The ninety-second meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, July 28, 2014 at 7 pm at The School of Visual Arts, 132 West 21st St, 3rd floor studio. Free and open to the public.
Presentations by Tom Hart and Leela Corman. Moderator: Aaron Cockle
Updates from Tom Hart, Leela Corman, and The Sequential Artists Workshop
Presenter 1: Tom Hart
Former SVA instructor Tom Hart debriefs about the first 2 1/2 years of SAW, the non-profit, informal arts school he founded in central Florida 2012, going into detail about the curriculum, the teachers, the students, and the work that’s come out of there.
In addition he’ll preview his work in progress, Rosalie Lightning.
Presenter 2: Leela Corman
Leela Corman will show highlights from her last year of work including numerous non-fiction comics about dance and politics in Egypt, belly dancing on King’s Highway, sex trafficking in Cambodia, and the connections between her daughter and grandfather, a holocaust survivor, in the award-winning Yahrzeit.