I’ve known, admired and loved Rodica Prato and her work for over 10 years when she designed the map based on Miguel Covarrubias’ style for my book , Zarela’s Veracruz (Houghton Mifflin 2001.)  I can truly say that I have never met a kinder, most generous and multi-talented woman.  I could not possibly go into all her projects so please visit her website www.rodicaprato.com and you will be astounded by the breadth of her work.

She illustrates many Martha Stewart books, also Garrison Keiler, has just done an incredible book illustrating the White House and many other incredibly detailed works.

I perhaps have the largest private collection of drawings Rodica sends me as a thank you note whenever she comes to the house for the party.  I often get her permission and make my Christmas postcards with them.  I will post some pictures later but I wanted to share this with you and to those who may be planning to do a retable/exvoto for our auction benefiting Food is Arte, the program my daughter Marissa Sanchez-Bastien and I run for the Mexican Cultural Institute.

In some ways Rodica is very shy so she did not send a short bio so please go to this link for her full story http://www.rodicaprato.com/About%20us/about.html