Cora Lynn Deibler received a BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University in 1985, and an MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University as a University Fellow in 1995. Ms. Deibler specializes in editorial, children’s, and children’s educational illustration. Clients have included Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, The Weekly Reader, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scholastic Inc., Penn State University, and Planned Parenthood.

Awards have included How magazine's self-promotional annual, the Print Annual, The New York State Press Association, and RSVP’s annual illustration competition. She is a member of the Society of Illustrators, the National Council of Art Administrators, and Phi Kappa Phi. She participates regularly in shows at the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration in New York City and her work appeared in “Women in Illustration: Contemporary Visions and Voices” at the Norman Rockwell Museum in spring 2004. (http://www.nrm.org)

Ms. Deibler’s current interests include humorous images in an educational context for children’s publishing and she was has performed as Spider magazine’s resident serial artist, with the magazine featuring her work on a monthly basis in “The Danderfield Twins” since January 2004.  In the same vein, she is continuing work on “The Art of Rare Breeds: A Visual Exploration of Farm Animal Conservation,” a project devoted to interpreting images of rare and endangered agricultural animals.

In 2005 she completed images for Mahnaz Malik's Mo's Star, through Project Reaching for the Stars/Oxford University Press, 2006, as part of an effort to raise funds for The Citizen's Foundation, an organization dedicated to building schools and providing education to children in Pakistan.

A new body of work explores concrete and communicative explorations of type and image/type as image in an editorial and children’s publishing context. These images begin as traditional drawing, painting and collage surfaces that are scanned and completed digitally. The work explores juxtapositions of images and words or letterforms in both conceptual and purely visual terms.

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