By ADJOA BURROWES
June, 2008
One summer afternoon I visited with professional storyteller, Alice McGill in her home in Maryland. We sat down and ate a hearty dinner with her husband, and she talked about many things including [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
June, 2008
The over day I searched online for Lucille Clifton's poem "Blessing the Boats." The sparse words and vivid imagery it evokes somehow lifts me when I'm a little bit blue. While online I discovered [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
May, 2008
While browsing my local bookstore one day, a bookseller called my attention to a book published by some fifth graders in Virginia called The Adventures of Danny and Spike Underground... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
May, 2008
I was lucky to work recently with at-risk high school students in a unique program at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center recently called Telling Your Own Story. In this after-school program students learned [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
April, 2008
Recently I did a workshop for parents at my son's elementary school in their Parent Center. Some mom's came with their toddlers. Other mom's had older children that were in class. I talked about ways [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
April, 2008
A big manila envelope arrived in the mail one day from my 11 year-old nephew in Chicago. Inside was a letter that read... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
March, 2008
I recently taught a Role Model Workshop at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in downtown Washington D.C., designed to introduce teens to art careers, the day to day work of an artist and give ... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
March, 2008
I remember taking my daughter and niece to Chinatown in New York one spring. We drove to New Jersey from Northern Virginia and then took a train to Chinatown. We spent hours walking city block after... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
February, 2008
I joined over a million readers on Sunday February 3, at the Sherwood Regional Library in Alexandria, Virginia as part of the Nineteenth National African American Read-In sponsored by the Black Caucus [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
February, 2008
I remember Lorenzo Pace when I was a high school student in Chicago. Lorenzo was teaching at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. I would sometimes see him at the Southside Community Art Center... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
February, 2008
In early January about a dozen middle school girls from the Community Bridges-Dream Catchers mentoring program converged on Pyramid Atlantic -- a respected print and paper arts institution... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
January, 2008
I often am approached by people after my art or writing workshop that have written a children's book and are struggling to find next steps to get their story published. Many times I get e-mails requesting more information. [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
January, 2008
Now that the holidays have come and gone, my memory of how things used to be when I was a kid still remain. I grew up in Chicago with my three brothers and sister. My parents were both from Georgia. [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
December, 2007
I've been revising my picture book about children and divorce for some time now. The book centers around a child trying to cope with the practical and emotional logistics of living in two households... [read more...]
By ADJOA BURROWES
November, 2007
Few knew that the late, renown American painter, Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1995) illustrated several children's books during her prolific career as an artist — not even me. I was a student of hers at Howard University where she taught for 47 years. [read more...]
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