In collaboration with the PARJE (Public Art for Racial Justice), the Library is excited to host the illustrator Kah Yangni for an artist talk and an art making activity! At Thursday evening’s event, get a behind the scenes look at what it takes to illustrate award winning books, create a 2,000+ foot mural, and how it all started. A short presentation will be followed by a conversation with CT based curator, Juanita Austin. Registration Required; for grades 6 – Adults.
Kah Yangni (she/they) is an illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. They make hyper vibrant art about justice, queerness, and joy- using cut up paper, drawings, paint, and Photoshop to show a world where we are free. Kah’s art can be found on billboards, one 2,250 square foot mural, and on bedroom walls from West Philly to Iceland.
Kah illustrated “Not He or She, I’m Me” by A.M. Wild, a 2024 Stonewall Book Award Honor Book. Kah also illustrated “The Making of Butterflies” by Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi. Her art has been covered by NBC News, Ebony Magazine, Mic, and them, and her poster work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
