NOTES FROM SAW
Here’s the place to check out everything that’s been going on at SAW including what we're learning, reading and drawing.
2018-2019 Year-End Wrap-Up!
Thank you students, I heard so much love and gratitude and bonding and confidence.
Olivia says "This is first year of school where I'm going to miss everyone rather than just saying 'see you later'" and Emma told us she literally called home after orientation crying, not sure what she got herself into (she remembers what the place looked like a year ago!), and now we're hiring her, because she loves the place and we love what she has helped us become.
Tom Hart Interview on the DIY MFA MEMOIR SUMMIT
I was so honored to be interviewed by Gabriela Pereira for the DIY MFA Memoir Summit!
Come to the SAW Single-Year Intensive 2019-2020
Every year, we welcome a new cohort of students for a year-long intense dive into making and studying comics. We’ve done it since 2012. Come join us in 2019-2020.
Mara in Progress
Justine Andersen has been busy making Mara again, and here is a glimpse into this masterful work.
They Don't Teach This at SCAD
They don’t teach this at SCAD. From underwater drawing to movement workshops to lectures on stress and anxiety, we take a one-on-one, human approach to your learning.
A Place of Transformation
The Sequential Artists Workshop has been a catalyst in transforming many who come into its community.
Tom Hart's The Art of the Graphic Memoir is out now!
The Art of the Graphic Memoir - is out NOW
You can buy it from:
From Barnes and Noble
From IndieBound
From Powells
From Amazong
Kill the guy in your head, accountability version
Kill LARRY!
Larry is the guy I have been trying to impress for years, more than a decade. He HOLDS THE KEYS He is the gatekeeper. He says GOOD JOB, -or- YOU SHALL NOT PASS, but only one or the other.
Last week's Low Residency Workshop = Big Success!!
An amazing week!
Last week saw our first LOW-RESIDENCY WORKSHOP in our new space. It was fantastic. 9 people from all over the country, and breakthrough and after breakthrough.
The Art of the Schnipp-Schnapp
Storytelling -and creativity in general- often involves holding two ideas at once. Or turning one thing into another, so that one thing becomes two.
Here's one of my favorite examples! The Tomi Ungerer "Schnipp Schnapp" collage.
You Gotta Make That Story
What bastion do we have?
Everything right now is designed to keep us from ourselves, and to keep us from each other.
The distractions, the politics, the voter disenfranchisement, the Alexas and the phones all keep us in their system and out of the ones we create for each other...