Awards
Saunders' updated design of the Pink Panther character for United Artists brought her an award from Print, and her Native Americans trading card set of 106 illustrations was chosen Most Creative Trading Card Set by the trade magazine Non-Sport Update. She has contributed to numerous trading card sets, including Wacky Packages, Magic: The Gathering and Goosebumps.
Excerpts from "Art Talks," her series of portraits and interviews with illustrators and art directors, are featured in Illo magazine. Portraits from that series are in American Illustration 26 Annual and American Illustration 27 Annual. Five of her portraits were selected for the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2008. Four pages in Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico (Monacelli Press, 2010) demonstrate how her sketches evolve into digital paintings.
Saunders has taught illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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