Selina Alko and Sean Qualls
Soup Kitchen Dinner Invitation
Open Source Gallery, 306 17th Street, Brooklyn
Thursday, December 18, 7:00 to 9:00pm
presented by InspireCorps + Radar Curatorial
Dinner donated by Naturally Delicious Caterers

Illustrator/author team Selina Alko and Sean Qualls are bringing their work to the Open Source Gallery Soup Kitchen Project. Stop by for a meal.

For the month of December Open Source Gallery is about Cooking, Eating, Sharing, Celebrating… On the night of December 18th illustrator/authors Selina Alko and Sean Qualls joins the Open Source Gallery to create a meal for the community. Dinner at the Open Source Gallery is served every night from 7-9pm. The people who come vary from working class people to self-employed artists and occasionally a person who is down on their luck or simply hungry.

Selina Alko and Sean Qualls are an illustrator/author team living in Brooklyn, New York with their two children. Selina Alko is the author and illustrator of several acclaimed books for children, including DADDY CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH MAMA and B IS FOR BROOKLYN. Sean Qualls has illustrated many celebrated books for children, including GIANT STEPS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee, LITTLE CLOUD AND LADY WIND by Toni Morrison and her son Slade, DIZZY by Jonah Winter, and BEFORE JOHN WAS A JAZZ GIANT by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which Sean received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.

Selina Alko and Sean Qualls are perfect examples of artists whose bravery and talent help children and adults alike to see and understand the world around them. An interracial couple raising bi-racial children in Brooklyn, Selina and Sean collaborated on an upcoming book, THE CASE FOR LOVING: THE FIGHT FOR INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE, a picture book that explores the landmark case of Richard and Mildred Loving, who fought and won to end the prohibition against interracial marriage in 1967.

Event presented by InspireCorps and Radar Curatorial. InspireCorp‘s  mission is to link artists with schools and other institutions to inspire children and adults to freely express themselves be it through words, art, movement or music. Radar Curatorial is an arts curatorial team based in Brooklyn.

Food for the evening generously donated by Naturally Delicious Caterers