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March 19: John Grandits, 8:30 p.m.

March 20: Young Writers Workshop with John Grandits, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

March 28: Jan Brett, 3:00 p.m.

April 18: Jeff Kinney, 3:00 p.m.
 

Ticket Prices:
Full Adult $16
Reduced Adult $14
Student $10

ORDER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818
 

JOHN GRANDITS

Visiting Artist in the Center for Creative Connections

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
March 18–20

Award-winning book and magazine designer John Grandits has been fascinated by type and printing all his life. He is the author of two books of concrete poetry: Technically, It’s Not My Fault and Blue Lipstick. His protagonist’s hilarious views of the world are expressed through a series of concrete poems in which words, ideas, type, and art combine to make pictures and patterns. You may have to turn the book sideways and upside down to read them, but laughter is 100% guaranteed.

DIY@dma: concrete poetry
Thursday, March 18, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Tech Lab
Try your own hand at concrete poetry inspired by works of art.

Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art
Friday, March 19, 8:30–10:00 p.m.
C3 theater
John Grandits will share insights into his creative process and information about the history of concrete poetry from A.D. 800 to the present (including one from Alice in Wonderland). Then you will write and design your own concrete poems inspired by works in the collections!

Young Writers Workshop
Saturday, March 20, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Tech Lab
Teens 13–18 years old who love to write and design can explore the Museum’s collections with John Grandits and then create their own concrete poems either by hand or in the Tech Lab.
 
DIY@DMAConcrete Poetry and Late Nights at the Dallas Museum of Art are included with paid admission to the Museum; all ages welcome.

Young Writers Workshop: $10 (space is limited)

REGISTER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818 for more information
 

JAN BRETT

Sunday, March 28, 3:00 p.m.
Horchow Auditorium

With over thirty-four million books in print, including The Mitten (1989), The Owl and the Pussycat (1991), and The Hat (1997), Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author-illustrators of children’s books. Her titles are instantly recognizable to children and adults alike, and her exquisitely detailed illustrations bring stories to life for readers of all ages.

In her new book, The Easter Egg (February 2010), Brett introduces Hoppi, a lovable bunny. Hoppi is just old enough to join in the fun of decorating eggs for the Easter Rabbit, and if he can just make the winning egg he will get to be his helper on Easter. Brett’s remarkable illustrations filled with dazzling eggs and their gifted makers—Flora Bunny, Aunt Sassyfrass, Hans Vanderabbit, and others—are sure to delight.

As a student at the Boston Museum School, Brett spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. “It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain,” she says. “I’m delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting.”

See Jan at work in her studio 

“I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to re-create that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I’m drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.”—Jan Brett
 

ORDER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818
 

Ticket Prices:
Full Adult $16
Reduced Adult $14
Student $10

JEFF KINNEY

Sunday, April 18, 2:00 p.m.

First United Methodist Church of Dallas
1928 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201

Jeff Kinney always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. The wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was born out of an experiment in mixing cartoons and “traditional” writing. Kinney says his goal “was to write a book that would make people laugh.” The #1 New York Times best-selling books, written like pencil-to-paper diary entries by the protagonist, Greg Heffley, detail Greg’s trials as a scrawny kid making the life-changing transition from elementary to middle school. Over sixteen million books are currently in print in the U.S. Twentieth Century Fox will release a live-action film in April 2010 starring Zachary Gordon.
 
ORDER ONLINE or call 214-922-1818
 

Ticket Prices:
Full Adult $16
Reduced Adult $14
Student $10

Arts & Letters Live is supported by the Kay Cattarulla Endowment for the Literary and Performing Arts, TACA, The George and Fay Young Foundation, The Hoglund Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, and Annual Series Supporters. Additional support provided by Friends of the Dallas Public Library.

 Air transportation provided in part by American Airlines. Hotel accommodations provided in part by The Adolphus.

Promotional partners include The Dallas Morning News, Einstein Printing, and
 

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