The dedication ceremony for Leo Politi Garden were held on June 2. It was a very nice event attended by the Center's community supporters and fans of Leo Politi.
The garden honors the friendship between children's illustrator and author, Leo Politi, and his friend, the late Professor Arne Nixon. Politi, who was born in Fresno, lived most of his adult life in Los Angeles, but returned many times to speak at, and draw and paint at, workshops put on by Nixon.
The garden is funded by ANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates. ANCA is the support group for the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Guests at the dedication includes Fresno State President John D. Welty, University Provost William Covino, Associate Dean of the Library Dave Tyckoson, Politi Garden's Landscape Architect Robert Boro and Arne Nixon Center Advocates president Denise Sciandra, along with Politi’s children, Paul Leo Politi and Suzanne Politi Bischof, and his granddaughter, Harmony Bischof.
The Arne Nixon Center is currently displaying an exhibit of Leo Politi artworks and books. Another online exhibit of Politi inscriptions on books that the Center have in its collection can be accessed through
this link.
For more pictures from the Garden Dedication
click here.
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