"Street Art and Graphic Novels" — Talk by Eric Drooker, Keynote Lecture for "Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation""Street Art and Graphic Novels" — Talk by Eric Drooker, Keynote Lecture for "Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation"http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/98832KINSC Sharpless Auditorium2009-10-22T19:30:002009-10-22T22:00:00
October 22, 7:30PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Opening keynote lecture for Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation
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Organized by Professor Theresa Tensuan
Cartoonists Lynda Barry and Eric Drooker will be joining the artists, critics, scholars, and community members taking part in the symposium "Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation" on Haverford College's campus from October 22-25, 2009.
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Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker, the American Book Award-winning author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Blood Song: A Silent Ballad, and Illuminated Poems, a collaboration with poet Allen Ginsberg, will be presenting a "musical slide lecture" as the opening keynote address for the symposium Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation on Thursday, October 22 at 7:30 in Sharpless Auditorium at Haverford College.
A native New Yorker and Cooper Union graduate, Drooker's posters advocating squatters' rights and denouncing police brutality under Mayor Koch's regime became a key element of the visual architecture of the Lower East Side in the 1980s. Drooker's graphic novels extend the artistic and political tradition of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward; his work has appeared in the pages of the New York Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Newsweek, and he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
The symposium is part of Professor Theresa Tensuan's English 386 seminar: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation, and Drooker's visit is made possible by the Hurford Humanities Center, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, James House, and the Distinguished Visitors Office.
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