A Black boy facing a traffic light, one where he is leaning forward, and the other where he is leaning back.
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Ezra Jack Keats, Illustration for Whistle for Willie (Viking). Courtesy of University of Southern Mississippi, de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. © 1964 Ezra Jack Keats.

Celebrating Collage: A Conversation

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Micha Archer, Ekua Holmes, Oge Mora, Melissa Sweet, and Ed Young share their love of collage and discuss their work in Celebrating Collage: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Event recording now available below.

Who You'll Meet
Author/Artist Micha Archer

Micha Archer

Micha is an artist, illustrator and educator living in Western Massachusetts. A world traveler, her sense of color and pattern is influenced by the folk art, crafts, and architecture of the world. Working with gouache, watercolors, pen and ink, and collage, she creates layered pieces from various materials on paper and digitally.
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Ekua Holmes.

Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes is a fine artist whose work explores themes of family, relationships, hope, and faith. The first children’s book she illustrated was Carole Boston Weatherford’s Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, which was a Caldecott Honor Book and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and for which she won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award.

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Artist Oge Mora

Oge Mora

Oge Mora is a collage artist and storyteller. Her picture book, Thank You, Omu!, was a Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, and Ezra Jack Keats Book Award recipient. Mora is a fan of all things colorful, patterned, or collaged, and enjoys creating warm stories that celebrate people coming together.
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Artist Melissa Sweet

Melissa Sweet

Melissa Sweet has illustrated over 100 books as well as toys, puzzles, and games. Her work has been in magazines, on greeting cards and as drawings on her living room walls. She has received numerous awards including two Caldecott honors: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams and for The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus, both by Jen Bryant.  

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Artist Ed Young

Ed Young

Ed Young is the illustrator of more than ninety books for children. He finds inspiration for his work in the philosophy of Chinese painting. In 1990, his book Lon Po Po was awarded the Caldecott Medal. Young has been nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.

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Illustration of boy looking at spider in web
Past Exhibition

Celebrating Collage: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition

June 25 - December 31, 2022
Going to pieces at The Carle. 
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In the Bookshop

Two children leap exuberantly along rocks at a beach with arms outstretched.

Wonder Walkers

A Black child holds a steaming bowl, eyes closed, smelling the aroma, and smiling.

Thank you, Omu

A black skinned person wearing a bright fiery colored top holds hands and tips their face up into the air.

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

A child holds a yellow book open in his hands reading while smiling.

How to Read a Book

A blue eyed cat sits in front of a sea green background.

Catastrophe by The Sea