Thursday June 25 and July 3 | 6 - 8 PM | *choose: $20 | $30 | $40
Join Teaching Fellow and award-winning cartoonist Sally Pirie as we learn how to turn our own small-moment stories into beautiful mini-magazines (or, “zines’). Zines are the ultimate multi-media experience: In this class we will experiment with words and pictures as we learn and practice the basics of visual storytelling, comic art, and beginning paper bookmaking. Together, we will learn how to make three different types of zines --with lots of variations, tips, tricks, bells, and whistles along the way. This is a class for all levels, from people who have never drawn anything before to those who feel confident in their drawing abilities. Everyone will leave class with at least three completed zines of their own, ready to share! Advance registration is required.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene). Google Maps Link
PLEASE REGISTER
*PROGRAM FEE STRUCTURE
While many of our programs are free, we also offer classes and events with a fee. There are three prices to choose from on a sliding scale:
subsidized $20 | regular fee $30 | help others $40
Upon registration, we trust you to choose the right fee that matches what you can afford. Do you need financial assistance? Can you pay the regular rate? Do you have the ability to pay a bit more and make funds available for others?
If in doubt, give us a call at 518.242.6535
Sally Pirie
She was born in Northern Japan and grew up across Asia and the Pacific, spending her summers with her grandparents in Jackson, Mississippi, where she came to know the work of fellow Mississippian Walter Ingliss Anderson, who described art as a “process for grasping” and the world as a magical place full of animal “familiars.” Sally is a graduate of Punahou School, Grinnell College, and the University of Colorado. She is currently Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of Massachusetts. An anthropologist of childhood and arts-based research, Professor Pirie’s areas of research focus include comics-based research, gender diversity in childhood, and feminized labor systems. As an award-winning graphic novelist and newspaper cartoonist, she now combines her work in gender and culture with illustration, non-fiction comics, zine-making, linocut printmaking, collage, and painting to explore questions about corporeality, imagination, and human development. Anderson’s “familiars” are with her still. You can learn more about her work at www.sallypirie.com