Love Luggage exhibition artist
Melissa Iwai
The Passage
From the artist
Sometimes the door in front of you isn’t the obstacle. Sometimes the obstacle is the fear of what’s on the other side. The decision to reach for the handle, turn, and walk through the threshold is the first journey. But once you take that first step, the whole world opens up for you.
Melissa Iwai is an award-winning author and illustrator of multicultural and food-themed children’s books, including Soup Day, Pizza Day, Dumplings for Lili and Let’s Party! Her Gigi and Ojiji early-reader series has received Junior Library Guild Gold Standard designations and a Theodor Geisel Honor. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, author Denis Markell.
Melissa Iwai’s website (opens in a new tab)Biography adapted from the Society of Illustrators.
Artist source: Society of Illustrators (opens in a new tab)Exhibited artwork starts conversations. It is not the luggage given to children.