Feb 24 for ArtWalk – Tom Galambos Show
We’re really excited to welcome visiting graphic novelist Tom Galambos to SAW. Tom is an artist of slyly deft craft and deeply felt humane stories.
Tom Galambos is a painter and cartoonist from Rochester, NY. He won a Xeric grant in 1996 for the publication of “from Hungary”, a comic about his parents’ escape from communist Hungary. His subsequent graphic novel, “All the Wrong Places”, was named one of the ten best graphic novels of 2001. Tom is also a painter of large scale figurative paintings, meticulous still lifes and a series of painted comics.
In 2010 Tom began to fuse his comics making and painting in a series of installations entitled “Instances” with artist Greg Lendeck. They combine narrative drawings, comics and mural painting. “Instances” has been installed in various iterations in Rochester NY, Canadaigua, NY and Corning, NY.
His comics have appeared in the anthologies Top Shelf and SPX 2000. He continues to produce minicomics.
Tom has an MFA in Painting from Washington University and lives in Rochester, NY with his wife and two sons where he works and teaches painting and drawing.
Been using SAW as a studio, teaching space, comics resource library. Each day is filled with visitors, conversation as well as great work time.
Some recent scenes:
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Sculptor Erin Curry comes in with a home made kite, the size and shape of a mardi-gras mask.
I showed Erin some Lumakick by Richard Hahn and also a series of books by Warren Craghead. I love showing new work to people. One of the best perks of teaching in a well-stocked school: pulling books and examples off the shelves.
Then she loaned me some books on kites. Do you people have any idea how amazing the world of kites is?? I thought not. And Google won’t help- just a trip to Italy, Berlin or apparently, Burning Man will do it.
Anyhow, other visitors might include my neighbor Orlando, who suggests I help translate Condorito for kids in the US. Not sure that will work (not unless Condorito can morph into more powerful Condors to do battle with other Condors in the official Condor Arena.), but we’ve had good conversations about different types of humor in comics and theater nonetheless.
 And here’s Anna, working to sell some Silver Age comics as backstock, but also secretly planning her next brilliant roommate comic. |
Caroline Paquita stopped by to take down her show, and to draw on our funding poster, that’s Majed and Anna watching on. |
Then if it’s a class night, we get to work on looking at artwork, and pulling ideas and techniques from our examples. This was an adult inking class.
It was such a blast having Caroline Paquita here, arranging her show, and then bringing her friends and fans in to SAW for an evening of drawing, schmoozing, snacks and “comic geekery.” Thanks Caroline!
See more at Facebook or Flickr
Caroline Paquita Party/Art Show !Stop by SAW at 18 SE 5th Ave at Main St, on Saturday evening, February the 4th, for an informal hangout session with former Gainesville resident, Caroline Paquita, of WOMANIMALISTIC and Pegacorn Press. Using stencil duplicators in her home, Paquita has put out over 5,000 copies of comics, zines, and her yearly calendar, with many more publications in the works. Currently living in Brooklyn, New York, she’ll be back for this one night only event, ready for technical printing questions, comic geekery, and complete with publications and prints for viewing and purchase.
In the tradition of Paquita’s previous events in Gainesville, people are encouraged to bring snacks and beverages to share, though some will definitely be provided!
7-10pm
Thanks to everyone who came to our grand opening/ Derek Ballard book release. It was a great success, thanks!
More pics
here at Flick
Check out Josh Bayer, and his great formal experimentation project, Suspect Device. Tom Hart is in this, I think Derek Ballard might be too. Leela Corman?
Friday Jan 27, 7 – 10 pm!SATCHELS
SAW is pleased to announce that it received a grant from Satchel’s Pizza in Gainesville to further furnish The Sequential Artists Workshop. The grant was to assist in furnishing tables, lights and shelves. The “Satch Grant” has been funding Gainesville area charities and educational endeavors on a quarterly basis for over 6 years.
Satchels has always been a great part of Gainesville and we’re proud they acknowledged SAW with this gracious donation. You can read more here: http://justdue.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-2012-satch-grant.html
DARPA
Tom Hart at SAW is part of a team working from a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency- they invented the internet) grant to help soldiers and veterans create comics and graphic novels online. Hart is partnering with E-Line Ventures, a technology and educational company and Outside the Wire, an organization dedicated to theater and storytelling for social impact.
Tom Hart will be working to create online scaffolding for users to enable them to get the most of learning a new medium. He brings to this project 10 years of teaching on the college level as well as to other age groups and populations.
Just a reminder to catch Leela Corman’s radio show, Ecstasy to Frenzy, this and every Monday on Grow Radio from 3 to 5 pm. Here’s the link:
http://www.growradio.org/show.php?name=Ecstasy+To+Frenzy
You can listen to previous shows as well as listen live to the stream.
Lots going on at SAW, so much that we haven’t cracked our computer to post about it.
Or first adult class is tonight! It’s sold out, but we’ll offer it again soon. This class is a 5-week quick class getting into the fundamentals of storytelling and creativity with words, pictures and time.
Also, we’ll have an opening party and show for Derek Ballard on Jan 27, to coincide with Gainesville ArtWalk
We’ve been painting and arranging and we’ll post some photos of the new space later today. Thanks to Chris Fillie, world’s best landlord for helping create the space.
TH@SAW
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