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Janeen Mason writes and illustrates award winning children's picture books. She uses her brilliant sense of color to transport us through each one, and she's now on her fourteenth. Mason says "Children's picture books are a primary source of inspiration which have enormous consequence in our culture. They provide the introduction to a lifetime of creative imagination and appreciation for the arts. This is powerful juju in a landscape of ever accelerating technology."
Ms. Mason is active in the arts, appointed by two Senate Presidents, she is serving her second term as a member of the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, currently as the Vice Chairman. Memberships include the board of directors for the Arts Council of Stuart and Martin County, the board of directors of The Friends of the Blake Library of Stuart, Inc., the Florida Association of Public Art Administrators, the Florida Reading Association, the Children's Book Council, and SCBWI. As the Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in Florida for the last five years she produced annual "Illustrator Intensives" where she hosted well known contemporary children's book illustrators as guest instructors in retreat settings.
Janeen is a popular speaker on radio, at schools, libraries and in workshops. Awards for her books include the Ben Franklin Award (silver), the U.S. Maritime Literature Award (gold), the Moonbeam Children's Book Award (gold), the Mom's Choice Award, the iParenting Award, and in 2010 she was a finalist in the Book of the Year Award. Mason has received a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award.
Her large scale fine art hangs in the collections of Burt Reynolds, Reba McEntire, Evan Lloyd and S. Kent Rockwell, to name a few.
Ms. Mason was recently featured with the MacArthur Award Winner, Dr. Edith Widder, on NOVA Science Now.
A solo exhibition of 100 original picture book illustrations from her books visited six Florida Museums and galleries and is scheduled for three more in 2011. In 2010 her art celebrated a one woman exhibit in the 22nd floor gallery of the Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida, which lasted for three months.
Please email Janeen Mason for information or to schedule booksignings, workshops, and school visits. |
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Janeen Mason
Author/Illustrator
Children's Picture Books
5467 SE 51st Drive
Stuart, Florida 34997
Janeen@JaneenMason.com
www.JaneenMason.com
772-220-1042 studio
772-286-6314 fax
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