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illustrator • designer • educator
Dee Roof is an illustrator, designer & educator researching native plants and pollinators of North America. She earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia in 1998. As a part of this program, she studied at the Tyler Rome Campus. From Philadelphia, her graphic design work took her to Chicago then to Kansas City where she designed gift wrap and stationery for Hallmark Cards. In 2017, she returned to study and also to teach design at Kansas State University, culminating in her MFA degree and installation piece titled PolleNative exhibited at KSU’s Mark A. Chapman Gallery in 2020. She brought PolleNative to the Anita B. Gorman Discovery Conservation Center in Kansas City, MO in 2021. She and her husband Paul founded Leaf & Sky in 2020 and continue today carrying conservation information about native bees and plants through their eco-friendly, artisan goods—plus giving back through collaborating with non-profit organizations dedicated to ecology education or native landscape.
AWARDS
Artist INC Live Fellow, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, 2024
Rocket Grant, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2020
Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship, Kansas State University, 2017 & 2018
Perrier Art of Refreshment, illustration contest, First Place, 1998
EXHIBITIONS
Eleven11 - VISCOM Faculty Exhibition, Thornhill Art Gallery, Avila University, Kansas City, MO, 2022
PolleNative, installation, Anita B. Gorman Conservation Center, Kansas City, MO, 2021
Inspired, solo exhibition, Hall Gallery, Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, MO, 2021
PolleNative, installation, Mark A. Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2020
Fusion, group exhibit, Manhattan Art Center, Manhattan, KS, 2019
A15 Legacy Exhibition, group exhibit, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Kansas City, MO, 2019
Accession, group exhibit, Manhattan Art Center, Manhattan, KS, 2018
Arrivano i Mostri, international exhibit, Associazione Culturale Teatro, Chiogga, Italy, 1999
Artist with Shrubby St. John’s Wort in bloom and two of her products featuring this plant.
