Tara Gartin
Tara Gartin lives in Ames, Iowa. A graduate of Iowa State University in the College of Design, Tara loves creating stories with words and pictures. She especially likes capturing humorous scenarios inspired by everyday life experiences, family vacations, and people she meets. The characters she creates are simple but expressive, given life-like qualities through composition, light, and color. Besides writing and illustrating children’s books, Tara has expanded her artistic experience by designing projections and animations for many theatrical productions at Story Theater Company in Ames.