Comic Appearance
Why does the intelligent sentence abandon me when the cameras are turned on me? Curious City talking comics on WCSH6 in honor of our pals at Casablanca Comics and Free Comic Book Day. Thanks Brett Whitmarsh of WCSH6 for your love of comics and (as always) grand reporting. Share...
Read MoreMagnus in the Studio
The picture book, Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer by the grand Kathleen T. Pelley lands on bookstore shelves this month so I landed in Mind’s Eye Productions to record the audio for Kathleen’s upcoming book trailer. Under the direction of the voice actor and audiobook producer, Bill Dufris, actor and narrator, Christopher Price played the fine elderly Victorian gentleman, Magnus –a man quite taken with determining, “whose who, what’s what, and the long and the short of the thing.” Look for the trailer in production here at Curious City coming soon!...
Read MoreTo Pose or Not to Pose?
To Enter or Not to Enter, that is the question. Clearly, you should enter, my dear Hamlet. Yes, indeed, it is time for the Hamlet Look-Alike Contest. Print, Pose, Photograph, and you could win a copy of the Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne and a Shakespeare action figure. Teachers posing could win an entire classroom set! Why the contest? What is more visually linked to the name Hamlet than the brooding gaze at the skull of dear Yorick? Photos will be posted on all social media and tagged with the title creating a non-tragic tidal wave of online connections. Show your...
Read MoreUnderstanding Courage
Had the honor of appearing at the National Art Education Assosciation’s Art Education & Social Justice Conference in Baltimore last week. I spoke about the Understanding Courage Project, a community project co-created by Curious City and based on the life of Claudette Colvin as outlined in the book Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose. Curious City was happy to join Simon Adams, David Shennett (above), and Kelly McConnell from Maine College of Art as they presented their design of the art project at the center of Understanding Courage (UC). UC invited middle...
Read MoreTragically Embarassing!
Just launched the book trailer for Erin Dionne’s hilarious heroine, Hamlet whose Renaissance Fair-going, Shakespeare scholar parents are (you guessed it) tragically embarrassing! A HUGE thanks to the Martell family who run the fabulous children’s costuming company, Shire Attire for sharing their 20 years of Renaissance photos and stories and serving with humor and grace as Hamlet’s model family. Thanks too to artist Jamie Hogan for illustrating Yorick, Hamlet’s chorus in the book trailer and my, oh, my to the amazing narration of the voice of Hamlet by Rebecca Soler....
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