MICE 2024

Diana Schoenbrun is an illustrator, art director, and professor who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on visual storytelling through children’s books, comics, and editorial illustrations. Diana's illustrations convey emotion often through character expression and inky line work. Her past puppetry and prop fabrication has been in film, theater, and music videos. Diana frequently exhibits at Artmageddon and MoCCA Fest in NYC. She recently co-organized the first Ditmas Indie Comics Extravaganza (DICE) in collaboration with Taylor & Co. Books and runs a monthly Graphic Lit Book Group there. In addition to making art, Diana is an educator and has taught illustration at Queens College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and City Tech in New York City.

Diana is a two-time gold medal award winner of special format books from the Society of Illustrators, and she has also been recognized by American Illustration and 3x3 Magazine. Her illustrations and comics have been published by, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Met Opera, and Penguin Random House. Diana is excited to be exhibiting at her first MICE festival!