Here's some pictures I took at times he was visiting DC.
Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 - Library of Congress
Transpacific Encounters: Miguel Covarrubias, Zhang Guangyu and their Indigenous Turn
Swann Fellow, Felicity Yin, PhD candidate in Art History at the University of California, San Diego, examines the 1930s cultural exchange between Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias and Shanghai artist Zhang Guangyu, focusing on Covarrubias' visit to Shanghai during his second trip to Bali. Utilizing materials from the Library of Congress, the research reveals how their dialogues contributed to an indigenous turn in both artists' practices, redefining the integration of their cultural roots in transpacific modern art.
This event will be recorded.
Location: Library of Congress, Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, Madison building, at noon
For those of you outside LC, please be aware that there is perimeter security around the Capitol Hill complex in advance of the Inauguration on January 20.
Ignoring the official title of the talk, Walden spoke about her career, how she learned to make comics, having Bill Watterson's brother for an English teacher, being married and having children, and teaching as a profession. It was an excellent, exuberant talk and will be well worth watching when it hits the LoC's YouTube channel.
Here's 2 notes that I posted live on FB.
"I love filling out forms with a certificate of cartooning as my highest level of education."
She finished her talk saying that in 200 years people would still be making comics and queer people will still be cartoonists.
The exhibit of LGBTQ comics held by the Library. In the 1980s-90s, DC had a gay bookstore, Lambda Rising, on Dupont Circle that carried Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. The strip was also being published in the Blade newspaper.
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Thurber Thursday: Thurber Originals At The Library of Congress, Smith College, And The Art Institute Of Chicago
