The artwork of a senior at Calumet College is featured on the cover of a book published this month.

Theresa Ross of Highland, IN recreated a one-room schoolhouse in rural Iowa for the childhood memoir of Michael Boos. The author of ‘naked! One of 13 is executive director of the bi-state Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI).

The not-for-profit organization and land trust is headquartered at the college.

Boos met the student last fall when she won the student art competition at the Greening of the Arts Show. The show is co-sponsored by AWLI and Calumet College.

At the time, Boos was editing the book’s manuscript and thinking about the cover design. A month or so later Ms. Ross showed him her painting of the Annunciation. He was impressed and commissioned her to do the schoolhouse painting for his book.

In the book, Boos “records the first 12 years of his life in Grant Wood country, where the Wapsipinicon River meets Buffalo Creek, and much of which was spent in a small Iowa town named for a 19th century Indian maiden, Anamosa.”

Boos also is author of Over the Line: Trials & Triumphs, the 20-year history of AWLI and the Wolf Lake watershed. It was published in 2019 by BookLocker.

‘naked! One of 13 was published by Thorn Creek Press, as will be the second volume of his memoir. It will be available later this year