SCBWI shout outs

TessaW

@Asyas_illos Omg! Came to celebrate here about that!!!! Holy cow congrats @Nyrryl-Cadiz I'm so excited for you!!!!!

Merry.Millergass

Amazing work!!!!!

Valerie Light

NYRRYL YOU NAILED IT! @Nyrryl-Cadiz Congratulations on winning BOTH the grand prize and the Ezra Jack Keats Award. So exciting for you.

Jeremy Ross

Congratulations @Nyrryl-Cadiz!!!! Well deserved!

Valerie Light

Oof my brain is full! I'm going to try to watch a few more of the sessions I missed, and go through my notebooks to look up the things I need to follow up on. A mountain of new information for me.

Are there other, more specialized conferences? Just illo, just kidlit, etc? @Lee-White once mentioned going to art directors' and designers' conferences and having great luck there. Can anyone point me to that?

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Asyas_illos @TessaW @Merry-Millergass @Valerie-Light @Jeremy-Ross thank you so much everybody!!!

Kim Rosenlof

@Valerie-Light There is an illustration conference called icon, but it already happened this year. I believe it is all illustration and not just children's books: https://theillustrationconference.org/

AIGA holds design conferences. There is a design conference in October.

Adobe does the Adobe Max conference which has some good speakers in the design industry. I think they do it twice a year. And it has been free the last couple because it has been online.

Creative South is a design conference.

This link shows several conferences. Some I have mentioned and others I haven't heard of before: https://scottkirkwood.work/conference-calendar

Valerie Light

@Kim-Rosenlof OOH Thanks, Kim! Bookmarking this post to reference later.

Lee White

@Valerie-Light All the things @Kim-Rosenlof mentioned are great. Adobe Max maybe not as much (unless you live local) because it's expensive and the focus of the attendees is so broad and many of the people in the audience are teachers. But anything by AIGA would be fantastic. Try to find anything local because that is where it's cheap and easy to get out and meet people.

Here's another list I found: https://www.mediavalet.com/blog/creative-conferences/

Valerie Light

@Lee-White Awesome, Lee! Thank you so much for the response, I'll check that out.