Contact info:
They live in: St. Paul, MN
Email: [email protected]
Website: tarasweeneyart.com
Tara is a co-author and co-illustrator with her son, Nate Christopherson
They create: Children’s fiction, Children’s non-fiction, Picture Books, and Intergenerational Picture books
Age Group: Children and their grownups
Books:
A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute by Nate Christopherson and Tara Sweeney, co-illustrated with Nate Christopherson, University of MN Press, 2019.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-to-zay-a-ap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyZWW5je14
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45184865-a-to-z
https://www.bookologymagazine.com/article/a_to_zaao/?fbclid=IwAR0ORsbTR_Lbrzuj-xlunX2g2hu9G0Ce6R5-3a75-FGkNUaYtxjs-tRh_jM
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nate-christopherson/a-to-zaao/
Henry the Boy by Molly Felder, co-illustrated with Nate Christopherson, Penny Candy Press, 2019.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38822023-henry-the-boy
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/molly-felder/henry-the-boy/
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by Nate Christopherson, Milkweed Editions, 2013, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/books/review/robin-wall-kimmerer-braiding-sweetgrass.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/23/robin-wall-kimmerer-people-cant-understand-the-world-as-a-gift-unless-someone-shows-them-how
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/
Things That Are by Amy Leach (illustrated by Nate Christopherson), Milkweed Editions, 2012
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amy-leach/things-that-are-essays/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13239399-things-that-are
Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches by Tara Sweeney (illustrated by Tara Sweeney), self-published, 2014
https://www.augsburg.edu/galleries/2014/08/28/tarasweeney/
Books Awards:
2020 MN Book Award finalist, Children’s Literature, A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_HTewY-gU&t=5s
Highlights/Bio:
Tara Sweeney and Nate Christopherson are a mother-and-son creative team. Tara received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to co–illustrate and co-author with Nate the 2020 MN Book Award finalist picture book, A to Zåäö: Playing with History at the American Swedish Institute. TPT2 MN Original showcased their collaboration in 2018. The book and original illustrations inspired extra/ordinary, a 2019-2020 solo exhibition at the American Swedish Institute. Tara self-published Close to Home: A Minnesota Year in Sketches, her debut collection of illustrated creative nonfiction in 2014. She is professor emeritus at Augsburg University, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty-five years. Nate Christopherson is a special education teacher and freelance illustrator. He created art for Amy Leach’s Things That Are, 2012, and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013 and 2020, for Milkweed Editions. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant to illustrate The Island, an award-winning limited-edition collaborative artist book. Sweeney and Christopherson both live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Presentation Title & Description:
Creative collaboration: a family affair
*Also available for virtual presentations via Skype or Zoom
Fees:
$75/hour, $225 half day, $450 full day, plus expenses and mileage