Children’s Book Festival
with Tomie dePaola and Artists from
the Western Massachusetts Illustrators' Guild
Artist to Artist: Celebrating the Creative Process
June 4, 2011
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
All events free with Museum Admission
A fun-filled day featuring art activities, presentations, book signings, a special process exhibit, demos, art sale, music by Putumayo World Music recording artist José Gonzalez and Banda Criolla and food by Local Burger and Flayvors of Cook Farm.
Now in its sixth year, this eagerly anticipated annual event brings 500 to 700 children's book lovers to The Carle. This year's festival, featuring Tomie dePaola and nine artists from the Western Massachusetts Illustrators' Guild, celebrates the creative process and invites children and adults to meet and learn from professional artists.
Schedule of Events
10:15 – 10:30 am
Meet the Very Hungry Caterpillar (Great Hall)
10:15 - 10:45 am
Meet the Artist – David White (Art Studio)
10:15 – 10:45 am
Film - Master Class with Tomie dePaola (Auditorium)
10:30 – 10:50 am
Special Storytime with Museum Staff
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Presentation by Tomie dePaola (Auditorium)
followed by a book signing
(No personalization. Limit of one book from home.)
11:45 – 12:00 pm
Meet the Very Hungry Caterpillar (Great Hall)
12:00 – 12:30 pm
Meet the Artist – Diane deGroat (Reading Library)
12:30 – 1:15 pm
Performance by José Gonzales and Banda Criolla (Auditorium)
12:45 – 1:15 pm
Meet the Artist – John Steven Gurney (Reading Library)
1:15 – 1:45 pm
Meet the Artist – Astrid Sheckels (Art Studio)
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Meet the Artist – Bob Marstall (Reading Library)
1:45 - 2:15 pm
Film - Eric Carle: Picture Writer (Auditorium)
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Meet The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Great Hall)
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Panel Discussion with Linda Graves, Greg Ruth, and Ruth Sanderson; Moderated by Susannah Richards (Auditorium)
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Special Storytime with Museum Staff (Reading Library)
4:00 - 4:30 pm Film - Master Class with Tomie dePaola (Auditorium)
- Art Show and Sale
- Book signings
- Artist demonstrations
- Studio and Gallery Activities
- Face Painting
- Book Making
- Food Court with Local Burger and Flayvors Ice Cream - cash only
Diane deGroat
www.dianedegroat.com
Diane graduated from Pratt Institute in commercial art and began her career at Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, designing their first basic reading series. Since 1972, Diane has freelanced in advertising, editorial, and design, but the main focus of her work has been in children's book illustration. Having worked on over 120 books, her honors include a California Young Readers Award for Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth, by Lucy Bate; and an Arkansas State Children's Book Award, North Carolina State Children's Book Award, and Children's Choice, International Reading Association/Children's Book Council Award, all for Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. Her most recent book, Charlie the Ranch Dog, written by Ree Drummond, is currently on the New York Times Best Selling Picture Book list. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Tomie dePaola
www.tomie.com
Tomie began writing and illustrating books as a young boy. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts. DePaola taught art and theater design at the college level from 1962 through 1978 before devoting himself fulltime to children's literature. He's been published for over 40 years and has written and/or illustrated nearly 250 books, many of which are autobiographical in nature. His illustrations, often light-hearted and reminiscent of folk art, are created using a combination of watercolor, tempera, and acrylic. His newest book, Strega Nona's Gift will be published in Fall, 2011. Tomie has been honored by The American Library Association with a Caldecott Honor for Strega Nona, a Newbery Honor for 26 Fairmont Avenue, and the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."
Roc Goudreau
www.pgreps.com
Roc is not only a skilled illustrator and designer, he is also a problem solver. After graduation Roc worked for 10 years as a creative director for a design studio. As a professional illustrator for the past 15 years, Roc is accomplished in a variety of mediums from airbrushing to watercolor. He has taken his traditional art techniques and utilized powerful programs such as Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator to create unique illustrations. PG/Goudreau design studio specializes in toy and game illustration including packaging and production for their clients who include Milton Bradley, Hasbro, and Wham-O!
