The Mariposa Museum was bustling with activity Friday afternoon. Children surrounded a table littered with scissors, beads, yarn, and other art equipment, focused on making magic wands from the available objects. In the back room, siblings Soumaya and Sidney Lima drew in sketchbooks, while the “Arthur” episode “George Scraps His Sculpture” played on a nearby […]
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N.J. artist gets animated on ‘Arthur,’ brings local students along for the ride
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 02, 2021
Artist Kevin Sampson on Arthur with his artwork and George, a character from the show. PBS Kids
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Now he’s become a piece of animated art.
Sampson is set to get “Arthurized” and play himself in an upcoming episode of the PBS series “Arthur.”
“It came out of the blue,” Sampson, 66, tells NJ Advance Media. “It was just something so different . I never thought I’d wind up a cartoon.”
“Arthur,” which premiered in 1996, is based on the children’s books by Marc Brown and is one of the longest-running animated series for children, winning seven Emmys over 23 seasons. The series follows the everyday adventures of an anthropomorphic young aardvark, his friends and family.
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