The paintings I have at the Bridge the Ballot exhibit had a different origin than the ones I normally paint. I have lately been trying to paint more from ideas or dreams and less from real life, and to do this I have needed more focus. I thought it would be a waste to work directly on canvas if …

Creating a Picture Book as a Community of Collaborators is the subject of a talk recently featured in Beyond Storytime, an internet radio show part of the National Writing Project. In it, author Ruth K. A. Devlin, editor Amy Bauman and I discuss the process we used to develop the book and the way in which we dealt with …