Name: Children's Book Illustrators Art Show
Start: 2026-03-21T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-21T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Sun Gallery, 1015 E Street, Hayward, CA, USA

Come meet Artists at Sun Gallery's 35th Annual Children's Book Illustrators Exhibit! Children's activities, food, drink, & book signings.
About this Event

The Sun Gallery is proud to announce the opening of the 35th Annual Children’s Book Illustrator’s Exhibition on Friday, March 13th, 2026. An Artists Reception is planned on Saturday, March 21st, from 12 pm – 3 pm and will include children’s activities, food and beverages, book signings, and the encore presentation of Sun Gallery’s Dreamers Installation, a part of the Gallery’s permanent collection. Artists Peter and Maureen Langenbach donated the installation. Come by and sign your support for Dreamers on the art installation!

This year’s book illustrators and authors include:

Patrick Lugo with Little Monk and the Mantis, Let’s GO! A Kids Comics Studio Anthology.
David Hoobler with Zonk and the Secret Lagoon.
Claudia Schwalm with Trees for the Monarch Butterflies, Penguins Can, and Zack the Rabbit.
Julianne Kanzaki with Food For Thought.
Edna Cabcabin Moran and Patrick Landeza with Danny’s Hawaiian Journey.
Helia Borges Sousa and Angela Simoes with I Like Flowers, A Portuguese Home, and Maria and John go to the Festa!
Cameron Coetzer and Jan Renee with Mi Chango Favorito.
Hilary Mills Lambert and Jana Haertl with Unlikely Friends Indeed.
Constance Anderson with So Many Ways to Be a Bird.
Stella Chen with Do You Want to Ride a Horse? There is Nothing I Can’t Find, and What Egg Do You Want?
Casey Swingle and Jenna Hillard with Jethro the Daydreaming Bull.
Linda Lens and Graciela Tiscareno-Sato with Captain Mama.

This year’s Book Illustrators exhibit has been a labor of love, spearheaded by Valerie Caveglia, Hayward Education Foundation President and former Executive Director at the Sun, and Dorsi Diaz, Sun Gallery’s current Board of Directors President and former Executive Director/Curator at the Sun.

Together, the Hayward Rotary Club, the Hayward Education Foundation, the community, and Sun Gallery have collaborated to present the Many Hands, One Masterpiece initiative to HUSD second graders, expanding equitable access to the arts by introducing underserved students to a legacy children’s book illustrator exhibition and fostering cultural awareness through storytelling, visual interpretation, and shared creative experiences. The project strengthens a local arts organization (the Sun Gallery) by increasing youth participation and demonstrating the role of cultural institutions as community-centered learning spaces. These once-in-a-lifetime experiences: class field trips at the gallery include a personalized tour, and a teacher-led art lesson in the studio, based on artwork in the show.

The Sun Gallery is located at 1015 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541. The phone number is 510-581-4050, and our website is at . The gallery is open Fridays & Saturdays 11 am – 4 pm, and admission is free to the public.