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Local Author Celebration + Book Signing
November 30, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Wet Paint has some great coloring + art books! Some of those are written and illustrated by local authors+artists. Come meet them and help us celebrate! Browse their books, buy a copy, and have it autographed!
You can’t get more local than Finding Rondo St.Paul Coloring Book or Irvine Park St. Paul Coloring Book, featuring short histories written by Richard Kronick and beautiful iIlustrations by Jeanne Kosfeld. Fresh Food Science Coloring Book is the companion to Fresh Food Science Coloring Book Fresh Food Science: 101 Healthy, Easy, Delicious Recipes for Tween, Teen & Young Adult Chefs; an inviting cookbook for kids, tweens, both written by Megan Olivia Hall PHD and Illustrated by Wet Paint Staff Emerita Liz Carlson. It’s a good time to stock up on some coloring books for the winter or to give as holiday gifts. (Wet Paint has just the right art supplies to pair with it!)
Art Books give us hours of pleasure, contemplation and inspiration. These two are at the intersection of art, science and science fiction, and highlight the beauty of the natural world: Explore the paintings of Daniel Bruggeman is his self titled book, or the Baby Fantasy Creatures of Z Akhmetova.
What a gift it is to share art with children! The Elements of Art by Maren Daniels introduces these foundational art concepts in a beautifully simple guide for young artists. Take a trip around Paris through the eyes of an adorable french bulldog in Bisous in Paris written and illustrated by Eileen Zuber Troxel, a book for Dog Lovers, Francophiles, Art and Food Lovers, and Children ages 3-100. Fear Less: Craft Your Life with Wisdom and Imagination by Mary Frances McKay is a write-in book/journal with inspirational ideas that a child (or anyone) would illustrate and complete themselves.
RSVP is not required but we’d love to know if you are coming for planning sake and you’ll get an email reminder closer to the event! We’d love to see you either way.
Jeanne Kosfeld paints and sketches primarily with waterbased media, but her previous body of work includes newspaper design, board game design, creating public sculptures in ice, organic matter, and polymer.
Growing up in a family of artists, Jeanne started working as a newspaper illustrator. Along the way, she taught at the University of Alaska-Anchorage where she also led the design department. For eighteen years, Jeanne was the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Her work appears in public & private collections. She has been honored with artist-in-residencies in France and United States. Jeanne has participated in International Urban Sketchers Symposiums in Portugal and the Netherlands.
jeannekosfeld@gmail.com jeannekosfeld.blogspot.com
Liz Carlson is an artist, illustrator and teacher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She works in a variety of mixed
media ranging from colored pencil to gouache and beyond. After working two decades in the art
materials industry she is an National Certified Art Materials Expert. She loves sharing her
passion for making art with her students of all ages. Her favorite subjects to recreate are food,
pets and then everything else. She shares her artist’s loft home with her husband, a retired chef
and their terrier mix, Noodles. See more of her art on Instagram at @lizcarlsonart.
This is her first project with Cedar Bend Publications.
About the Author
Megan Olivia Hall is a STEAM educator and instructional guide at Open World Learning Community (OWL) in St. Paul Public Schools. In her 27 years of teaching, Megan has worked with students of many ages and levels, from preschoolers to graduate students. A National Board Certified Teacher, she is the 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. Megan regularly presents at national teacher conferences. She consults through SPARK Teaching Group, leading professional development for teachers in the areas of team building, supporting student mental health, and teaching with joy.
Megan holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Instruction, and Innovation from Walden University. Megan’s writing has been featured in Education Week and The Science Teacher. Her books include Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids, an Amazon #1 Best Seller in Scientific Experiments & Projects, as well as Awesome Outdoor Science Experiments for Kids, Big Chemistry Experiments for Little Kids, Adventure Girls! STEM Crafts, Fresh Food Science: 101 Healthy, Easy, Delicious Recipes for Tween, Teen & Young Adult Chefs, and Fresh Food Science: A Coloring Book.
Megan lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, two kids, and three cats. When she’s not concocting new recipes (or old favorites) in the kitchen, she enjoys canoeing, gardening, reading, and yoga.
Artists Profile
Nebraska native Dan Bruggeman is a retired educator from Carleton College. During his 30-year art career, he has been awarded numerous grants, including the Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, an Arts Midwest/NEA Visual Art Grant and a McKnight Foundation Grant. Dan’s paintings reveal the sometimes odd intersection between manmade structures and nature. Of his newest body of work, Bruggeman has written “My paintings are representations of the midwestern landscape. This subject is compelling because it is vast, a little threatening, and, at times, uncanny. The allegorical scenes I paint exist within this environment and are like idle theater sets, awaiting a protagonist or lamenting its departure.”
Z Akhmetova is a multimedia artist who lives in Saint Paul, MN, teaches art and craft workshops for kids and adults, and is currently studying welding at MCTC.
About the Author
Maren Daniels, M.A. Ed., is the author-illustrator of The Elements of Art: An Elementary Teacher’s Guide to Color, Shape, Texture & More. As an artist, Maren enjoys painting with watercolor and gouache, exploring photography, printmaking, drawing, and book-making.
Daniels graduated from Augsburg University with a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. She later attended St. Catherine’s University for her Master’s in Art Education. She has been teaching art for seven years.
Maren is a public school art teacher in South St. Paul, MN. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
For more information check out marendanielsart. com
• Eileen Zuber Troxel
I am a watercolor artist and now also a first time author with my book, Bisous In Paris.
I travel as much as possible to France and photograph extensively while there. I began painting from my photos and at the same time my French Bulldog, Bisous (kisses in French), somehow began appearing in my watercolors. It was too much fun and I couldn’t stop. After I completed several paintings, I realized they were telling a story. End result, Bisous In Paris. My days are usually spent painting… mostly dogs❤️
Mary McKay, a long time customer and a first time author, is sending Fear Less: Craft Your Life with Wisdom and Imagination out into the world at a steady pace. Created with customer/ artists, Paul Nylander of Illustrada and Kevin Brown of Smartset Printing, Fear Less invites readers to reflect and visualize ways to walk through life’s journey with Less Fear and more intention. Adding your thoughts and images to these pages will make Fear Less your treasure.