Linda Graves
www.lindagravesartist.com
Linda was born in Eureka, California, and graduated with a degree in illustration from San José State University. She is the illustrator of over 30 children's books, published worldwide and works in many mediums, from watercolor layered with pastel and colored pencil, to oil. Her passion for fantasy, fairy tales, myths, and folktales captivates readers of all ages. In addition to having her illustrations appear in major magazines and artist directories, Linda also creates posters, cards, and puzzles. Linda lives in the woods of Berkshire County.
John Steven Gurney
www.johnstevengurney.com
John graduated from Pratt Institute and while in school spent the summers doing caricatures on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As a young boy, he always enjoyed picture books by Maurice Sendak, watching Bugs Bunny cartoons, reading Mad Magazine, and drawing cartoons of everyone he knew. Even today he likes to use friends and family to pose for the characters in his books. He has illustrated over 100 books for children and is the author and illustrator of award winning children’s book Dinosaur Train. John has collaborated with author Nikki Wallace to create the Stubby and the Puppy Pack series in which a cat and her puppy friends play together, protect each other and show children that cats and dogs can get along. John Steven Gurney lives in Brattleboro, Vermont with his wife and works out of a 200-year-old barn.
Bob Marstall
www.marstallstudio.com
Bob has always had an insatiable curiosity about the natural world and still brings his binoculars with him wherever he goes. After receiving his Masters from the University of Massachusetts he settled here and works out of an old high-ceiling brick studio, formally a toothbrush factory, which overlooks an old mill pond where he can observe nature right outside his window. His passion for painting and nature has resulted in his illustrating over eight nonfiction books for children including An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly, by Laurence Pringle, which was selected as the NCTE’s 1998 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, for which Bob was the first illustrator to share the award with an author.
Greg Ruth
www.gregthings.com
Greg graduated from Pratt Institute and has been working in comics since 1993. He has also illustrated a number of children’s picture books including Our Enduring Spirit (with President Barack Obama), A Pirate's Guide to First Grade (with James Preller) and Red Kite, Blue Kite (with Ji Li Jiang), and many illustrated novels. Greg has shown his paintings in New York, Houston, and Baltimore; has exhibited a series of murals at New York's Grand Central Terminal; and created a new subway poster for 2011. Upcoming projects include a Goosebumps story published by Scholastic's Graphix imprint, a new Sherlock Holmes book (also for Scholastic) featuring the Band of Irregulars and a new release of the Sudden Gravity graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics that was both illustrated and written by Greg. He lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
Ruth Sanderson
www.ruthsanderson.com
Ruth graduated from the Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut in 1974. Over the past 30 years, she has illustrated more than 70 books for children of all ages and retold and illustrated many fairytales. Her original fairytale, The Enchanted Wood, received the Irma S. Black award for best picture book of 1992, and the Young Hoosier Award in 1995. She has also won numerous awards at Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions. Her work has appeared on collectors’ plates, greeting cards, fantasy book covers, and in magazine and advertizing venues. Her paintings have been included in exhibitions around the country, including the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Society of Illustrators, the Original Art, the Delaware Museum of Art, the Art Museum of Western Virginia, and the Words and Pictures Museum. She lives with her family in Ware, Massachusetts.
Astrid Sheckels
www.astridsheckels.com
Astrid was born and raised in the farming town of Hatfield, Massachusetts and cannot remember a time when she wasn’t listening to, telling, or illustrating stories. Through her colorful illustrations, she gives every story more depth and dimension, and her art is heavily influenced by her Scandinavian roots. Her first published book, The Scallop Christmas, received the 2009 Lupine Honor Award. Her second book, The Fish House Door, received the 2010 Moonbeam Award for Best Picture Book for all ages. The award-winning artist now lives, teaches, and maintains her studio in the rolling hills of Greenfield, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Western Massachusetts Illustrators’ Guild, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
David A. White
www.freelance.mechazone.com
David graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design which he credits as providing the strong foundation from which he launched his career as an illustrator for children’s books, comics, and video games. David’s passion for drawing giant robots, or mecha as he calls them, began when he was five and is still going strong. You may have seen David’s art in the pages of LEGO Magazine, or in Scholastic’s book club Hot Wheels books. David has also contributed to many “How to Draw” book and has recently released his own art book, Mecha Zone 2, featuring his original robot designs and tutorials.