The Sun Gallery is proud to announce the opening of the 35th Annual Children’s Book Illustrator’s Exhibition on Friday, March 13. An Artists Reception is planned on Saturday, March 21, from 12 to 3pm and will include children’s activities, face painting, food and beverages, book signings and the encore presentation of Sun Gallery’s Dreamers Installation, a part of the gallery’s permanent collection.
This year’s illustrators, authors and books include:
Patrick Lugo with Little Monk and the Mantis, Let’s Go: A Kids Comics Studio Anthology,
David Hoobler with Zonk, the Dreaming Tortoise
Claudia Schwalm with Trees for the Monarch Butterflies, Penguins Can and Zack the Rabbit Who Didn’t Like Carrots
Julianne Kanzaki with Food For Thought: Simple Ways to Nourish Your Body and Soul
Edna Cabcabin Moran and Patrick Landeza with Danny’s Hawaiian Journey
Helia Borges Sousa and Angela Simoes with A Portuguese Home and Maria and John go to the Festa!
Cameron Coetzer and Jan Renee with Mi Chango Favorito
Hilary Mills Lambert and Jana Haertl with Unlikely Friends Indeed
Constance Anderson with So Many Ways To Be a Bird
This year’s exhibit has been a labor of love, spearheaded by Valerie Caveglia, Hayward Education Foundation president (and former executive director at the Sun), and Dorsi Diaz, president of the Sun Gallery Board of Directors (and former executive director/curator at the Sun).
Together, the community has come out with major support for a new pilot program at the gallery, “Many Hands, One Masterpiece,” which will lead to 19 HUSD Title I second grader classes coming to the gallery this year. Class field trips at the gallery include a personalized tour, plus a teacher-led art lesson in the studio, based on artwork in the show.
To book a field trip for your classroom (grades TK to sixth grade) reach out to Linda at li***@********ry.org. Field trips are available Monday to Friday from 9 to 11am. In-class field trips are also offered, subject to availability. An illustrator from the show can also be added to the tour at a special discounted rate.
Children’s Illustrator Exhibit
Fri and Sat: 11am – 4pm
Sun Gallery
1015 E St., Hayward
510.581.4050
