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Squigglevision and Fabric Reliefs: Focus of Popular Museum Series
by Burt Albert, Series Developer, "Tuesdays with the Muse"

detail from "Sidewalks" 1997 fabric relief illustration from "You and Me, Poems of Friendship", courtesy CMFA A creative whiz kid who produces hilarious, quality programming for children's television and instructional video, and an award-winning children¹s book illustrator who works with appliqué, embroidery, wrapping, dyeing and hand-stitched products will demonstrate their techniques at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Tuesday, May 1 at 7PM. Christopher Georgenes and Salley Mavor will be the featured speakers in "Squigglevision and Fabric Reliefs: Delighting the Kid in All of Us!"  The program is part of the "Tuesdays with the Muse" series. Georgenes holds a degree in printmaking and illustration from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford.  He is now the Director of Creative Development at Tom Snyder Productions. The company, headquartered in Watertown, MA, is known for products "that teachers and students love."  In fact, says Thomas Platti, director of educational technology for the Wellesley Public Schools, the company's productions "are among the best educational software in the country." Georgenes, who plays a large role in developing and enhancing that reputation, now heads the company¹s television and Internet division called Soup2Nuts Productions. Among his many credits is a TV series called "Science Court," which features the voice of comedienne Paula Poundstone and introduced the "squigglevision" technique, which the animator will demonstrate on the large screen in the museum's theater.   "Science Court, a Saturday morning program for which Georgenes was lead character designer, background artist and animator, combined humor with hands-on experiments "to teach kids fundamental science, math and language."  Running three seasons, the program copped a Parents Choice Gold Award. Even as a child, Salley Mavor that paper and pencil were never enough for her.  "My own art," she says, "was unfinished and plain unless something real was glued, stapled or sewn onto the creation." After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Mavor took ten years to develop her fabric relief technique and the confidence to apply it to children¹s book illustration.  Since then, a number of award- winning titles have beautifully displayed the results of her vision and persistence, for it takes Mavor nearly a month to complete one illustration and more than a year to finish a book. Among the titles she has illustrated are "You and Me: Poems of Friendship" (with Mavor's extraordinary 3-D fabric relief technique), "Mary Had a Little Lamb," (for which the artist's strikingly vivid fabric reliefs breathe new life into the immortal rhyme) and "The Hollyhock Wall" (with "three-dimensional delights that give kids a lot to pore over"). A Falmouth resident, her newly released book is "In the Heart."  Publishers Weekly gave it a stared review, saying "Mavor presents the most polished example yet of her fabric-relief art."   The Tuesday evening program will take place in the museum's theater located on the campus of the Cape Playhouse Center for the Arts, Route 6A, Dennis Village.   Admission is $6.50 for those with an Art Discovery Card.  Regular admission is $10 for members, $12 for others.  The series sponsor is Contrast Bistro.

 

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This article is co-sponsored by the Cape Museum of Fine Arts.  Be sure to view and participate in all the exciting upcoming events and art shows to take place at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in 1999.  For further information please visit their web site at: http://www.cmfa.org

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