ABOUT
JACINTA BUNNELL is a self-taught mixed-media artist and author based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her work spans visual art, independent zines, and children’s books that challenge traditional gender stereotypes.
MIXED MEDIA VISUAL ART:
Builds worlds using found objects, paper, ephemera, and recycled materials.
Aesthetically inspired by vintage toys and the uninhibited drawings of children.
Exhibits widely in galleries and cultural institutions, including Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Secret City, Opus 40, Wired Gallery, Albany International Airport Gallery, CANO, DRAW, ASK, O+ Festival, and Allegheny College.
Collaborates with musicians and independent creaors on custom album art, music video art direction, and designs.
Accepts a limited number of custom art commissions and hand-painted clothing projects each year.
PUBLISHED WORKS:
Author of inclusive LGBTQAI+ children’s books and queer coloring books, including A More Graceful Shaboom, Girls Are Not Chicks, and The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book.
Published through PM Press.
Writes Latchkey Township, a Substack publication exploring art, nostalgia, and latchkey kids.
Jacinta has toured the U.S. and Canada with The Sparkle Kids Action Network, The Gadabout Film Fest, Neko Case, Maeve End, Julie Novak, Irit Reinheimer and Michael Truckpile.
Whether it is designing seed packets for the Hudson Valley Seed Company, creating overhead projection shows for Neko Case intermissions, art directing music videos for Elizabeth Mitchell, or designing album art for Grammy-winning producer Dean Jones, Jacinta’s art and collaborations touch upon a desire in us to be more closely connected to tenderness. She believes in real handwriting, iced tea, small towns, her mom’s fruitcake, and having the same best friend since you are two.
Jacinta lives in a 200-year-old house in the Hudson Valley with Michael Truckpile, coyotes, old buttons, lilacs, and rhododendron bushes. She has been an educator and author for over 20 years, facilitating workshops at schools, conferences, shelters, and bookstores in the US and Canada on independent publishing, art, and gender in children's media. She has presented at Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, the University of Washington, Bluestockings Bookstore, and more.
Her books bring queer and feminist ideas to kids (and the grown-ups who love them) through coloring books and children's media that celebrate gender expansiveness, girlhood outside the box, and joyful weirdness.
Hideaway Grove Apartment Complex by Jacinta Bunnell
SELECTED PRESS
Studio Visit: The Books & Paintings of Jacinta Bunnell
By Rebecca Mir Grady, 2019
“Anne Elizabeth Moore connected me with Jacinta Bunnell earlier this year, and I’m so glad she did! She makes awesome feminist and queer coloring books for kids and adults of all ages. I truly wish that they had been around when I was a kid.”
Las Niñas Pueden Ser Reyes (Girls Can Be Kings) - A Coloring Book I Wish I'd Had When I Was a Little Kid
By Lee Wind, 2019
“It's inspiring to see how powerful knowing real history that includes woman can be -- the story of Seondeok, told in one book, inspiring Jacinta's Spanish version of this book, and reaching out to all the readers (and colorers) to come! I'm very excited about this coloring book—it's absolutely something I wish I'd had back when I was a little kid!”