Pocketful of Posies: A Traveling Exhibit

The original fabric relief illustrations from POCKETFUL OF POSIES are being exhibited in a traveling show, which began in September, 2010. The artwork is scheduled to show at different locations around the country, with the tour extended into 2014. An Art New England review of the show when it was in Brattleboro, VT reads,

“In astonishing detail, Mavor’s work above all conveys an artist who is entirely present. Beyond merely illustrating a story or poem, she brings us into it. Engaging with these works is like searching for stars in the night sky–at first we don’t recognize the extent of the delicate endless stitching, but as we keep our eyes focused, more and more appear. Surely her thread is gossamer, her fingers unimaginably nimble.”

  

About the book: Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes is a 72-page, full-color, hardcover edition, illustrated in fabric relief by Salley Mavor and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Pocketful of Posies has won the 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book and the Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Order the book from Amazon.com.  Personalized and autographed copies are available from Eight Cousins Bookshop at (508) 548-5548.

illustration from “Pocketful of Posies”

Exhibit Schedule: More locations will be added as venues and dates are confirmed.  Please note: Some locations will show the entire collection of 51 original illustrations from Pocketful of Posies. Others will show a portion of the collection (as noted). 

Past Showings: Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA,  Cape Cod Children’s Museum, Mashpee, MA, Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa, Thomas Dodd Center, UConn, Storrs, CT., Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT.

May 1 – 30, 2012 at the Mashpee Public Library, Mashpee, MA (15 pieces in display case)

May 12 – October 28, 2012 Told and Retold: Picture Book Artists from Studio Goodwin Sturges at the Ryan Education Center at the Art Institute of Chicago. Two of Salley Mavor’s original fabric relief illustrations from Pocketful of Posies will be displayed, along with artwork in a variety of mediums from 7 other illustrators who are all represented by the children’s book agency, Studio Goodwin Sturges. 

July 3 – August 29, 2012 at the Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, New York (25 pieces shown), Talk by Salley Mavor- Wed., Aug. 29th, 7:00pm

December 1 – 29, 2012 at the Sturgis Public Library, Barnstable, MA (about 20 pieces in display cases)

Jan, 11 – Fe. 23, 2013 at the Foothills Arts Council, Elkin, NC. (25 pieces shown)

Feb. 23 – May 5, 2013 at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois (25 pieces shown)

March 18 – May 27, 2013 at Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, CA
(25 pieces from “Posies” plus original illustrations from some of Salley’s other books) 

Sept. 4 – Oct. 31, 2013  at Historic Highfield Hall, Falmouth Massachusetts  (all 51 pieces shown)

Nov. 9, 2013 - Jan. 26, 2014 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts (25 pieces shown)

Notice: Plans are being made to have the exhibit travel to other locations and they will be listed when the details are finalized. Inquiries from safe non-commercial venues with insurance and a shipping budget are welcome info@weefolkstudio.com.

“Molly My Sister and I” from “Pocketful of Posies”

illustration from “Pocketful of Posies”

See a series of posts showing the process of making borders for the book’s original artwork: Pocketful of Borders