Gina Manola

Gina is a best-selling children's game inventor, writer, and visual artist living in Los Angeles. After completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she moved to NYC and exhibited her work with the Steffany Martz Gallery while also serving as Creative Director at Galison New York. In the early aughts she launched CALICO, a design, product development, and branding studio that served toy, game, gift, and educational publishers. She is the inventor of seven games that have been sold worldwide in specialty toy stores as well as Target, Walmart, and Toys R Us.