Kaylani_Juanita

Kaylani Juanita

Kaylani Juanita

Illustrator

Kaylani Juanita McCard, professionally known as Kaylani Juanita, is an illustrator.[1] Her work focuses on activism, empowerment of people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.[1] Her work has appeared in publications through Chronicle Books, Cicada Magazine, and Lee & Low Books.[2] Her first book illustrated, Ta-Da! by Kathy Ellen Davis, was released by Chronicle Books and nominated for an Young Readers award via the 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards.[3][4] In 2018, ELLE Magazine featured her work and interviewed her at length in context of her memorial illustrations based on the murder of Nia Wilson, a black woman who was fatally stabbed in a suspected hate crime while exiting a BART train.[5][6][1] In 2017, she illustrated "9 Books for Woke Kids," an article by Guinevere de la Mare.[7]

Juanita in 2021

Education

Juanita attended B. Gale Wilson Elementary School in Solano County's Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District as well as Rodriguez High School.[4] While attending Rodriguez, Juanita spent a summer studying at CalArts. She then attended Solano College[4] before transferring to California College of the Arts. She earned her BFA in Illustration from California College of the Arts.[8][4] As of 2019, she is working on a Master's in Design at the University of California, Davis.

Personal life

Juanita is based in Fairfield, CA[9] and identifies as a mixed-race[10] femme queer person.

Awards and honors

When Aiden Became A Brother

Kaylani Jaunita and Kyle Lukoff published When Aiden Became a Brother in 2019. In 2020, the book was awarded the Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award,[11] landed a top spot on the American Library Association Rainbow List,[12] and was named a Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book.[13]

Bibliography

  • A House for Every Bird by Megan Maynor, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita, (2021)
  • When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2019)
  • Watch Us Rise by Reneé Watson & Ellen Hagan, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2019)
  • Ta-Da! by Kathy Ellen Davis, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2018)
  • Magnificent Homespun Brown by Samara Cole Doyon, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita (2020)

Podcasts

  • The Creativity Habit[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Penrose, Nerisha (July 26, 2018). "How Kaylani Juanita Is Using Her Art and Instagram to Honor Nia Wilson". ELLE.
  2. [2]
    "Starfruit | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  3. [3]
    "Nominees" (PDF). www.berkeleyside.com. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-26.[permanent dead link]
  4. [4]
    "Inside Solano" (PDF). www.solano.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  5. [5]
    Woodrow, Melanie (July 24, 2018). "'He was wiping off his knife': BART stabbing victim recalls horrific attack that killed sister". ABC7 San Francisco.
  6. [6]
    Dakin Andone and Dan Simon. "Officials still don't know why a white man allegedly stabbed a black woman to death in a subway station". CNN.
  7. [7]
    ago, Guinevere de la Mare • 2 years (September 6, 2017). "9 Books for Woke Kids to Read This Year".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. [8]
    "Kaylani Juanita | VQR Online". www.vqronline.org.
  9. [9]
    "Kaylani Juanita". www.kaylanijuanita.com.
  10. [10]
    "Kaylani Juanita, illustrator-The Creativity Habit".[permanent dead link]
  11. [11]
    ""When Aidan Became a Brother" and "The Black Flamingo" win 2020 Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award". 27 January 2020.
  12. [12]
    "The 2020 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  13. [13]
    "Charlotte Huck Award (Fiction for Children)".
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Kaylani_Juanita, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.