![]() ![]() After high school, Nelson won a scholarship to train in art at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. ![]() It’s part of my DNA”(Encouraged by an uncle who was an artist, Nelson determined to become a professional painter. Nelson believes, “I have always been an artist. ![]() Nelson’s passion for painting began when he was very young. Nelson’s soulful work about this long-neglected brand of our national pastime… demands an all-ages audience.” ~ David Davis, ‘Stepping Up to the Plate,’ Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2008 “Author-illustrator Kadir Nelson’s text is so engrossing – and his oil paintings so evocative – that the rubric is inadequate. In 2009, the book gained Nelson the Coretta Scott King Book Award and Illustration Honor, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, and the Sibert Medal. Published in 2008 in the category of children’s literature, the work was recognized for its significance beyond the scope of most youth books and became a New York Times best seller. Nelson’s book corrects the record, tells their stories, and inspires thousands of people today. There were superstar caliber athletes in Negro League Baseball, but relatively few people knew of them because of the segregated social and sports policies of early to mid-20th century America. Nelson’s tour de force, seven years in the making, is his combination of dozens of illustrations from a series of large original oil paintings plus written text titled, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. ![]()
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