In The East Gallery
Seriously Silly: A Decade of Art and Whimsy by Mo Willems
June 22, 2013 - February 23, 2014
Seriously Silly: a Decade of Art & Whimsy by Mo Willems marks 10 years of the artist creating picture books. In this time Willems has emerged as one of the leading figures in the genre. Comprising nearly 100 works, the exhibition surveys the full range of his prolific output from the award-winning Knuffle Bunny series, the irresistible Pigeon books, stand-alone efforts such as Leonardo the Terrible Monster and Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, as well as his early reader series, Elephant and Piggie and Cat the Cat. The exhibition will also provide an informative insight into the artist’s meticulous working process.

Support for Seriously Silly: a Decade of Art & Whimsy by Mo Willems has been generously provided by Disney Publishing Worldwide.

In The West Gallery
The Art of Eric Carle: Friends
September 17, 2013 - March 23, 2014
Eric Carle's new picture book FRIENDS forthcoming from Philomel Books in November 2013, is a celebration of friendship and childhood expressed in colorful tissue paper collage illustrations and the poetic story of an imaginary journey of the child at play.

The book will be available for sale starting on November 19 , 2013.

Barbara McClintock and Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep
November 26, 2013 - May 4, 2014
Natalie Merchant’s double album Leave Your Sleep, which appeared in 2010 to rave reviews, transformed a marvelous selection of children’s poetry into a collection of original songs. In 2012 a picture book of the same title was published with richly imagined watercolors by Barbara McClintock. Leave Your Sleep opens the door to a world of poems and songs filled with witches, fearless girls, blind men and elephants, and sailors. Sound, word, and image happily and brilliantly share the same stage. The Carle will host an exhibition of selected works, from preliminary sketches to finished art, by McClintock as well as some of Merchant’s own initial visual ideas.