Andrea Skyberg

This is my second year entering the Tomie dePaola illustration contest. This year’s prompt was to illustrate a short poem called Sneeze. I had fun working in a more traditional

Michael and I are finalists for a city-wide grant that is offering funds to help activate spaces in Milwaukee and develop interactive art projects. We proposed a very interactive bookmaking

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

November 1, 3:45pm at the Wauwatosa Library The books of Andrea Skyberg and M.W. Greer, the husband-and-wife team behind Wooden Nickel Press, feature artwork created in collaboration with students from

Today on Tuesday Tours I’m very excited to welcome Kimberly Newton Fusco, the author of three of my favorite books. My daughter and I’ve read The Wonder of Charlie Anne more than once, and we

I’m so excited to hear that Squircle won a Moonbeam Award! Every year I keep an eye on these awards to pick books for my own personal library, and now

It’s pretty cool to see two of my books and Michael’s new book make the Top Sellers list at Boswell Book Company! WHAT SOLD AT BOSWELL FOR THE WEEK ENDING

Thank you to everyone who came to help us celebrate the launch of my husband, Michael’s new book The Eyes of India! We had so much fun presenting our books

  Squircle Reviewer: Alice Berger Evie sets out into the forest to catch a squirrel. She soon becomes frustrated and impatient, so a duck explains how flapping her wings –

Today on Tuesday Tours we get to take a peak into illustrator and author Russ Cox’s cozy Maine studio. In addition to his work in children’s picture books, Russ has his own

The Eyes of India by M.W. Greer Michael has been working on his mid-grade novel for a couple of years and we’re excited that in a short time it will

I’ve been enamored with Emery Blagdon since I first learned of his work back in a graduate folk art class. There is something about his eyes, face, and of course

CommuniTree available June 5th, 2013! Check out the Youtube trailer/making of CommuniTree About CommuniTree: On the surface we look like individuals, but hidden below, like the roots of the great

I’m excited to say that Squircle has been honored as a Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Recipient! The Mom’s Choice Awards® is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly  products.

I’ve been working with Tippecaone & Dover schools, which will soon merge to form Parkside School for the Arts & Humanities, to create a picture book about community. For the

Squircle Andrea Skyberg, author/artist “Squircle” is a fantastic representative collaboration between artist/author Andrea Skyberg and students of five Wisconsin schools, creating fabric applique murals and artworks about a central theme

I’ve been really busy on a really exciting project, which I’ll share soon, but in the meantime I have to share my daughter Evey’s new picture book, The Queens of

I just finished a three week residency with Lincoln school where I worked with  kindergardeners and first graders to create quilting squares and banners. The first graders  created portraits and

I just returned from the Society of Children’s Book Writer’s and Illustrator’s conference in NYC. I was able to show my portfolio and meet some great people. Favorite moments: Hearing

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

Here’s some character studies of the main character for a new picture book I’m working on called The Heart Shaped Girl.  

My husband has a new middle grade novel coming out in September, 2013 called The Eyes of India! The book is available to pre-order on his website. Have you ever

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.