Selina Alko
books
Awards & Shows
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Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell
Fall 2020 Best Books for Kids & Teens, The Canadian Children's Book Center
A 2020 Mighty Girl's Best Book of the Year
Best of 2020, Metropolitan & 24A Magazines
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Sybil Award finalist, 2019
Charlotte Huck Honor, 2019
ALA Notable 2019
Why Am I Me?
Picture The Dream. The Carle Museum, Amherst, Ma, 2021
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020
Original Art Show, 2017
The Case For Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
Picture The Dream. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020 & The Carle, 2021
Children’s Book Council’s 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
NAIBA Carla Cohen Free Speech Award 2015
NAPPA 2015 Award, Junior Library Guild Selection
Communication Arts 2015 Award of Excellence
Original Art Show 2015
Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year (2016 Edition)
2016 ILA-CBC Children's Choice List
Amelia Bloomer list 2016
Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
Amelia Bloomer list 2017
Original Art Show 2016
2016 Mills Tannenbaum Award, Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
Award for excellence in Children's Literacy
Exhibitions
Picture The Dream (Civil Rights children's book art group show). The Carle, Amherst, Ma, March 2021
High Museum of Art. Atlanta, Georgia, June - November 2020
PINK NYC (group show, The Pen & Ink Brigade), Diana Kane Gallery, December 2019
Richard C. Von Hess Illustration Gallery (solo show), University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 26- Nov 15, 2019
Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY., 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006
BLUE; Songs Are Like Tattoos (solo show), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018When are you leaving town?
The Blue Wave Project (group show, The Pen & Ink Brigade), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018
Red Envelope Show (group show), Flushing Town Hall, Queens, January 2019
Illustration: Women Making a Mark (group show), University of Indianapolis, January 2018
Feminist Icon Show (group show), Art Slope, Diana Kane Boutique, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
The Case for Loving (pop-up show), Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 2014
Brooklyn Public Library (solo show, youth wing), Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Clients
Scholastic Press, Random House/Knopf BRYR, Harper Collins BFYR, Macmillan/Henry Holt, Chronicle Books, Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group, GibbsSmith, School Library Journal, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY Kids, KidLit TV
B is for Brooklyn - Featured on the DOE's 365 Literacy Campaign poster + recommended Pre-K classroom book for 2015-16
The Hillary Clinton Campaign Coloring Book 2016 - Selina Alko, contributing illustrator. Hillary for America
