{"id":3775,"date":"2015-05-15T01:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:34:13","slug":"beautiful-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/beautiful-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In Issue 12 of Kolaj Magazine<\/em>, Daniel Kany\u00a0profiled American collage artist Ashley Bryan. Bryan, who lives and works on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, has published many books. Beautiful Blackbird<\/em>, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2003, won the 2004 Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration.<\/p>\n

Kany writes:<\/p>\n

As Bryan had collected bright papers found in childhood paths, paper found a path with Bryan. When he returned from the war, Bryan was accepted into Columbia University where he learned the art of bookbinding while earning a diploma in philosophy. His passion for cultural studies won him a Fulbright Scholarship which led him back to France and Germany. He was surprised to see children there learning about and performing spirituals when it was his experience that African-American children had virtually no understanding of their roots or cultural history. Together, his skills, studies, expertise and community-supporting ethic distilled themselves into Bryan\u2019s life mission of creating children\u2019s books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article originally appeared in Issue Twelve. To read the entire article and other writing about the world of collage,\u00a0SUBSCRIBE<\/a>\u00a0to Kolaj<\/em> or\u00a0PURCHASE ISSUE TWELVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image:<\/strong>
\nBeautiful Blackbird<\/em>
\nby Ashley Bryan
\nillustration from Beautiful Blackbird<\/em>
\n2003
\nCourtesy of the Ashley Bryan Center, Islesford, Maine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Issue 12 of Kolaj Magazine, Daniel Kany\u00a0profiled American collage artist Ashley Bryan. Bryan, who lives and works on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, has published many books. Beautiful Blackbird, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2003, won…<\/p>\n

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