605 Somerset Court / Nashville, TN 37217 / (615) 399-3043
email: bhigginsbond@netscape.net

  EXPERIENCE

Fine Artist and Freelance Illustrator with over 30 years of experience illustrating books, magazines, posters, calendars, ads, collectors' plates, brochures, figurines, dolls, and individual painting commissions.  Clients include:

  1974 to Present

• Awarded Certificate of Merit, 21st Annual National Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators

• Awarded 1979 CEBA Award of Merit for work in Black Enterprise Magazine.

• Featured in the Anheuser-Busch television commercial for "Roots: The Second Generation," advertising the "Great Kings Of Africa" series of paintings, which includes three Higgins Bond paintings.

• Presented the "Key to the City" by Mayor William H. Hudnut III of Indianapolis, IN (1981)

• Received Medal of Honor from the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Committee honoring distinguished Arkansans in 1986, presented by Governor Bill Clinton.

• Illustrator of the Jan Matzeliger (1991), W.E.B. DuBois (1992), and Percy L. Julian (1993) 29-cent commemorative stamps for the United States Postal Service.

• Book Award of Excellence (1993) for When I Was Little, by Toyomi Ingus, awarded by the Multicultural Exchange.

• Parents' Choice Approval Seal (1998) for Song of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican Rain Forest,  by Joan Banks.

• Inducted in the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1997)

• Member of the National Society of Illustrators - New York, NY.

• Illustrator of four stamps for the United Nations Postal Administration on Endangered Species, issued February 2001.

• Served as one of six judges for the 2006 Federal Duck stamp Contest.  Sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Winner 2007 Green Earth Book Award for A Place for Butterflies, Honoring writers and illustrators of the best in Environmental literature for youth. Given by the Newton Marasco Foundation.

• Winner 2009 Ashley Bryan Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature.  Presented by the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.
  
  Guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities and schools.

1999 Facts About Blacks by Raymond M. Corbin, Beckham House Publishers (1986)
When I Was Little by Toyomi Ingus, Just Us Books (1992)
Ancient Rome by Daniel Cohen, Doubleday (1992)
Time for Sleep by Claire Chapelle, Macmillan/McGraw Hill (1993)
Young Martin's Promise by Walter Dean Myers, Raintree Steck-Vaughn (1993)
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modern Curriculum Press (1994)
Susie King Taylor Destined To Be Free by Denise M. Jordon, Just Us Books (1994)
Toni Morrison, Author by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modern Curriculum Press (1995)
Handshake in Space by Sheri Tan, Smithsonian Institution and The Trudy Corporation (1998)
Song of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican Rain Forest by Joan Banks, The Nature Conservancy  and the Soundprints division of the Trudy Corporation (1998)
Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (1998)
Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops? By Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (1999)
Do Tornadoes Really Twist? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
Do Penguins Get Frostbite? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and their Babies by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers (2002)
Trails Above the Tree Line by Audrey Fraggalosh, Soundprints division of the Trudy Corp. (2002)
Where Did The Butterfly Get Its Name? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2002)
Jesus Is Born (Book 12 Level 2) based on Luke 2.1-21, text adapted by Suszette Haden Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
Jesus Prays To His Father (Book 19 Level 1) Base on Mathew 26. 36-45, Text adapted By Suzette Haden Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
The Seven Seas, Exploring the World Ocean by Linda Viera, Walker & Company, (2003)
Groundhog at Evergreen Road by Susan Korman, Soundprints division of the Trudy Corporation and the Smithsonian Institution (2003)
Then I Think of God by Martha Whitmore Hickman, Albert Whitman & Company, ((2003)
Who Has A Belly Button? by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers (2004)
Pen Pals by Michael Rose Ramirez, Mondo Publishing, (2004)
The Christmas Pea Coat by Richard H Schneider, Ideals Children's Books, (2004)
I Am Sacajawea, I Am York, by Claire Rudolf Murphy, Walker & Company (2004)
The Mighty Mississippi, by Linda Vieira, Walker & Company, (2005)
A Place For Butterflies, by Melissa Stewart, Peachtree Publishers, (2006)
Alphabet of Space, by Laura Gates Galvin, Soundprints division of the Trudy Corp. and The Smithsonian Institution (2006)
The Old Woman And Her Mysterious Storybook, And The Little Girl Who Didn't Like To Read, by K. Christopher Toussaint, United African Educational Foundation (2007)
Please Don't Wake the Animals, by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers (2008)
A Place For Birds, by Melissa Stewart, Peachtree Publishers (2009) 
Adesuwa Goes to Puerto Rico, by K. Christopher Toussaint, United African Educational Foundation (2009)
A Place For Frogs, by Melissa Stewart, Peachtree Publishers, (2009)
Roots, 30^th Anniversary Edition, by Alex Haley, The Easton Press, (2010)