Artist of the day: Artist of the day: January 4: Anita Kunz, Canadian Illustrator, painter.

Anita E. Kunz (1956) is a Canadian artist and illustrator. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1978. She has lived in London, New York City and Toronto, contributing to magazines and working for design firms, book publishers and advertising agencies in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Canada, South Africa, Holland, Portugal, France and England. Her clients include Time magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others. From 1988 to 1990, she was one of two artists chosen by Rolling Stone magazine to produce a monthly illustrated History of Rock 'n Roll end paper. She has produced cover art for many magazines and she has illustrated more than fifty book jacket covers. In 2004, Canada Post used illustrations by Kunz on stamps issued for the Year of the Monkey.

Anita Kunz frequently teaches workshops and lectures at universities and institutions internationally including the Smithsonian Institution and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. Her summer workshops have been conducted at the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, and at the Master of Arts degree program at Syracuse University.

Her paintings and sculptures have appeared in galleries worldwide, including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts and the Teatrio Cultural Association in Rome, Italy. In 1987, she showed a collection of her works at Canada House in Trafalgar Square, London. In 1997 she had a one-woman show at the Foreign Press office in New York City; in 1998 she had a solo show at the Creation Gallery in Tokyo; and the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration mounted a mid-career retrospective of her work in the fall of 2000. Anita has been named one of the fifty most influential women in Canada by the National Post newspaper. She has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Ontario college of Art and Design in Toronto and a second from MassArt College of Art and Design in Boston. She has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honor, and recently received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of Honor. She has been inducted in the Museum of American Illustration Hall of Fame in New York.

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