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Storybook Look!Southern Arts Federation Adds New Traveling Exhibit Featuring Southern Children’s Book Illustrators PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Authors Round the South   
Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:00
Storybook Look: Illustrations by Southern Artists has been added to the Southern Arts Federation’s (SAF) Southern Visions traveling exhibits program. The exhibit, which is available to museums and galleries throughout the country, will make its debut in the spring of 2009. Storybook Look includes 28 works in a variety of media from 10 of the South’s most notable children’s book illustrators. SAF will develop adjunct educational materials for families
and educators that will be made available free online and from host venues.

“This collection of original artwork will appeal to both children and adult audiences,” said Teresa Hollingsworth, Southern Arts Federation director of traditional arts and accessibility. “We are excited about celebrating imagination and possibility through the Storybook Look exhibit.”

Artists and books represented include:
  • Rick Anderson “N is for Natural State: An Arkansas Alphabet”
  • Ami Blackford “Quest for the Dragon Stone”
  • Mark Braught “P is for Peach,” “T is for Touchdown,” “Cosmo’s Moon”
  • Karen Stormer Brooks “Piggy Wiglet,” “Dylan the Eagle-Hearted Chicken,” “I Bought a Baby Chicken”
  • Sarah C. Campbell “Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator”
  • Liz Conrad “The Snow Ball,” “The Bunny Ball”
  • Elizabeth O. Delumba “Paco and the Giant Chile Plant,” “Glitter Girl and the Crazy Cheese”
  • Laura Knorr (Braught) “The Legend of Papa Noël,” “A Isn’t for Fox,” “P is for Pelican”
  • Daniel Powers “Take the Lead, George Washington”
  • Rick Spears “Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist”
Since 1995, SAF’s Southern Visions program has provided more than 500,000 people with access to artistically excellent exhibits celebrating the South’s rich artistry and cultural heritage. From the Mississippi Delta to the low country of South Carolina, from the black belt of Alabama to the Appalachian Mountains, Southern Visions showcases the best of both the traditional and the innovative aspects of Southern arts and culture.

Storybook Look is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

About the Southern Arts Federation
The Southern Arts Federation, a non-profit regional arts organization founded in 1975, creates partnerships and collaborations; presents, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. Working in partnership with nine state arts agencies—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee—SAF builds on the South’s unique heritage, and enhances the public value of the arts in our communities by promoting and supporting the arts in the South, enhancing the artistic excellence and professionalism of Southern arts organizations and artists, and serving the diverse population of the South. For more information, visit
www.southarts.org.
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