The Wisdom Bar – "Stories from a Sketch Artist"

💭 Topic: Stories from a Sketch Arist
🎤 Lecturer: Anoush Froundjian
📍 Location: Tribeca (exact address provided in your confirmation email)
🍷 Wine, beer, and light bites included

How do we navigate different cultures in America? How do we represent those experiences? These questions have been explored throughout history from many perspectives. Anoush offers a creative and personal response through cartoons, stories, and humor.

Join us for a stimulating lecture by storyteller and cartoonist, Anoush Froundjian. Anoush explores the nuances of navigating multiple cultures — capturing the strange, funny, and deeply human moments that often feel difficult to put into words. A common thread emerges throughout the work: when you’re pressured to fit into a box, you’re also given the opportunity to design it yourself.

Together, the evening looks at how people shape identity, use art as a lens to explore personal experience and belonging, and make meaning out of moments that rarely fit neatly into one category.

Anoush Froundjian is a storyteller and cartoonist whose work centers on the Armenian experience in America. She creates the webcomic Anoush Talks to Stuff, where a girl speaks to inanimate objects, and co-produces the storytelling show The Armenian Power Hour. You can find her at @AnoushTalksToStuff and learn more about the show at @thearmenianpowerhour.

We’ll explore:
💭 storytelling, art, and cartoons as tools for expressing identity
💭 moments, big and small, that shape cultural experience
💭 how personal stories can reveal broader questions around culture, representation, and belonging