Vernissage for the exhibitions with Eva Eriksson and Kjell Ivan Anderson. The exhibitions are inaugurated at 12.30, after which literary scholar Ulla Rhedin talks to Eva Eriksson on the topic ”How does a picture book storyteller think?”.
From 12 to 4 p.m., there is an artist-led workshop in the Drawing Studio. Together we draw and paint stories on large pieces of paper. Free admission.
Eva Eriksson, born in 1949 in Halmstad, is one of Sweden’s foremost illustrators and has created a long series of children’s book classics over the years, including the books about Vilda bebin (Wild Baby), Bella and Gustav, Little Sister Rabbit, Max, and more. She has been awarded several prizes and awards, including the Elsa Beskow plaque and the Astrid Lindgren prize.
Ulla Rhedin writes, researches and teaches about picture books and picture book criticism and has been associated with HDK-Valand’s continuing education course ”Picture Book Storytelling” for about a decade. In her thesis The picture book – on the way to a theory (1992, 2001) Eva Eriksson was one of the real impetuses; her collaborations with Barbro Lindgren in Vilda bebin- and the Max books have been the basis for many of Ulla Rhedin’s theoretical reasoning also in later contexts such as in the anthology En fanfar för bilderboken (2013)