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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Christina Wald

Christina S Wald LLC
Home 3416 Ridgewood Ave County: Hamilton
Cincinnati OH 45211 United States Home Phone: 15136046586 Website: Christina Wald’s Website

Bio

Christina Wald specializes in illustration, toy and giftware design, and product design. She has illustrated over 60 children’s books and done artwork for many other books, comics, magazines, packaging, and products. 

She graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Industrial Design.

She started and helps run Urban Sketchers Cincinnati.

She also teaches illustration and sequential storytelling at Northern Kentucky University.

The Children’s Library of Toledo and Mazza Museum have acquired some of her works for their collections.

Client Highlights: 
Scholastic Inc.
Graphic Arts Books/West Winds Press
Caracyn Publishing
Bloomsbury UK
Usborne Publishing
Hachette Book Group
Werd & Weber
Heinemann Publishing
Angels on Earth Magazine/Guideposts 
Grosset & Dunlap/Penguin for Young Readers
Tek Nek Toys/Encyclopedia Britannica
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation/US Forest Service/Mountain Press
Sylvan Dell/Arbordale Publishing
National Geographic
Parachute Publishing/Running Press Kids
Wild Planet Toys
Oxford University Press
Pearson Publishing
Capstone Publishing/Picture Window
Dinardo Design
Blue Sneaker Press/San Diego Zoo Global
Publications International, Ltd.
Intervisual Books
Pelican Publishing
Storey Publishing
Kaplan Publishing
International Playthings
Walter Foster
Piggy Toes Press
Options Publishing
McGraw-Hill
Jakks Pacific
Play Along Toys
Houghton Mifflin
Bradford Exchange
Mazer Corporation
New Creative Enterprises
Latin Finance Magazine
Leapfrog, Inc.
Pavilion Gift Company
Weekly Reader
Dragon Magazine
Wizards of the Coast
Procter and Gamble
Hasbro Toy Group
Hampton-Brown
Warner Brothers Toys
Gibson Greetings
Galoob
U. S. Playing Card
and many others 
 
Award Winners and Accolades:
Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant (winner of 2018 NSTA Outstanding Trade Book, Best STEM BOOK for 2018, 2018 Mathical Honor Book and 2018 Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and Australian Early Childhood STEM Book List – ELSA (Early Learning STEM Australia), by the University of Canberra, Australian Government Department of Education and Training)
Paw, Hoofs, and Wings; Animal Heroes of the San Diego Zoo Official children’s book for the San Diego Zoo Centennial
Camas and Sage Skipping Stones 2016 book award in Nature and Ecology
Featured on HuffPost Books: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/where-the-buffalo-roam_b_9659668.html
A Warm Winter Tail (winner of a 2013 Gelett Burgess Award)
The Wild Life of Elk (A joint venture between the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the National Forest Service) was a finalist for a 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award
Habitat Spy (winner of a Tillywig Brain Child Award)
Annie Jump Cannon. Astronomer Copies of several illustrations from the book were purchased for Annie’s childhood home.
Henry the Impatient Heron (winner of a 2010 Mom’s Choice Gold Award)
 

Shows: 

 
2022: Faculty Exhibition Main Gallery at NKU SOTA
 
2021: URBAN SKETCHERS CINCINNATI Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College
 
2020:  TOGETHER Light Grey Art Lab Minneapolis, MN

2020: Faculty Exhibition Main Gallery at NKU SOTA

2020: Urban Sketchers Cincinnati  Stay and Wonder Gallery at Columbia Plaza 

2019: “Mind Gardens” Curated by Ursula Roma at Caza Sikes Gallery


2019: “Episode IV A New Hope: May the Fourth Be With You Star Wars Tribute Show” Brew House

2019: Amazing Adventures: An Exhibition of Art Inspired by the Works of Jules Verne in London at The Framers Gallery

2019: Ral Buldhar: A Dungeons and Dragons Art Show at Chase Public

2018: DOMINATION ILLUSTRATION Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College

2018: “Episode III: May the Fourth Be With You Star Wars Tribute Show” Brew House

2018: Art Academy Faculty Show

2017: In:Sight Design Exhibition-a showcase in excellence in strategy and creative risk in regional design Main Gallery at NKU SOTA

2017: Creative Juice: A Group Exhibition Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College

2017: “Episode II: May the Fourth Be With You Star Wars Tribute Show” Brew House

2016: Illustration Show with C. F. Payne, Jerry Dowling, Jeffrey Ebeller and Christina Wald Flats Art Gallery

2016: Popp=D ART Mobile Gallery

2016: “Creative Juice Exhibition” Red Tree Art Gallery and Coffee Shop

2016: “May the Fourth Be With You Star Wars Tribute Show” Brew House

2015: “The-Show-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named” Pop Revolution Gallery

2015: Slam Bam Comic Jam Show and lecture program at the Art Academy

2014: The Art of Storytelling Brazee Street Studios
         
2014: “Cincinnati Illustrators” Red Tree Art Gallery and Coffee Shop

2014: Empire Built on Ghosts Popp=d ART Gallery

2013: Children’s Book Illustration Art Show at the Sharonville Fine Arts Center

2011: ‘Drawing the Line: the Art of Comics, Illustration and Animation’ in the Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College

2010: Painting Acquired from Little Red Bat for Lucas County Children’s Library

2007: Cincinnati’s Storybook Treasures Cincinnati Public Library 

Artist Statement

I love storytelling in picture book and comic form.

Sketching is my obsession.