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As this year’s round of camps is now open for registration, I’ve finally put together my recap from the PAST 2 YEARS of Comics Camps at McGuffey Art Center! ✍️💭

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It's that time of year again....to announce my upcoming ART SUMMER CAMPS! 📣💕 Registration now open for kid + teen Comics Camps + special teen Mural Camp at McGuffey Art Center. 

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After doing these news spots now for over a year, I've finally written up a blog post about it! 🗺📍 It's been an honor to help amplify local artists as Citywide Art Fellow with @thebridgepai by sharing my lil' monthly First Friday maps on @nbc29wvirtv 🙏

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Here's my recap from my second-year-in-a-row artist residency with Skyline Middle! 🌈Amazing to see how a character + comic cocreated with students in one hour can unfold into a large-scale grade-wide comic mural project now adorning the walls of the school... 🐒 #pixlegoesbananas 

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Coming next month is COCO SCHOOL my experimental virtual class for adults on time + idea management for fellow creative thinkers! 🐒💫 If you're interested in joining us here's more info + sign-up link now posted in my blog. #seekingartners 

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Presenting my annual end-of-year tradition of recapping my Top 10 random artsy adventures that didn't already get featured in my blog. 💝 I am so lucky I got to Artner with so many wonderful artists, kids, and communities this year! 

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What a fun new interview to share with Osceola County Schools, where Mona is a featured Sunshine State Young Reader's Award book!  Complete with an Artner-inspired quiz at the end. 🙌💝

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Recap from my Artner Residency with Jackson Artful Learning School in Portland, Oregon! ✍️⚡️ Our collaborative comic mural stars Peter Butter, Jilly Jam, and some dance moves that can’t be contained. 👯🔥

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Here’s my recap from The Bridge PAI’s CAMP REVEL held at Visible Records where I ran the arts & crafts table! The weather might have been cold but the hot glue kept us warm....

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My latest blog recaps working with the local Boys & Girls Clubs on making comics this past Spring...Thanks Sigrid Eilertson for inviting me to work with your creative students!  ✍️💭

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Recap from the first school I’ve visited where they read The Dark Matter of Mona Starr as a schoolwide project, wow!  😆  Thanks Carver Middle School & VMFA 🙌

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Next weekend I’ll be in DC for Awesome Con! Part of my very belated (and very wee) The Dark Matter of Mona Starr book tour heh. Table location & workshop info posted here...

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In case you missed our “Making Sense of the World: Making Sense of Ourselves” Graphic Memoir panel discussion with Laura Gao & Courtney Cook  from this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book, here’s the video link!

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Psst...I’m part of two local events this weekend! I’m leading arts & crafts activities at CAMP REVEL @ Visible Records (benefiting The Bridge PAI) and I have artworks in the new WATER WORKS show @ McGuffey Art Center opening Friday. More info here...

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Here’s the final recap from my Harrisonburg art residency series--this time with Montevideo Middle School! I worked with the 6th graders on a collaborative comic mural called “Hoodie’s Best Friend.” 

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Next recap in my Harrisonburg comic mural residency series is J. Frank Hillyard Middle School, where our protagonist Agatha discovers her lost father has turned into a tree! ✍️🌈🌳

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Recap from my week-long comic mural residency at Skyline Middle School! ✍️💭 The first of three covid-era school residencies I did this year in Harrisonburg, VA where I got to Artner with ALL THE 6TH GRADERS omg.😅