{"id":4300,"date":"2019-03-25T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/library\/2019\/03\/25\/animation-drawings-star-wars-art-and-cornfield-mickey-oh-my\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:34:45","slug":"animation-drawings-star-wars-art-and-cornfield-mickey-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/library\/2019\/03\/25\/animation-drawings-star-wars-art-and-cornfield-mickey-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation Drawings, Star Wars Art, and Cornfield Mickey, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For just over two months now, the walls of the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room on the second floor of the Leatherby Libraries have been adorned with a fantastic double exhibit on loan from the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University<\/a>, “Character References: The Art of the Animation Drawing” and “A New Hope: The\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0<\/em>Art of Robert Bailey.”<\/a> This Saturday, March 30th, the Leatherby Libraries and the Hilbert Museum are partnering to offer a reception celebrating the exhibit in a major way.<\/p>\n

The reception, beginning at 5:00 p.m., will include delicious refreshments, and remarks from Dean of the Leatherby Libraries Charlene Baldwin, Mark Hilbert, founder of the museum, and Mary Platt, Director of the Hilbert Museum and curator of the exhibit. Attendees will then get to see a trailer for the documentary “Growing Magic: The Mickey Mouse Cornfield Story,”<\/a> which will be screen in full later in the evening. Jerry Johnson,\u00a0assistant professor of digital media at Buena Vista University in Iowa and director of the film, will be in attendance, along with four of the students who helped create the movie: Olivia Weissler, writer; Mason McGrew, editor; Zach Hess, production and editor assistant; and Jordyn Daggs Olson, promotion and publicity. Featured in the film is Disney Legend and former Disneyland President Jack Lindquist<\/a>, whose impact on the Leatherby Libraries is clear in both the Jack and Belle Lindquist Dream Room and the Disney Collection, both on the second floor of the library. For a full description of the film, see below. Chapman alumna Mimi Cora (’84) and her husband Disney Legend Jim Cora will be in attendance. Mimi Cora was the project coordinator of the cornfield Mickey at the center of the film, and was a key contributor to the making of the documentary.<\/p>\n