It’s been a good year for the 60-year-old Boston native, who since 2011 has run Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Sparc! artmobile, which offers roving community art workshops, and since 2011 has served on the Boston Art Commission, which oversees city public art projects. You have to go with what the world thinks. You think, ‘This is crap.’ And the world thinks something different. “It’s just unbelievable,” says Holmes, who illustrated the book, which was authored by Carole Boston Weatherford of North Carolina (they’ve spoken by phone, but have yet to meet) and put out by Candlewick Press in Somerville, one of the most prestigious children’s book publishers in the country. This week, Roxbury artist Ekua Holmes’ first children’s book, “Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement” won a Caldecott Honor as a runner up to the Caldecott Medal, the top prize for children’s picture books in the country. (Courtesy of Candlewick Press) This article is more than 7 years old. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, Mass.
Illustrations copyright 2015 by Ekua Holmes. Detail of "In 1954, me and Pap adopted two little girls." From “Voice of Freedom.” Text copyright 2015 by Carole Boston Weatherford.
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