www.katecosgrove.com: April 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

Spring is coming

Enid Spring by Claudia Campbell has moved on from my illustration table to the design and layout phase! I'll be sure to post details on how you can order your own copy of this delightful and poetic children's book.

#ThinkSpring

Beautiful board builds frames

This is my second year as a board member for the East Lansing Art Festival. So it's pretty much my job to make sure you don't miss out on all of the excitement over this 52nd annual arty weekend!

I hope to see you May 16 & 17 along the beautiful downtown city streets of East Lansing! In the meantime, the board will be honing our framing skills. I've already mastered pealing plastic off of static-ee plexiglass...

Monday, April 13, 2015

Bunzo & the Tattoo Tree

"Bunzo & the Tattoo Tree"
All rights reserved 2015.

New 5x7 "Bunzo & The Tattoo Tree" is now available for purchase, message me for details. Or customize a print today!

I've been obsessing over 'Bunzo' the bunny from the film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter by the Zellner Bros. If you haven't seen it yet - DO IT! Not only is it super delightfully weird, but it's so visually beautiful that your eyeballs will eat it up.

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Kate Cosgrove is a storyteller through art & words. Her debut Picture Book AND THE BULLFROGS SING was published in 2019 by Holiday House. Cosgrove is a 2016 Barbara Deming Grant recipient and a 2011 Individual Artist Grant Recipient, ACGL. She has exhibited in galleries and online, with collectors across the globe.

Background:

2001 BFA from Michigan State University.

2002 - 2008 Fulltime Corporate Graphic Designer, Chicago & Lansing

2008 - present Kate Cosgrove Art & Words

2004 - 2015 Jury/Judge for ELAF

2005 - 2008 Weekly Cartoonist, Lansing NOISE

2011 Individual Artist Grant Recipient, Arts Council

2012 Kyiv,Ukraine : Exhibitor & honorary member of The Museum of Fairy Tales

2012 Boston : Exhibitor, Danforth Museum of Art Annual Juried Exhibition of Children's Book Illustration "Picture This!"

2013 - 2015 ELAF Board Member

2015 Time|Space juried exhibition: Exhibitor

2016 Barbara Deming Grant recipient

2017 Grant show installation: Heroically Ever After / Lansing Art Gallery

2017 10 x 4 foot commission, Herbert Herman Cancer Center permanent collection

2018 Hightlights Foundation Scholarship Recipient

Clients:

Colin Firth movie (Arthur Newman Golf Pro 2013), Holliday House Publishing, Sparrow Hospital, Dawn Ius, Norwood House Press, Pioneer Valley Books, Mennonite Brethren Herald, Gather 'Round/Brethren Press, First Steps Press, The Verve Pipe, Potter Park Zoo, Duke University, The Little Lutheran, Two Men and a Truck, Chicago Welcomes You, Michigan State University, Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, Clark Hill Law Firm, The Noise, Funky Mama, Greater Lansing Woman magazine.