2018 Events
ORLANDO, FL
FRIDAY
1/12/18
Epcot® International Festival of the Arts
Epcot® World Showcase / Orlando, FL
1:30pm – 2:00pm
Presentation
Trailblazing Ladies of Walt Disney's Animation
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Art of Disney at Epcot
Epcot® Future World / Orlando, FL
Book Signing
ORLANDO, FL
SATURDAY
1/13/18
Art of Disney at Disney Springs
Book Signing
1780 East Buena Vista Drive / Orlando, FL 32830
ORLANDO, FL
SUNDAY
1/14/18
11:00am – 12:15pm
Epcot® International Festival of the Arts
Odyssey Festival Showplace
Epcot® World Showcase / Orlando, FL
1:00pm – 2:00pm
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Workshop
Pencils, Paint & Pixels – How Women Transformed
Walt Disney's Animation
Art of Disney at Epcot
Epcot® Future World / Orlando, FL
Book Signing
SUNDAY
1/21/18
2:00pm
Barnes & Noble
Media City Center – Burbank, CA
731 North San Fernando Boulevard /
Burbank, CA 91502
Group Book Signing to Include:
Mindy Johnson – Ink & Paint –
The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
Don Hahn – Yesterday's Tomorrow –
Disney's Magical Mid-Century
Dave Bossert – Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
and The Art of Tennessee Loveless
MONDAY
1/22/18
5:30pm Lecture
USC Graduate School -
Business of Animation
John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts
930 West 34th Street / Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
WEDNESDAY
1/24/18
PIXAR Animation Studios
(Private Event)
Presentation and Book Signing
SEATTLE, WA
SATURDAY
1/27/18
1:30pm Showtime
(doors open at 1pm)
Pacific Northwest Mouse Meet
Edmonds Community College, Black Box Theater
20000 68th Avenue West / Lynnwood, WA 98036
MiceChat Anniversary
Author Panel Event
The Anaheim Hotel (across from Disneyland)
1700 South Harbor Boulevard / Anaheim, CA 92802
Participating Authors:
Mindy Johnson – Ink & Paint – The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
Dave Bossert – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons
FRIDAY
2/2/18
6:30pm – 9:00pm
ANAHEIM, CA
SATURDAY
2/3/18
12:00pm – 2:00pm
EVENT INFO
El Capitan Theater /
Disney's Soda Fountain & Studio Store Hollywood
6834 Hollywood Blvd. / Los Angeles, CA 90028
Group Book Signing to Include:
Mindy Johnson – Ink & Paint –
The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
Marcy Carriker Smothers – Eat Like Walt
Don Hahn – Yesterday's Tomorrow –
Disney's Magical Mid-Century
Dave Bossert – Oswald The Lucky Rabbit and The Art of Tennessee Loveless
FRIDAY
2/9/18
6:30pm
California Institute of the Arts
Seminar Lecture
24700 McBean Parkway / Valencia, CA 91355
MONDAY
2/12/18
7:00pm
Open to the Public
ArtCenter College of Design
Presentation
1700 Lida Street / Pasadena, CA 91103
SATURDAY
2/17/18
5:00pm – 10:00pm
Ryman Arts Benefit
Book Signing
12021 Harbor Blvd. / Anaheim, CA 92840
Featuring:
Marcy Carriker Smothers– Eat Like Walt
Mindy Johnson– Ink & Paint - The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, along with Jane Baer– Animator –
Sleeping Beauty / The Rescuers / Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
SATURDAY
3/3/18
2:00pm
Barnes & Noble
Media City Center – Burbank, CA
731 North San Fernando Boulevard / Burbank, CA 91502
Women's History Month Book Signing with Women Artists of Disney Animation:
Gretchen Albrecht– Ink & Paint Department Head
Jane Baer– Animator
Sleeping Beauty / The Rescuers / Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Karen Comella– Supervisor Color Models
Phyllis Fields– Assistant Paint Supervisor
Beth Ann McCoy-Gee– Color Model Mark-up
Teri McDonald– Assistant Final Check Supervisor
Robyn Roberts Parra– Supervisor 2D Animation Processing
WEDNESDAY
3/7/18
6:00pm
Mark Taper Auditorium
Ladies of Animation Panel Event / LA Public Library
630 West 5th Street / Los Angeles, CA
Leading Ladies of Animation
Join Mindy Johnson, historian & author of Ink & Paint – The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, as she pulls back the celluloid curtain on the rich history of women who animate and meet these leading ladies of the animated art form.
