Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.
Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow. - Jerry Pinkney
Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow.
- Jerry Pinkney
I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might hav… - Jerry Pinkney
I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might hav…
All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete. - Jerry Pinkney
All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete.
I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person. - Jerry Pinkney
I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.
We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves. - Jerry Pinkney
We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.
A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connect… - Jerry Pinkney
A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connect…
I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art… - Jerry Pinkney
I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art…
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's th… - Jerry Pinkney
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's th…
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role mo… - Jerry Pinkney
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role mo…
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