Colleen Kong-Savage
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Colleen Kong-Savage
@kongsavage.bsky.social
Write-handed Chinese-American illustrator in NYC. Picture books: PIANO WANTS TO PLAY, THE TURTLE SHIP. FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE coming Oct 2025.
And a Teaching Artist!
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So delighted to present character design workshops to help kick off @qplnyc.bsky.social ‘s Dog Man Reading Challenge. Behold! A few heroes, villains, monsters concocted by kid artists!

#edusky #teachingartist
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
So delighted to present character design workshops to help kick off Queens Public Library’s Dog Man Reading Challenge. Behold! Heroes, villains, monsters concocted by kid artists!

#edusky
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Painted Eric Carle’s beloved BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? into a mural at Lexington School for the Deaf? Thank you, Lexington, for welcoming Plushie and me w good vibes❤️.

Made possible thru Queens Arts Fund, presented by NYFA & NYC DCLA, & materials fr Thrive Collective. #edusky #kidlit
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“At Home in the City” is up at Queens Public Library, Central! Me n my crew of 3-12 yo artists made this for ProjectArt at Forest Hills QPL. This is what my art looks like when I wear my 2 hats at same time—collage as kidlit illustrator, collaboration & big scale as community muralist.
#edusky
August 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
First time i got a mural wall all to myself 😊 to paint whatever I wanna

Hester & Eldridge Streets in NYC

#mural
July 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Watercolor experiments w 4-12 yos. What happens when you sprinkle in salt? Can we move paint w no brush (maybe not great idea to blow paint around w straws in cold/flu season but gosh that was fun)? Began dioramas fr watercolor swatches.
So much fun. And mess. 🤪
#EduSky #teachingartist
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This ART habit, which suited my introverted self as a kid, now pushes me out and about in the world as an adult. It has become the main way I connect with new people. Here's some images from 2024—kid lit art, murals, collages, and exploration in procreate. #artvsartist #kidlit.
January 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
And a Happy New Year.
Wishing you peace and love 💗

#kidlitartpostcard
January 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Year of the Snake is almost here. I’m designing a kids’collage workshop to go with my book visits to schools and libraries. Test driving processes. Hmmm… What’s the best way to collage a snake with a crowd of elementary students, big n little?

#kidlitart #edusky
December 27, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Savoring raspberry chocolate from a student, I thought how the best part of any gift is knowing that someone thought of you and that they thought of you with kindness.

#kidlitart
December 26, 2024 at 5:49 AM
If you see this, post some cat art 🐈‍⬛
December 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Exploring Japanese American history as I illustrate FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE by @pragmaticmom.bsky.social. During WW2, US govt imprisoned 120K civilians of Japanese descent—2/3 US citizens—in the name of national security.

Red Comet Press, 2025

#picturebook #kidlitart
December 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM
😳I’m looking at this and wondering ‘what was I thinking, choosing to illustrate a whole book this way?’

This is for Mia Wenjen’s @pragmaticmom.bsky.social FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE published by Red Comet Press.

#kidlitart #picturebook
December 14, 2024 at 1:51 PM
If you see this, post a bird 🐦‍⬛
#kidlitart #illustration
November 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Illustration in progress…Details from San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden for FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE by @pragmaticmom.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebook
October 17, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I always wanted to paint a street mural! Presenting STORIES IN FLIGHT on Doyers Street, NYC, commissioned by Chinatown BID, and painted with a lot of help from volunteers including some amazing artists. Thanks, Abby Walsh teaching artist extraordinaire, for joining me.
#publicart #chinatownnyc
September 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Getting ready to fly. STORIES IN FLIGHT is a mural for Doyers Street, Chinatown, Manhattan. Artists Abby Walsh & Plushie & many volunteers are helping me paint 4800 square ft in 4 days next week. Wish us good weather and a smooth flight!

#streetmural #publicart
August 29, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Another mural painting intensive with NYC youth come and gone. This year we were At Queens Family Court. This was for outside the children’s center.
August 22, 2024 at 8:08 PM
If you see this, quote reply with something summery from your portfolio! 🌞

#illustration #kidlitart
June 23, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Look! I made a painting last week for Ottomanelli’s in LIC’s Gantry Park in Queens NYC. Springtime outdoor painting w good friend, beautiful views—yes please.

#nycartist
May 20, 2024 at 1:04 PM
So excited to have my first library visit for PIANO WANTS TO PLAY at Brooklyn Public Library along with PS21’s most awesome 2nd-4th graders.

#authorvisit #kidlit
May 19, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Drop something Yellow from your gallery! 💛
April 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Thrilled to be illustrating FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE by Mia Wenjen @pragmaticmom.bsky.social , published by Red Comet Press. Discovering all kind of history baked into the creation of this little cookie that started in San Francisco. This is gonna be a tasty project.

#kidlit #illustration
April 6, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Look at what I made for my picture book PIANO WANTS TO PLAY 😁🤩. My first window installation ever at Books of Wonder. It was a lot of work 😅 but I’m so pleased with how it turned out. #kidlit
March 23, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Thank you Books of Wonder—my favorite indie kid lit store—for hosting a WONDERFUL launch event for my author-illustrator debut PIANO WANTS TO PLAY and THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT by writer @kslivensky.bsky.social and illustrator Hannah Salyer.

#kidlit #picturebooks
March 12, 2024 at 3:02 PM