The feathered models for the morning will be chosen from HawkQuest’s line-up of live raptors that includes Red-tailed, Swainson’s, Ferruginous, and Rough-legged hawks, plus an owl, a Bald Eagle, a Peregrine Falcon and a Harris Hawk. The session also includes Colorado Parks and Wildlife's taxidermy Sandhill Cranes. Sketching supplies provided by the library and Steamboat Art Museum. All ages are welcome to take part in this free workshop that begins in Library Hall, and will likely include time sketching outdoors.

About the Teacher

Julie Zickefoose started off as an illustrator of natural history subjects as a college freshman in 1976. A six-year stint as a field biologist with The Nature Conservancy’s Connecticut Chapter proved a strong motivator both to learn more about ecosystems and to go back to drawing. Along the way, she began to write her own essays, studded with observations of birds and animals, and writing slowly crept into the forefront of her interests. She has been a Contributing Editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest since 1986 and has painted 27 covers for the magazine. From 2005-2010 Julie had a five-year run contributing commentaries to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, telling stories of bird-eating bullfrogs and orphaned hummingbirds. She has authored five books: Natural Gardening for Birds, Letters from Eden, The Bluebird Effect, and Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest and most recently, Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-Luck Jay, the intimate story of how an orphaned bird can save a soul. Julie lives and works quietly on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in the back country of Whipple, Ohio.