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Carole Byard (1941 - 2017) was an African-American artist and children's book illustrator who was born in Atlantic City, New Jersy. Carole studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at the Fleischer Memorial Art School in Philadelphia, and at the New York Phoenix School of Design (1964-68), and later taught there and at the Metropolitan Museum and Parson's School of Design. She studied lithography with H. Morimoto and Robert Blackburn in New York City.

In 1971 Byard was one of the founding members of the Black Artists Guild. Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, Byard visited Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia and Egypt in 1972, and later referred to the trip as the "most moving event of my life." Through works like her "Rent Series," she demonstrated an interest in depicting black struggles for survival and self-preservation.

Carole's children's books: