Andrea Skyberg

I had such an amazing time meeting passionate readers, as well as other authors and illustrators at the Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. A BIG thanks to JoAnn Dent and crew

Shimmerling by Andrea Skyberg Dedicated to my brother Mitch (the wings) and my daughter Celia (the roots) Five years ago today, I had the worst call of my life, telling

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.

Thanks Nick Patton for creating this great video (below) featuring the authors and illustrators appearing at the Sheboygan Book Festival in October. AUTHORS/ILLUSTRATORS: Ann Angel, Laura Lee Gulledge, Lita Judge, JoAnn Early Macken, Kenn Nesbitt, Miranda Paul, Justin Roberts, Christian Robinson, Liz Garton

I’m really excited to be leading an art workshop on October 11th at 10:30am at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI as part of the Sheboygan Book

I loved meeting with students from Fratt Elementary. I presented Snickeyfritz to the K4-2nd graders, Squircle for the 3rd-5th graders, had lunch with some pretty interesting students, and finished the

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

I’ve been busy trying to finish up the Shimmerling costume/sculpture for the April 25th gallery opening. I managed to get the wings, the feather headdress, and the Shimmerling’s face created

I’m very excited to announce that the artwork I’m creating for my new picture book Shimmerling will be featured in an art exhibition at Gallery@Large, along with the artwork of

I’m starting to put together the Shimmerling costume with all the feathers the students created. Also, I’m building the oak trees and birds and taking some test shots! Lots to

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