EXPERIMENTAL COMICS & STORYBOARDING FOR ANIMATION
Ages 16-29
Spring 2020, Online
This distance learning workshop will introduce student fellows to the possibilities of sequential art with original characters. They'll learn creative drawing and writing, the process of planning and executing a finished comic, and how to translate their comics into storyboards for future animations. The workshop is "experimental" because they'll try many different ways of making images and narratives—there are no limits to the stories and characters they can create. Fellows will be required to connect with the instructor and the group regularly to share progress, review peer material, ask questions, and receive feedback. This communication might be via text, email, video call, or online platform. Fellows should expect to spend 4 hours per week on this workshop. It's not necessary to know how to draw "realistically" for this workshop—stick figures are great! But fellows should enroll only if they really enjoy drawing. Their comics will be shared at a virtual exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Gwyneth Anderson is an experimental animator and visual artist exploring themes of invisibility and perception. She has screened and exhibited work in galleries, festivals, forests, and vacant lots throughout the US and internationally. She recently moved to Baltimore from Chicago, where she was a teaching artist with both the Museum of Contemporary Art and Columbia College.
Amelia Voos is a filmmaker and multimedia installation artist based in Baltimore. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Intermedia & Digital Arts at UMBC.
