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DRAWN TO PRINT
A national juried exhibition of drawning and printmaking and everything inbetween.
July 27 – August 31, 2018
Reception July 27, 6-8PM
This exhibition is the result of a national call and features works on paper that explore the ways in which the diverse and inclusive mediums of drawing and printmaking converge and are completely separate.
The path followed by a brayer can begin with a pencil, a mouse, a cut, or a maybe a stencil. There is no limit to the ideas that can be explored through drawing or printmaking. The presence of the artist in these processes can be at the forefront or separated by many layers of information. Surfaces can be additive or subtractive. Lines and forms can be ink, paint, graphite, thread, a cut or a tear. The work in this exhibition meets with the act of one material being pulled across the surface of another.
This exhibition features work from:
CONNOR ACHESON
DANIEL ALYIM
BRANDIN BARÓN
CURTIS BARTONE
ANNE BEIDLER
PATRICIA BENDER
SUZIE BUCHHOLZ
ANTONIO CARDOSO
EVAN CHRISTOPHERSON
DUSTIN CLARK
AMANDA COE
ANDREW DECAEN
HECTOR DEL CAMPO
SUZANNE DITTENBER
MATT DRISSEL
EVAN FERRARO
CYNDI FORD
SARAH HEYWARD
TRAVIS JANSSEN
JOHN JUDGE
CAROL MYERS
JOSH NEWTH
KATHLEEN ROGERS
MARK ROSPENDA
DIANE STAVER
SALLY SCHLUTER TARDELLA
BRUCE THAYER
OLIVIA TIMMONS
MARGI WEIR
JANE ZICH
TITUS KAPHAR / NOVEMBER 5 / MSU Union Ball Room /6PM
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Titus Kaphar lives and works on the east coast. Kaphar’s
mixed media work, speaks to the most vital discussions happening around race,
diversity, and reconciliation in the U.S. Kaphar exposes how all depictions, no matter
how personal or grandiose, are always fictional, imperfect, and capable of being
remade. He is the distinguished recipient of the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence
Fellowship as well as the 2015 Creative Capital Award and 2016 Rauschenberg Artist
as Activist Fellowship.
For more information about Titus Kaphar, please visit:
The MSU Advanced Comic Art and Graphic Novel students will conduct 4 separate signings across the great state of Michigan as they embark on the largest signing tour ever attempted by an MSU Comics cohort. Stop-by any of the locations to buy a comic book and get is signed by the artist.
DR QIANA WHITTED / FEBRUARY 23 / MSU LIBRARY BEAL ROOM / 12PM
Dr. Qiana Whitted teaches at USC, her research focuses on African-American literary studies and American comic books. Her most recently published articles and book chapters explore race, genre, and comics in representations of historical figures such as Nat Turner, Stagger Lee, and Emmett Till. Her forthcoming book on race and social protest in 1950s EC comics will be published in 2019. Whitted is the 2019 Comics Forum Scholar Keynote Speaker.
TEXTSCAPE
Hongtao Zhou
Textscapes are 3D printed documents to reemphasis printing in modern technological world.
May 17 – July 12, 2019
Textscapes are 3D printed documents to reemphasis printing in modern technological world. Printing technology was first created in ancient China to reproduce text using woodblocks, however today’s definition had been widely adopted in 3D printing, an additive process more often to create objects instead of duplicate text. Textscape generates letter-sized 3D documents to visually profile the subject matters of the texts, such as cities, landscapes or figures. These documents make reading process interactive for general audience or blind people, as knowledge as well as art. This series of work has variations of braille, language characters, calligraphies and number systems to bridge the contents and its visuality in architecture, landscape, portraits and abstract matters.
Hongtao Zhou is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist, he researches, practices and teaches in the areas of Design, Architecture, Exhibition Design, Furniture Design & Fabrication and Contemporary Sculpture & Installation. Hongtao holds a PhD from Purdue University, a MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MS from Northeast Forest University of China. He is a professor at Tongji College of Design and Innovation (D&I) and a visiting professor at University of Hawaii-Manoa (UHM). Hongtao had been serving as the Director of the UHM Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery. Currently he is Executive Member and Curator of the National Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia.
Hongtao has exhibited nationally & internationally including Centre Pompidou, Gwangju Design Biennale-South Korea, National Museum of China, Milan Design Week, Milwaukee Art Museum, Chazen Museum of Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Charles Allis Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art School, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing and Taiwan Design Center. He published his work and research in Interior Design, Interni, Design Bureau, Transmaterial, Metropolis, American Craft, Artdaily Zhuangshi Magazine, Modern Weekly and Huffington Post. Centre Pompidou and the University of Virginia collected his work. Hongtao’s work is currently on view in the 2019 Venice Biennale in collaboration with TONTSEN DESIGN in the European Cultural Centre Exhibition.
This exhibition made possible thanks to the MSU College of Arts and Letters, Department of Art, Art History, and Design. Special Thanks to Xia Gao, Associate Professor of Apparel and Textile Design. Work shown made possible by Jiabao Zhu, Project Assistant, Making Lab, Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation (D&I).
“Cornbelt Catholicism” with Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Professor at University of Iowa
Thursday, October 3rd, 7:00pm, Lake Huron Room, MSU Union
Mystical Phenomena in Modern Catholicism: An Illustrated Talk
with Prof. Paula Kane, Endowed Chair of Contemporary Catholic Studies
Thursday, October 8th, 7:30pm
Among the more unusual elements of Catholic mysticism is the tradition of stigmata, chosen persons who are marked supernaturally with the wounds of the crucified Christ. The lecture will address the case of an American stigmatic of the early twentieth century and the political uses made of such events for a Catholic population trying to adapt to American society.
