At A Glance
When: One single session, Jan 23, 8pm Eastern - 11 pm Eastern
Where: Online via Zoom
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Cost: $75 suggested price
Enrollment: Capped at 24
Materials: Bring any and all supplies!
In a single, live 3 hour session
In this 3-hour learning session, we'll look at what and who we are, and find language to communicate it without strictures.
Taking a very anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal stance, the only structure we'll submit to is the coursing patterns of nature and the rhythm in our own spines.
We'll look at pictures, read poems and create a comic at the end in our own unique language.
The history of everything is the history of oppression and distraction.
Tonight we will loosen ourselves from this history and ask what, what stories do we tell when we are free?
You will:
Society keeps directing our attention away from things that are alive and things that were created by or created us.
The whole world is so interested suddenly in AI. The excitement over AI making art or whatever is forgetting that elephants that make art, and whales sing, and crows play, and that people invented culture.
Tonight we will share and invent our culture.
Instructor Bio:
Tom Hart is a cartoonist has been the Executive Director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida since 2012.
His 2016 memoir, Rosalie Lightning, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List and was featured on many Best-Of-2016 lists.
His Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books, were nominated for all the major industry awards. His The Collected Hutch Owenwas nominated for best graphic novel in 2000. He was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. He has been called “One of the great underrated cartoonists of our time” by Eddie Campbell and “One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade” by Scott McCloud. His daily Hutch Owen comic strip ran for 2 years in newspapers in New York and Boston, and his “Ali’s House”, co-created with Margo Dabaie was picked up by King Features Syndicate.
He was a core instructor at New York City’s School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults and teens alike. Among his students were Dash Shaw, Sarah Glidden Box Brown and other published cartoonists like Leslie Stein, Jessica Fink,Josh Bayer, Brendan Leachand many others. He has taught comix and sequential art at schools and institutions all around New York City for more than 10 years, and has conducted week-long workshops from Maine to Hawaii. He also teaches sequential art in the School of Art and Art History at UF.
His website is http://www.tomhart.net