Panelists:
Kathy Zielinski – Lead Animator
Lorna Cook – Director / Animator / Story Artist
Sue Kroyer – Animator / Art Director / Layout / Producer
Jane Baer – Animator / Studio Head
Gretchen Albrecht – Ink & Paint Department Head
WEDNESDAY
3/14/18
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Hollywood Heritage Museum /
Evening at the Barn
Presentation & Book Signing
2100 N. Highland Ave. / Hollywood, CA 90068
All ticket costs go to Hollywood Heritage Museum
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
FRIDAY
3/16/18
USITT Conference & Stage Expo
Fort Lauderdale, FL
NEW YORK
MONDAY
3/19/18
8:30pm
Pratt Institute
Presentation & Book Signing
Myrtle Hall 4E3
200 Willoughby Avenue / Brooklyn, NY 11205
TUESDAY
3/20/18
6:30pm
NEW JERSEY
Ocean County Library - Toms River Branch
Presentation & Book Signing
101 Washington Street / Toms River, NJ 08753
TUESDAY
3/27/18
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Disney Consumer Products and
Interactive Media
(Private Event)
Presentation and Book Signing
FRIDAY
3/30/18
7:00pm
SACRAMENTO, CA
Stage Nine Gallery VIP Event
Event & Book Signing
102 K Street / Sacramento, CA 95814
SATURDAY
3/31/18
SACRAMENTO, CA
Stage Nine Gallery Public Event
Event & Book Signing
102 K Street / Sacramento, CA 95814
40th Annual Communications Week
Presentation & Book Signing
Cal State University Fullerton Campus
College of Communications
2600 Nutwood Avenue / Fullerton, CA 92831
WEDNESDAY
4/25/18
7:00pm
FULLERTON, CA
SATURDAY
4/28/18
2:30pm
TCM Classic Film Festival
Presentation & Book Signing
Chinese Multiplex House 6
6801 Hollywood Boulevard / Hollywood, CA 90028
An Invisible History:
Trailblazing Women of Animation
Author and Historian Mindy Johnson takes you behind the celluloid curtain into the widely unseen world of ink pens, paintbrushes, pigments, pencils and pixels. Johnson’s groundbreaking research widens the lens to reveal the invisible half of our collected animated past, featuring women whose pioneering work redefines the cinematic roots of film animation. This landmark event features a once-in-a-lifetime panel of trailblazing and award-winning women, including Academy Award-winning director, Brenda Chapman; DreamWorks Animation studio head, Bonnie Arnold; and leading artists who worked on such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Toy Story, The Lion King, Brave, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, How To Train Your Dragon and many more! Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with an introduction by Randy Haberkamp, Managing Director of Preservation and Foundation Programs at the Academy.
In attendance:
Gretchen Albrecht, Bonnie Arnold, Brenda Chapman, Randy Haberkamp, Mindy Johnson, Lorna Pomeroy-Cook, Tina Price, Jane Shattuck-Baer, Amy Smeed, Kathy Zielinski
THURSDAY
5/3/18
3:00pm – 5:00pm
College of the Canyons
Presentation & Book Signing with animator Jane Baer
Humanities Department / Hasley Hall - Theater 101
26455 Rockwell Canyon Road / Santa Clarita, CA 91355
To be Human is to be Recognized...
