About us
Lori Zimmer is a New York-based author represented by Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. Her books include Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City of Light (Running Press, 2022), Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces (Running Press, 2020), The Art of Spray Paint: Inspirations and Techniques from Masters of Aerosol (Rockport Publishers, 2017), and The Art of Cardboard: Big Ideas for Creativity, Collaboration, Story Telling, and Reuse (Rockport Publishers, 2015).
She has written text featured in the books Own Your Awkward: How to Have Better and Braver Conversations About Your Mental Health by Michelle Morgan (Welbeck Publishing Group, 2021) and Logan Hicks: Still New York (2022).
Zimmer currently consults as an artist liaison in copyright infringement cases for Kushnirsky Gerber PLLC, and spent 12 years as an independent art curator, curating more than 50 exhibitions and projects before retiring to focus on writing. She was elected to the Historic Districts Council of New York's Board of Advisors in 2022.
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Maria Krasinski is an artist, educator, and illustrator of the Art Hiding series. Her artwork has been described as "charming," "whimsical," and "playful" (as well as the technically-correct "just pencil drawings" from one Amazon reviewer). A graduate of the University of Chicago, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tbilisi, Georgia, where the Art Hiding collaboration was born when Lori came to visit in 2018.
Now based in Paris, Maria runs a global news and media literacy platform for young people, and runs up all the stairs in Montmartre. In 2022, she achieved the lifelong goal of Johnny Gilbert saying her name on national television when she finished in second place on Jeopardy! (nevermind that she got a French art history clue wrong).