Nationally renowned graphic artist, children’s book illustrator and poster artist Rick Ewigleben will be among the celebrities participating in this year’s Oz-Stravaganza!  Ewigleben will display his critically acclaimed, limited edition Wizard of Oz series of posters at the festival.  In 2003, Ewigleben began a series of Oz tribute posters created in the poster-art style of the late 1930’s and early 1940’s.  The posters were an immediate hit with Oz fans.   There are now six limited edition posters in the series as he has unveiled a new poster each year since 2003.  In 2007, he began creating other Oz-inspired original art and they also became hits with Oz fans. “One of my most recent pieces is to honor Munchkin Coroner Meinhardt Raabe, with whom I’ve had a friendly acquaintance since we shared a booth at the festival in Chesterton a few years ago,” the artist explains. Rick will be on hand to autograph and/or personalize each of these as well as his limited edition Oz tribute posters and a dozen different prints that are currently a part of his collection.

“I’m truly excited to be making my first visit to Chittenango. I have heard nothing but wonderful things about this event,” Ewigleben says from his Chicago studio, “I look forward to meeting a lot of Oz fans and sharing my art with them”.

Oz-Stravaganza! is being held in Chittenango, June 5th-7th. A complete schedule of events can be found at: www.oz-stravaganza.com or www.chittenango.org. Please call 315 430 0765 or 315 415 8546 with general Oz-Stravaganza! questions.

 


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