Inspired by the study of natural and medical sciences, Kathy Shuster is the retired Director and Head Illustrator of the Scientific Illustration and Photography Unit of Purdue University's Biology Department in W. Lafayette, Indiana. Shuster has a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, and an MFA in Scientific Illustration. Her work has been published in a multitude of scientific journals, exhibited both nationally and internationally, and remains in permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., museums in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Taiwan, and is included in...more