Curator Tour—"Free to Be… You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Songs"

Name: Curator Tour—"Free to Be… You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Songs"
Start: 2024-11-16T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-16T12:00:00-05:00
Location: 125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002

Schedule

Sat Nov 16 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002 | Amherst, MA

Join guest curator Margi Hofer for a guided tour of "Free to Be… You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Songs."
"Free to Be…You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Songs" celebrates the profound and enduring impact of the groundbreaking 1972 record and its subsequent picture books and TV specials.
The exhibition features original artwork from the 1974 publication by Barbara Bascove and Arnold Lobel along with original illustrations by John Steptoe, Susan Jeffers, Jerry Pinkney, Leo and Diane Dillon, Lonni Sue Johnson, Stacey Schuett, Susan Stillman, and Martha Perske from Free to Be…A Family, published in 1987. The exhibition also displays art from the 35th anniversary edition, including pieces by Joe Mathieu, Peter Reynolds, Tony DiTerlizzi, and LeUyen Pham.
Music, video, photographs, and ephemera bring the multimedia enterprise to life and illustrate the origins and impact of Marlo Thomas’s radical project.
Free with Museum admission
Free for Museum Members
Image: Jerry Pinkney, Illustration for Free to be…a Family: A Book about All Kinds of Belonging. Courtesy of R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton. © 1987 Jerry Pinkney.