I want people to think about how different cultures read the same thing and filter it in a different way, and they clearly love Newspaper alums James Thurber, Billy Ireland left marks on ColumbusĬlark said that he has run into many visitors who are surprised to learn that Peanuts was created in America. It's a very different cultural approach …. “(They have) giant sculptural renditions of Snoopy. “I would like people to think about how different it is,” Caswell said. There are also high-resolution images from exhibits in the Snoopy Museum Tokyo in Roppongi. I think that it's very exciting to have been able to work with folks in Santa Rosa, to obtain all these things.”

“I think that really strengthens our exhibition. “It's a really wonderful use of technology,” Caswell said. This type of exhibit is called 'fabricate on site.' This allowed Caswell to exhibit the first three editions of Peanuts that were published while the same editions are on exhibit in Santa Rosa. “Celebrating Sparky” has more than 70 high-resolution images of pieces from the museum in Santa Rosa. ”It actually ended up working out really well that we could swap back and forth some things in our collections for our exhibitions … So we were pretty enthusiastic about it.” “I had been developing an exhibition here and was planning on borrowing some things from them,” Clark said. Previous exhibit: Billy Ireland exhibit 'Two Centuries of Canine Cartoons' full of classics

Clark, the head curator at the Schulz Museum, to borrow some items for the “Celebrating Sparky” exhibit. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. “I'm hoping that they will learn something about him that they didn't know when they see this exhibition.”Ĭaswell also serves as a member of the board of directors for the Charles M.

“I am hoping that visitors will get to know him a little bit through his own words,” Caswell said. Lucy Shelton Caswell, the founding curator of the Billy Ireland museum, curated the exhibit around actual quotations from Schulz himself, who died in 2000.

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is featuring an exhibit on the Peanuts creator titled “ Celebrating Sparky.” Sparky was the nickname Schulz was known as by his friends, family and colleagues. It’s Charles Schulz’s 100th birthday, Charlie Brown!

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