The NCCIL exhibits, tours, collects, preserves and promotes original art from the finest children’s literature. Our vision is to inspire and empower children to read and be creative. Through our programming and outreach, the NCCIL actively promotes children’s literacy, both art and reading, in the Abilene community and beyond.
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Guest Curator:
Sewon Kang is Archivist at The Easton Foundation, Louise Bourgeois’s home/studio, where she is responsible for the care of the artist’s diaries, papers, and small collection of prints and illustrated books. She previously worked in the Drawings and Prints department at MoMA on the online catalogue raisonné of Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre and the 2017 print retrospective and book, An Unfolding Portrait. Sewon also researched other areas of MoMA’s collection for new acquisition initiatives, publications, and the reinstallation of the expanded museum. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and a part-time Masters student at Hunter College, New York.
Accessible art
“We love Family Fun Saturdays. No where else can I take my kids for FREE to get messy and create without even having to worry about the clean up.”
Memberships
School Tours
Learn more about how we welcomed our summer illustrator, Brian Lies, during the 2023 Children’s Art and Literacy Festival
The NCCIL operates with support from our generous donors
Kaye Price-Hawkins/Priceless Literacy
Jack and Becky Rentz
The Shelton Family Foundation
Claude and Mae Moss Charities/Dick Spalding
T&T Foundation
Texas Commission on the Arts
United Way of Abilene
National Endowment for the Humanities
Abilene Cultural Affairs Council
Community Foundation of Abilene
Ms. Katie Deal And Family
Dian Graves Owen Foundation
Jan Elliott
Greathouse Foundation
Humanities Texas
Excelsior Foundation
