhibits. She received the GNSI Service Award a few years ago.
Elizabeth C. Lockett
Liz has been working at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) in the Human Developmental Anatomy Center for 18 years. Originally hired by NMHM to create computer models of embryos, she has also made exhibitions, websites, and illustrations. While at NMHM Liz has taught various art related workshops including in classes traditional medical illustration techniques. Her current position is Collection Manger for the Human Developmental Anatomy Center.