Newbery Medalist Jerry Craft

Name: Newbery Medalist Jerry Craft
Start: 2026-03-02T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Performing Arts Center, Upper Arlington High School, 1625 Zollinger Road

Schedule

Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Performing Arts Center, Upper Arlington High School, 1625 Zollinger Road | Columbus, OH

Newbery Medal winner Jerry Craft will visit Upper Arlington on Monday, March 2 for a public talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at UA High School, 1625 Zollinger Road.
Craft will lead an interactive presentation on his journey from reluctant reader to award-winning author, illustrator and cartoonist. A book signing will follow the presentation, with Cover to Cover onsite to sell books.
Free registration is now open at http://uapl.me/JerryCraft.
Craft’s #1 New York Times bestseller New Kid was awarded the 2020 Newbery Medal. He also wrote Class Act and School Trip, and is the creator of “Mama’s Boyz” — a comic strip which won the African American Literary Award five times. He is a co-founder of the Schomburg Center’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival.
This special event is offered in partnership with the Upper Arlington Community Foundation, the Upper Arlington Education Foundation, and Upper Arlington City Schools.