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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes (2021) by Don Tate
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From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the picture book Pigskins to Paintbrushes tells the rousing story of Ernie Barnes, an African American pro football player and fine artist.He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the fieldâthat was an art.Young Ernie Barnes wasnât like other boys his age. Bullied for being shy, overweight, and uninterested in sports like boys were âsupposedâ to be, he instead too...