What's New?

january 2007
"Inside the Cell" has received the "Best of Show" award in the Society for Technical Communication's Washington, DC Technical Publications Competition.  It's now qualified for entry in the society's International Technical Publications Competition. The award will be presented on Feb. 10 at a STCWDC luncheon.

january 2007
This winter, Judy is teaching figure drawing at The Art Institute of Washington.

October 2006
Judy joins the faculty at The Art Institute of Washington to teach drawing.

July 2006
Judy attends Jeanne Kunze's workshop, "Black and White Natural History Illustration Techniques," at the Humboldt Field Research Institute in Steuben, ME, and documents the tiny world of lichens.

May 2006
"Inside the Cell," a publication by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took two first-place awards in this year's Blue Pencil/Gold Screen awards competition sponsored by the National Association of Government Communicators. NIH won a total of 17 awards, five of which were to NIGMS, the most received by any NIH component.

February 2006
jStoffer Medical Illustration moves to its new home in Baltimore.

January 2006
Judy Stoffer's mosquito images featured in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2005.

December 2005
"Inside the Cell" now available from The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health

September 2005
Judy Stoffer teaches botanical illustration again at the US Botanic Garden. This course, however, is in conjuction with the Corcoran College of Art + Design's new botanical illustration certificate program.

September 2005
Illustrations for Managing Spinal Cord Injury, by Suzanne Groah, PhD., for the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC, completed.

July 2005
Mosquito microphotography project now nearly 3000 images on the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit's Web site, redesigned by Judy Stoffer, and now hosted by the Armed Forces Pest Management Board.

April 2005
2005 Frank Netter Award nomination nets a Vesalius Trust Certificate of Merit for "Complex Embryological Development Simplified with Flash Animations and Interactivity." Head and neck embryological development animations, produced for Indiana University Bloomington's Health Sciences Center anatomy courses.

"Inside the Cell" illustrations completed. This book, by The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, discusses the fundamental unit of life, the cell, and its organelles. Golgi theories animations included, comparing the Vesicular Shuttle and Cisternae Maturation models of the development of the cellular organelle, the Golgi apparatus.

Development of the Tongue animation and teaching module completed for Indiana University Bloomington's Health Sciences Center anatomy courses.

December 2004
Certified Medical Illustrator status was conferred on Judy Stoffer with the acceptance of her portfolio of works completed in the prior 18 months. Preliminary exam was passed in July of 2002.

October 2004
Morrell Park School Career Day presentation made to several classes about medical and scientific illustration as a career.

June 2004
Entomological Society of America chose Judy Stoffer's photographs of Orthopodomyia albicosta for the inside cover of their 2005 calendar.

May 2004
Guild of Natural Sciences Illustrators presentation, Introduction to Macromedia Flash for the scientific illustrator, at the Smithsonian Institution.

Fall 2003
US Botanic Garden Botanical Watercolor course taught by Judy Stoffer.

March 2003
Mosquito microphotography project begun at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center.