Presented by the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council
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Presented by the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council 〰️
June 13-16 2024: Children’s Art + Literacy Festival
with Leyuen Pham
Exhibit Opening: “LeUyen Came Along”
Opening thursday, june 13th at 3pm
The NCCIL will close on Friday, June 7th to make preparations for the festival and will remain closed until the exhibit opening at 3PM on June 13th.
Pink Party: Dinner with LeUyen
Join us on Friday, June 14th for dinner and merriment with award winning illustrator LeUyen Pham. Tickets and tables available for purchase. For more informational call 325.673.4586
Workshop with LeUyen
Do you have a kiddo who loves to read, create, or is just curious and fun? Register them today for a children’s workshop with award winning illustrator LeUyen Pham, this years 2024 Children’s Art and Literacy Festival artist. This workshop is free to NCCIL members or $20/child. For more informational call 325.673.4586
Book Purchases
Books may be purchased at any of the following times and locations.
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Location: NCCIL (102 Cedar Street, Abilene TX)
Times: 10AM-4PM, Tuesday through Saturday
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Location: NCCIL (102 Cedar Street, Abilene TX)
Times: 10AM-4PM, Tuesday through Friday (closed Saturdays)
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Location: T&P Depot (110 North 1st Street, Abilene TX)
Times: 9AM-4PM, Monday-Wednesday
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Location 1: T&P Depot (1101 N1st) from 9AM-12PM
Location 2: NCCIL (102 Cedar) from 3PM to 8PM
Location 3: Paramount Theatre (352 Cypress) beginning at 6:30PM
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Location: NCCIL (102 Cedar Street, Abilene TX)
Times: 9AM-4PM during the festival
Books signings
The NCCIL provides 4 opportunities for book signings and personalization with the illustrator during the annual Children’s Art and Literacy Festival. 1 public signing, 1 festival signing, and two private event signings. See below for dates and details.
Each signing line is subject to close early to accommodate for the official end time in respect of the illustrator’s schedule.
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June 13th: Join us at the Historic Paramount Theatre, immediately following “Sketch with LeUyen” which begins at 7. This signing is free to the community. Books available for purchase at the NCCIL (102 Cedar) or on site at the Paramount Theatre.
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June 14th from 9AM to 11AM: In the NCCIL Art studio with LeUyen Pham. Books available on site for purchase. Line subject to close early to accommodate ending time of 11PM.
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June 14: Guests are invited to stick around and have their books signed and personalized by LeUyen Pham following the CALF Dinner in her honor. The evening begins at 6 and tickets and tables are available for purchase.
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June 15th: Children participating in the Workshop with LeUyen will have a chance to have their books personalized following the art project. This workshop is free to members or $20 a child. Registration is open below.
Become a MEmber
Leave your books to be signed and personalized by the illustrator ahead of time; No having to wait in line!
10%-20% off in the Bookstore
Special invite to members only events
FREE illustrator workshops
Special pricing for NCCIL events, camps, and programs
and more!
Meet the Artist
LeUyen Pham (pronounced “Lay-Win Fam”) was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Her family left in the final days of the Vietnam War and settled in Southern California. LeUyen spent two years at UCLA studying political science when she decided to take an art class. Impressed with her work, the head of the art department guided her toward the prestigious ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, where she majored in illustration. After graduation, LeUyen worked for DreamWorks’ Feature Animation division as a layout artist and illustrated books on the side. Her book career took off, and she left DreamWorks to write and illustrate full time. Today, LeUyen is a New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator of more than 135 books. She illustrated the Vampirina Ballerina picture book series by Anne Marie Pace a Disney Junior animated TV series. LeUyen and Shannon Hale co-created the groundbreaking, best-selling graphic novel memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends and Friends Forever, and they teamed up for the best-selling picture Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn series. Her book “Bear Came Along” by author Richard T. Morris received a 2020 Caldecott Honor. LeUyen and her family live in Los Angeles, and she says her friends call her “Win.”
Meet the 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.