A fascinating exhibition that complements the release of a new book on children’s literature is now on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) division.

Picturing Canada: Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing, highlights Canadian picturebooks from the last 200 years. The exhibition includes rare children’s books as well as popular productions from recent years. It was curated by Shannon Ozirny, Meaghan Scanlon and Geneviève Valleau, all students at UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.

The exhibition features highlights from Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing, written by Judith Saltman and Gail Edwards. Saltman is an Associate Professor at UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and Chair of the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature program; Edwards is the Chair of the Department of History at Douglas College.

Picturing Canada, the exhibition, runs until August 31 at RBSC, located on level one of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Art fans, take note: two new exhibitions are now on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Beyond the Words features portraits of writers by the late Carl Kohler (1919-2006), a Neo-Modernist/Abstract Swedish artist. Subjects including Franz Kafka, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Günter Grass and others are featured in mediums such as oil painting, woodblock prints and drawings.

Meanwhile, the Generation One exhibition features work from dynamic local artists, including Raymond Chow, Ron Sombilon, Ray Shum, Rubina Rajan and others. This show coincides with explorASIAN, the annual Vancouver Asian Heritage Festival.

Beyond the Words runs until August 31, and Generation One runs until May 31. Both shows appear in the Learning Centre Gallery, located on the second floor of the Learning Centre, adjacent to the circulation desk.