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Working primarily in the art of relief printmaking, she has illustrated six books for children with her linocuts, and just completed work for the upcoming adult book Dog Days Raven Nights (Yale University Press, 2011).<br> <br> She created, built, and installed Raucous! Everything Raven, a whimsical blend of art and science in four museums to date: Ketchikan Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Alaska State Museum, and the North Museum of Natural History and Science in Pennsylvania.<br> <br> Evon has created six public art installations in Alaska in diverse mediums: steel, wood, and mixed media, often combining printmaking elements. She is currently working on a new public work commission due to be installed in the coming year.</font></p> <p><br> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <br> ANSWERS</font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> to burning questions from 8 year old kids + a few from adults.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. Scrabble<br> 2. Roasted yams, beets, goat cheese, figs, sourdough waffles, arugula, dark chocolate w/ sea salt, and Ethiopian dishes.<br> 3. Tango, cross-step waltz, swing, blues, zydeco,<br> 4. No, but I once hand-fed a dragonfly for 13 days, housed both a stunned kingfisher and a hypothermic little brown bat overnight. (Different boxes and different nights!)<br> 5. Printmaking for 22 years, full-time for 15.<br> 6. Age 10. A giant 24 x 36 crayon drawing of an angel to a stranger, $2.<br> 7. I work on a book for about nine months. Say, if I started a book on the first day of your school year, I would be done about the time you graduate from that grade!</font></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> <td height="149"></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="27" valign="top" colspan="6"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><font size="1">Punctuate is a 70 foot installation in the library of Schoenbar Middle School</font></i></font></font></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="187" valign="top" colspan="6"> <p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&#149; Awarded 6 public art commissions in the state of Alaska.<br> </font></font></p> <p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&#149; Illustrator of five children&#146;s picture books: <br> -<a href="luckyharesbook.html">Lucky Hares and Itchy Bears</a> (Alaska Northwest Books, 1996) <br> -<a href="blueberryshoe.html">Blueberry Shoe</a> (Alaska Northwest Books, 1999) <br> -<a href="whalemailbook.html">Whalemai</a>l (Island Heritage, 2001) <br> -<a href="littleredbook.html">Little Red Snapperhood</a> (Westwinds Press, 2003) <br> -<a href="rowdyravens.html">Ten Rowdy Ravens</a> (Alaska Northwest Books, fall of 2005)<br> </font></font></p> <p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&#149; llustrator of Newberry-award winning author Karen Hesse's YA novel <i>Aleutian Sparrow</i>, (Simon and Schuster, 2003).</font></font></p> <p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&#149; Represented by 6 galleries throughout Alaska.</font></font></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="179" valign="top" colspan="6"><img height="179" width="255" src="Evon3_web.jpg" alt="Evon spinning the wheel of her etching press in her studio."></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="14" valign="top" colspan="6">&nbsp;</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="47" colspan="6"> <font color="black" face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i><font size="1">Evon at work at her press in her studio in Ketchikan, Alaska.</font></i></font></font></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="13" colspan="14" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="1"></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td width="53"></td> <td width="12"></td> <td width="31"></td> <td width="35"></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td width="75"></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>