Itsy Bitsy Gallery

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Take a chance on art at the TLA 2012 raffle.

This year’s whimsical  masterpiece was donated byauthor/illustrator Julian Hector. Raised outside of Austin by two biologists, Hector studied illustration at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. His work has often been praised for its quiet humor.

The annual art raffle benefits the Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund, created to assist libraries in our state as they recover from natural disasters. The raffle will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2012 during the second general session of the TLA Annual Conference in Austin. A ticket form is available for the convenience of those who will not be at conference this spring (mail by Monday, April 9); and tickets may be purchased onsite at the Disaster Relief Table on level 3 outside of the ballroom prefunction area: $5 each or 5 for $20.

The Gallery gets its name from the first auction items, a complete set of illustrations for Rosemary Wells' Itsy Bitsy Spider (Scholastic Press/Bunny Reads Back series). Ms. Wells also donated the illustrations from The Bear Went Over the Mountain, an off-drawing which was raffled at the 1999 conference, and a cover for a new release of Morris's Disappearing Bag which was raffled online. 

Thanks to the illustrators who have donated original artworks to help build the Disaster Relief Fund and to all who have contributed generously to the fund since its inception. TLA has been  able to respond with substantive grants to help coastal libraries recover from hurricanes in recent years.

The annual Disaster Relief Raffle has also featured works by the artists below; the images are linked to their websites:

2011: Melanie Hope Greenberg	2010: Susan L. Roth	2009: Don Tate	2008: Diane Stanley
2007: Lynn Rowe Reed	2006: Brian Floca	2005: Susan Jeffers	2004: Will Hillenbrand
2003: Denise Fleming	2002: Roxie Munro	2001: Adrienne Yorinks	2000: Nicole Rubel