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Virtual Saturday Stories featuring Briana Mukodiri Uchendu

Name: Virtual Saturday Stories featuring Briana Mukodiri Uchendu
Start: 2023-02-18T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-02-18T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Zoom

February 18 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Meet award winning debut picture book illustrator Briana Mukoduri Uchendu. Discover how she created her evocative and engaging illustrations for The Talk, written by Newbery Honor winner Alicia D. Williams. Briana will be joining from her art studio in Texas for a behind the scenes look at how she works, read The Talk and then lead participants in a hands on drawing workshop related to the book. Good for all ages 5 and up. Visit https://www.mukoart.com/

Briana Mukodiri Uchendu is an illustrator, visual development artist, and a first-generation Nigerian-American. Her work is inspired by her interests in folklore, film, and animation and her passion to highlight voices that usually go unheard. Briana is a graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design where she majored in Illustration. In her illustration debut, her work for The Talk by Newbery Honor-winner Alicia D. Williams (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, October 2022) was juried into The Original Art 2022 by the Society of Illustrators and was awarded the Silver Medal. The book was also named an Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2022. Her forthcoming projects include We Could Fly by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell (Candlewick, Fall 2023), Soul Step by New York Times-bestseller Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams (Little Brown, Summer 2024), and Night Market by Seina Wedlick (Random House Studio, Fall 2024). She currently lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas.

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Details

Date:: February 18
Time:: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Event Category:: Workshop

Venue

Zoom