Ali Douglass was born in Muncie, Indiana and at sixteen built a treehouse in the woods with salvaged materials. She continued to work on it until she was 26, until each wall was a piece of art reminiscent of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The neighbors didn’t really like it, but she didn’t mind.
She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine arts in Boston and then transferred to Kansas City Art Institute in KC, MO to major in Illustration. After graduation in 1999 she moved to NYC and became a freelance illustrator. In 2003 she moved to San Francisco and has many fond memories of rollerskating by the bay. In 2009 she moved to Asheville, North Carolina and started teaching online at the Academy of Art University in addition to illustrating. In 2015 she got married and moved to Alexandria, Virginia where prints of her artwork are sold at Red Barn Mercantile, The Old Town Shop, and LouLou in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
For over twenty years Ali has illustrated magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, advertising, and more than 30 books. She has served as the Vice President of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators and her work has been recognized by American Illustration, Step Inside Design, and the L.A. Society of Illustrators.
Her illustrated books for American Girl have been winners of the 2008 Children's Choice Award, International Reading Association and Children's Book Council, and winner of the 2007 Excellence in Financial Literacy Award (EIFLE), Institute for Financial Literacy.
MasterCard
American Girl
Georgia-Pacific
Westfield Mall
TJ Maxx
WilsonArt
DeVos Children's Hospital
North Star Games
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
The Village Voice
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Boston Globe
New York Magazine
TimeOut New York
Martha Stewart Omnimedia
Better Homes & Gardens
Marie Claire Germany
Red
Seventeen
YM
Glamour
Nickelodeon Magazine
Redbook
Bridal Guide
Marcel Schurman/Papyrus
HGTV Magazine
American Greetings
Scholastic
Andrews McMeel
Walter Foster
Bantam Dell
Harper Collins
Little, Brown and Company
Simon and Schuster
Chronicle Books
Alexandria, Virginia USA
ali (at) alidouglass (dot) com
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