David Sandlin: Hold Back the Rushing Waters, Make the Wind Lie Still

A weekly symposium for artist and writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. to present and critique current work. The symposium offers an ongoing place to learn and think about the traditions and future of text-image work.

About the speaker:

Artist David Sandlin discusses the influence of country music on his paintings, prints, and comics.

David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956. He currently lives in New York and teaches printmaking, book arts, and illustration at the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia, and his comics and illustrations have appeared inThe Best American Comics 2015, 2012 and 2009; The New Yorker; Raw; and other publications. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, and other institutions.











When: Wed., Nov. 2, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: Free
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A weekly symposium for artist and writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. to present and critique current work. The symposium offers an ongoing place to learn and think about the traditions and future of text-image work.

About the speaker:

Artist David Sandlin discusses the influence of country music on his paintings, prints, and comics.

David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956. He currently lives in New York and teaches printmaking, book arts, and illustration at the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia, and his comics and illustrations have appeared inThe Best American Comics 2015, 2012 and 2009; The New Yorker; Raw; and other publications. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, and other institutions.

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