Lisa Cinelli

Lisa Cinelli is a Teaching Artist. She is a painter, children's book author/illustrator, and instructor. She is currently teaching Children's Book Illustration at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, conducting teacher workshops and art classes for grades 6-12 through the Marwen Foundation, and conducts workshops and residencies for A. R. T. Lisa travels worldwide teaching workshops focusing on the world of Children's Book Illustration, the many ways of using images for story telling and how to achieve narrative success through a variety of artistic possibilities.

Classes and Workshop titles include:
1. Illustrating Books: The Art of Children's Book Illustration. Always keeping the story in mind, participants explore materials and techniques to best express their stories in traditional and non-traditional book formats.

2. Collaged Accordion Books: Which comes first, the words or the pictures? Using poetry exercises and mixed media, students of all ages enjoy creating personal accordion books, documenting a time, a place, a person, or an event.

3. Teaching Teachers and Having Fun Using Stories and Making Art in the Classroom: Using examples of art in Fiction and Nonfiction picture books, this workshop emphasizes the combination of research and art making, from printmaking to collage and mixed media, into all areas of the curriculum.

October 2007, "Spider" magazine, illustration for Patty Toht's poem, "Fall Fancy".

Picture Books, Book Jackets, Educational Materials, and Emergent Readers.

Clients include: Cricket Magazine Group; Holiday House; Bebop Books; Harcourt Brace; Scott Foresman; David C. Cook; and World Book Publishers.

Member of Society of Illustrators, NY; CBIG, Children's Book Illustrators' Group, NY; and and PictureBookArtists.org

Contact Information:

Telephone: (847) 433-4287
E-mail: lisacinelli@aol.com
Website: http://www.lisacinelli.com

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