Event Calendar
| Date(s) Sort descending | Event | Event Type | Region |
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| September 7, 2024 - September 7, 2025 | Artful Collaboration: Eric Carle & Ann Beneduce
The author-editor relationship is a collaborative partnership built on mutual respect, trust, and a shared commitment to creating the best possible work. It can also be a highly personal alliance. Eric Carle and editor Ann Beneduce worked together over five decades and developed a steadfast friendship. Ann published the first picture book Eric wrote and illustrated—1, 2, 3 to the Zoo in 1968—and she played a vital role in bringing The Very Hungry Caterpillar to life the following year. Eric followed Ann as she moved to different publishing houses, including Philomel, the imprint she created in the early 1980s. Ann continued to edit Eric’s books even after her retirement, including the 2015 publication The Nonsense Show. “Ann had the greatest influence on me,” acknowledged Eric. “We were well suited for each other.” This exhibition explores the 50-year professional relationship between the beloved picture book artist, Eric Carle, and the legendary picture book editor, Ann Beneduce. It includes never-before-exhibited art, correspondence, and photographs. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 West Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| January 8, 2025 - August 3, 2025 | Margaret Wise Brown & Her Artists
A key figure in the evolution of picture books, Margaret Wise Brown wrote Goodnight Moon (1947), The Runaway Bunny (1942), and other groundbreaking books. Brown was radical for her time, rejecting norms in children’s literature in favor of stories that reflected kids’ everyday experiences. Commissioning avant-garde artists to illustrate her books, Brown ushered in a new type of children’s literature—one bursting with bold sound and color. Since her death in 1952, Brown’s stories have continued to inspire generations of picture-book artists. As Brown wrote, “the important thing… is that the book goes on long after it is closed.” The books featured in this exhibition include some of Brown’s most well-known titles, including collaborations with artists like Clement Hurd, Leonard Weisgard, and Garth Williams. There are also newly illustrated versions of older titles, books published from manuscripts discovered after Brown’s death, and a selection of vintage Little Golden Books. Books are arranged along the shelves of the Reading Library for visitors to read and explore. Additional books displayed on low tables invite visitors to talk, play, and create. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 Reading Library Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| January 18, 2025 - June 1, 2025 | Created in Color: The Picture Book Art of Raúl Colón
Raúl Colón has built a celebrated career in children’s picture book illustration. His instantly recognizable style of textured watercolor-and-colored-pencil paintings appear in over 50 books. He creates stories inspired by his Puerto Rican heritage, like Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel, and biographies of Latin American heroes such as baseball legend Roberto Clemente, dancer José Limón, and novelist Gabriel García Márquez. In Child of the Civil Rights Movement and As Good as Anybody, Colon depicts the powerful work of activists who fought for justice in the 1960s. But he also makes books of poetry, books about creativity, and even books about books! Visitors can cheerfully follow characters through more than 84 artworks, as they journey from the African savanna to a magical library, the North Pole, and a museum where art leaps off the walls. Wed – Fri 10am – 4pm Adult $15 East Gallery Amherst, MA More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| January 24, 2025 - May 25, 2025 | The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World
From the tales of famous travelers like Marco Polo and Alexander the Great to the ancient encyclopedias of Pliny and Isidore, medieval conceptions of the world were often based more on authoritative tradition than direct observation. This exhibition presents one of the most fascinating examples of a medieval guide to the globe, known as the Book of the Marvels of the World. Written in France by an unknown author, this fifteenth-century illustrated text vividly depicts the remarkable inhabitants, customs, and natural phenomena of various regions, both near and far. Reuniting two of the four surviving copies, The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World brings to life medieval conceptions—and misconceptions—of a global world. Additional objects in the exhibition demonstrate how foreign cultures were imagined in the Middle Ages, and what the assumptions of medieval Europeans tell us about their own implicit biases and beliefs. Highlights include rare illustrated manuscripts of Marco Polo and John Mandeville; a richly ornamented Ottoman Book of Wonders, made for a sultan’s daughter; and a spectacular medieval map of the Holy Land, based on pilgrimage accounts. Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat, & Sun 10:30am - 5pm Adults $25 The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
| February 21, 2025 - July 31, 2025 | How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition
Social climbing was a competitive sport in Tudor England, requiring a complex range of skills, strategies, and techniques. How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition invites you into a world of lace ruffs, jousting, hawks, bad handwriting, scandal, and political factions. Experience the playbooks, the people, and the spectacular fails, as courtiers tried to navigate the minefield of working for a boss who could shower you with riches or chop off your head. The exhibition features more than 60 objects from the Folger’s collection to demonstrate the “rules” for how to be a successful courtier. They show how historical and literary figures ranging from royal advisors to household staff used cunning, cutthroat, and creative means to acquire power and curry favor with the Tudor monarchs. Take the Tudor playbook and give it a 21st-century spin! Visit the Engagement Table in the exhibition gallery to create a playbook that highlights the risks you might take to become a power player. Draw your portrait, design a dinner menu, and come up with your own rule. HIGHLIGHTS: Portrait miniatures Knights of the Garter Playbooks Books on view include a copy of Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince printed in 1584 in London, a political treatise that tells leaders how to gain and retain power. Sun 11am - 6pm FREE admission Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC More info |
Exhibits | Mid-Atlantic |
