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Zina Saunders (born August 30, 1953) is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator. Her book ''Overlooked New York'', a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits, was published in 2009. ==Life and work== A native New Yorker, Zina Saunders is the daughter of illustrator Norman Saunders.〔Kasey Burke (February 14, 2014) ("Illustrator Zina Saunders to talk at WCSU" ), ''News Times'' (Danbury, CT). Retrieved 2014-03-30.〕 She attended High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union (dropping out a short way into the course)〔 but also learned much about painting and commercial art from her father. She has illustrated for a variety of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic Books, Oxford University Press), while contributing to magazines, including ''The Wall Street Journal'',〔 ''The New York Times Sunday Book Review'', ''Time Out New York'' and ''Outré''.〔(''Outré'' )〕 Her book ''Overlooked New York'' (2009) is a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits of diverse New York subcultures and hobbyists.〔Holly Tsang (January 12, 2010) ("Overlooked New Yorkers: Zina Saunders Takes a Closer Look" ), ''Queens Ledger'' (Queens, New York). Retrieved 2014-03-30.〕 Subjects include amateur astronomers, bike messengers, carnival costume designers, cricket players, keepers of rooftop pigeon coops, kite flyers, scuba divers, street performers, subway musicians and urban gardeners. The project began in the fall of 2004 with her observation of colorful, decorative bicycles.〔(Overlooked New York: Puerto Rican Schwinn Club )〕 In 2010, for ''Mother Jones'', she began creating regular weekly animations (which feature Saunders doing the voices of all characters).〔(Mother Jones: Zina Saunders Archive )〕 In November 2009, ''Overlooked New York'' was published as a book, collecting more than 60 of the profiles and portraits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zina Saunders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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