Micha Archer

www.michaarcher.com

is an artist, illustrator and educator living in Western Massachusetts. A world traveller, her sense of color and pattern is influenced by the folk art, crafts, and architecture of the world. Working with gouache, watercolors, pen and ink, and collage, she creates layered pieces from various materials on paper and digitally.

With a B.A. in Multicultural Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst she taught for 15 years in a Kindergarten classroom. In addition to consulting with teachers on incorporating art into their classrooms, she offers workshops and classes to children, adults and other artists.

Her design and illustration clients include - most of the major educational publishers,

two children's books with Barefoot Books; (Lola's Fandango and The Wise Fool)

a book she wrote and illustrated,( Daniel Finds a Poem) with Penguin,

2 books with Charlesbridge, (Spring Equations and Around the World in a Bathtub).

And another with Penguin called Girl Running.

She is a member of WMIG- Western Mass. Illustrators Guild (www.wmig.org)