Lonni Sue Johnson Resume

Lonni Sue Johnson Inc., Watercolor Farm, PO Box 1210 Cooperstown, NY 13326
www.lonnisue.com 607 264 3580
lonnisue@lonnisue.com

My Work
I write, paint and draw in watercolor, oil, pastel and pen and ink.
My hope is to touch people with my art on as many levels as possible. I want to make them laugh and feel good, and take delight in daily life; but also to challenge their intellect as I express my deepest values.
I Believe that a successful piece of art has a trio of ingredients: a good idea, the medium chosen to best express it, and the tools of composition used to express it clearly.

Education
B. F. A. School of Architecture and Design, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan in Printmaking and Drawing
Additional study of humorous illustration at The School of Visual Arts in NYC
with Chas. B. Slackman and R.O. Blechman
I am a third generation artist. My grandmother was a portrait painter, and college instructor. My mother, my mentor, is a printmaker who studied with Joseph Albers at Black Mountain College. She taught for twenty-three years at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. My father was a scientist and inventor for RCA and Corning Glass.

Work I have written and illustrated
Planet News, Kodansha, Japan 1995
Taking Off a short illustrated story for Vintage Airplane April 2003
Learning To Fly an unpublished book in progress.

Books illustrated
The Stress-Free Traveler, Sandy Paton, McGraw-Hill. July 2005
You’re The Best, Barbara Milo Ohrbach, Clarkson Potter, 2003
Fifty-Seven Reasons Not To Have A Nuclear War, Marty Asher, Warner Books, 1994
Eat These Words, Harper-Collins, 1991
Parables of Kierkegaard, Princeton University Press, 1978
A Snake Is Totally Tail, Judi Barrett, Atheneum, 1983
Pickles Have Pimples and Other Silly Statements, Judi Barrett, Atheneum, 1986
Fat Cats, Cousin Scraggs and the Monster Mice, Barbara Shook Hazen, Atheneum, 1985
The Yuppie Handbook, Piesman and Hartley, Simon & Schuster, 1984
Save Our Planet, MacEachern, Dell, 1990
Be Nice To Marilyn, Ida Lutrell, Atheneum, 1992
The Story of Z, Jeanne Modesitt, Picture Book Studios, 1990 also in a Scholastic Books anthology
Mother Earth’s Counting Book, Andrew Clements, Picture Book Studios, 1992
Max and Diana and the Snowy Day, Harriet Zieffert, Harper & Row, 1987
Max and Diana and the Shopping Trip, Harriet Zieffert, Harper & Row, 1987
Max and Diana and the Birthday Present, Harriet Zieffert, Harper & Row, 1987
Max and Diana and the Beach Day, Harriet Zieffert, Harper & Row, 1987

Drawings have been published by
The New Yorker Magazine
Six covers and also interior illustrations. Covers available as prints at www.cartoonbank.com

The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Christmas cards
Adobe Systems, Eyewire, Getty Images
The Cooperstown Cookie Company
Scholastic
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
The Baltimore Sun
The Chicago Tribune
The Boston Globe
The Washington Post
Coca-Cola
Business Week
MacDonald’s, Annual Report
Audubon Magazine
Lotus Development Corp., packaging, editorial, animation
Brown Publishing Network, Boston
IBM
Compaq
Squibb
Baxter Healthcare
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
National Geographic
Citicorp
Providian Bancorp
Knoll International
Simon and Schuster
Random House
John Wiley and Sons
Southwestern Bell
Oil-Dri, Annual Report
Orion Capital, Annual report
Corning Glass, Annual report
Roher Pharmaceuticals
Postgraduate Medicine Magazine
Emergency Medicine Magazine
Peat Marwick
Digital
Herman Miller/Meridian, Advertising, and brochures
Harper Collins
Bantam Doubleday Dell
The Hillier Group
US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Time Magazine
Business Week
Time-Life Books, London
Red. Eltern, Germany
Fortune Magazine
Gourmet Magazine
Parents Magazine
Workman Publishing
Royal and Sun Alliance, REMi, brochures
Clarkson and Potter
Walker Books
Scott Foresman
Takashimaya, Japan, Department Store Brochure, and more.
Interactive and internet/web illustrations

Bellcore
TIAA-Kref animated brochure
Knowledge Adventure
Orion Capital, illustrations for web site annual report and brochures
IntraNetics for web site
Merck-Medco for web site
Hello.com n Idealab! company for card web site

