VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston present a Graphic Novel Workshop Exhibition, Wednesday, September 22, 7pm - 9pm.

Through an innovative collaboration between the UH School of Art and the Creative Writing Program, Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel course was an introduction and exploration of modern graphic storytelling through both critical examination and workshop of original creative work within the form.

With a focus on the medium and tools of graphic storytelling, its recurring themes and genres, and their relationship with modern storytelling, students had an opportunity to work across disciplinary lines in an art form that is establishing itself as an important new genre.

The results of this collaboration will be on display for one night only with presentations by Ted Closson, Chuck Ivy, Grant MacManus, Brandon White with Dean Haspiel, Jonathan Niles Gill with Joe Infurnari, and James Roberts with Mike Cavallaro.

Mat Johnson is a novelist who sometimes writes other things. He is the author of the novels Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

LOCATION: University of Houston, M.D. Anderson Library Honors, College Commons.