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WHAT'S NEW
Harry Potter Book Cover Prints Available!Order On-line Today!
Clampett Studio Collection has announced the release of "The Harry Potter Book Cover Series". The release follows the successful debut of Mary GrandPre's print series, and comes with the personal approval of JK Rowling. The prints are glorious reproductions from Mary GrandPre's originals of the Harry Potter book cover artwork. You will be surprised and delighted by the vibrant colors, beautiful designs and story telling of the illustrations.
Become a Harry Potter Book Cover Series Collector! Call for information!
Clampett Studio's has reserved the first 100 for matching collector sets. Please call the Gallery for information on a special bonus for series collectors only. The series begins with the art from books one, two and three, with books four and five released in the late fall of 2008, and books six and seven in the spring of 2009.
CALENDAR
2008 Open Fields Great Goose Egg Auction are now up on the website, http://www.openfields.org/egg_auction.html This auction was started by Trina Schart Hyman and occurs every two years. See Grace Lin and Diane deGroat eggs.
NEW ART
Mary Newell DePalma: Original paintings for the book My Chair
David McPhail: The Searcher and Old Tree, ALSO new pieces (pages) from book titles already listed
North of Boston Massachusetts, Child at Heart is the premier site for Children's Book Illustrators! We are located in historic Newburyport's downtown walking mall near the playground at 48 Inn Street. Join us for an event.
Address: 48 Inn Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 01950. Please feel free to call for more information: 978.462.5554 or 800.883.0014.
Inn Street is a walking mall that parallels State Street & Green Street between Market Square and Pleasant Street. We are across from the playground at the upper end of the walking mall closer to Pleasant Street, look for the green awning.
GENERAL INFORMATION
PAST EVENTS
2008 CALENDAR
MAY 2 & MAY 9 INVITATION NIGHTS--Downtown Newburyport welcomes you to shop in the evening, 6-9pm
The 2008 Open Fields Great Goose Egg Auction are now up on the website, http://www.openfields.org/egg_auction.html This auction was started by Trina Schart Hyman and occurs every two years. Both Grace Lin's and Diane deGroat's eggs are being shown now.
2008 Past Events
APRIL 26--Newburyport Literary Festival Children's Program 9:00-3:00 at Inn St. Montessori and Newburyport ArtWalk with guest Mary Newell DePalma 3:30-6.
Saturday--APRIL 19, 10 to 12 Ed Emberley will not be at the Newburyport Literary Festival, but he will be at the Child at Heart Gallery. He has been known to sign books, draw pictures and even sign his Boston Marathon children's T-shirts!
Tuesday--APRIL 15--Dr. Susan Linn at the Firehouse. Get tickets from us and purchase books for signing.
2007 CALENDAR
November 12-18 CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK
Saturday, Nov.24, an 11 am program at the Newburyport Library Children's room will celebrate family and cultural traditions for New Year's Day. Child at Heart Gallery artist, Marion Eldridge will read the new book Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas which she illustrated, and lead a hat making activity for school age(5+) children. This and The Sparrows Easter Song may be purchased in advance or after the program until 1 pm at the gallery, 48 Inn St. Newburyport, for signing. An animal scene from the Sparrow book and a guitar singing cowboy are new prints by Eldridge, published by the Child at Heart Gallery which are now available. Marion Eldridge from N. Billerica, is an active member in a number of book and illustrator organizations and is published in books, magazines and Unicef projects.
December 7 and 14: Newburyport Invitation Nights-refreshments and open until 9 pm
PAST EVENTS
2007
October 20: Newburyport Artwalk, 3:00pm - 7:00pm, Carl Chaiet 4 to 6 showing original art from the newest book Man's First Word. The books are Limited Editions
October 6: Robert's Snow Artists' Open House, Noon - 7:00pm. Twelve artists at 1:30 program at Newburyport Library, 2 State St. Purchase books in advance at the Gallery for signing.
October 3 - 22: Robert's Snow: for Cancer's Cure preview exhibit. Online action benefits The Jimmy Fund/Dana- Farber Cancer Institute. www.robertssnow.com
Saturday,September 22: Newburyport Artwalk, 3:00pm - 7:00pm Matt Tavares, 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Matt is the "the baseball artist" of Zachary's Ball, Oliver's Game and Mudball has enhanced classic stories of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Jack in the Beanstalk and the newest Iron Hans (Iron John fairy tale).
September 14: Ed Emberly, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
July 21: Meet Today's Dawn photographer Joe Gerry and see the Mary Grandpre, Harry Potter story prints
May 26: Newburyport ArtWalk - Irena and John Roman
May 12: Mother's Day weekend - Jane Dyer
March 10: Big Brown Bear's Birthday party with David McPhail and art show for the month of March
March 2: Dr. Seuss Birthday Drawing
2006
December 1st & 8th: Downtown Newburyport Invitation Nights
December 2: Teri Weidner participated in the Newburyport Library Author Fest
November 19: Andrea Wisnewski showed the steps of the process she uses to creat her block print art and signed her new book Little Red Riding Hood.
October 21: Ruth Sanderson, fine artist/illustrator showing art and signing books. Cinderella, Saints:Lives and Illuminations, The Night Before Christmas, The Snow Princess, Where Have the Unicorns Gone?
August 18: Author and artist, Mary Newell DePalma recently returned from presenting at the Mazza Collection Gallery affliated with Findley University in Ohio. She signed the new print, "..and they danced with the wind" and numereous books during this ArtWalk/Newburyport event. Continue to enjoy guitar & vocals with Keith Allen from the Waterfront Park String Band around town during good weather. Thank you for a great evening Keith!
June 25: Irena and John Roman came Sunday instead of Friday and brought two of the original paintings from A Butterfly Wish. John Roman also signed his unique Condord, Mass. historical ($20) poster.
June 11: Matt Tavares author/illustrator read and talked about how he created his award winning baseball stories. Some signed copies of Oliver's Game are available while they last from the Gallery.
April 1: Katrin Hyman Tchana with her new book Changing Woman and Her SistersGoddesses from Around the World created with her late mother Trina Schart Hyman was at the Newburyport Library at 2:00pm. She was at the Gallery after 3:15 to visit and signing books.
March 19: Storytime and book signing featuring A Grand Old Tree by Mary Newell DePalma. The Gallery is pleased to offer the tissue-paper, watercolor, mixed medium original art from this book. An intergenerational gift, the life cycle of this tree is a joy to read and view.
February 4: Ed Emberley was at the Pottery Isle in Amesbury, MA. Mr. Emberley did his much loved "Chalk Talk" school presentation. (Donations were accepted and a percentage of sales went to the Amesbury public school libraries.)
