Childhood Classics Speaker Series: “Illustration is Storytelling”with Author/Illustrator Lori Nichols

NOTE: This event has been moved to the Colonnade area in the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, to allow everyone more space to sit apart.

We welcome Author-Illustrator Lori Nichols for her presentation "Illustration is Storytelling". Lori will discuss how she creates picture books with illustrations and stories, and go behind the scenes of her process to show how imagination and play help direct the art to tell a story. Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts has partnered with the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library to host speaker series, lectures, and art workshops to accompany the current exhibit on display "Childhood Classics: 100 Years of Original Illustration". We will open the exhibit at Kennedy-Douglass Art Center from 9am-11am for visitorsthat want to see the exhibit prior to Lor’s talk at the library.

Lori is the author and illustrator of the award-winning picture book, Maple, under Penguin’s Nancy Paulsen Books imprint. Its companion books include: Maple & Willow Together, Maple & Willow Apart and Maple and Willow’s Christmas Tree.

Lori’s accolades include winning the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators New York Winter conference portfolio award in 2014, the Alabama Library Association’s 2015 “Alabama Author” award and the Michigan Library Association Mitton Award in 2016. Her debut book, Maple, has been recognized as a “Best Children’s Books of 2014” by Amazon, was given a 2014 Giverny Award for “Best Children’s Science Picture Book” and it was selected to represent the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Both “Maple” and “Maple and Willow Together” were named “2015 Best Children’s Books of the Year” by the Children’s Book Committee.