While America’s election of our 47th president is still a top news story around the world, an Adirondack artist says he’s proud to make a small contribution to the growing legacy of the 39th President of the United States and the First Lady.
President Jimmy Carter occupied the Oval Office in the late 1970s, and he celebrated his 100th birthday a few weeks ago, making him the longest-lived president in U.S. History, and the first to live to be a hundred. Even more recently, Carter was in the news for casting an early voting ballot in Georgia in the 2024 presidential election.
Artist Nip Rogers of Saranac Lake says his collaborations with the Carter Center began in 2007, when he was invited to create the cover art for the annual report of the organization. He landed the job thanks to his talent for editorial illustration and narrative art, plus connections made through his art representative.
President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, founded the Carter Center in 1982. The non-profit organization aims to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering, helping improve the quality of life for people living in more than 80 countries.
The three covers Rogers has made for the center are all hand-drawn illustrations, digitally colored. The artist says the collaborations with Center are ongoing, and that he may do more illustrations for the organization.
You may learn more about the artist at www.niprogers.com.