Tomorrow, Sept 5: Martha Kennedy speaks on women cartoonists

Martha H. Kennedy - Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/martha-h-kennedy-drawn-to-purpose-american-women-illustrators-and-cartoonists-politics

Kennedy's ground-breaking survey presents in detail the lives and work of eighty women illustrators from the late nineteenth century to today. Starting with Golden Age artists Mary Hallock Foote and Alice Barber Stephens, working through the twentieth-century careers of Jessie Gillespie and Edwina Dumm and on to today's Roz Chast and Lynda Barry—among many others—Kennedy, curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, draws on the Library's collections to highlight an important and overlooked tradition. Her discussion includes not just comics but cover designs, editorial illustrations and political cartoons; she also highlights issues central to women artists, such as access to artistic training, the impact of marriage and children on careers, and gender bias in the marketplace.

 

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.

Politics and Prose at the Wharf   70 District Square SW   Washington   DC    20008