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Daniel Powers

Illustration professor

Education

  • M.F.A., visual arts, Marywood University
  • B.F.A., art history, Ohio University

Credentials

  • Graduate coordinator, illustration, 2013-present
    Professor, illustration, 2006-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA and Lacoste, France
  • Visiting Instructor, 2006, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • Instructor, art and writing, 2004-2006, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM
  • Art Instructor, 1996-2006, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
  • Visiting Art Instructor, 2001-2004, Sachmo Centrode Arte, Oaxaca, Mexico

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Merit Award, Creative Quarterly 41, 2015
  • Merit Award, Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, 2012
  • Merit Award, 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 7, 2010
  • SCAD's Presidential Fellowship for Professional Development, 2008
  • University of Minnesota Ezra Jack Keats/Kerlan Memorial, 2004
  • Fellowship, First Award, New Mexico Watercolor Society's Juried Fall Exhibition, Silver Award for Excellence in Visual Communication, 2002

Organizations

  • The Authors' Guild
  • Lawyers for the Arts
  • College Arts Association
  • National Watercolor Society
  • Graphic Artists' Guild
  • Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions

  • Small Works exhibition, National Watercolor Society Gallery, San Pedro, Calif., 2016
  • International Watercolour Exhibition, Gallery of Wenzhou, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, 2016
  • Small Image Exchange, 21 Space Gallery, Dongguan, Guangdong, China, 2016
  • Powers&Powers: Recent Work, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2015
  • Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial, Shenzhen Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2015
  • SILA's 50th Illustration West Exhibition, Gallery Nucleas, Alhambra, Calif., 2012
  • The Art of Children’s Book Illustration, Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur, Ga., 2010
  • Storybook Look: Illustrations by Southern Artists, Southern Arts Federation's traveling exhibition; Saenger Theater in Hattiesburg, Miss., 2009; Art Institute of Atlanta in Decatur, Ga., 2009; Live Oak Public Library in Savannah, Ga., 2009; The Discovery Museum of Western Tennessee in Jackson, Tenn., 2010; Georgia Children's Museum in Macon, Ga., 2010; Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association in Brunswick, Ga., 2010.
  • Second Annual Children's Book Illustrators' Show, Decatur, Ga., 2009
  • First Annual Children's Book Illustrators' Show, Decatur, Ga., 2008
  • Bridging Disciplines: The Georgia Art Education Association's Members' Exhibition, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Ga., 2007
  • 18th Annual Members Open Exhibition, Society of Illustrators, New York, 2007
  • The Book Art of Daniel Powers, Morris Hall, SCAD, Savannah, Ga., 2007

Presentations

  • "Drawing Back the Curtain: Illustrating Nonfiction Picture Books," Savannah Children's Book Festival, Savannah, Ga., 2009
  • "Drawing Back the Curtain: Illustrating Nonfiction Picture Books," Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss., 2009
  • "Black Tie Narrative: Formal Considerations of Illustrated Children's Books, Springmingle: 2009 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Regional Conference, Atlanta, 2009
  • "Picture Books and the Question of Visual Literacy," "Illustrating Nonfiction Picture Books," and panel discussion, Formula for Excellence, 2006 Ohio Educational Library Media Association Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2006

Publications

  • Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, Whitney Sherman, ed's., History of Illustration Project, New York, Bloomsbury, 2018.

Children's publications

  • Joseph Killorin Brennan, Camp Not-for-Nick, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007
  • Judith St. George, Take the Lead, George Washington, New York: Philomel Books, 2005
  • Linda Dunlap, A Trip to Central Park, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001
  • Michelle Lackner, Toil in the Soil, Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 2001.
  • Joy Cowley, Diving, Bothell, Wash.: The Wright Group, 2000
  • Jane Manners, The Wise Woman and the Sky, Crystal Lake, Ill.: Rigby, 2000
  • Jean Craighead George, Dear Katie, The Volcano ls a Girl, New York: Hyperion Press, 1998
  • Shirley Neitzel, From the Land of the White Birch, Spring Lake, Mich.: River Road Publications, 1997
  • Daniel Powers, Jiro's Pearl, Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1997
  • "Dragon," Cricket, cover illustration and table of contents Illustration, January 2018
  • "The Fish Who Shook the Earth," Cricket, Nov. 2017, 40–43
  • "Stray Magic," Cricket, Jan. 2015, 11-16
  • "The Log Bridge," Ladybug, May/June 2013, 9
  • "The Red String," Cricket, Feb. 2012, p. 28–34.
  • "The Sea Family," Ladybug, July/August 2010, 14–15
  • "Sean O'Halloran and the Faerie Queen," Cricket, March 2010, 29–36.
  • "The River Guide," Spider, October 2008, 11–13
  • "Lulu Poole's School for Ghouls," Cricket, October  2008, 10–16