ALA Webcast
What a great day yesterday. For those who missed the webcast of the ALA Youth Media Awards, you can watch the announcements here: Thanks again to the CSK Committee for bestowing such an honor!
Art
John Steptoe Award
Today is one of the best days of my life. This morning at 8AM I received a phone call from The Coretta Scott King Committee to inform me that I am this year’s winner of the John Steptoe Award for New Talent (first female to ever win)! I can’t even begin to tell you how … Read more
Sketchbook Project
Here are more pages from The Sketchbook Project. After a rough week of work and re-work, I decided to take this Saturday off to go out and have some fun. My destination was to Jonathan Levine Gallery to see KINDLING, works on paper, linen, and canvas by James Jean. I was not disappointed. The best … Read more
Coretta Scott King Awards 2009
Okay, I’m extremely superstitious when it comes to certain things, and all in all, I try to avoid award talk when at all possible. However, it is that time of year for the American Library Association Awards. Of course there is always Caldecott and Newbery Award buzz, but the bleachers for the Coretta Scott King … Read more
The Sketchbook Project
This year I am participating in The Sketchbook Project 3 hosted by Art House. The theme is “Everyone we know”. Supplied sketchbooks are 3.5 x 5.5″ and is by far the smallest sketchbook size I’ve ever worked with. This afternoon I began my book during brunch. It was a welcome productive distraction to a job … Read more
End of the Year Happenings
Wow! It’s almost January. Time for new resolutions, new plans, and new dreams. This year has been absolutely fantastic! Since BIRD was published in October, I’ve visited schools, libraries and bookstores introducing my work and hopefully inspiring young people to follow their own creative dreams. Recently I conducted a children’s printmaking workshop at the Brooklyn … Read more
Atlanta Book Signing
Zetta and I will be signing copies of BIRD in Atlanta on December 15th at Frederick Douglass High School. If you have unsigned copies already, please feel free to bring them! If you haven’t purchased a copy and would like to, we will have books available for sale.
Holiday Happenings
This year I spent Thanksgiving with one of my best friends —FilmMaker, Nadirah Bell. It was my first time eating Tofurkey with miso…yum. I was also able to relax a bit and veg out on movies, tv, and books. I read BLACK GIRL IN PARIS by Shay Youngblood. went to see AUSTRALIA by Baz Luhrman … Read more
N’Oleans
I have just returned from a five day exploration of the city of New Orleans. Though I wasn’t able to draw as much as I had hoped, I did get in a few solid hours of drawing. I used my fabulous Powershot for supplemental pics. Here are a few images. St. Charles Street trolley Cafe … Read more
BIRD launch party
This Saturday, Brownstone Books hosted a launch party for BIRD. It was a great turn out of family and friends, new and old. We sold out of books within the first half hour of our signing but promised to have signed books available at Brownstone at a later date. Here are a few pics from … Read more