An Invisible History —
Trailblazing Women of Walt Disney's Animation
TUESDAY
5/22/18
Peter Pan Blu-ray Release
Press Event
Walt Disney Studios
(Private Event)
SATURDAY
6/2/18
5:30pm Doors
6:30pm Live Music
8:30pm Movie
Peter Pan Family Screening
Park Center / Griffith Park
4670 Crystal Springs Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90027
65TH ANNIVERSARY
WEDNESDAY
6/6/18
10:30am – 12:00pm
Peninsula Lecture Series
Presentation & Book Signing with special guests
Hesse Community Park
29301 Hawthorne Blvd. / Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
How Women Transformed Walt Disney's Animation
LAS VEGAS, NV
FRIDAY–SUNDAY
6/8/18–
6/10/18
(multiple events)
Magical Memories Galleries
Las Vegas
The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace
3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South #T06A / Las Vegas, NV 89109
Please check links above for further details.
THURSDAY
6/28/18
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Architecture & Beyond Series
Los Feliz Branch Library
1874 Hillhurst Avenue / Los Angeles, CA 90027
Presentation & Book Signing
INK & PAINT – THE WOMEN OF WALT DISNEY'S ANIMATION
SATURDAY
7/14/18
SEATTLE, WA
SOLD OUT
Pacific Northwest Mouse Meet
Lynnwood Convention Center
3711 196th St SW / Lynnwood, WA 98036
Presentation & Book Signing (along with Dave Bossert and Don Hahn)
DISNEY RARITIES: A RARE LOOK AT DISNEY HISTORY
SAN DIEGO, CA
FRIDAY–SUNDAY
7/19–7/22/18
FRIDAY
7/20/18
Comic-Con® International: San Diego
San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive / San Diego, CA 92101
10am – Panel Event
The Genius of Animation Problem-solving in Character and Story
12:30–1:15pm
Book Signing – Disney Publishing Booth
TUESDAY
9/18/18
12pm – 1:30pm
Woodbury University
Woodbury University Library
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd. / Burbank, CA 91504
Presentation & Book Signing
An Invisible History – Trailblazing Women of Animation
OTTAWA, CANADA
SATURDAY
9/29/18
Ottawa International Animation Festival
September 26–30, 2018
Ottawa, Canada
Presentation & Book Signing
SUNDAY
10/7/18
10:30am – 11:30am
Los Angeles Symposium – USC
John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts
930 West 34th Street / Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Presentation & Book Signing
An Invisible History – Trailblazing Women of Animation
TUESDAY
10/23/18
6:30pm
Pasadena History Museum –
Giddings Room
470 West Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
Something Revealed: California Women Artists Emerge (1860-1960)
Galleries will be open late!
ORLANDO, FL
MONDAY
10/29/18
12pm – 1pm
WDW Disney University
Orlando, FL – SOLD OUT
TUESDAY
10/30/18
7:00pm
Chapman University
One University Drive / Orange, CA 92866
VANCOUVER, BC
TUESDAY
11/13/18
10:00am
Atomic Cartoons
123 W. 7th Avenue / Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada
Private Event
Ink, Paint & Pioneering Women of Animation History
Presentation Along with Animator Jane Shattock-Takamoto-Baer
VANCOUVER, BC
TUESDAY
11/13/18
7:00pm
Emily Carr University of Art & Design
The Reliance Theatre
520 East 1st Avenue / Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2, Canada
Pencils, Paints & Pixels –
Trailblazing Women of Animation
Lectures / Mastersessions
Along with Animator Jane Shattock-Takamoto-Baer
NORTH VANCOUVER, BC
WEDNESDAY
11/14/18
9:30am – 11am
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way / North Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5, Canada
BURNABY, BC
WEDNESDAY
11/14/18
1pm – 2pm
BRON Animation
5542 Short Street / Burnaby, BC V5J 1L9, Canada
THURSDAY–SUNDAY
11/15–18/2018
SUNDAY
11/18/18
CTN Expo
Burbank Airport Marriott Convention Center
2500 N. Hollywood Way / Burbank, CA 91505
With Chiara Beneditti and Lois Van Baarle, moderated by Mindy Johnson
Booksigning to follow
Panel Presentation / Theater 3
THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
Walt's Barn
5202 Zoo Drive / Los Angeles, CA 90027
SUNDAY
12/16/18
11:00am – 3:00pm
(Weather permitting)
Author's Day to Include:
Don Hahn, Dave Bossert, and many more!