Attached to this post is an Excel file containing recent additions to the Fine Arts Department. Once you open the file you will see links to the online catalog that will facilitate item requests. Be sure to visit our blog regularly to be the first to check out these new items!

A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change

You are cordially invited to the opening reception on November 12, 2009 to meet Shadra Strickland, Coretta Scott King award winning children's book illustrator and prestigious fine artist. Strickland will discuss her creative experiences and her part in the traveling exhibition "Our Children Can Soar", based on the book of the same title. Strickland will autograph "Bird", her award winning children's book and selected prints from her collection. This exhibit features original art by thirteen premier children's book illustrators.

Exhibition Opening and Reception
November 12, 2009 • 6:30 p.m.
Cleveland Public Library
Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch

November 12- February 13, 2010
Cleveland Public Library - Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
1962 Stokes Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
(Between Chester Avenue and Euclid Avenue)

For details, please call (216)623-2822 or (216)623-7018.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of A Cultural Exchange.
Illustration above is by Bryan Collier

Passport Project's mission is to provide exciting educational experiences that build community through the arts, encourage respect for diversity and rejection of racism, and inspire a passion for learning and the global community. On November 21st, 2009 at 2PM in the Louis Stokes Wing auditorium of the Cleveland Public Library (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114), the Passport Project Global Dance & Music Collective will present music and dance from around the world, with a special interactive presentation of dance and percussion of Guinea as shared by Mohamed Tounkara, Passport Project's guest artist from this West African country. A slide show of photographs from Guinea will be shared as well, as we consider community in one of the poorest nations in the world and how we can build community in Northeast Ohio. For more information on this FREE performance call 216.623-2848. 

Passport Project is based in the Buckeye neighborhood of Cleveland. 12801 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44120, (216) 721-1055. http://www.passportproject.org/

The Cleveland Museum of Art is featuring the exhibit Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 from October 2009 through January 18, 2010.   Visit the Fine Arts Department at Main Library to check out books about Gauguin, his art and life.

Here are just a few titles on Paul Gauguin that may be of interest to you (click on titles to place a request):

• Paul Gauguin by Anna Barskaya [ND553.G27 A4 2004]
• Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism edited by Guillermo Solana [N6853.G34 A4 2004]
• Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin by Vojtêch Jirat-Wasiutynski [ND553.G27 J58 2000]
• Paul Gauguin: A Life by David Sweetman [ND553.G27 S96 1995]
• Gauguin and Impressionism by Richard R. Brettell [N3853.G34 B74 2005]

IMAGE: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888. Oil on canvas; 73 x 92.7 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1983.1.19. Image courtesy the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Attached to this post is an Excel file containing recent additions to the Fine Arts Department. Once you open the file you will see links to the online catalog that will facilitate item requests. Be sure to visit our blog regularly to be the first to check out these new items!