As a professional artist, Carol has worked with a wide variety of clients and her illustrations have been published in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books for children. Her artwork has appeared in over 50 picture books.
In 1991, she illustrated the children's book, Sea Squares, by Joy Hulme that was selected as an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council. It was also a Children’s Choice for 1992 and selected for the Original Art exhibition at the Society of Illustrators for 1992. It was followed by over fifty other titles, including The Maiden of Northland by Aaron Shepard, an Aesop Accolade List book, Thinking about Ants by Barbara Brenner, an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, and a six book “Hide and Seek Science” series for Scholastic. Her work has been selected for exhibition at The Society of Illustrators in New York and many times by The Illustrator’s Club of Washington DC. The EdPress Association of America has also honored her. Carol’s work is included in the Society of Illustrators permanent collection from the exhibition, Outstanding Female Illustrators of the Past One Hundred Years.
Carol currently teaches illustration at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and is also working towards her Masters of Fine Arts in Illustration at the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School Low Residency MFA program. She has visited hundreds of elementary schools and libraries, speaking to students about her work and artistic processes. She also makes presentations at conferences and colleges such as Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Frostburg State University, the Kansas City Art Institute, the Corcoran School of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
As a child growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, she dreamed of becoming an artist. Her mother enrolled her in art classes at a young age. Carol attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Rhode Island School of Design. For many years she lived with her husband and two children in the Washington, DC area. Life took her on to Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and now Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she continues to combine her love of nature and animals in her book illustrations for children.
She is fortunate to have two passions, teaching and illustrating, both providing valuable experiences of inspiration and satisfaction.
