Odone,+Jamison

Biographical Information:
Dates: 1980 - Dates in Ridgefield: 2003 -  children's books illustrator, artist, fellowship recipient from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Raised on Rhode Island, Jamison Odone graduated from the Art Institute of Boston with a BFA, and an MFA from Western Connecticut State University. “I haven’t stopped drawing since I could pick up a pencil,” he told a reporter in 2010. His book, //Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Retold and Illustrated by Jamison Owen,// which he wrote and illustrated, is the first in a series he call “Stick Figuratively Speaking” for PublishingWorks, an Exeter, New Hampshire, publisher. He and his wife, Erica, a gallery associate at the Silvermine Gallery in New Canaan, moved to Ridgefield in 2003. ** Titles: ** //Honey Badgers, //2007 //The Bedtime Train //(co-authored with Joy Cowley), 2008  //Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland: // //Retold and Illustrated by Jamison Owen//, 2010 –Sources: [|www.jamisonodone.wordpress.com] ; //Danbury News-Times//, Jan. 22, 2010 [|Check the library catalog for titles by this author.]