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You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce

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By (author): Carmella Van Vleet Chiquita Mullins Lee

Illustrated by: Jennifer Mack-Watkins

'Creeeeak!' goes the screen door to self-taught artist Elijah Pierce's barbershop art studio. A young boy walks in for an ordinary haircut and walks out having discovered a lifetime of art. Mr. Pierce's wood carvings are in every corner of the small studio. There are animals, scenes from his life, and those detailing the socio-political world around him. It's this collection of work that will eventually win Elijah the National Heritage Fellowship in 1982 just two years before his death. But the young boy visiting the shop in the 1970s doesn't know that yet. All he knows is: 'You gotta meet Mr. Pierce!' Based on the true story of Elijah Pierce and his community barber shop in Columbus, Ohio, this picture book includes cleverly collaged museum-sourced photos of his art and informative backmatter about his life. With engaging text by Pierce to the Soul! playwright Chiquita Mullins-Lee and Christopher Award-winning author Carmella Van Vleet, it's illustrated with striking Japanese woodblock by Jennifer Mack-Watkins. A new addition to vital Black art history! See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 539g
  • Dimensions: 238 x 313mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780593406502

About Carmella Van VleetChiquita Mullins Lee

Carmella Van Vleet is a former kindergarten teacher who now writes full-time. Shes the author of over a dozen books including the award-winning middle-grade novel Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big Fat Quitter and the picture book To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space (co-authored with astronaut Kathy Sullivan). Carmella lives in Columbus Ohio.  Chiquita Mullins Lee is an Arts Learning coordinator at the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) where she manages Ohios Poetry Out Loud and Arts Partnership programs. She is a former teaching artist in creative writing on the OAC teaching artist roster hosted the Emmy-award winning program Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows and has served on the Arts Education review panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. Jennifer Mack-Watkins is a printmaker whose work investigates power through the complexities of themes like womanhood beauty body image and gender roles. Her solo exhibition Children of the Sun at Brattleboro Museum has been featured in the New York Times Vogue and Essence Magazine. Read more about her work at mackjennifer.com.

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