KRISTA ANANDAKUTTAN Illustrator, artist, teacher
Illustrating for research and education on scientific topics since 2008. Traditional and digital media for the web and print.
I insist that the worlds of science and art intersect. All these things are inspiring: puddles of ink and color, cellular structures, sleeping butterflies and the width of a finch’s beak. I can be found on cliff edges, museum vaults, classrooms and jungles. I like that I am required to give each subject my fullest attention and creativity.
Education
BS Ecology and evolutionary biology, University of California Santa Cruz
Graduate Program Science Illustration, UCSC
Fresco secco murals, India
Teacher, Interdisciplinary Education
Santa Rosa Junior College
Sonoma State University, Excel for Youth
Demonstrating Artist: California Academy of Sciences, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Biological Illustration Instructor, California Naturalist Certificate Program
Teaching Artist, Sonoma County Elementary and Middle Schools
Selected Publications
Harvard Papers in Botany
Madrono
Systematic Botany
PhytoTaxa
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Rhodora
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Bureau of Land Management, online archives, interpretive panels
University of California Santa Cruz Natural Reserve
Society of California Archaeology
Science Notes
Exhibits
2016 Bambi Waterman & Krista Anandakuttan: Biodiversity, A Closer Look, Gallery II at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, February 12-March 20
2016 Smaller Footprints, MOAH, Lancaster CA, Jan-March
2015 Nature’s Jewels: Tilden Environmental Center, Berkeley, CA, Nov-Dec
2015 California Native Plant Society Annual Convention, Juried Botanical Art Exhibit, San Jose CA -January
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