{"id":440,"date":"2018-04-06T20:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/?p=440"},"modified":"2021-08-16T00:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:41:01","slug":"telling-a-peoples-story-art-exhibition-and-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/2018\/04\/06\/telling-a-peoples-story-art-exhibition-and-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling a People\u2019s Story: Art Exhibition and Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Miami University Art Museum (MUAM) in Oxford, Ohio, currently boasts a treasure trove of original artwork from African American children\u2019s book illustrators. This picture book gold can be found in Telling a People\u2019s Story: African American Children\u2019s Illustrated Literature,<\/em> an exhibition of approximately 130 works by 33 artists from 88 books, which runs at MUAM through June 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of the Miami University Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Among the artwork on display are pieces from Coretta Scott King Illustrator Awardees past and present, from Tom Feelings and John Steptoe to Ekua Holmes and Kadir Nelson. And, in a nice touch that one doesn\u2019t often see at art galleries, visitors can find and read the books the art came from below each piece while browsing the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conference will take place in conjunction with the art exhibition from April 20-21 at MUAM. Among the CSK alums presenting at the conference are R. Gregory Christie, Ekua Holmes, E.B. Lewis, Jerry Pinkney, Javaka Steptoe, and Shadra Strickland. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions at MUAM, said of this conference: \u201cI\u2019m so excited to be able to bring several major illustrators together in one place, and to hear their perspectives…. [In a picture book], we hear the words of the author through their words, and we see the voice of the illustrator through their illustrations, but [the conference] is an opportunity to actually hear the words of the illustrators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy of the Miami University Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For more information on the exhibit and conference, please visit http:\/\/blogs.miamioh.edu\/tellingapeoplesstory\/<\/a>. In addition, local radio profiled the exhibit here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Bloom is Senior Children’s Librarian at the Blue Ash branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. He is the Chair of the CSK Book Awards Jury.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Miami University Art Museum (MUAM) in Oxford, Ohio, currently boasts a treasure trove of original artwork from African American children\u2019s book illustrators. This picture book gold can be found in Telling a People\u2019s Story: African American Children\u2019s Illustrated Literature, an exhibition of approximately 130 works by 33 artists from 88 books, which runs at … Continue reading Telling a People\u2019s Story: Art Exhibition and Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,21,25,8],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csk-award-winners","category-exhibit","category-illustrator-award","category-illustrator-honor","category-past-events-and-important-people","tag-john-steptoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}