page_title: Rafael López (illustrator and artist)
section_title: Exhibitions and Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Rafael López (illustrator and artist) / Exhibitions and Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Rafael Lopez artwork at the Writing with Pictures Exhibition at California Center for the Arts.
context_page_description: Rafael López is an internationally recognized illustrator and artist. The illustrations created by López bring diverse characters to children’s books and he works to produce and promote books that reflect and honor the lives of all young people. As a children’s book illustrator, he has received three Pura Belpré Award medals from the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, and REFORMAin 2020 for Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln, Drum Dream Girl in 2016 and Book Fiesta! in 2010. He was chosen by the Library of Congress to create the National Book Festival Poster and has been a featured book festival speaker at this event.
  His illustrations for Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics was honored with the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators New York Original Art Exhibition. Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You written by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and illustrated by López in 2019 was a #1 New York Times Children's Picture Book Bestseller and received the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award from the American Library Association.
context_section_description: His work was part of the 2020 exhibit, Now & Then: Contemporary Illustrators and their Childhood Art and the 2017 exhibition, Eric Carle and Friends: What's your Favorite Color? at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 2016, two original paintings were exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum at an exhibition called New York City: A Portrait through stamp art. Several of Lopez's works were exhibited in 2016 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico and in 2015 at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Selected paintings on wood and original drawings were shown at a multimedia exhibition called Writing With Pictures at the California Center for the Arts. Original art by López can also be found in the Mazza Museum, International Art for children's books collection. Archival materials about the life and work of Rafael López are part of the University of California, Santa Barbara CEMA Library Collection. Works by Rafael López were exhibited at Manifest Hope in Washington D.C., Manifest Equality in Los Angeles and Re: Form Education in New York. In 2009, he was asked to create three paintings for Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa and then presented them to her at the National Association for Independent Schools conference in Chicago, Illinois.
caption: Rafael Lopez works exhibited at the California Center for the Arts.
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