Please register for the Zoom event:
https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pjIaXpu_RoiqX_CH-czopA
Please join us for the 14th annual MSU Comics Forum. This is a multi-day, annual event for scholars, creators and fans of the comics medium. Events include keynote addresses from an award-winning creator and scholar in the field, an artist alley, academic panel discussions, comic book discussion groups and more. MSU is also home of the Comic Art and Graphic Novel Minor, the MSU Comic Art and Graphic Novel Podcast, and the largest public collection of comic books in the world which is housed in our Special Collections Library.
This event is free and open to the public and this year all of the events will be hosted online.
MSU Comics Forum YouTube Channel
Schedule on MSU Comics Forum Panel Discussions Page
Friday, February 26, 2021
8:30 am (EST) Welcome Remarks
9:00 am (EST) Roundtable 1: Comics as Data North America (CaDNA)
Participants:
- Julian Chambliss, Professor of English, Michigan State University, (Moderator)
- Justin Wigard, Michigan State University
- Kate Topham, Digital Humanities Archivist, Michigan State University
10:00 am (EST) Break
10:15 am (EST) Roundtable 2: Graphic Narratives Network
Participants:
- Valentina Denzel, Associate Professor of French Literature, Michigan State University
- David Humphrey, Assistant Professor of Japanese and Global Studies, Michigan State University
- Sadam Issa, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, Michigan State University
- Catherine Ryu, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Michigan State University, (Moderator)
- Lynn Wolff, Associate Professor of German Studies, Michigan State University
11:15 am (EST) Lighting Round #1
Participants:
- Brianna Anderson, “What Will the World Be Like When I Grow Up?”: Picturing Children’s Eco-Activism in World War 3 Illustrated #46″
- Samantha Cutrara, “Not all graphic histories are created equal”
- Jason Lapidus, “Creator communities in the time of quarantine”
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm (EST) Lunch Break
2:00 pm (EST) Roundtable 3:Behind the Scenes in Graphic Novel Publishing
Participants:
- Gina Gagliano, Publishing Director, Random House Graphic
- Whitney Leopard, RHG Senior Editor, Random House Graphic
- Patrick Crotty, RHG Senior Designer, Random House Graphic
- Gwen Tarbox, Western Michigan University, (Moderator)
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm(EST) Break
3:15 pm (EST) Roundtable 4: Comics as / in / of / History
Participants:
- Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth University (Moderator)
- Kaleb Knoblauch, UC Davis
- Lawrence Abrams, UC Davis
- Elizabeth Pollard, San Diego State University
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm (EST) Break
4:30 pm (EST) Lightning Round #2
- Chris Sanagan, “Primary Sources: Inspiration for Storytelling”
- Sean Carleton, “”Getting Graphic with Activist Histories”
- Scott Chantler, “BIX: Visualizing Rhythm”
Kevin Huizenga’s graphic novels include Curses, The Wild Kingdom, Gloriana, and the recently released The River at Night. His work has been translated into six languages, garnered five Ignatz awards, as well as nominations for Harvey and Eisner awards. In 2020, The Guardian named The River at Night one of the best comics of the past decade. Huizenga lives in Minneapolis where he taught in the Comic Art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 2015-2019.
Saturday, February 27, 2021
9:00 am (EST) Roundtable 5: Graphic Medicine
Participants
- A. David Lewis, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science
- Candida Rifkind, The University of Winnipeg
- Teresa Wong, Author and Artist
- Sam Hester, Author and Artist
10:00am – 10:15 am (EST) Break
10:15 am (EST) Roundtable 6: LGBTQ+ and Comics
Participants:
- Andre M. Carrington (Moderator), University of California, Riverside
- Margaret Galvan, University of Florida
- Justin Hall, Writer
- Nic Gitau, Librarian & President of Geeks OUT
- Mariko Tamaki, Artist
11:15 am – 12:00 pm (EST) Break
12:00 pm (EST) Scholar Keynote
Deborah E. Whaley, University of Iowa
Black Women in Sequence: Rethinking and Reinking Black Women in Comics
This talk will explore graphic novel production and comic book fandom, focusing in particular on women of African descent as deployed in television, film, animation, and print representations of comic strip, comic book, and graphic novel characters. Whaley will also discuss Black women artists and writers of sequential art, and how Japanese comics, music, and politics shapes their comic art.
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm (EST) Break
1:15pm (EST) Roundtable 7: Fashion, Bodies, and Sex
Participants:
- Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University,
- Trina Robbins, Independent scholar and comics creator
- Sydney Heifler, Ohio State University, (Moderator)
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm (EST) Break
2:30 pm (EST)
Roundtable 8: Representation and Comics
Participants:
- Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University (Moderator)
- John Jennings, University of California, Riverside
- Andy Kunka, University of South Carolina, Sumter
- Beth LePensee, Michigan State University
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm (EST) Break
3:45 pm (EST) Roundtable 9: Pedagogy and Comics
Participants:
- Leah Misemer, Georgia Tech
- Susan Kirtley, Portland State University
- Jonathan Flowers, Worcester State
- Zack Kruse, Michigan State University (Moderator)
4:45 pm (EST) Closing Remarks
These events are made possible thanks to support from The MSU College of Arts and Letters, The Department of English, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Department of Art, Art History and Design, Gary Hoppenstand, MSU Muslim Studies, Capital Area District Libraries, The Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, The MSU Libraries Special Collections, The MSU Main Library, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, and BRD Printing.