Get ready for the next thrilling installment of Rabbit and Kitty Boy, penned by Edward S. Louis, based on the wonderful enigmatic paintings of Kristy Deetz. In "Holidays Unfolding," our adventurous cavaliers wend their way through a reimagined calendar of traditional and not-so-traditional holidays, where dreams and reality quickly merge into one. Rabbit ventures beyond the safe confines of the artist's domain, leaving Kitty Boy in quite a lather, and the ensuing Holiday celebrations are anything but predictable! Kristy Deetz's intricate paintings are, as always, full of dark humor, visual puns, symbols and metaphors, with allusions to art history and spiritual conundrums. Once again, Edward S. Louis provides an engaging and thought-provoking narrative, asking lots of questions of our reluctant protagonists, as well as their faithful readers. "A unique dialogue is going on here, between artist and writer... as well as between Rabbit and Kitty Boy. Somehow this harks back to other dialogues in imaginary landscapes. Literary journeys and adventures, along with drawings and sculptures... this landscape of the imagination created by Kristy Deetz and Edward Louis is well within the terrain created by other great story tellers, from Antoine St. Exupery to Samuel Beckett." - Richard Emery Nickolson, Professor Emeritus, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, Indiana In Holidays Unfolding , the story takes place over the course of a year, a calendrical sequence happening in places that are both familiar (such as roads where you might get struck by a car), and the otherworldly (where animals play banjos). These are spaces where animal-human connections are manifest, as well as a surreal world of rabbit and feline dreams, imaginings, possibly fueled by a taste of catnip. Once experienced, you may never regard your companion animals, or narrative painting, the same way." - Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor's Professor of Art The University of Tennessee, Knoxville "The fantastical second book of Rabbit and Kitty Boy unfolds like dreams layered within dreams that journey along an unfolding pageantry of holidays and seasons. Deetz and Louis create densely layered visual and textual realms that combine into complex imaginal spaces... The characters' stories are interwoven and transposed into rich multi-dimensional tapestries of metaphor, word play, visions, fables, and mental wanderings..." - Heather Harvey, Associate Professor of Art and Art History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland "Holidays Unfolding" is a sumptuous feast of visual and literary narratives... I truly felt enlightened by my encounter with these two incredible characters!" - Virginia Derryberry, Professor Emerita Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina, Asheville "Beautifully horrific...Horrifically beautiful...More Orwellian than Rockwellesque... The stuff of hallucinations, Deetz's unsettling images paired with Louis' circular narratives describe compelling, but competing themes of chronic anxiety and steadfast hope. To escape the danger and repair the fabric of being - simply read to the end..." - Reni Gower, Curator/Director, Wylie Contemporary, Inc Professor Emerita, VCU Arts (Department of Painting & Printmaking) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia "Edward S. Louis' witty tale sends Rabbit on an odyssey that gives a nod to Lewis Carroll while it seems to have sprung directly out of one of Kristy Deetz's lushly imaginative embroidered paintings. It is a beautifully compassionate and compelling story that reveals an essential truth about the delirium of the holidays, the mysteries of the unconscious, and the preciousness of friendship." - Gina Litherland, Visual Artist, Cedarburg, WI " Holidays Unfolding is a delightful story about friendship, adventure, and undreamed-of possibilities. Kristy Deetz' exquisite paintings and Edward S. Louis' lively storytelling remind us all of the infinite power of art and play". - Judith Rushin-Knopf Associate Professor Area Head, Painting and Drawing Co-Director, Facility for Arts Research Department of Art, College of Fine Arts Florida State University KRISTY DEETZ is a Professor in the Art Discipline at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Her extensive exhibition record includes national and international venues and her paintings have been featured in a number of textbooks and magazines. She frequently gives workshops and serves as a visiting artist at venues including Haystack, Oxbow, Penland, and Arrowmont. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship and she received SECAC's 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2018, she served as Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, and as artist-in-residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland.