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ABOUT

b. 1986, HK.

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news: 

  • NOVEMBER 2020: IF WE WERE GONE HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A COVER ART AWARD FROM The Undies: Case Cover Awards. visit The Undies website TO ENJOY THE WINNERS!

  • APRIL 2020: FIRST PUBLISHED PICTURE BOOK WITH WONDERFUYL AUTHOR, JOHN COY: IF WE WERE GONE, IMAGINING THE WORLD WITHOUT PEOPLE. AVAILABLE FROM LERNER PUBLISHING. SPECIAL THANKS TO ART DIRECTOR DANIELLE CARNITO AND EDITOR CAROL HINZ!

  • january 2018: WOOHOO! NOW represented by lara perkins of andrea brown literary agency, inc. LET'S MAKE SOME BOOKS.

  • March 2016: Oh lookie there! Buzzfeed finds a place for my ridiculousness again  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  Good old "Beard Deception" hiding at #11 in  19 Things You'll Only Understand if you Don't Have a Jawline

  • October 2015: Got a Girl Crush blog has featured BEARD DECEPTION! What's hiding under there, dude?

  • July 2015: Got a Girl Crush Issue 04 is due out July 2015, and ... dun dun dun... they've selected me as their cover artist! Stay tuned for details about the release party and where to pick up your copy.

  • My artwork and writing has been featured in Dean Nimmer's new book, Creating Abstract Art: Ideas and Inspiration for Passionate Art-Making, paperback available on Amazon.

  • GOIN VIRAL: My twerking cookies went viral on Buzzfeed, and were featured on the front page! Yummy.

  • I have been included in New American Paintings Midwest Competition No. 89, Edition 15. More information is available at their site, with a profile of my work.

  • Token Art Magazine debuted online October 16, 2010. Please visit the issue to see this collection of international emerging work, and find me on page 39.

Natalie Capannelli is an artist, illustrator, and freelance baker with an enviable green thumb living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently focused on children's picture books, and is represented by Lara Perkins of Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc. Natalie received her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2008, and her BFA from Kent State University in 2004. 

Publishing credits include debut picture book If We Were Gone, Imagining the World without People by John Coy, April 2020 from Lerner Publishing, illustrations for Funny or Die's online magazine The Occasional, cover art for Issue #04 of Got a Girl Crush Magazine, and illustrations & theme pages for Brick Educational Publishing in South Korea.

World travels include South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Portugal, Mexico, and India. 

Art, in all its forms, is a necessity.