Signs
The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, New York and Leatherstocking Flyers EAA chapter #1070

Cards
The Museum of Modern Art
Designfold,Inc.
Marcel Shurman
Hello.com and Idealab! company
Watercolor Farm Flying Note Cards

Work has been recognized by
The White House, one of an exhibit of commissioned posters to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Women’s Bureau, 1995
The Society of Illustrators
The United Nations,
Graphis, Switzerland
American Illustration
The Society of Publication Design
Creation, Japan
Communication Arts
Print Magazine
Princeton University, Milberg Gallery 1991 All In Line - Three families of artists: George Grosz, Karen Grosz, Rube Goldberg, Thomas George, Margaret Johnson, Lonni Sue Johnson 1991
Airventure Museum Sport Aviation Art Exhibit EAA Museum Oshkosh WI, 2001-4
Honorable Mention 2001, 2002, Excellence 2003
Flying Magazine Summer 2001, summer 2005
Private Pilot Magazine April 2002
Sport Aviation Magazine April 2002
Vintage Airplane Magazine July 2002

Work is in the collections of
New Jersey State Museum
Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection
Newark Museum
The Smithsonian
Rockefeller University
American Embassy, Tokyo
Johnson & Johnson
Janos Starker
Betty Parsons

Teaching
Hartwick College guest speaker Oct. 2004
Cooperstown Art Association, 2004-5 Instructor of Watercolor Possibilities, and Pastel
Parsons, NYC, guest speaker
The School of Visual Arts, NYC, guest speaker
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, guest Speaker
Syracuse University Masters of Illustration Visit to my studio in NYC
Princeton Art Association, Drawing and design class for children
The Stuart School, Princeton, NJ, preschool to 8th grade, 1974-1976

Recent Exhibitions
The United Nations Prevailing Human Spirit Sept 2002 sponsored by the Society of Illustrators, NYC
Cooperstown Art Association Solo show April 2002 An Aerial Perspective, watercolors
Smithy-Pioneer Gallery group shows 2000-05, Three-person show 2-D, 3-D, 4-D summer 2003
Pastel possibilities Solo show 2004

Juror of Exhibitions
Juror Central New York Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition September 2003
Juror, Society of Illustrators annual show in NYC twice, latest in 2000
Juror, Washington Art Directors Show

Prints, cards and T-shirts
From The New Yorker Magazine of covers at www.cartoonbank.com
Watercolor Farm Cards and T-shirts available at www.lonnisue.com

Inspirations come from

Music
Fly Creek Philharmonic 2001-2004, viola and chorus
Princeton University Orchestra 1967-8, viola
Theater Orchestra University of Michigan 1970-72, viola

Aviation
Private pilot, single engine land airplane, since 1996
Tail wheel sign-off 1997
President, 2002, Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter #1070 Cooperstown Leatherstocking Flyers,
Secretary 2003, Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter #1070 Cooperstown Leatherstocking Flyers,
Established Watercolor Airport 43NY in Cherry Valley, NY 1999
The Olde Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, NY Volunteer 1996-7
including a flight From LaGrangeville NY to Lakeland, Florida with another woman pilot in my Cessna 150 to help run the booth at the Sun’n Fun Fly In
Oversaw (and ordered parts) for the restoration of a 1968 Cessna 150 and a 1946 Piper J-3 Cub
My Aviation artwork has been featured by Flying Magazine at Sun’nFun and Oshkosh Fly- Ins
2003, 2004, 2005

Community
Board Member, Advocates for Cherry Valley, Cherry Valley, NY 2002-3

Restoration and Renovation
Designed and oversaw the construction and renovation of one house in New Milford CT, a milk house into an art studio, and saved two barns in Sherman, CT and one in Cherry Valley, NY

Garden and Farm
Re-establishing a hay and dairy farm to be organic
with Certification from NOFA, Northeastern Farmers Association, for organic hay, grain and vegetables; and organically-grown cattle

Travel
England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, and locally with my airplane

I work from a milk house studio in a rescued barn on a hay farm near Cooperstown, New York; with seven cats, a herd of cows and one horse, pigs and an organic vegetable garden, flowers, a small pond with fish, and a landing strip for a small yellow airplane, a 1946 Piper Cub. I have been a freelance illustrator since 1976.

To see my work, please visit my web site at www.lonnisue.com