Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-2017
Capstone Advisor
Bob Dacey
Honors Reader
Martha Blake
Capstone Major
School of Art and Design
Capstone College
Visual and Performing Arts
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Book and Paper | Illustration
Abstract
Letters to Lindbergh is an illustrated children’s book offering a new perspective on the relationship between the aviator Charles Lindbergh and his father, while also bringing a visual component to historical documents. Illustrated by Samantha Gottwalt, the book’s art explores collage media techniques and the story is told through letters that Lindbergh exchanged with his father during his adolescence (1909-1924.) It aims to explore a facet of Lindbergh’s life that has little exposure and invited the reader to step into a vividly colored collaged world created with paint and cut paper. Through the new perspective of Lindbergh’s correspondence the story intends to inspire and offers a creative solution for historical storytelling, while introducing young readers to the boy who would become one of the most famous and influential people of the 20th Century. .
Recommended Citation
Gottwalt, Samantha, "Letters to Lindbergh: An Illustrated Children’s Book" (2017). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1054.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1054
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