About the Land of Xee

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Mighty Xee

Fine artist, picture book author-illustrator, singer-songwriter and apple crumb pie maker, after raising two generous, talented children near the famous music town, Woodstock, in the Catskill Mountains, I moved to Western Massachusetts where I’m lucky to live on a kettle pond full of blue herons, rowdy geese and painted turtles.

Inspired by Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth and some of the world’s great environmental activists, Greta Thunberg and Pete Seeger, it occurred to me that I could apply my artistic talents to reach kids of all ages – with picture books that would address environmental issues in understated, whimsical ways.

For example, who could forget a gentle Critter (part raccoon, zebra and dragon), who only eats litter?

I’m a member of NESCBWI (the New England Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) and Pete Seeger’s Beacon Sloop Club – and –  as the Candy Corn Fairy and Goddess of Recycling on Earth At This Time, I’ve spent many Halloweens offering candy corn to good little kids – but chocolate to any kids who proved they’d been bad…

As soon as I get my picture book world off the ground, I look forward to painting and displaying my fine art again.

Thank you so much for your interest.

Btw, to forget all about me and have your mind blown, visit my son Jivan’s website: https://jivanlee.com/

EDUCATION

Cooper Union College of Art and Architecture, New York City, NY. (1969,1971)
Hunter College, New York City, NY. (1970)

CD's

1987 Fire on the Mountain
2005 The Silly Coloring Book of Families
2011 Real Time, Real Piano
2014 Birches Entwining
2022 Shelter's Grace

RECOGNITION

2021, 2022–Featured Artist on Real Woodstockers on Facebook

2018 Featured Illustrator on Kathy Temean’s Blog, Writers and Illustrators https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/illustrator-saturday-mighty-xee/

2009 – Puffin Foundation, grant for ‘Art for the People’
2006 – 4th World Water Forum, Artistic Component. Oaxaca, Mexico, sponsored by the African United Nations and the Nation of Ethiopia.
2002 – Puffin Foundation. For work confronting some of the more provocative social and political issues of our times

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 – ''Men, Men, Men, and other Works'' The Art Upstairs Gallery, Phoenicia, N.Y.
2010 – Shandaken Arts Festival and Studio Tour, Chichester, New York
2009 – Shandaken Arts Festival and Studio Tour, Chichester, New York
2002 – Colony Gallery, Woodstock, NY.
1999 – "Paintings by Xee," Mother Earth Gallery, Albany NY.
1995 – The Gallery, Woodstock, NY.
1995 – Paint the Night Concert Series, Woodstock, NY.
1983 – Garden of Earthly Delights, Soho, NY. 
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 – 2010 numerous shows, The Art Upstairs, Phoenicia, N.Y.
2007 – 2010 numerous shows, Varga Gallery, Woodstock, N.Y.
2006 – “Worth of a Woman" V-Day’s Women's Art Exhibition, Artists Alliance, Orange County, N.Y.
2005 – "Women Artists of the Hudson Valley," Arts Alliance, Newburgh, N.Y.
2004 – "Women Artists of the Hudson Valley," Museum of the Hudson Highlands. Cornwall, N.Y.
2005 – Multiple Juried Shows, Woodstock Artists Assoc., Woodstock, N.Y.
2003 – "Environmental Visions." Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, N.Y.
2002 – Group Show, Colony Gallery, Woodstock, N.Y.
1999 – Women's Expo "30 Artists" Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1998 – "Dreamscapes" Deep Listening Gallery, Kingston, N.Y.
1997 – Land in the Sky Gallery, Woodstock, N.Y.
 

PRESS

2018 – https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/illustrator-saturday-mighty-xee/

2018 – Sand Hill Press Poetry and Art Anthology

2006 -- We' Moon Publications

1996 – Woodstock Gatherings: Apple Bites and Ashes