Holiday Cards and Greetings
About the Artists*
Learn about the artists who created our 2010 Holiday Greetings cards.
Andrew Bannecker
Website: www.andrewbannecker.com
A collector of old ephemera and just about anything wood and metal, Andrew creates beautiful art that captures the imagination and tells a story. He works in a studio in Washington, D.C., that is beautifully cluttered with everything from toy rocket ships to vintage glass beakers filled with skittles. His work has been featured at the One Show, New York Festivals, Communication Arts, American Illustration, 3x3 ProShow, and The Society of Illustrators, as well as in "3x3 Magazine," "Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Illustrators," and in exhibitions of note all over the world.
Andrew is represented in the USA by Bernstein & Andriulli of New York.
Lee Benson
Lee is a father of two and artist who was treated for acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at Dana-Farber in 2001. He has been in remission for nearly nine years and celebrates every day he has with family and friends at his home in Rockport, Mass. The "Jolly Wally" image was created in memory of his late wife, Jean.
Cat Caro
Cat Caro has been drawing since the age of two. Currently enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, with plans to major in illustration, she is also a freelance writer and illustrator for a Web-based comics magazine.
Jana Christy
Website: www.janachristy.com
Jana grew up on the frozen tundra of Rochester, N.Y., and has always loved children's book illustration. After a very brief stint in art school, she spent her early adulthood traveling and working as a nanny, which reintroduced her to picture book art and ignited her desire to pursue illustration as a career.
After getting her start in independent comics in the 90s, she worked as a Boston-based illustrator. Her artwork appeared in a number of publications, including The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, and The Boston Herald.
Jana is ecstatic that she now spends the majority of her time creating illustrations for children's books and magazines.
She's currently living in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts in the old mill town of North Adams. She and her husband/creative partner John Seven live with their home-schooled, free-range, rock-star sons Harry and Hugo.
Sarah Coleman
Website: www.inkymole.com
Inkymole, aka Sarah J. Coleman, arrived at a full-time career in illustration and typography via extra time served in the bizarre and magical worlds of pirate radio, lecturing, youth work, theatre, and local newspapers. Now into her second decade of creating words and pictures for an international client base, she has held solo U.K. exhibitions in London, Leeds, and Birmingham, and U.S. exhibitions in Manhattan and Rhode Island.
Based in the English Midlands, Sarah cut her teeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company, using the small dark hours to catch up on mounting illustration briefs. Inspired by the penmanship of a more elegant era and with a muscular, if pedantic, grasp of the English language, she has wrapped her perma-stained fingers around words and pictures for advertising, identities, packaging, record sleeves, and a trillion book covers.
She is represented in the USA by Bernstein & Andriulli of New York.
Sandra Hall
Website: www.thesaltworks.com
Sandra Hall is a professional artist with 25 years of studio, exhibition, and teaching experience. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and holds a B.F.A. in painting. She has also completed graduate-level courses in silkscreen printing, itaglio etching, and stone lithography.
Anthony Shea
Website: www.flickr.com/photos/thed80project/
Anthony Shea is a Senior Designer at Arnold Worldwide in Boston and a graduate of Lyndon State College. While majoring in communication arts and sciences, he developed a love of photography.
Anthony is originally from Portsmouth, N.H., and currently resides in Somerville, Mass., with his wife and son.
Bob Staake
Website: www.bobstaake.com
Known for his eclectic sense of graphic design, New York Times best-selling illustrator Bob Staake's art and images appear in everything from magazines to books, animation to greeting cards, advertising to newspapers, cereal boxes to CD-ROM games.
He has authored and/or illustrated more than 40 books, including "Headlines" (written by Jay Leno, illustrated by Staake), "The Complete Book Of Caricature," and "The Complete Book Of Humorous Art" (both authored by Staake). The New York Times named Staake's "The Red Lemon" one of the 10 best illustrated books of 2006.
Staake lives and works in Chatham, Mass., in a 200-year-old house.
Jeffrey Sullivan
Jeffrey Sullivan, age 11, is a family member of Jessica, a Jimmy Fund Clinic patient.
Mark Waitkus
Website: www.markwaitkus.com
Mark Waitkus gathers inspiration for his art from historic stadiums, legendary teams, and memorable moments in sports. His expressive and colorful work has earned accolades with numerous clients including the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, and Detroit Tigers.
Andrew Woodward
Website: www.andrewwoodward.com
Originally from Denver, Colo., Andrew graduated from Kenyon College with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art in 1998. He has lived and worked in Boston, Mass., since 1999. His works have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions across the country and are in numerous private and public collections nationally and internationally.
Jenna Zink
Website: www.jennazink.com
Jenna Zink is an Art Director at Arnold Worldwide. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, traveling, and riding her bike in traffic. She would love to one day own a teacup pig.
*Disclaimer: The artists' websites are not affiliated in any way with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute or the Jimmy Fund, and the views, opinions, and themes contained in these sites are the artists' alone, and not necessarily those of Dana-Farber or the Jimmy Fund.
