DIANA SCHOENBRUN has worked as an illustrator, art director, puppet builder, author, and educator while living in New York City. She is a two-time gold medal award winner of special format books from the Society of Illustrators. Diana has taught at Queens College, City Tech, and FIT in New York City. She enjoys collaboration and has worked with many creatives, including a funny pink pig with lovely eyelashes—Miss Piggy.
Diana has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and received her MFA in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She recently co-organized the first Ditmas Indie Comics Extravaganza (DICE) in collaboration with D Wang Zhao at Taylor & Co. Books and runs a monthly Graphic Lit Book Group there. When she can, she loves to travel to faraway places where she enjoys sketching or hiking with her family.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Gift Inside the Box, written by Adam and Allison Grant, published by Dial Illustrator)
Take Your Octopus to School Day, written by Audrey Vernick, published by Alfred A. Knopf (Illustrator)
CRAFT BOOKS
Beasties: How to Make 22 Mischievous Monsters That Go Bump in the Night (Author/ Illustrator)
Puppet Play: 20 Puppet Projects Made with Recycled Mittens, Towels, Socks, and More (Author/ Illustrator)
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
CAG, Comics Advocacy Group, 2024, Mini-Grant recipient
Society of Illustrators, MoCCA Festival 2019, Gold Medal for Subway Friends
Society of Illustrators, Comic and Cartoon Art Annual 2016, Gold Medal for A Walk in Brooklyn
Society of Illustrators, Stevan Dohanos, 2nd Place honor
American Illustration
3x3 Annual
Uppercase Magazine
Creative Quarterly
Errratum
Illozine
FILM CREDITS
The Muppets, 2011
The Muppets Most Wanted, 2014
*Puppet builder and Miss Piggy specialist
RESIDENCIES
Ragdale artist-in-residence, *upcoming 2025
Puppets in Prague
National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill
FESTIVALS
Artmageddon
DICE
MoCCA
MICE
CLIENTS
Rothy’s, The Metropolitan Opera, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lotic.ai, BARK, Penguin Random House, Illustoria, Highlights Magazine, Cricket Magazine, Nintendo, Andrews McMeel, McGraw-Hill, Houghton-Mifflin, Razor & Tie Music, Anti-Social Music
WORKSHOPS
Society of Illustrators, Etsy, Makerfaire, The American Folk Art Museum NYC, and Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco