A Sense of Community—James E. Ransome

James E. Ransome received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His numerous awards include: a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration; the IBBY Honor Award for his book, The Creation; a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration for Uncle Jed’s Barbershop; The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance award for his book, The Wagon. In 1999 Let My People Go received the NAACP Image Award for Illustration and Satchel Paige was reviewed in Bank Street College of Education’s “The Best Children’s Books of the Year.” In 2001, James received the Rip Van Winkle Award from the School Library Media Specialists of Southeast New York for the body of his work. How Animals Saved the People received the SEBA (Southeastern Book Association) Best Book of the Year Award in 2002 and the Vermont Center for the Book chose Visiting Day as one of the top ten diversity books of 2002. In 2004 James was recognized by the local art association when he received the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for an Individual Artist. He has completed several commissioned murals for the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Hemphill Branch Library in Greensboro, NC. He created a historical painting commissioned by a jury for the Paterson, NJ Library and a poster for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Brown vs the Board of Education. His work was also included in the KMA exhibition, Storied City: New York in Picture Book Art in 2011.

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