Giao WilliamsGiao Williams has been making pictures since she was a little girl. Her favorite subjects to capture then were ice cream scoops in criss-crossed waffle cones, houses with happy windows and frilly curtains, and sweet dogs and bunnies because they're jst about the best soft and fuzzy things on earth. One of her favorite memories of artistic discovery is of painting side-by-side with her dad in a cozy corner of the living room at her red and yellow Mickey Mouse art desk. Through the years, Giao continued to find joy and comfort in creating drawings from inspiring everyday moments.Though Giao didn't follow formal art-making for a few years while attending The University of Notre Dame in The College of Arts and Letters, she still saved room every school year to take a few elective art courses that sparked joy. Giao graduated with a degree in American Studies and Computer Applications and worked for several years in Letters as a business analystwhile steadily keeping Arts going in her free time. One of her favorite things to do is take art classes to keep creating and thinking creatively, which eventually led her to work more in the Arts. Giao committed to creating art full-time in 2020, when she illustrated her first children's book, authored by a friend who is also a fellow Notre Dame alumna.Giao is a Midwestern girl who grew up in Indiana and now lives in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, and their big, sweet hound mix dog. She loves gathering inspiration on morning dogwalks, in the dapple of afternoon drives, in the morsels of magic in everyday living. Her favorite art materials are colored pencils on toothy paper and her iPad. Read More Read Less