Tuesday afternoon’s Zoom memorial celebration event is now archived.
Click the link in the second paragraph.
Screenshot altered by Laurent Linn. Chrissy and Kristin, in the bottom row, were instrumental in developing the website and organizing the Zoom event. (Bob)
During the Zoom memorial celebration yesterday, Alan Chong, Director, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, announced the Tomie dePaola Art Education Fund.
Tomie often said his books championed “the other,” children, young people, and adults in discovery. He advocated for our local college to create space for all artists - painters, potters, dancers, etc. - to gather and be “different” together.
This fund feels so right to me. I couldn’t be happier, and Tomie would have felt deeply honored.
http://currier.org/the-tomie-depaola-art-education-fund/ (Bob)
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Brita Ek made a birthday cake for Tomie in 2018.
The Zoom event is later today.
Details at:
https://www.tomie.com/news/2020/9/10/memorial-celebration-for-tomie-depaola-on-zoom (Bob)
See details in post on September 10, 2020.
Tomie taught art at Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, MA, from 1962 until 1966. After Newton, he remained friendly with several of his students, many of whom had taken his classes for all four years.
He was invited to attend a reunion not too many years ago at the encouragement of his former student, Judy. She arranged to pick him up in New London and take him to the reunion. She brought him back to New London on Sunday after the reunion was over.
Some days later, Tomie became sick. He was known for burning the candles at both ends, in work and at play, and most likely did exactly that during the reunion weekend, and he was now sick because of it.
During the next conversation with Judy, Tomie told her that he had been sick. I got on the phone and told her and Tomie that Tomie was no longer allowed to play with Judy. (Bob)
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