The Garden Spot Village Main Street Art Gallery in New Holland, will host “Inside the Cover,” a behind-the-scenes look at different ways to create a children’s book.
The exhibition, provided by the Center for Creative Exploration at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, will be on display April 1 to 30. The exhibition features work by Amber Kane, Bill Dussinger, and Matt Novak. Each of these artists and authors showcases the collaborative nature of creating a children’s book and the various methods that can be used to illustrate a story.
Dussinger is a graphic designer, illustrator and educator who has been in the design and illustration business for more than 40 years and has been an educator for the past 11 years at PCA&D in the illustration and graphic design departments.
Previously, Dussinger worked at Lancaster Newspapers and Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company. The first children’s book that he illustrated was called “The Land of Can.” The book’s author suffered from food allergies and has gone through life having to note things he cannot do or eat. The book stresses how children should focus more on what they can do instead of what they can’t do. Dussinger’s first book evolved into a company that has published numerous books and more to come with topics like sleep, screen time, COVID, worry, fire prevention and more.
Kane is, at her core, an art teacher. She spent eight years teaching 9-12 grade art in the public school system. She left art education to focus on her own business in weaving and fibers but quickly found herself teaching AP Drawing, AP 2D Design, and AP Art History online. In addition, she is currently the director of product management for The Art of Education University. In this role, Kane oversees the strategic vision of the curriculum and professional development products and a team that creates lessons, resources, assessments and videos.
In 2021 she started creating books with her brother, Ashley Sollenberger. Ashley and Amber are educators with more than 15 years of experience each. Ashley’s focus is physical education, and Amber’s is art education, emphasizing ideation and creative thought development. Ashley started writing stories to incorporate into his elementary physical education classes and wanted a way to make them more than words on a page. After asking several times, Amber finally agreed to give illustrating a book a try as her medium of choice is textiles.
During weaving workshop at 7 p.m. on April 26 at Eastern Lancaster County Library in New Holland, Kane will read “The Weaving Book.” She will introduce attendees to how artists work using their creativity, along with the basic techniques that weavers use. Attendees will then apply what they learned from “The Weaving Book” by creating a paper loom, exploring how different types of lines and colors impact their pattern. They will leave with their own optical illusion paper weaving. Workshop is best for children in grades 1-6, but all ages are welcome. This workshop is being offered by the Center for Creative Exploration at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, in conjunction with the children’s book exhibition “Inside the Cover.”
Novak, an internationally recognized children’s book author, has been writing and illustrating picture books for more than 30 years. Among his many titles are “The Everything Machine,” “No Zombies Allowed” and “Twelve Snails to One Lizard” (A Reading Rainbow Book). His books have garnered many awards including School Library Journal’s Best Book of the Year for Mouse TV and the International Reading Association’s Children’s Choice Award for Newt. Novak has also worked for Disney Studios. While at Disney he worked on such films as “Rescuers Down Under” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
The Garden Spot Village Main Street Art Gallery is located at 433 S. Kinzer Ave. in New Holland.
The Center for Creative Exploration at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design offers creative experiences for adults, high school students, and children in grades 1-9. Its goal is to provide community education for enthusiastic beginners and aspiring professionals, as well as both credit-bearing and non-credit class options occurring throughout the year on evenings and weekends, both online and in person. Current class listings can be found at pcad.edu/cce.
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is a private, non-profit college offering BFA degrees, certificates, and curricula that enable students of all ages and backgrounds to pursue art as their life’s work. PCA&D prepares graduates to create influence through adaptive thinking, effective making, and a commitment to social justice. With visual, verbal, and virtual communication increasingly valued in a diverse and global society, the PCA&D experience centers around thinking, making, and communicating.
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