Andrea Skyberg

I’ve been working with Milwaukee Environmental Science Academy to create a new book this year. Over 200 kids along with the entire staff are working with me to write and illustrate

I just installed the 9′ x 33′ tree mural for the Milwaukee Environmental School, which includes almost 500 metal engraved leaves. Each leaf was created by a student as either a self portrait

Last spring I was lucky enough to have a joint exhibition with the legendary artist and author Faith Ringgold at the Arts@Large gallery featuring artwork from my newest picture book Shimmerling,

A magical creature is born from a feather that’s been sowed into the soil. As it grows, it discovers that it has characteristics of both a bird and a tree.

Over the past two weeks I’ve been working with students from four different schools and sharing the story of my newest book Shimmerling. We did a little bit of meditation,

Back when I was an undergrad student at the Maryland Institute, College of Art I came across the work of Faith Ringgold and I fell in love with the imagery,

Pam Miller led some great Family Yoga workshops in the gallery based on my book Squircle. Adults and children explored the practice of Yoga, breath awareness, poses and movement, games, art and

What a wonderful opening! Arts @ Large did a fantastic job and the work looked beautiful! Standing in the gallery looking around at the mixture of artwork from Caldecott-winning artist

Stories Shared Opening April 25, 5-8pm Gallery @ Large, 908 S. 5th Street, Milwaukee, WI, (414) 763.7379 Join us for Stories Shared, a gallery opening featuring the work of Caldecott Award winning artist

‘The Making of Shimmerling’ is a behind the scenes look at how, with funding from Arts@Large, I worked with over 300 students in two Milwaukee Public Schools — West Side

In addition to creating the engraved feathers for Shimmerling, students from Bethune Academy and West Side Academy also created feathers to decorate their schools. I’m in the process of attaching

Over the past two weeks students in the 1st – 3rd grades at West Side Academy have been working on designing and engraving three metal feathers to be used on

This was my first week working with West Side Academy’s 1st-3rd graders and I was so impressed with the work they did! I explained to them the residency and read

I just saw the exhibit Life Cycles at the Gallery@Large. It’s a wonderful show with some pretty powerful messages. I loved the quote above my pieces from the CommuniTree book – Happiness

Student artists explore nature’s life cycles at Arts@Large exhibit October 24, 2013 by Maria Corpus … Among the many projects on display [at the Arts @ Large Life Cycles exhibit] are shadow boxes created

Linda D’Acquisto created this great video that shows me talking about the pieces in the gallery exhibition, Threads That Connect, which was showcased at the Arts@Large gallery October 19, 2012

The Squircle Wish Banners were modeled after the Tibetan Prayer Flags which, traditionally come in sets of five colors representing the five elements, which are said to produce health and harmony.

This week I had four final author visits and art workshops with Garland school, Tippecanoe school, and Lincoln school in the gallery before the exhibition came down on January 9th.

Here is a video of the gallery exhibition, Threads That Connect: Fiber Art & Community, which features the artwork from Squircle.