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About “fin” artist Ray Troll:

 From his tree lined studio, high on a hill above the Tongass Narrows in rain-swept Ketchikan Alaska, Ray Troll draws & paints fishy images that migrate into museums, books and magazines and onto t-shirts sold around the planet. Basing his quirky, aquatic images on the latest scientific discoveries, Ray brings a street-smart sensibility to the worlds of ichthyology & paleontology.

 Ray moved to Alaska in 1983 to spend a summer helping his big sister Kate start a seafood retail store. The fish store is long gone but Ray is not. There's something about Alaska that has led four of the Troll siblings to call the state ‘home’.

 Ray earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas in 1977 and an MFA in studio arts from Washington State University in 1981. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the University of Alaska Southeast. In 2007 he was given a gold medal for ‘distinction in the natural history arts’ by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and in 2006 was given the Alaska Governor’s award for the arts.

 Troll's unique blend of art and science culminated in his traveling exhibit, "Dancing to the Fossil Record," a major show that opened at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in 1995. The huge exhibit included Ray's original drawings, gigantic fossils, fish tanks, murals, an original soundtrack, a dance floor an interactive computer installation and the infamous “Evolvo” art car. In 1997 the exhibit traveled to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport and in 1998 it hit the streets of Philadelphia at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The tour ended in 1999 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. By that time it had grown to 14,000 square feet.

 Ray followed that tour a few years later with "Sharkabet, a Sea of Sharks from A to Z". Venues included the Science Museum of Minnesota , the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Alaska State Museum and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.

 Ray went on to act as the art director for the Miami Museum of Science’s Amazon Voyage traveling exhibit and now has yet another touring show based on his book Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway with Dr. Kirk Johnson.

He and his wife Michelle run the Soho Coho gallery in Ketchikan appropriately situated in an old historic house of ill repute located on a salmon spawning stream. Ray believes that everyone should be in a band regardless of talent or ambition. Holding true to that ethic he helps lead a band of musical renegades called the Ratfish Wranglers.

 He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, lectured at Cornell, Harvard and Yale, shown work at the Smithsonian and has even had a ratfish named after him ( a New Zealand species called Hydrolagus trolli ). Not too bad for a t-shirt wearing kinda’ guy.




Contact Information:

Mailing Address:
Ray Troll,
P.O. Box 8874
Ketchikan, AK 99901 U.S.A.

For UPS and Fedex only use:
Ray Troll c/o the Soho Coho
# 5 Creek Street
Ketchikan, AK 99901

Phone: 907-225-5954
Fax: 907-225-9195
Email Ray:


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What do you do when it's your first day back at school and you don't have a cool t-shirt from an extraordinary summer vacation destination to wear? If you're Judy Moody, you make your own!
After learning from her dad that she has unknowingly eaten shark over the summer, she proceeds to pull out a marker and make her own shirt complete with a clever shark drawing and the words, “I Ate a Shark” emblazoned on it! Who could create such a precocious and lovable character? Megan McDonald, of course! McDonald credits her own formative years as inspiration for many of her stories. As the youngest of five daughters, she says that many of her Judy Moody scenarios “grew out of anecdotes about growing up with them.”
Obviously, this practice has evolved into an incredible formula for success! Judy Moody earned McDonald the ALA Notable Book and Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2000 awards. After that, McDonald could have easily rested on her Judy Moody laurels, but instead she has launched herself into a quirky series with Judy Moody Gets Famous! Her newest book in the series is Judy Moody Saves the World!, in which Judy tries to single-handedly whip the world into shape!
What propels McDonald to write? It's her love and passion for reading coupled with her childhood memories and a vivid imagination that draw her to the transforming power of a story. McDonald says, “What I like about writing is that in all things there is a story — a leaf falling, a dream, a child on the way to school. . . ."
McDonald earned her B.A. in Children's Literature from Oberlin College and also holds a M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh. She has published more than 20 other children's books, such as The Night Iguana Left Home, Beezy, and Funnybones. Megan feels lucky to be a writer and explains, “I spend my days thinking like a mouse or pretending I have taste buds on my feet like a butterfly. I look at things sideways, questioning, always wanting to see the inside.” We're glad she does — it makes us lucky, too.
Visit Megan McDonalds Web site.

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