Jan Spivey Gilchrist

	Jan Spivey Gilchrist's career as a fine artist has spanned a quarter
of a century.  She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States
and Canada.  Ms. Gilchrist has won numerous awards and commissions
throughout her career, including the Coretta Scott King Award and the
Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for two of her thirtyfour illustrated
children's books.

	Nathaniel Talking, written by Eloise greenfield won the 1990 Coretta
Scott King Award.  Night On Neighborhood Street, also written by
Ms. Greenfield, received the Honor Book Award of the same name in 1992.
Jan Spivey Gilchrist has worked and traveled throughout Europe and the
Caribbean.  Ms. Gilchrist's works have appeared on national television.
Her illustrations have been featured or reviewed in the New York Times,
Boston Globe, Washington Post, L.A.Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune,
Ebony Magazine, and others.

	Ms. Gilchrist's, Indigo and Moonlight Gold, which she both wrote and
illustrated, is treasured by many for its sensitive and moving text, as well
as the striking illustrations.

	Madelia, published by Dial Books, 1997, a story of an artistic young
girl, is beautifully told and illustrated by Jan Spicey Gilchrist and
For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me, HarperCollins Publishers,
written by Eloise Greenfield, has been hailed as a tribute to
the human spirit.


		"A wonderful book, full of gentle insights and deep
		perceptions, essentially about change.  Gilchrist has
		created a book of great visual beauty, using deep brown
		colors for her African American characters and rich hues of
		blues, blacks, and whites for the night landscape.  The text
		is beautifully written, conveying a number of messages
		about the nature of childhood...A wise and marvelously
		done offering that deserves a place in every libary."

			...School Libary Journal


		"Jan Spivey Gilchrist, a well-known African American
		illustrator's, turn to writing is magical in Indigo and
		Moonlight Gold.  The book begins with a celebration of a
		relationship between mother and daughter who enjoy staying
		up laughing.  Amid beautiful pictures and word images is
		the story of a girl who has built self-love from being
		loved and carries her love to the community, the world
		around her, and will one day bring it to her own child.

			...Susie Wilde
				A specialist in children's literature