Roxie Munro
Medium: Painting Studio Location: 43-01 21st St - Studio# 340 43-01 21st St additional entrance 43-02 22nd St Phone: 718-706-0370 Email: roxiesstudio@gmail.com Website:: www.roxiemunro.com Artist Bio: Roxie Munro creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections. She studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops. Roxie is also the author/illustrator of more than 45 nonfiction and concept books for children, many using "gamification" to encourage reading, learning, and engagement (including Mazescapes; Amazement Park; the Inside-Outside Books: New York City [New York Times Best Illustrated Award], Washington DC, Texas, London, Paris, and Libraries; Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses; Mazeways: A to Z; and Inside-Outside Dinosaurs). Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Recent books: ABCity; Anteaters, Bats & Boas (about the Amazon rainforest); DIVE IN (about coral reefs); Masterpiece Mix (a book about art); Rodent Rascals; Market Maze; Slithery Snakes; EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures; and Hatch! Recent apps: "Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" (16-screen multi-player jigsaw puzzle), "Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" (interactive game app), and the 3-D app, "Roxie's DOORS." Roxie was born in Texas, and grew up in southern Maryland, by the Chesapeake Bay. At the age of six, she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has been a working artist all her life, for a while freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. It was great training for life drawing, concentration under pressure, and making deadlines. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of The New Yorker magazine. She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections. Roxie studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops. Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders. All images and text copyright Roxie Munro