A Meeting in the Forest: Live Drawing and Reading

Come immerse yourself in a forest of graphic and literary art! Watch projections of trees growing and characters coming into being beneath the pencil of award-winning French graphic novel artist Lomig as he creates original drawings inspired by his graphic novel adaptation of Jean Hegland's best-selling novel Into the Forest.

Lomig and Jean will begin with a brief discussion of graphic novels and Lomig's creative process as he adapted Jean's story. Then,asJean reads aloud from her novel, Lomig will illustrate her reading live on-screen, starting with a blank piece of paper and ending with evocative and fully-realized pieces of art.

This unusual event will offer audience members an hour of inspiration and meditation as well as an invitation to consider diverse ways of storytelling and how visual art and literature interact with and enhance each other.

Sponsored by College of Humanities and Fine Arts | Writer's Voice | The Book in Common | Art and Art History Department | Earth and Environmental Sciences Department | The Humanities Center