Lauren Stringer

Illustrator

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Biography

Lauren Stringer was born in Great Falls, Montana. She received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1980, and continued her art education with the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program in NYC. While in New York, she exhibited her work in museums and galleries, as well as designed sets and costumes for performance art, theatre, and dance. In 1984, she was an Artist-in-Resident at the Edward Albee Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. In 1986, she was awarded an Artist-in-Residence in the Dominican Republic at Altos de Chavon.

Minnesota became her home in 1988, where she began exhibiting her work with Groveland Gallery and teaching in the schools as an Artist-in-Residence. In 1991, she received the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for sculpture. In 1994, Stringer painted her first children’s book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, which won the Minnesota Book Award, the IRA Children’s Choice Award, and the Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award.

Since Mud, she has painted illustrations for Scarecrow, written by Cynthia Rylant; Red Rubber Boot Day, written by Mary Lyn Ray; Castles, Caves and Honeycombs, written by Linda Ashman; Literature and the Child, 5th and 6th editions, written by Lee Galda and Bernice E. Cullinen; Our Family Tree, written by Lisa Westberg Peters; Fold Me A Poem, written by Kristine O’Connell George; Winter is the Warmest Season, written and illustrated by Lauren Stringer, Snow, written by Cynthia Rylant, and The Princess and Her Panther, written by Wendy Orr. She is currently working on Tell Me About Your Day Today, written by Mem Fox, as well as working on several manuscripts of her own.

Lauren Stringer creates her stories, paintings, and sculptures in a huge old Victorian house in Minneapolis, MN where she lives with her husband, their two children, and three cats.