Estelle Carol

Artist Details

• First Name Estelle
• Middle Name Myra
• Maiden Name Carol
• Surname Carol
• Spouse’s Full Name partner: Bob Simpson his website
• Names and Birth Years of Children 2 children
• Birth Date 1949
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Graphic Artist, Illustrator, Screenprinter
• Training Chicago Typographer’s Union
  University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; art
  University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;  graphic design
  
• Collections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• Publications “The Chicago Women's Graphics Collective: A Memoir” in Feminist Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2018), pp. 104-124 Incredible Shrinking American Dream: An Illustrated Peoples History of the United States, Alyson Publishing, 1981 Love, Barbara J. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
• Memberships Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective (1970-1983); co-founder
  
  1969-?? Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Deep Roots Project (educate and promote organic homegrown food and to advocate for removing toxic chemicals from lawns)
  
  1999: Herstory Project (on-line archive of the history of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and feminism in the Chicago area); founder
  
  before 1969: Women’s Radical Action Project (WRAP), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
• Awards 2011: Unions Now More Than Ever contest, Union Communication Services
• Other Occupation(s) draws labor cartoons with her husband, under the name Carol*Simpson
  
  Active in the draft resistance movement during the Viet Nam War
  
  owner of a home business, Electronic Illustration and Design
  
  1998-?: senior designer and lead project manager for WebTrax Studio
• Website(s) www.estellegraphics.com
  
  cartoons done with her husband
  
  website with husband
  
  interview (with video) by Rebecca Zorach
• Biography a co-founder of the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective in 1970 and a founder of the Herstory Website Project in 1999. Active in the draft resistance movement during the Viet Nam War, she joined the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union in 1969 after a stint in the Women’s Radical Action Project (WRAP) at the University of Chicago. She is currently the owner of a home business, Electronic Illustration and Design. Most of her work involves illustration and graphic design for non-profit organizations, unions, advocacy groups, magazines and children’s books.