Great news! Quilt #4 sold yesterday. It will be missed. There are seven other available silkscreened drawings looking for a nice home. In the spirit of reality television shows, reserve one now before your favorite is voted off ;-).
The celebration has come and gone. We had a great turn out at the NYPL last night. My friends and family came out strong to share in my moment. Many thanks go to all committee members, the New York Public Library, and to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation for such a wonderful honor. For those … Read more
Come out and meet nine of the thirteen contributing artists for OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR! We will be signing this Saturday from noon until 2PM at Books of Wonder.
A huge CONGRATULATIONS goes out to the amazing and talented Vanessa Newton on completion of her first picturebook LET FREEDOM SING. The book will be available this fall through Blue Apple Books. Vanessa is the illustrator of Derrick Barnes‘s Scholastic series, RUBY AND THE BOOKER BOYS! Her work is so stylish and fresh just like … Read more
From Emory’s Web site… The first public exhibition of papers and other memorabilia from the extraordinary archives of Georgia-born Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker will open at Emory University Thursday, April 23. The university will celebrate the opening with a daylong symposium on the author’s art and life Friday, April 24, followed by a public … Read more
There are some very cool book events coming up, including an interview on C-SPAN for OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to be, e-mail me at news@shadrastrickland.com.
Mark your calendars The city of brotherly love is hosting the Free Library Festival on April 18th. I’ll be signing copies of OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR at 1:30PM and BIRD at 4:00PM. If you’re in Philly stop by and say hello! There’s tons of literary royalty to be met that weekend. Hope to see you … Read more
I have been reading Arundhati Roy’s THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS for about two months now. The writing is so chock full of metaphor and whimsical details that after a few chapters I find I have to put the book down to digest what I’ve just read. Sadly, at the end with roughly four chapters … Read more
My editor wrote recently to inform me that BIRD has been selected as a Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) “choices” book for 2009. It made me start to think about all of the honors that BIRD has received and what they all mean. For book readers who may not understand all of the lists and … Read more
I have no new art to share yet. Everything is in progress. In the meantime, I want to give some free advertising to my new favorite coffee company, COMMUNITY COFFEE of Louisiana. I fell in love with this coffee on a research trip in December and ordered four bags when I got back to NY. … Read more