Book Festival: Allen Crawford
Location: Meeting Room
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Allen Crawford, illustrator, artist, designer, naturalist, and writer provides a talk on his new beautifully illustrated book A Wild Promise: An Illustrated Celebration of the Endangered Species Act. Check out the video trailer. He'll also discuss the current status of endangered species in the US. Q&A to follow.
Biography:
As an illustrator, artist, designer, naturalist and writer, Allen Crawford has worked on a wide array of creative projects over the past thirty years with his wife, illustrator Susan Crawford. Their most notable joint project to date is a set of 400 species identification key illustrations for the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life in New York's American Museum of Natural History.
Allen’s latest illustrated book, A Wild Promise (Tin House 2023) commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, and contains over 100 illustrations of endangered and threatened species.
His previous book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself (Tin House 2014), is an illustrated edition of Walt Whitman's epic poem. The entire 256-page book was written by hand. It won numerous awards.
Allen has also been featured in David Scott Kessler’s documentary, The Pine Barrens. Much of Allen's spare time is spent volunteering for local conservation organizations like The Pinelands Preservation Alliance and the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
He is currently serving as a seasonal trail steward for the NJ Park Service. He lives in Mount Holly, NJ.
Allen in the News:
- WHYY: "Allen Crawford, Enthusiast" (2014) by WHYY staff
- Keep Jersey Arts Alive: "Song of Myself illustrated by Allen Crawford" (2015) by State of the Arts NJ
Learn more about the speakers & performers at this year's Book Festival.
