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DocuSign Envelope ID:09A874BD-81F7-4D43-8B3A-C6AE144D59D0 <br /> Artist Description Susie Wilde, Peg Gignoux and Steve Godwin have collaborated on a <br /> number of projects in recent years. <br /> Susie Wilde is a writer and teaching artist who has worked in North <br /> Carolina classrooms, libraries, after schools and museums for over <br /> 20 years. She has composed hundreds of stories with children and <br /> families and shared thousands of books. Wilde is the children's book <br /> columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer and interviews and <br /> writes reviews for Audiofile Magazine. Along with thousands of <br /> columns, her published works also include a picture book, <br /> Extraordinary Chester, and a book for teachers, Write-A-Thon! How <br /> to Conduct a Writing Marathon in Your 3-5th Class. <br /> Peg Gignoux has facilitated over 60 successful community based <br /> textile art residencies in NC over the past twenty years. Her work as a <br /> teaching artist has allowed her to work with diverse communities of <br /> all ages and abilities in a variety of settings: hospitals, K-12 schools, <br /> museums, colleges, libraries and shelters throughout North Carolina. <br /> Projects have included pop-up books, story quilts, and mixed media <br /> works for public spaces. <br /> Steve Godwin is a book designer with 25 years of experience. During <br /> the last 10 years he has designed a number of books for private <br /> publishers, including full collaboration on several children's books. <br /> Since 2012 he has worked as a designer for Algonquin Books of <br /> Chapel Hill. Before that, he directed the design and printing of <br /> curricular materials for K12, Inc., an education services company. His <br /> freelance clients have included Georgetown University Press and <br /> Smith Center for Healing and the Arts. Additionally, Steve is a visual <br /> artist and writer, and has been awarded residencies at The Vermont <br /> Studio Center in 2005 and 2008. <br /> Are you hiring No <br /> multicultural artists <br /> with the requested <br /> funds from this <br /> grant? <br /> How will the The participants are already actively engaged members of Mariposas. <br /> project/program be The For Kids By Kids staff have been meeting regularly with the <br /> publicized and Mariposas leadership to map out the goals and implementation <br /> promoted to reach process for the project. <br /> intended <br /> participants? <br /> How will you Overall satisfaction with the project will be measured through a <br /> evaluate the success survey of participating students, parents and leaders of partnering <br /> of the program? organization. A complete set of artwork to illustrate the story and <br /> meet all the elements of the book map will be utilized by Mariposas as <br /> they choose. The budget includes the printing of 1,000 copies of the <br /> book, and our goal is wide distribution of the finished product, both <br /> locally and nationally. <br />