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Heidi wins Best of Show at Ann Arbor ADDY® Awards

Heidi received Best of Show in the 2007 ADDY awards for her Ann Arbor Book Festival "book tower" illustration. In total, 173 entries were submitted by area advertising agencies and freelancers, vying for a coveted ADDY. Heidi also earned four Gold ADDYs and three Silver Citations for illustrations created on behalf of the Ann Arbor Book Festival ( www.aabookfestival.org ), the Ann Arbor District Library, and promotions for her children's stories. Her Gold winners have been forwarded to the regional competition for judging. The ADDY Awards is a highly respected advertising competition, with over 60,000 entries submitted each year.

Top 10, 2006 Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

An illustration from a story Heidi is working on was ranked in the Top 10 at the 2006 SCBWI conference (www.scbwi.org/events.htm) in New York. It's quite an honor, considering the competition — 150 entries were submitted from published and unpublished artists. The conference featured speakers such as children's book legends Tomie dePaula, David Diaz, and Marc Brown. The Top 10 pieces were showcased that night for editors, art directors and agents to browse. At the end of the evening, Heidi's artwork was auctioned off.

Heidi also won the Grand Prize in SCBWI-Michigan's Picture Book competition — a year-long mentorship with illustrator Susan Kathleen Hartung (www.susanhartung.com). Ms. Hartung has worked with many noted publishers, including Viking and HarperCollins. You can see her wonderful illustrations in the award-winning children's books Dear Juno, One Dark Night, and One Leaf Rides the Wind, along with many others. Susan is a member of SCBWI and founding member of the Picture Book Artists Association (PBAA) (www.picturebookartists.org).

SCBWI-Michigan Newsletter Feature

2006 Illustration Mentorship Awarded

By April Gaff

Executive Director Lin Oliver of SCBWI shares Heidi's happy moment.

This year's winner of the Illustration Mentorship competition is Heidi Woodward. Heidi will work with mentor Susan Kathleen Hartung for one year, honing her talents as a picture book illustrator under Ms. Hartung in the long tradition of Master and Apprentice. Susan Miller won First Runner-Up and a scholarship to the 2006 Fall Conference. Mary Sundstrom and Catherine Jacobs Brito-Valladares earned Finalist certificates. "I'm absolutely thrilled about being selected for the Picture Book Mentorship this year, says Heidi."What an incredible opportunity to develop as an illustrator. I am ready to work, learn and grow. With any luck, perhaps I can 'pay it forward' by mentoring another aspiring illustrator someday. Thank you all, so very much." "I'm looking forward to mentoring Heidi," states Susan Kathleen Hartung. "She clearly has the talent and the drive to find success in this industry. Our Mich-Kids group has created a wonderful opportunity here and I am glad for the chance to participate." Thanks to April Gaff and the entire Mentorship Committee and this year's judges, for all their hard work and effort to make this program a reality.

April Gaff is a very talented artist in her own right! She can be reached at wolf_archeologist@yahoo.com.

Illustrator and designer Heidi Woodward won four Addy Awards for the 2006 Ann Arbor Book Festival poster, "Bookish Butterfly, including two Silver Addys and one Gold Addy at the local American Advertising Federation Competition. The poster went on to the 6th district, which included local Addy winners from Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, where she also won a Silver Addy at the midwestern level. This is the second year the illustrator has received accolades for her Book Festival work. The inaugural 2004 Ann Arbor Book Festival poster "First Sign of Spring also won Gold and Silver Addy Awards.

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Northville artist's design will appear on a poster and a shirt that benefit the 2-year-old event

This year, a bookish butterfly takes off for the Ann Arbor Book Festival (www.aabookfestival.org), a change from last year's book-reading robin. Heidi Woodward, who also designed last year's poster, morphs a butterfly into a book, whose title — "Metamorphoses, the collection of mythic poems by the Roman writer Ovid — is printed along the book's spine. The veins and shadows on the butterfly wings are phrases, in Latin, from the book.
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