Ernie Kwiat

Ernie Kwiat (pronounced to rhyme with "what") is an illustrator who was born in Houston, Texas and raised near New Castle, in western Pennsylvania. He studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and later received his MFA, specializing in printmaking, from Mills College in Oakland, CA.

As an art director and graphic artist for a screen printing company in California, he began drawing and designing graphics for many companies such as Lucas Films, Capitol Records, Disney and Sesame Workshop. After twelve years, he left the commercial screen printing company to head the art department of Sesame Street Stores as an illustrator and product designer.

Kwiat has designed and completed the art for thousands of Sesame Street products and numerous books.

Credits

• Sesame Street Fire Safety Station‎ (1996)
• Sesame Street Magazine (beginning in 1998)
• Noisy Colors (1999)
• Elmo's Day (2005)
• Elmo's Night Before Christmas (2005)
• Elmo's Easy As 123 (2006)
• Elmo's Easy As ABC (2006)
• Elmo's Favorite Things (2006)
• Guess Who, Abby! (2007)
• Guess Who, Elmo! (2007)
• When I Grow Up (2007)
• What Will Elmo Be? (2010)
• Big Bird at Home (2011)
• Sesame Street Firehouse & Police Station Super Sticker Book (2011)
• Sesame Street At the Science Fair (2011)
• Sesame Street Paper Dolls Dress-Up (2011)
• Sesame Street Paper Doll Pandemonium! (2011)
• Sesame Street Halloween Parrty Sticker Book (2011)
• Bert and Ernie Go Camping: Brand New Readers (2012)
• Cookie Monster's Busy Day: Brand New Readers (2012)
• Abby Loves To Dress-Up Paper Doll (2012)
• Elmo Loves To Dress-Up Paper Doll (2012)
• Sesame Street Night, Night, Elmo! (2013)

External links

• Ernie Kwiat's portfolio site
• Uncle Ernie's Creepy, Oddball Collection -- Kwiat's Zazzle store