ARTIST PROFILE

Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, Kitty Harvill received her BFA cum laude in painting from SMU including a semester of study in Paris. She received an MA in art therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an AA in illustration from Ray College, Chicago. She held positions of art director and creative director in the advertising industry, designing and supervising the production of such projects as the Dillard Department Stores annual report. In 1990, she formed Harvill Ross Studios Ltd., a commercial art firm.

She has illustrated Up! Up! Up! It's Apple-Picking Time, Fall 2003, for Holiday House, New York. Sitting Down To Eat, Fall 1996, for August House LittleFolk, was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists and featured in the Dec. 2, 1996 issue of NEWSWEEK. It was also named a notable children's trade book in the field of social studies for 1997 by a joint committee of the National Council for Social Studies and the Children's Book Council. Other books include Dancing with Little Teddy, Fall 1996, a biography of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Jack and the Animals, Fall 1995, August House, LittleFolk, and Believe in Katie Lynn, also Fall 1995, Eggman Publishers, Nashville, TN. School division work includes Others Were Here Before, Spring 2000, McGraw Hill School Division, Adventure at Mitchell Caverns, Spring 2001, McGraw Hill School Division. She has also done textbook illustration for Houghton Mifflin.

She has donated her illustrations for two wordless picture books for Developing Hearts of Stratford, Connecticut. Her work has appeared in Country America magazine, CATS magazine, on more than twenty book covers for August House Publishers, and she illustrated the 2002 poster for Arkansas Heritage month. Other clients include Scentations, Inc., Federation of American Health Systems, and Arkansas Lawyer magazine.

She has donated her artwork to the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Guild, RAIN of AR, the Quapaw Quarter Association (a historic preservation organization), the Humane Society of Pulaski County, Centers for Youth & Families, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Alzheimers Arkansas, the Children's Museum of Arkansas, Youth Home, Inc., the UAMS Preemie Unit, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Oasis, the American Heart Association, Central Arkansas Library System, Second Genesis, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Arkansas Hospice, and Arkansans with Disabilities.

She was accepted into Aqueous USA 2002, a National juried watercolor exhibit. She illustrated the cover and accompanying booklet for the audio book The Animals Could Talk, a Parent's Choice Gold Award winner in 1994, published by August House Publishers. Additionally, she received an Award of Excellence for the Southeast Library Association Southern Book Competition for The Folktale Cat, and the PIAS Award of Excellence for the cover of Southern Hospitality Cookbook, which were both published by August House Publishers.

Harvill divides her time between the United States and Brazil, currently specializing in wildlife art and specifically endangered species. She is currently working in pastel and oil in addition to her watercolors. For additional information please contact the artist.