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Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum

Lauren Panepinto

Happy Christmas, Solstice, Hanukah, Kwanza, or whatever other holiday you may celebrate. In my family, there's a run of family birthdays between the first week of November straight through Nov & Dec until my mother's birthday on December 18th. And most years I take the day off work and we go to a museum together. This year, we went to see the Monet and Venice show currently at the Brooklyn Museum. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1JNQTZCx30[/embed] Now, I respect…

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Making Books is a Team Sport – On Becoming a Author

Kirbi Fagan

November 4, 2025 - The submission process for writing illustrators isn’t a linear path. Today, I thought I’d outline the process on becoming an author-illustrator while sharing a bit of my own experience of emerging from the slush pile. Submitting Solo Most illustrators will relate to pitching their artwork to an art director. I walked that path standing in line or paying for portfolio reviews to get my work seen for many years. Mailing or emailing an art director (with care and research) is still a profitable way to put your artwork out there in 2025. As opportunities came in, the circus tent of my career started to have more and more structure. I dove into longer term illustration gigs, l enjoyed these immensely, feeling less like the tail of the dog and more like of part of the…

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