ALSC Milwaukee Art Museum tour features Ashley Bryan, award-winning illustrator

Contact: Laura Schulte-Cooper


312-280-2165

For Immediate Release


April 21, 2005

ALSC Milwaukee Art Museum tour features Ashley Bryan, award-winning illustrator

CHICAGO - The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) invites Annual Conference attendees to join colleagues on a special tour of the Milwaukee Art Museum on Friday, June 24, 2005, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The museum features the new Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, the first Calatrava-designed building in the United States, which boasts a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a moveable, sun screen . The museum is hosting an exhibit of works by Ashley Bryan, Coretta Scott King award-winning illustrator, puppet maker and scholar of African and African-American folklore. The exhibit includes approximately 25 puppets as well as a puppet theater. Ashley Bryan will be on hand to speak to the tour group in the museum's auditorium.

Box lunches will be served and are included in the registration fee. The tour bus leaves Chicago at 9 a.m. and arrives in Milwaukee at approximately 10:45 a.m. The return bus leaves Milwaukee at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $50. Space is limited. Please register early. To register, visit the 2005 ALA Annual Conference Web site at
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2005a/home.htm.

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, is a network of over 3,700 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts, and publishers committed to improving and ensuring the future of the nation through exemplary library service to children, their families, and others who work with children.