Exhibitions

In January 2024, the National Building Museum of Washington, D.C. launched its most ambitious exhibition ever, a long-term, 4000-square-foot immersive exploration of the idea of home in children's literature. Curated by Leonard, Building Stories came together in an intensely rewarding, six-year collaboration between Leonard, the NBM staff, Plus & More Than, the DC Public Library

This fall, Leonard again served as one of dPictus.com’s guest curators for its annual “100 Outstanding Picture Books” showcase at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. dPictus provides the global professional children’s book community with a year-round virtual rights marketplace and discovery zone for the most innovative contemporary picture books from around the [...]

In January 2019, the the Kerlan Collection of the University of Minnesota's Andersen Library, in Minneapolis, MN, will mount a major exhibition based on the New York Public Library's landmark exhibition entitled The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (2013-2014). While on view in New York, The ABC of It was seen by a record-setting 540,000 visitors from around the world.

GARTH WILLIAMS: Illustrator of the Century was the centerpiece of Abilene’s annual citywide Children’s Art & Literacy Festival (June 8-10, 2017). Organized and toured by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX.

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (April 29-September 3, 2017). A career retrospective of the incomparable husband-and-wife illustration team, with original art for books as diverse as The Color Kittens, The Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends, and The Buck Stops Here.

Running throughout 2017 at various locations on national tour. Co-curated by Leonard and Diane Muldrow; organized and toured by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX. A wide-ranging selection of original illustration art by Richard Scarry, Garth Williams, Tibor Gergely, Feodor Rojankovsky, Eloise Wilkin, Alice and Martin Provensen, Leonard Weisgard, Mary [...]