Donald Weller - As a boy Don drew horses and cowboys when he wasn't exploring with his horse. He rode along the Palouse River or over the rolling hills that surrounded his childhood home near Pullman, Washington. He roped calves in high school rodeos and sold some cartoons to Western Horseman magazine. His passions were horses and art. In college he continued to rope in the college and amateur rodeos in eastern Washington and Oregon, and northern Idaho.

Graduating from Washington State University with a degree in Fine Art, he sold his horses and moved to Los Angeles where he spent decades doing graphic design and illustration. His work appeared on record covers, posters, in advertisements, and on hundreds of magazine pages. He did covers for Time Magazine, TV Guide, and illustrated stories in Sports Illustrated, Boys Life, Pro, Readers Digest and many others. He did posters for the Hollywood Bowl, The National Football League, The National Cutting Horse Association, The Rose Bowl, and the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He illustrated three children's books and published a coffee table book about cutting horses, Pride in the Dust, which he illustrated and photographed. He created five stamps for the United States Post Office.

Along with doing illustration and graphic design he taught school, part time, three years at UCLA, where he met his wife Cha Cha, and eleven years at the Art Center School in Pasadena. Cha Cha and Don now live in rural Oakley, Utah.

Don Weller's artwork has been the subject of more than twenty articles in various art and design magazines in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Germany. His work is included in almost 300 published collections of art and design including American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans (Krantz Co Publishers), American and Soviet Posters (Japan), Fame: Portraits of Celebrated People (Harmony Books), Outstanding American Illustrators Today (Graphic Sha Publishing Ltd), The Illustrator in America 1880-1980 (Madison Square Press), Watercolor for Illustration (Watson Guptill), Two Hundred Years of American Illustration (Random House) and many more. Samples of his work have been included in various art magazines including Communication Arts, Graphis, How, Idea, Novum, Gebrauchsgraphik, Print, and Studio.

He has participated in several invitational exhibitions including: Art for Survival (Graphis), Color (The American Institute of Graphic Arts), AIDS Posters (Shoshin Society), American and Japanese Peace Posters (Shoshin Society), Noah's Art (Quon Editions), and others.

Don has received many awards from various art groups including Gold and Silver medals from the Art Directors Clubs of New York and Los Angeles, and from the New York One Show, and Merit awards and Medals from the Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles.

He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators.