Cassidy Ott

Investigate visual storytelling strategies through the contemporary art forms of drawing, painting, and alternative comics and graphic novels. You may work with various wet and dry media, including ink, pencil, charcoal, collage, observational drawing, storyboarding, or a combination of different materials. The course will include online demonstrations geared to your passions, time for self-directed work, and comprehensive faculty advising. You will engage in discussions and critiques with a vibrant online community of other students from throughout the country and around the world, create portfolio-quality work, and receive comprehensive guidance on developing competitive applications for college admissions to art and design programs.

Wimmen¿s Comix (1972-1992) dove head first into topics that others within the underground comic movement refused to breach, such as abortion, menstruation, masturbation, queerness, witches, murderesses, and, of course, feminism. This studio course will use the history of the Wimmen¿s Comix movement as a scaffolding to investigate the inherently political nature of underground comics and what it means to create contemporary feminist comics in a post Roe v. Wade society.