Glenn Wolff

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Illustration for Inland Seas Education Center Wetlands Demostration Project by Glenn Wolff. All rights reserved

This illustration was commissioned by: Inland Seas Education Association P. O. Box 218, Suttons Bay, MI 49682. Artist: Glenn Wolff. All image rights reserved.

Glenn Wolff is an artist who channels a passion for the Great Lakes into to his paintings and illustrations. His illustration work is often done in collaboration with regional land conservancies, environmental education organizations, natural science writers. A frequent theme in his fine art is "our relationship with, and sometimes our estrangement from, the environment." The bookshelves in his studio are lined with equal portions of art and natural science subjects.

A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Wolff moved to New York in the late seventies. He found work at the New York Times as a frequent illustrator of their Outdoors column. That exposure led to work for other clients that included The New York Zoological Society, the Central Park Conservancy, Simon and Schuster, and Knopf Publishers.

After nine years in New York Wolff returned to Northern Michigan with his wife and family. Almost immediately he met author Jerry Dennis and within a year the two had a proposal for their first book "Its Raining Frogs and Fishes, Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky." Since then they have collaborated on five books. Freshwater is a theme throughout.

Glenn Wolff is also the bassist for the The Neptune Quartet.

Glenn Wolff Official Site