MASTER STORYTELLERS EXHIBIT

 Children's book illustrators exhibit. MASTER STORYTELLERS, classic tales by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mother Goose, Aesop and more inspire contemporary illustrations for children, picture book age through YA. On view April 1 - May 30, 2015.

EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 27 due to popular demand

Participating CBIG Members: Melissa Iwai, Lisa Cinelli, Angelique Anderson, Roberta Rivera, Donna Miskend, Clare Pernice,Yuko Katakawa, Nancy Doniger, Christine Mix, Kitty Leech, Delphine Henault, Robin Meeks, Vicky Rubin, Cheryl Taborsky

Poe Park Visitor Center

2640 Grand Concourse

Bronx, NY 10458

Schedule of events: 

Saturday April 11

12pm - Artist panel includes CBIG members Nancy Doniger and curator, Donna Miskend

1pm - A conversation with guest Michael Patrick Hearn, author and children's literary historian

followed by reception

Saturday May 30 11am

Learn Pen & Ink with CBIG artist Roberta Rivera

The exhibition is underwritten by the NYC parks department.

artist panel moderated by curator/exhibitor Donna Miskend
artwork by CBIGers L: Nancy Doniger, R: Lisa Cinelli

HIGHLIGHTS: reception, artist panel, conversation with Michael Patrick Hearn, School visits and public workshops with CBIG artists Donna Miskend, curator/exhibitor and Roberta Rivera, exhibitor.

Angelique Anderson

Melissa Iwai (art Top)
(art bottom Robin Meeks)

Our guest, Michael Patrick Hearn,
children's literary historian with Donna Miskend, curator

Roberta Rivera (art top)
(art L, Donna Miskend, art R, Nancy Doniger)

Vicky Rubin art: The Nose by Nickolai Gogol

WORKSHOPS for kids and adults

Roberta Rivera pen and ink
public workshop

vegetable printing

Pen and Ink

Donna Miskend with 1st graders

Pinnochio Cards

     

Lucy Aponte of Poe Park Visitor Center
artwork Cheryl Taborsky, Vicky Rubin

Gallery tour to kids

Thank you to our guest, Mr. Hearn, and Poe Park Visitor Center, Lucy Aponte and staff for making this exhibit a success.

Mother Goose Exhibit

Mother Goose Re-Imagined

Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Public Library

101 West Putnam Avenue

Greenwich, CT 06830

on view December. 6, 2012 – January. 16, 2013

Event day Sunday Jan. 6 begins 1:00pm: 

artist panel discussion moderated by Donna Miskend with: 

Roberta Rivera, Clare Pernice, Marilyn Papas, H. Ruth Karpes, Lisa Lavoie.

art demo by Roberta Rivera

and readings

exhibiting ARTISTS: Angelique Anderson, Deborah Cuneo, Diana Ting Delosh, Laura Goetz, Leeza Hernandez, Mike Herrod, Sara Kahn, H. R. Karpes, Anna Kim, Ann Koffsky, Sarah Lisa Lavoie, Kitty Leech, Donna Miskend, Sawaka Norii, Marilyn Papas, Clare Pernice, Barbara Mason Rast, Roberta M. Rivera, Vicky Rubin, Tatyanna Starikova, Cheryl Taborsky, T.T. Tyler, Wallace West, Brian Yanish

transportation from NYC: 4 blocks from Metro North New Haven RR line, Greenwich station

gallery web site:  click here              further info call gallery at 203.622.7947

Gallery Hours: M-W F & Sat 10:00 am - 5pm, Th10:00 am - 8pm, Sun 1:00 pm - 5pm

ARTIST RECEPTION: DEC. 6 from 6-9pm

All artwork is for sale, and prints are also available for those holiday gifts!

Parking is available. sponsored by Friends of Greenwich Library

70 illustrations influenced by Mother Goose rhymes will be on view. Check back at the close of the exhibit for photos. 

CLICK HERE for an interview with some of the artists Part I.
CLICK HERE for an interview with some of the artists Part II.

Further photos from our Dickens exhibit will resume posting at the close of Mother Goose. 

                                           

http://conversationswithdonnamiskend.blogspot.com/2012/12/art.html