The curators:
Jan Descartes (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based artist, educator and curator. She is a graduate of Syracuse University (BA), Carnegie Melon University (MFA) and graduate of CUNY Graduate Center, with a degree focus on Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (MLS). Through her artistic, academic and professional life, art and accessibility has been a major theme, culminating in her current thesis regarding trauma and memory in public aesthetic spaces. Jan is co-creator and artist for the webcomic Heartland Comic, where personal memoir and identity politics meet comix. She is currently involved with planning/organizing outreach projects in NYC, where she hopes to facilitate DIY comic-making as an accessible means to explore personal experience and resistance in the everyday. She also lives with a sweet dog and an angry cat.
Monica McKelvey Johnson (she/her) is a comic artist, writer, and curator living in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University (BA), and CUNY Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts Program (MFA). She authored the web comic The Adventures of Dorrit Little, a story about the average student debtor in the United States today, and founded the student debtor support group, EDU Debtors Union. She writes about comics from an intersectional feminist perspective for The Rumpus and The Comics Journal, and has co-curated several exhibitions for Interference Archive—including Take Back the Fight: Resisting Sexual Violence from the Ground Up, and an upcoming exhibition focusing on Deaf culture.
Our Comics, Ourselves is a group effort. A lot of people have made very valuable and meaningful contributions to this exhibition and its programs over the years. They are:
| Lois Ahrens Elvis B. Jean-Paul Bass Robin Baylor Anna Bongiovanni Charles Brownstein Courtney Buckland Paul Buhle Bri Burke Center for Cartoon Studies Hillary Chute Leela Corman Marguerite Dabaie Robin Enrico Kat Fajardo Edie Fake Renee Feltz William H. Foster III Ø.K. Fox Ganzeer Shelly Goldstein Stephanie Grimm Jamila Hammami Nils Hanczar Lani Hanna Michelle Hardesty Timarie Harrigan Ethan Heitner Howl Jen Hoyer John Jennings Sandy Jimenez J Johnson |
Sabrina Jones Juliacks Christopher Kardambikis Kendra & Kat Jackie Kirby Slim Lopez Josh MacPhee KJ Martinet Milo Mendez Drew Miller Justin Mugits Hazel Newlevant Jay Odjick Vero Ordaz Kevin Pyle Nina Prader Amy Roberts roxie Joshua Santospirito Anna Sellheim Jake Shapiro Shaun Slifer Society of Illustrators Graham Stinnett A.K. Summers Will Suter Whit Taylor Maggie Thrash Carol Tyler Butcher Walsh Lauren Weinstein Richard Van Camp Sophie Yanow |
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