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Kathleen (Collins)Howell is a published illustrator of children's books, book covers, a member of SCBWI, and interested in licensing.
I would love to do a picture book.
Kathleen is also Associate Professor of Art Emeritus at SUNY at Buffalo. Some of the published credits of Kathleen Collins Howell include"Space Dog and Roy", Space Dog and the Pet Show", Space Dog in Trouble", "Space dog the Hero"; "The Singing Green: New and Selected Poems for All Seasons" by Eve Merriam; "Bobo's Just Fine"; The Disney Adventures Casebusters series: "The Statue that Walks at Night", The Legend of the Dead Man's Mine". "Backstage With a Ghost", by Joan Lowry Nixon; "Dog Days" by Colby Rodowsky; The Determined Detective series by Mary Blount Christian:" Merger on the Orient Expressway" , "The Phantom of the Operetta": "Dog Days" by Colby Rodowsky;Great Frogs! Level 1.3 (Watch Me Read); "Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure". She has illustrated many stories for the Cricket magazine Group: Lady Bug Baby Bug, Spider and Cricket.

The first boost to my art career came in first grade when I drew "the nuns in bed" with their habits on! Sister Venarda loved the drawing, and was amused that I didn't think nuns could get to school on time if they had to put all those clothes on. She told my parents to encourage my talent. From earliest memory, I loved to draw people, and make up stories about them. I received my BFA in Illustration,and MFA in Graphic Design and Painting from Rochester Institute of Technology. My first position was as a Graphic Designer/Illustrator for Geneseo State College. I moved to Syracuse where my husband was pursuing a PhD degree, and worked as Curator of Education at the new Everson Museum of Art, also designing their brochures. We moved to Burlington, Vermont, and I taught first at Edmunds Junior High School, and then at the University of Vermont Art Department. I also did free-lance illustration during that period. We moved to Buffalo, NY, where I was Art Director of Hoffman Printing. I left to pursue my dream of illustrating children's books and had my first contract in 1984. Simultaneously, I accepted a position to head an Illustration program in the Art Department of SUNY at Buffalo. I have illustrated 13 children's book for major publishers as well as educational publishers, and Babybug, Ladybug, Spider and Cricket magazines.

Kathleen (Collins)Howell is a published illustrator of children's books, book covers, a member of SCBWI, and interested in licensing. I would love to do a picture book. Kathleen is also Associate Professor of Art Emeritus at SUNY at Buffalo. Some of the published credits of Kathleen Collins Howell include"Space Dog and Roy", Space Dog and the Pet Show", Space Dog in Trouble"... More