My friend Bryan Collier is a writer and illustrator of books for children.

An illustrator is an artist who makes artwork for stories and other things.

Bryan uses collage and painting to make his beautiful artwork. He usually starts with a pencil sketch.

Bryan's words and art are inspired by black history, experiences, culture, and family life. Those are meaningful things to Bryan as an artist.

Art Prompts

*Listen to his stories and make art about a part of a story you especially liked.

*Think of what is meaningful to you as an artist. Maybe there are stories about your own family that you could make art about.

*Share your feelings or ideas about the world, or your community through your artwork.

"Trombone Shorty" is a book that Bryan Collier wrote and illustrated. Here is Angela Bassett narrating it. I think Bryan's words and artwork are amazing!

Here is one of the books he illustrated being read out loud, "These Hands".