A traveling exhibit of John Lennon's art touched down in Springfield, Illinois on September 26th and 27th (1998). The State Journal-Register, a local Springfield newspaper, ran a feature story about the exhibit in their September 24, 1998 edition.

Sponsored by radio station WYMG 100.5, with proceeds to Feed the Children, the exhibit featured drawings, lyric reproductions and other art by John Lennon.

Matthew Dieterich interviewed Yoko by telephone to help promote the event. Yoko said, "First of all I'm glad to report...that so many professional artists walk in and are very surprised because they actually suddenly realize that John was very professional. It wasn't just a kind of silly doodling. So they get very surprised about that."

Yoko emphasized the fact that the show gives John Lennon fans a chance to experience his legacy up-close. Yoko: "It's almost like a sideshow that I hadn't realized was the fact that when this show goes to these towns, the towns that the Beatles never covered or John never covered, it's the first time that the town is having John come over in a way. And it's that excitement as well. But also, fans and people that really were influenced by John's spirit come to see the work just as sort of a confirmation or just to see something of John's. They will sort of congregate in a way. They notice each other. They realize that they are kind of soul brothers and soul sisters."

About criticisms, Yoko said, "I think that initially when I started the program the criticism was mainly, 'Why do we have so much family stuff?' and, 'You're in every picture.' That was the criticism, not from the fans but from the critics. And I was saying, well, listen, I'm just trying to give everything that's here, that's good, and some of them are family. I tried to put some that are not family, but it seems like he really, genuinely liked drawing family. It's there. And now I think people don't think that way. They like the fact that John was like that."

Asked about letting Paul, George and Ringo use John's "Free As A Bird" for the Beatles Anthology Yoko said, "I can understand on an artistic level they might criticize it and even on a moral level they might criticize the fact that I gave that tape to the remaining three people to do it, but I decided that all media, if it's done right, if it's used right, to bring John's songs in it, it's fine. And I think it was better that it went out there to be heard than not to be heard."