David Lee Csicsko is an award-winning artist and designer whose distinctive artwork, stained glass, and mosaics beautify train stations, hospitals and universities across the Midwest and East Coast. His many credits include designing the Obamas’ White House Christmas in 2012. David’s lively illustrations can also be seen in The Skin You Live In from the Chicago Children’s Museum, now in its 16th printing. Through his use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns, David Lee Csicsko celebrates the richness and diversity of life. David lives in Chicago.

Portraits include:

Alvin Ailey (USA) Gloria Anzaldúa (USA) Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba) Dorothy Arzner (USA) Josephine Baker (USA/France) James Baldwin (USA/France) Natalie Clifford Barney (USA/France) Sylvia Beach (USA/France) Gladys Bentley (USA) Leonard Bernstein (USA) Leigh Bowery (Australia) Romaine Brooks (USA/France) Leslie Cheung (Hong Kong) Stormé DeLarvarie (USA) Divine (USA) Esther Eng (USA/China) Leslie Feinberg (USA) Federico García Lorca (Spain) Radclyffe Hall (UK) Mabel Hampton (USA) Lorraine Hansberry (USA) Keith Haring (USA) June Jordan (USA) Frida Kahlo (Mexico) Greer Lankton (USA) Alain LeRoy Locke (USA) Audre Lorde (USA) Charles Ludlam (USA) Freddie Mercury (Tanzania/UK) George Michael (UK) Yukio Mishima (Japan) Alla Nazimova (Russia/USA) Willi Ninja (USA) Klaus Nomi (Germany/USA) Rudolph Nureyev (Russia) Laura Nyro (USA) Cole Porter (USA) Mary Renault (UK) Ada “Bricktop” Smith (USA/France) Ethyl Smith (UK) Stephen Sondheim (USA) Daniel Sotomayor (USA) Dusty Springfield (UK) Gertrude Stein (USA/France) Billy Strayhorn (USA) Sylvester (USA) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia) Billy Tipton (USA) Chavela Vargas (Costa Rica/Mexico) James Whale (UK)