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Children's Book Illustrators Exhibit |
Nouns: Children's Book Artists Look at People, Places and Things
Saturday, February 13 – Sunday, July 11, 2010
The world is made up of people, places and things and the best words are nouns and verbs — children’s books don’t use many adjectives! The genre of children’s books allows for a multiplicity of artistic styles — the range of forms, colors, materials and methodology becomes a type of “visual adjective” — a way for the subject of the illustration to be described. These visual descriptions hold the viewer’s interest, have universal appeal and become embedded into each child’s memory bank.
Artists in this exhibition include Erin Bennett Banks, Eric Carle, Remy Charlip, Leo Espinosa, Gail Haley, Gordon C. James, Leo Monahan, Robert Quackenbush, Faith Ringgold, Edel Rodriguez, Art Spiegelman, Vera Baker Williams and others.
Some of these artists have long histories with children's books, for instance Robert Quackenbush has illustrated over 200 children's books. North Carolinian Gail Haley is the only person to have ever received a Caldecott medal as well as England's equivalent medal for children's books, the Kate Greenaway medal. Remy Charlip and Vera Baker Williams, both Black Mountain College alumni, have illustrated books separately as well as in collaboration with each other; Williams is also a Caldecott Medal recipient. And Eric Carle is one of the world's most beloved creators of children's books, his over 70 books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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2010 is the Year of Story for the Carolinas.
Our Spring Retreat will be the Elements of Story.
Jennifer Rees, Senior Editor, Scholastic who was a great presenter at the Mid-Winter
Conference in NYC and Bruce Hale of the Chet Gecko middle grade series
[he even sings] and Stacy Cantor, Editor, Walker Books for Young Readers have signed on for April 16-18, 2010. No word yet on costs, but
that will come shortly after the first of the year when we have time to
figure it out. Our retreat will focus on the advanced writers helping
them to bridge that last hurdle toward publication.
For the Fall Conference, September 24-26, 2010 in Charlotte North Carolina, Inventing Story: Oh the Places We'll Go
Alvina Ling of Little Brown, Liz Waniewski of Dial, Alan Gratz, Chris
Richman of Upstart Crow Literary Agency, Steve Watkins, the 2009 Golden
Kite Winner for Middle Grade and Fran Slayton a 2K09 Debut Author are
all lined up and there's more to come.
Additionally we are planning on providing three Intensive programs:
3-4 hour programs Friday morning of the conference. One for writers,
one for illustrators and one for traditionally published PAL members.
Those are our goals. We'll be working hard to achieve them and if
you want to contribute as a volunteer just contact me at
scbwicarolinas@earthlink.net or Jo Hackl at jhackl1@charter.net. As I'm
still winding up the 2009 year, costs for the programs in 2010 have yet
to be determined. Understanding the economic stress still present in
our day to day lives we'll be trying to keep the costs not too far away
from past events.
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