{{Short description|American painter}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Daniel Minter <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different than name --> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}} | birth_place = Ellaville, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | education = | alma_mater = Art Institute of Atlanta | known_for = painting, illustration, sculpture, themes of diaspora and spirituality | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = Marcia Minter | awards = {{awd|Caldecott Honor|2020}} {{awd|Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor|2013}}<!-- {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}} (optional) --> | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = <!-- {{URL|https://danielminter.net/}} --> | module = | native_name = | native_name_lang = }} '''Daniel Minter''' (born 1961 in Ellaville, Georgia) is an African-American artist and educator working in painting, sculpture, illustration, assemblage, and public art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thetakemagazine.com/daniel-minter-artist/|title=Daniel Minter: Making Art, Making Connections|last=Reynolds|first=Janet|date=2017-11-05|website=Take Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/472943/othered-displaced-from-malaga-university-ofsouthern-maine-art-gallery-daniel-minter/|title=Coming to Terms with Tragedy Through Art|last=Little|first=Carl|date=2018-12-01|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203205526/https://hyperallergic.com/472943/othered-displaced-from-malaga-university-ofsouthern-maine-art-gallery-daniel-minter/ |archive-date=2018-12-03 |access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mainetoday.com/maine_art/daniel-minters-sculpture-sets-the-table-for-welcome-feast-public-art-project/|title=Daniel Minter's sculpture sets the table for 'Welcome Feast' public art project|last=Keyes|first=Bob|date=2019-06-11|website=mainetoday|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611183617/https://mainetoday.com/maine_art/daniel-minters-sculpture-sets-the-table-for-welcome-feast-public-art-project/ |archive-date=2019-06-11 |access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref>
== Education == Minter received his A.A. from Art Institute of Atlanta. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Maine College of Art in 2019 and from Colby College in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Meader |first=Laura |date=2023-05-21 |title=At Colby’s 202nd Commencement, Messages of Triumph and Hope |url=https://news.colby.edu/story/at-colbys-commencement-messages-of-hope/ |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=Colby News |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career == Early in his career, Minter worked as a graphic designer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thetakemagazine.com/daniel-minter-artist/|title=Daniel Minter: Making Art, Making Connections|last=Reynolds|first=Janet|date=2017-11-05|website=Take Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref> He has illustrated thirteen children's books, including two award-winning collaborations with the author Kelly Starling Lyons: ''Ellen's Broom'', which won a 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and ''Going Down Home with Daddy'', which was a 2020 Caldecott Honor recipient.<ref>{{Cite web |last=JAMUNDSEN |date=2012-04-05 |title=Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present |url=https://www.ala.org/rt/cskbart/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Round Tables |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-28 |title=2020 Caldecott Medal: Winner and Honorees |url=https://www.brilliant-books.net/2020-caldecott-medal-winner-and-honorees |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Brilliant Books}}</ref>
Minter has also designed two Kwanzaa stamps for the United States Postal Service, issued in 2004 and in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2004/12/21/portland-honors-artist-designed-stamp/|title=Portland honors artist who designed stamp|date=2004-12-21|website=Lewiston Sun Journal|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arago.si.edu/category_2046091.html|title=Arago: Kwanzaa Issue|website=arago.si.edu|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_114.htm|title=Spread the Joy … Forever|website=about.usps.com|access-date=2020-03-07}}</ref>
Minter now lives in Portland, Maine,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/23/art-review-darkness-amid-radiance-for-isaacs-and-minter/|title=Art review: Darkness amid radiance for Isaacs and Minter|date=2017-07-23|work=Press Herald|access-date=2017-12-13|language=en-US}}</ref> where he continues his creative work and assists with The Underground Railroad, of which he is a board member. Minter's work has appeared at many shows throughout Portland and can be seen in the official logos of the Underground Rail-Road and the Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance.
== Books (Illustrated) ==
* 2025 ''[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-davis-pinkney/and-she-was-loved/ And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life in Stories]'', by Andrea Davis Pinkney * 2022 ''[https://www.booklistonline.com/Blue-A-History-of-the-Color-as-Deep-as-the-Sea-and-as-Wide-as-the-Sky-Daniel-Minter/pid=9753629 Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Blue-A-History-of-the-Color-as-Deep-as-the-Sea-and-as-Wide-as-the-Sky-Daniel-Minter/pid=9753629 |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=www.booklistonline.com}}</ref>, by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond * 2019 ''Going Down Home with Daddy'', by Kelly Starling Lyons * 2019 ''The Women Who Caught The Babies: A Story of African American Midwives'', by Eloise Greenfield * 2019 ''I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage'', compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins * 2018 ''So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom'', by Gary D. Schmidt * 2017 ''Cay and Adlee Find Their Voice'', by Russell J Quaglia and Cali Quaglia * 2016 ''Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness'', by Donna Janell Bowman * 2012 ''Ellen's Broom'', by Kelly Starling Lyons * 2006 ''The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides'', by Susan Reynolds * 2002 ''New Year Be Coming! A Gullah Year'', by Katharine Boling * 2000 ''Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story'', by Angela Shelf Medearis * 1998 ''Bubber Goes to Heaven'', by Arna Bontemps * 1998 ''[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/evelyn-coleman/the-riches-of-oseola-mccarty/ The Riches of Oseola McCarty]'', by Evelyn Coleman * 1994 ''The Foot Warmer and the Crow'', by Evelyn Coleman
== Awards ==
* 2020 Caldecott Honor, ''Going Down Home with Daddy'' * 2013 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ''Ellen’s Broom'' * 1994 National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International, Travel Grants Fund for Artists, Salvador Bahia Brazil
==References== {{Reflist|30em}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060617162825/http://www.danielminter.com/MinterResume.html Daniel Minter Resume 2003]
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