Karen Busch Holman
ABOUT
Children’s Books Illustrated 2001-2025
Bear’s Bell, Written and Illustrated by Karen Busch Holman
A Cat’s Christmas Tale, By Peter Arenstam
The Tales of Tickety Boo Book Series - 3 baby books, By Lucy Bermingham
The Tales of Tickety Book Mythological Creatures Series - 2 Books, By Lucy Bermingham
Tickety Boo’s Excellent Adventure, By Lucy Bermingham
Bodacious Bo’s Barn Bash, By Katrina Trimble
Bodacious Bo and the Mean Mares, by Katrina Trimble
Journey to a Forever Home, By Melinda Shofner
Parsley, by Ann Lewin-Benham
The Rudy Book Series, by Diane Robbins Jones - winner of Medallion Children’s Book award and
The Purple Dragonfly first Place Award
Badger and Fox, by Edward Zlotkowski
The Mighty Mastiff of the Mayflower, by Peter Arenstam
G is for Granite, A New Hampshire Alphabet, by Marie Harris
Primary Number, A New Hampshire Counting Book, by Marie Harris
Mitt The Michigan Mouse, by Kathy-jo Wargin
Minn from Minnesota, by Kathy-jo Wargin
Mitt and Mitt at the Wisconsin Cheese Jamboree, by Kathy-jo Wargin
Mitt and Minn’s Illinois Adventure, by Kathy-jo Wargin
Nicholas, A Massachusetts Tale, by Peter Arenstam
Nicholas, A Maine Tale, by Peter Arenstam
Nicholas, A New Hampshire Tale, by Peter Arenstam
Nicholas, A Vermont Tale, by Peter Arenstam
P is for Passport, by David Scillian - Illustrated the letter “E”
Publications Designed and/or Illustrated
The Wisdom of Small Farms, by John Carroll
Conserving the Family Farm, a UNH publication
Pastures of Plenty, by John Carroll
Preserving Old Barns, by John Porter
Dairy Book, by John Porter
Miscellaneous Commissions for New Hampshire
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover, NH, Wall and Ceilings Murals for Little Farmers Exhibit
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover, NH, Wall and Ceilings Murals for the Primary Place space
Illustrations for the New Hampshire Folk Art Website
Coin Design for a limited edition silver coin for Concord, NH
100 year Celebration of 4H in New Hampshire limited edition and poster
New Hampshire heirloom birth certificate - artwork chosen in competition in 2003
Design for Barrington, NH Tricentennial celebration - designed logo, license plates, flags
Illustration used for the town billboard in Barrington, New Hampshire
Awards, Exhibitions, Grants, Memberships
National award for design and content of Preserving Old barns, By John Porter
New England Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition, Duxbury, Massachusetts - 2009
Artwork selected for the New Hampshire Heirloom Birth Certificate - 2003
Solo Exhibition - New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH - 1999
Northeast Watercolor Society National Juried Exhibition - 1991
New Jersey Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition - 1991
National Design Student Grant Fellowship
Ford Foundation Grant for Excellence in Studio Art
Member of the New Hampshire Art Association
NH Art Association Juried Exhibition - 1997, 2016
National Equine Academy Juried Exhibition, Kentucky - 2015
New Jersey Equine Academy Juried Exhibition, Basking Ridge, NJ - 2016
Northeast Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition - 1991
Garden State Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition - 1992
Education
BFA Design University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
Lecturer on illustrating books to audiences ranging from 25-500.
Visiting Illustrator art program to more than 15,000 students over the past 25 years as a children’s book illustrator.
I have travelled all over the Northeast. The Matthew Thornton School in Londonderry, NH has had me do a school
visit to the 4th grade for 24 years. I have developed a program that teaches students the process of illustrating
a book.
Guest lecturer at Colby Sawyer College
Guest lecturer at St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH
Come and see some of Karen’s fine art at The Christmas Dove in Barrington, NH