Daniel Minter facts for kids

Daniel Minter is an amazing African-American artist born in 1961 in Ellaville, Georgia. He creates art in many ways, like painting, sculpting, and drawing pictures for books. He also makes art for public spaces and uses different materials together, which is called assemblage.

Daniel Minter's Education

Daniel Minter studied art at the Art Institute of Atlanta. He earned an A.A. degree there. Later, in 2019, he received a special award called an Honorary Doctorate of Arts. This award came from the Maine College of Art.

What Daniel Minter Does

Early in his career, Daniel Minter worked as a graphic designer. This means he created visual designs for different projects.

Illustrating Children's Books

Minter has drawn pictures for many children's books. He has illustrated twelve books in total. Two of these books won important awards.

• Ellen's Broom won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor in 2013.
• Going Down Home with Daddy was a 2020 Caldecott Honor recipient.

Both of these award-winning books were written by Kelly Starling Lyons.

Designing Stamps

Daniel Minter also designed two special stamps for the United States Postal Service. These stamps celebrate Kwanzaa. One stamp was released in 2004, and the other in 2011.

His Work Today

Today, Daniel Minter lives in Portland, Maine. He continues to create new art there. He is also a board member of The Underground Railroad. This group helps people learn about the historical network that helped enslaved people find freedom. Minter's art has been shown in many exhibits in Portland. You can also see his designs in the official logos for The Underground Railroad and the Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance.

Books Illustrated by Daniel Minter

Here is a list of some of the books Daniel Minter has illustrated:

• 2019 Going Down Home with Daddy, by Kelly Starling Lyons
• 2019 The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives, by Eloise Greenfield
• 2019: I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage, compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins
• 2018 So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom, by Gary D. Schmidt
• 2017 Cay and Adlee Find Their Voice, by Russell J Quaglia and Cali Quaglia
• 2016 Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness, by Donna Janell Bowman
• 2012 Ellen's Broom, by Kelly Starling Lyons
• 2006 The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides, by Susan Reynolds
• 2002 New Year Be Coming!: A Gullah Year, by Katharine Boling
• 2000 Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story, by Angela Shelf Medearis
• 1998 Bubber Goes to Heaven, by Arna Bontemps
• 1994 The Foot Warmer and the Crow, by Evelyn Coleman

Awards Daniel Minter Has Won

Daniel Minter has received several important awards for his artistic work:

• 2020 Caldecott Honor for his illustrations in Going Down Home with Daddy.
• 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his work on Ellen’s Broom.
• 1994 National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International, Travel Grants Fund for Artists. This grant helped him travel to Salvador Bahia, Brazil.