SAMPLE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The (NAME OF HOST SITE) will host the traveling exhibition “In a Nutshell:
The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” from (BEGINNING TO ENDING DATES).
This exhibition explores the influence of the Old and New worlds in the work of
renowned illustrator Maurice Sendak. Call (TELEPHONE NUMBER) or visit
(WEBSITE) for details.
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The (NAME OF HOST SITE) will host the traveling exhibition “In a Nutshell:
The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” from (BEGINNING TO ENDING DATES).
Popular children’s author Maurice Sendak’s typically American childhood in New
York City inspired many of his most beloved books, such as Where the Wild Things
Are and In the Night Kitchen. Illustrations in those works are populated with friends,
family, and the sights, sounds and smells of New York in the 1930s. But Sendak was
also drawn to photos of ancestors, and he developed a fascination with the shtetl
world of European Jews. This exhibit reveals the push and pull of New and Old
Worlds in Sendak’s work and shows how Sendak’s artistic journey has led him
deeper into his own family’s history and his Jewish identity.
For further exhibit and program information, call (TELEPHONE NUMBER) or
visit (WEBSITE) for details.
:30
The (NAME OF HOST SITE) will host the traveling exhibition “In a Nutshell:
The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” from (BEGINNING TO ENDING DATES).
Maurice Sendak is best known as the illustrator of more than 100 picture books,
including Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. He was born to Polish
immigrants in Brooklyn in 1928, and his childhood was typically American in a
number of ways. At the same time, he became fascinated as a child with the worn
black-and-white photographs of his European relatives, and the influence of both of
these worlds – the threads of Jewish family, geography, and culture – can be seen in
his imaginative works. This national traveling exhibit reveals the push and pull of
New and Old Worlds in Sendak’s work and shows how Sendak’s artistic journey has
led him deeper into his own family’s history and his Jewish identity. Sendak’s
illustrations from Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and other works are
featured, along with connections between these iconic stories and Sendak’s
childhood, family, and the culture of the time.
For more information on the exhibit and related programs for the public, call
(TELEPHONE NUMBER) or visit (WEBSITE).