Skye Young is an illustrator and arts practitioner living in North Carolina, where she works as an environmental educator. With a love of nature and art, she hopes to help her community deepen their understanding of the natural world and foster a sense of belonging through creativity and inquiry.

Skye has a Masters in Scientific Illustration from Hogeschool Zuyd in the Netherlands, where she published a thesis on illustrating beekeeper management. Additionally, she has a Masters in Conservation and Community Engagement through Miami University of Ohio’s Advanced Inquiry Program - Project Dragonfly, where she explored the use of art and storytelling as a way to improve ecoliteracy and sense of place.

Her personal artwork has been displayed domestically and internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions over the last 15 years. She was privileged to intern as a botanical illustrator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History during her BFA in Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has worked with youth, adults, and elderly in inspiring creativity and earnestly believes that art in any of its many forms is the best tool with which to connect to other people. Art transcends language, but highlights our wonderful diversity and unique perspectives, connecting us across the range of human experience through beauty, wonder, grief, and loss. Skye has lived and traveled abroad extensively including most recently, her time spent with the Makushi people of Guyana, learning community conservation practices, and participating in birdwatching and youth activities with Project Dragonfly.

She had her own business from 2021-2023 in Colorado, The Curious Hound, where she explored connections between art and nature through a variety of media and provided freelance interdisciplinary workshops in partnership with local organizations and businesses, such as Denver Audubon and the Butterfly Pavilion. After then spending two years establishing a community arts venue in Llanelli, Wales, she now is settling back into deciduous forests of the East Coast.