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Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lineup

The Blacker the Ink cover by John Jennings

Cover by John Jennings

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) Fall Visiting Artist lineup is here!  Cartoonists and artists due to visit the school this semester include Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb; Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Mark Bennett for El viaje mas caro / The Most Costly Journey; John Jennings; Hallie Jay Pope; faculty Jason Lutes, plus a gallery show; Georgia Webber; alum Laura Terry ′10; Hartley Lin; Tillie Walden ′16; Danielle Corsetto; Xia Gordon; and Chris Brunner.

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Visiting Artist: Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett

Tillie Walden's ′16 contribution to The Most Costly Journey

Tillie Walden’s ′16 contribution

EL VIAJE MAS CARO/THE MOST COSTLY JOURNEY, CARTOONING AS A MEANS TO MITIGATE ISOLATION AND DESPAIR AMONG LATIN AMERICAN MIGRANT WORKERS ON VERMONT DAIRY FARMS.

El viaje mas caro is an ethnographically-grounded, applied cartooning project that creates graphic narratives to address mental health issues among Latin American migrant workers on Vermont dairy farms. Due in part to the cultural stigma surrounding open discussion of mental illness, project members sought to develop narrative-based outreach tools. As a culturally-appropriate form of communication in Latin America, particularly for a population with low literacy, cartooning emerged as the perfect medium for indirectly addressing mental health needs through storytelling.

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