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SUMMARY:Faculty Invites: Inking the Unthinkable: A Sense-Memory Writing and Cart
ooning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:\nA hands-on memoir comix workshop inspired by educator/cart
oonist Lynda Barry's theories of creative concentration as “”deep play\,
" and writing as “”delivering an image." No drawing experience is needed
—we all have more drawing experience than we admit. As Barry says\, “Peo
ple tell me I can’t draw and I say\, so what have I been doing for thirt
y years?”\n\nMiriam Libicki’s short comics have been published by The Ni
b\, Abrams\, Rutgers University Press\, and the Journal of Jewish Identi
ties. Her book of graphic essays\, Toward a Hot Jew\, received the 2017
Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature\, and her painted essay “Who G
ets Called an Unfit Mother”was nominated for a 2020 Best Short Story Eis
ner. Libicki was the 2017 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Li
brary\, and teaches illustration and humanities at Emily Carr University
. Her most recent collaboration\, an anthology of Holocaust survivor gra
phic memoirs titled But I Live\, received a 2022 Canadian Book award..\n
\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/inking-the-unthinkab
le/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A hands-on memo
ir comix workshop inspired by educator/cartoonist Lynda Barry's theories
of creative concentration as “”deep play," and writing as “”delivering
an image." No drawing experience is needed—we all have more drawing expe
rience than we admit. As Barry says, “People tell me I can’t draw and I
say, so what have I been doing for thirty years?”
Miriam Libicki’s
short comics have been published by The Nib, Abrams, Rutgers U
niversity Press, and the Journal of Jewish Identities. Her book
of graphic essays, Toward a Hot Jew, received the 2017 Vine Aw
ard for Canadian Jewish Literature, and her painted essay “Who Gets Call
ed an Unfit Mother”was nominated for a 2020 Best Short Story Eisner. Lib
icki was the 2017 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, a
nd teaches illustration and humanities at Emily Carr University. Her mos
t recent collaboration, an anthology of Holocaust survivor graphic memoi
rs titled But I Live, received a 2022 Canadian Book award..
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/inking-the-unthinkable/
LOCATION:133 Sparks Building
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