Extinction

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Carrie Heiberger Cook is an artist and member of both the Society of Animal Artists and Artists for Conservation. Both groups extend membership to less than 500 artists worldwide. As an oil painter of animals (the non-human variety), Carrie prefers to focus on animals used for entertainment, hunted for sport, poached for money, or struggling in the wild among an increasingly human global presence.

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Carrie has been a lead computer graphics specialist in New York City, studied with Disney background painters in Los Angeles, and taught art to mildly interested middle schoolers in Colorado. Her most recent “real job” was as graphic design manager of the Dallas Zoo and the illustrator and graphic designer of the Dallas Children’s Aquarium.

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While working with the zoo and aquarium, she struggled mightily with the captivity of other species. It has informed her current position on animal rights, as has being a long-time vegetarian. Carrie continues to work as a freelance graphic designer for PACE and the City of Parker.

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Carrie studied art at The University of Oklahoma, The New School in NYC, and Art Centre and Associates in Art, both in California. She is also a member of the Art Students League of Denver.

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Carrie has won numerous awards. Her work has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Natural History, The Wildlife Experience in Colorado, Grouse Mountain Resort and Wildlife Refuge in Vancouver,
the Hiram Blauvelt Wildlife Museum in New Jersey and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert Museum, among others venues.

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7% of profits from painting or print sales is donated to charities that fight for animal rights and/or fight the good fight to keep wildlife wild.

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http://www.carriecook.com