Justine’s first gig in years, this Friday at ArtWalk.
She says:
Well, gang, it’s coming, my first gig in years! Several years ago I swore off performing, and about 2 years ago I sold off most of my guitars and packed up the rest. But now I’m back, and this Friday, 3/29/13 at SAW during Artwalk, I will be performing my first set in many years. if you’re around, come on out.
9:30 pm this Friday.
Join the artists of SAW and a selection of Gainesville’s finest stage improvisors at the Acrosstown Repertory Theater as they combine skills in a night of fun story-building, beauty, skits and possible chaos. There will be acting and performance, live drawings and combinations of all of the above.
Produced by Tom Hart of SAW and Sheila Bishop of crookedletter and starring the students of SAW, Carolyne Salt, Dan Kahn and Sheila Bishop.
Sliding scale from $5-$20. Proceeds to benefit SAW and local performers.
SAW will be at MOCCA in NEW YORK CITY April 6 and 7
and FLUKE in Athens Georgia April 6
and SPACE in Columbus Ohio April 13 and 14.
We may have a TCAF representative too, check with COFFEE SPOONS…
“The teaching is just excellent … I can’t tell you how many breakthroughs I’ve kind of made and strides of improving since I’ve been here, “
A very well written and researched article. Thanks to Sasha Fields and Gainesville Today.
http://gainesvilletoday.com.s96490.gridserver.com/?p=340
On accreditation, degrees etc., from the Executive Director Tom Hart:
I’m convinced that a degree in cartooning does not do anything that an excellent education in cartooning does not, except drive up cost and enable you to convince faceless bureaucracies later that you can teach for them.
Please trust that we want to enable you to impress those faceless bureaucracies, but our immediate goal is giving you a quality well-rounded education that enables you to be smart, critical, creative, dedicated and talented in this medium.
Building the reputation of this school for a graduate’s benefit is on the short-term to-do list. Figuring our way through the bureaucracies that enable us to do that is more of a mid-range goal.
Additionally, we completely respect the need for transferable undregrad or graduate credits and we are working on this issue currently.
Regarding the industry, the country, the economy, work and other situations that college degrees have traditionally been factored into, we can speak to a few items from first hand experience:
As a side note, many successful, driven people without traditional formal education (a short list of people of famous college drop-outs would probably begin with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs) get their training from mentorship and from taking charge of their own education, learning on the fly and putting themselves in rooms and positions with people in their field. SAW is designed to be a part of this process first and foremost.
Please note that this reflects the opinion of the Executive Director and is not necessarily the official SAW position.
A new class for anyone wanting to improve their visual skills!
We have a great plan for this class, and will be launching the concept at Artwalk this month, March 29. On display at Artwalk will be Justine’s complete professional narrative illustrations (Dungeons & Dragons, Lucasfilm, etc., all work NEVER shown in Gainesville), from pencils to inks to watercolor finish. Come for a preview!
From Justine: Throughout the course of the class I will be taking you (the students) through each of the steps I took to go from start to finish (from composition to symbolism, from pencils and inks to final watercolors), and over the 6-week course YOU will be creating finished full color illustrations, guided one step at a time by me! This class will be more comprehensive and more focused on the end result than most of my practice and technique-heavy classes. At the end of the 6 weeks you will have something finished to show for your time!
Want to see more work? The SAW/Justine Flickr Set here.
Class is Thursdays beginning April 4 – May 9, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Facebook event for the class here
Facebook event for ArtWalk event here
$110 for the 6 weeks. Paypal link to sign up:
The legendary and incredibly vibrant and funny Trina Robbins came to Gainesville this weekend, along with Megan Kelso, creator of Queen of the Black, Black, Artichoke Tales, and Watergate Sue for the 2013 comics conference focusing on women in comics. Leela also was an invited guest.
Megan Kelso’s talk about place in her comics at SAW
Trina and journalist/curator Dina Weinstein listening to Megan at SAW
The roundtable with Leela, Megan, Trina and Jeffrey A. Brown
Megan’s workshop at UF
Trina talking about the AMAZING ROSE O’NEIL
Leela’s artwork as a cake
Friends of SAW Elaine and Francesca at the keynote reception. Hi guys!
Trina’s energy and erudition was a delight. What a treat, thanks Trina!
We’re featured in an article on Teen Programs in the Gainesville Sun.
In addition to specific skills, art instruction teaches children how to communicate clearly, and with elegance and flair, says Tom Hart, the founder of the Sequential Artists Workshop.
“The entire human race trades stories. It allows us to have a better understanding of the world. Even people working in labs or on something technical see themselves as part of a story,” he says. “Having had some experience in communicating this way will make the kids better participants in whatever career or path they choose.”
UF Comics Conference
Come join us for the Tenth Annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic
Novels, “A Comic of Her Own: Women Writing, Reading, and Embodying
Through Comics” to be held on March 15-17, 2013. Guest speakers
include award-winning herstorian, artist and writer Trina Robbins (Ain’t
Me, Babe; A Century of Women Cartoonists; The Brinkley Girls: the Best
of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940 in 1970); Professor Jeffrey
A. Brown (Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans and
Dangerous Curves: Gender, Fetishism and the Modern Action Heroine );
Leela Corman, artist, writer and co-founder of Sequential Artists
Workshop (Queen’s Day; Unterzakhn); Megan Kelso, artist and writer
(Queen of the Black Black, The Squirrel Mother, Artichoke Tales). The
conference will feature a mixture of formats: keynote lectures,
workshops and Q & A sessions with guest artists, a round table
discussion, and traditional academic conference presentations.
“A Comic of her Own” seeks to explore the representation of women
in comics and graphic novels. This conference hopes to foster the
scholarly exploration of intersections between women’s writing in
comics, women represented in comics, and the women who read them.
Festivities will commence with a meet-and-greet for scholars, artists,
panelists, students and the general public on Friday the 15th at 3:00p.m
in Pugh 210. Refreshments will be provided!
Here’s what we’re most excited about:
Friday 7:00-8:30pm TRINA ROBBINS KEYNOTE LECTURE
Saturday: 12:30-2:15pm LUNCHTIME ARTIST’S WORKSHOP WITH MEGAN KELSO
Sunday: 11:00-1:00pm SPECIAL GUEST ROUND TABLE WITH LUNCH with Leela Corman, Megan Kelso, Trina Robbins
9-10:30am BREAKFAST ARTIST’S WORKSHOP WITH LEELA CORMAN, Breakfast provided.
Panels, workshops and the round table discussion will be held in Room
210 of Pugh Hall, and the key note lectures will take place in Atrium at
Ustler Hall.
More about the conference can be accessed at:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/comics/2013conference.shtml
Here is a schedule of panels and presentations in .pdf form
Ron Rege has been at SAW teaching his methods of adaptation as well as his forays into magic, the occult and fascinating history of obscure artists with rich systems of thought and image making. The show of the class final work is Friday March 8, 7-10 pm.
His own show at FLA Gallery opens Saturday March 9, 7-9 pm.
