Past Events
Coretta Scott King Award Winner, Brian Pinkney
  
An acclaimed illustrator and author of children’s books, Brian Pinkney, will visit Omaha and Council Bluffs Schools and will be featured in three free community events to promote family literacy in the Omaha community. Brian Pinkney won two Caldecott Honor Awards for his books The Faithful Friend and Duke Ellington, won the prestigious Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in the book In the Time of the Drums, and won three Coretta Scott King Honor Awards for his illustrations in African American literature.
Teacher Resources:
Brian's Website
Houghton Mifflin Meet the Illustrator: Brian Pinkney
Caldecott Medal Winner, David Diaz
  
David Diaz--notable illustrator, potter, artist, and author--won the prestigious award for illustrations in a children’s book, the Caldecott Medal for Smoky Night, and won Pura Belpre’ Awards for his illustrations in Latino literature for children. Students visited Diaz at the Joslyn and learned about his work on exhibit in the Mind’s Eye Gallery. In addition, they viewed the work of Diego Rivera also on exhibit during this time. Four community events featured David Diaz were free and open to the public.
Teacher Resources:
Reading is Fundamental
HarperCollins Authors & Illustrators
Houghton Mifflin Meet David Diaz
Scholastic Features David Diaz
Interview with David Diaz
Beads on One String:
Celebrating Culture and Tradition with Music and Story
Dennis Warner, Rita Paskowitz, Sheila Rocha, and Idu Maduli joined us during October of 2008 to promote the roles that oral traditions (of storytelling and singing) play in literacy learning for young children. The artists visited 9 school districts (15 sites) as a gift from the UNO College of Education in celebration of our Centennial Year as a University.
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Dennis Warner, Folk/Americana singer and songwriter, visited area schools during weekdays with a message of peace, tolerance, and literacy through music. Joining Dennis Warner to help us celebrate the UNO Centennial were several professional storytellers. The community events, held at The Durham Museum, UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center, and 10 Omaha Public Library Branches, were free and open to the public.
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Teacher Resources
Beads Curriculum 1 (pdf) and Beads Curriculum 2 (pdf)
Press
UNO News Release
Dr. Alma Flor Ada and Ms. Isabel Campoy joined us on March 31-April 5, 2008 for a week in Omaha Public Schools and held a series of lectures that were free and open to the public:
-Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at El Museo Latino, 6:00 pm
-Thursday, April 3, 2008 at UNO W. H. Thompson Alumni Center, 4:30 pm
-Saturday, April 5, 2008 at the South Branch Omaha Public Library, 11:00 am
This lecture series was sponsored by both the University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Education and the Nebraska Humanities Council.
See the press release here.
Professor Francisco Alarcón, Latino-American poet, scholar, and author visited Omaha Public Schools during the week of September 16-21, 2007. Professor Alarcón conducted a workshop for educators at UNO and a free poetry reading and presentation for families and the community at the W. Dale Clark Library in Omaha and El Museo Latino. This project was jointly funded by UNO and the Nebraska Arts Council.
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