directory of children's illustration

Contact Information

First Name

Shana

Last Name

Greger

Street Address

26 Racquet Club Road

City

Asheville

State

NC

Country

United States

Art Rep

Carol Bancroft & Friends - Joy Tricarico

Art Rep Web Address

http://www.carolbancroft.com

type of art work

Watercolor, Watercolor with acrylic, Acrylic, Pen and Ink, Pen and Ink with Watercolor

Published Works

Children's Trade/Picturebooks published by Houghton Mifflin include Cry of the Benu Bird-An Egyptian Creation Story (author/illustrator, The Fifth and Final Sun- An Ancient Aztec Myth of the Sun's Origin (author/illustrator, received Scientific American Young Readers Book award), The Boy Who Spoke Colors (illustrator). Textbook, Children's Educational clients include MacMillan, Kane, McClanahan, Harcourt Brace, Hampton Browne, Creative Teaching Press, Scott Foresman, Open Court Publishing, Silver Burdett Ginn, Houghton Mifflin Co. Other published works for Boston Museum of Fine Arts Publications, Forward Movement Publications. General illustration for numerous other editorial and design sources.

Bio

Originally from CT, I earned my BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, incorporating an exchange to Parsons in New York, in 1980. I've been working as a professional artist since...I started out as a freelance illustrator for publishing, editorial and design markets- and did everything from computer graphics for the Bank of Boston, to exhibition graphics for museum design; op-ed illustration for the Boston Globe; courtroom drawing; figurines for Disney . . . to being an artist on an archaelogical dig in Jordan. By 1990, I had settled into children's trade and textbook illustration, and also began doing my own writing, focusing on multicultural and creation story themes.  I moved to New Mexico, drawn by multicultural elements and the landscape, which I wanted to paint. In 1995, I moved back east to North Carolina, where I have lived since. I show my current "Waterfall" paintings in Asheville's own, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery.  I also show my original illustrations and continue my book work, for children's books- and other book markets.  I have pursued  related fine arts projects- such as a Public Arts Commission to produce two 300 sq ft murals for the Children's Section of the new Greensboro Public Library (Vision Quest); a mural for the Greensboro Cultural Center followed. I enjoy the diversity of projects I take on...I am especially happy when my more "commercial work" mirrors my dedication to archetype and symbol, and appreciate the balance derived from working as both a painter and an illustrator.