Art Spiegelman To Headline Rice Comic Conference
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will headline Rice University’s upcoming conference, “Comics Sans Frontières: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives.” The four-day event will explore how comics challenge artistic, national, and cultural boundaries.
Art, often credited with raising the graphic novel as a serious literary work, will deliver the keynote address on March 20. He will also be awarded their inaugural Comics Pioneer Award, known as the “Yoink!”
The conference runs March 20-24 and is free and open to the public. It will include panel discussions, exhibitions, and workshops featuring international scholars and artists. Conference schedule below:
Thursday, March 20
Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Christopher Sperandio, Comics Without Borders: Jack Katz
Organized by Christopher Sperandio with the students of ARTS387: Exhibition
Coloring outside the Lines
Curated by Mingo Almazan
Opening Remarks:
Christopher Sperandio
Introduction of Š! #55, Comics Sans Frontières:
Pedro Moura
Keynote Event:
Introductions by Dr. Matthias Henze
Art Spiegelman in conversation with Ofra Amihay
Friday, March 21
PANEL 1: Comics and Publishers Roundtable
Moderated by Christopher Sperandio (ARTS & CATS); featuring David Schilter, Brian Baynes, Charles Kochman, and a special report by Fondren Fellow Sofia Adams-Giron
PANEL 2: WEIRD SCIENCE! Comics and Engineering
Moderated by K.Jane Grande-Allen; featuring Mia Oberländer, Vera Bekema, Līga Spunde
PANEL 3: Comics and Gender
Moderated by Tesla Cariani; featuring Caitlin McGurk, Ana Waalder
Artist presentation:
Robert Pruitt
A Houston native, New York-based Robert Pruitt will talk about his large-scale drawings and the impact that comics has had on his life and work.
Saturday, March 22
Woodson Research Center Coffee and Exhibition Reception for an exhibition, Highlights from the CATS Workshop Collection. Organized by Fondren Fellow Sofia Adams-Giron of objects from the CATS Collection
PANEL 4: Comics and Language
Moderated by Ofra Amihay; featuring Margarita M. Castromán Soto, Naoko Ozaki, Martalisa Tsai
PANEL 5: Comics and Rice University
Moderated by David Messmer; featuring Jeffrey Kripal, Christopher Sperandio, Amanda Focke & K. Sarah Ostrach, Amelyn Ng, Julie Fette
Sunday, March 23
Risograph and Letterpress Workshops
Make friendship bracelets while learning how to print with Risograph. Hang out with Augusto Mora (Mexico City) as he prints a poster utilizing Risograph — or make custom drink coasters while learning the basics of letterpress with Mingo Almazan
Monday, March 24
WORKING WITH IMAGES SEQUENTIALLY
Need for Speed: Underground Comics: Workshop with Mia Oberländer
SURPRISE IS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL
Artist presentation
Līiga Spunde is an artist working with text and images across a range of disciplines and media.
BASIC PAGE CONSTRUCTION
Typo-Grid Poster Workshop with Vera Bekema
A grid is a tool for a designer to organize text and images on a page. In this workshop we are going to make a poster on a sheet of grid paper with RETRO text, numbers and geometrical shapes.
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