Daniel Minter
Daniel Minter | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) Ellaville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Art Institute of Atlanta |
| Known for | painting, illustration, sculpture, themes of diaspora and spirituality |
| Spouse | Marcia Minter |
| Awards | Caldecott Honor 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor 2013 |
Daniel Minter (born 1961 in Ellaville, Georgia) is an African-American artist and educator working in painting, sculpture, illustration, assemblage, and public art.[1][2][3]
Education
[edit | edit source]Minter received his A.A. from Art Institute of Atlanta. In 2019, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Maine College of Art.
Career
[edit | edit source]Early in his career, Minter worked as a graphic designer.[4] He has illustrated twelve children's books, including two award-winning collaborations with the author Kelly Starling Lyons: Ellen's Broom, which won a 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and Going Down Home with Daddy, which was a 2020 Caldecott Honor recipient.[5][6]
Minter has also designed two Kwanzaa stamps for the United States Postal Service, issued in 2004 and in 2011.[7][8][9]
Minter now lives in Portland, Maine,[10] where he continues his creative work and assists with The Underground Railroad, of which he is a board member. Minter's work has appeared at many shows throughout Portland and can be seen in the official logos of the Underground Rail-Road and the Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance.
Books (Illustrated)
[edit | edit source]- 2019 Going Down Home with Daddy, by Kelly Starling Lyons
- 2019 The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives, by Eloise Greenfield
- 2019: I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage, compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins
- 2018 So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom, by Gary D. Schmidt
- 2017 Cay and Adlee Find Their Voice, by Russell J Quaglia and Cali Quaglia
- 2016 Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness, by Donna Janell Bowman
- 2012 Ellen's Broom, by Kelly Starling Lyons
- 2006 The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides, by Susan Reynolds
- 2002 New Year Be Coming!: A Gullah Year, by Katharine Boling
- 2000 Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story, by Angela Shelf Medearis
- 1998 Bubber Goes to Heaven, by Arna Bontemps
- 1994 The Foot Warmer and the Crow, by Evelyn Coleman
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2020 Caldecott Honor, Going Down Home with Daddy
- 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Ellen’s Broom
- 1994 National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International, Travel Grants Fund for Artists, Salvador Bahia Brazil
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American sculptors
- American stamp designers
- People from Schley County, Georgia
- African-American sculptors
- 21st-century African-American artists
- 20th-century African-American painters
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century American sculptors
- Artists from Portland, Maine
- American painter, 20th-century birth stubs
- American sculptor stubs
- Caldecott Honor winners