The Illustrator’s Eye

Guest Bio: Nancy C. Willis, Author

Nancy Carol Willis fully integrates the disciplines of fine art, illustration, writing, book publishing, environmental education, and University-level art instruction into a holistic approach to creativity. In 1998 she founded Birdsong Books, an award-winning publisher of children’s nature books. In 2009 her colored pencil illustrations won a Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. In 2003, Willis began teaching fine art courses at Wilmington University and in 2011 she formed a Christian Writers group that meets monthly in her home. In 2015 Willis worked with the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware to write a biography of Delaware artist, illustrator, and muralist William D. White (1896-1971) and to curate a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work from March through June 2015.