Cheryl Kirk Noll lives in the Renaissance City of Providence, RI, where she teaches and works as a freelance children's book illustrator.

Experience

Client List

Affiliations

Press & Awards

Teaching & Speaking

Experience

Cheryl is an award-winning illustrator, and has been illustrating for children for more than thirty years.

She recieved a BS in education from Lebanon Valley College in Annville PA, and began her career as a fourth grade teacher in the same town where she lived when she was in elementary school... Smyrna, Delaware.

She moved to Providence to study illustration at Rhode Island School of Design, and still lives there with her husband and son.

Cheryl has combined her interest in illustration and education, focusing on multicultural and historic themes, and doing much of her illustration work for the educational market. Many of her projects involve research, and she has illustrated stories from diverse cultures and time periods such as the Hmong of Southesast Asia and the Han and Ming dynasties of China.

She has researched immigrant stories from Ellis Island to Angel Island, and folklore of the Native American tribes such as the Micmac, Alutiiq, Sioux and more, both pre and post European contact.

In addition to her freelance work, Cheryl teaches Children's Book Illustration and is the advisor for the Children's Book Illustration Certificate Program at Rhode Island School of Design-CE.

She has also done many school residencies and is available to do school visits, and to speak at teacher, illustrator and librarian conferences.

              Drawing by Cheryl at age 6

Press & Awards

RI Magazine article

Teacher of Excellence_RISD

Affiliations:

SCBWI

SCBWI-NE

Goodreads

Linked In

Jacket Flap

Picture Book Artists

Freelance Artists Network

More About Speaking for Schools, Libraries, Conferences, Teacher Workshops

For Cheryl's students

Clients Include:

Scholastic
Houghton-Mifflin/Harcourt
Millbrook Press
Creative Teaching Press
Raintree/Steck-Vaughn
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
Scott-Foresman
McDougal Littell
Rigby
Saxon
Sundance Publishing
Options Publishing
Pearson
John Wiley & Sons
Gryphon House
Highlights for Children Magazine
Calliope Magazine
Faces Magazine
United Nations
YWCA of Northern RI
Renaissance Greeting Cards
CatWatch and DogWatch newsletters

Cheryl's presentations
Cheryl will come to a school for up to four
45-minute presentations per day, with up to
two classrooms at a time for each talk.
She has two presentations to choose from.

Click here for more information about
Cheryl's teaching and speaking.

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Awards

Rhode Island School of Design-CE Teacher of Excellence Award, 2008
Lebanon Valley Alumni Creativity Award, 2007
SCBWI's Illustrators Magazine Merit Honor recipient- 1999

Basket of Bangles, written by Ginger Howard, illustrated by Cheryl Kirk Noll

• Skipping Stone Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books, 2002,
• NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year