Book Illustrator gives Shaw lecture Monday

Book illustrator Tom Feelings will present Illustration is my Form, The Black Experience my Story and my Content as the Spencer G. Shaw Honor Lecturer. He will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12 in the HUB Auditorium.

From his background of unique experiences as an artist in America and Africa, Feelings says “The talent that we possess does not belong to us. It was passed down to us from our ancestors, and they who can best express what our ancestors gave us have the most responsibility to pass this message on to the living and the unborn, so that it can live forever.”

Feelings has illustrated more than 25 books, including Swahili alphabet and counting books written by Muriel Feelings; Now Sheba Sings the Song, by Maya Angelou; and Something on my Mind, by Nikki Grimes.

The Shaw lecture series was established in 1986 by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science to honor Professor Emeritus Spencer Shaw, a librarian and storyteller. The Feelings lecture is free and open to the public. ¶