The Brandywine Museum of Art opens an exhibition celebrating the bond between family and nature.
“Rooted: Children and Nature in Contemporary Children’s Book Illustration” curates original artwork from eight illustrated children’s books in a new exhibit at the Brandywine.
Associate Curator Audrey Lewis says the exhibit opens up a broad variety of approaches to illustrating children’s books.
“Some of these are written by the illustrator, some of them are written by other people and illustrated, each having a distinct quality in the way they approach the subject. We have acrylic, and water and oil color and pastels and color pencils, and even collage - we have a couple of collage artists working in the exhibition,” said Lewis.
The exhibition is co-curated by Shadra Strickland, an award-winning artist and illustration teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Strickland is excited about the three dimensional aspect of the reproductions “...and you can see all of the elements kind of pasted on, and you can see the edges and there’s shadowing there, which you miss in the book because everything flattens out in the reproductive process.”
“Rooted: Family and Nature in Contemporary Children’s Book Illustration” opened this weekend and runs through February of 2024.
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