Exhibit: “The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art”
“The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art,” is curated by author Corinne Demas. The exhibit showcases the works of local authors and illustrators such as Leonard Baskin, Kathryn Brown, Corinne Demas, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Michelson, Dennis Nolan, and Jane Yolen.
A reception for the exhibit and a talk by Corinne Demas "Behind the Book: Creativity and Compromise" will be held on October 4, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Corinne Demas, professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and fiction editor for The Massachusetts Review, is the author of two collections of short stories, two novels, a memoir and numerous books for children. Her Ph.D. in Literature is from Columbia University. Demas’ books include Always in Trouble (2009), Valentine Surprise (2008), Yuck! Stuck in the Muck (2006), Two Christmas Mice(2005), Saying Goodbye to Lulu (2004), and a memoir Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968 (2000), among others.
