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The UC Davis Latinx Media Environments Research Cluster Presents
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF THROUGH MEMOIR COMICS
A LIMPIA WITH DRAWING AND WRITING FACILITATED BY BREENA NUÑEZ
Join us for two events featuring Breena Nuñez (she/they), who is an Afro-Salvadoran-Guatemalan cartoonist and Adjunct Professor of Critical Ethnic Studies at the California College of the Arts. Breena is the co-founder of Laneha House: a family-run, small comics press based in the Bay Area. Their work has been published online in The New Yorker Daily Shouts and The Nib and in print with the comics anthologies Drawing Power (Harry N. Abrams, 2019) and Tales From La Vida (Mad Creek Books, 2018). Her work can also be read at www.lanehahouse.com.
ARTIST'S TALK
SPROUL HALL 912
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 @ 4 P.M. - 6 P.M. Breena will discuss their creative process, share excerpts from recent and forthcoming projects, and reflect on their professional trajectory in comics.
COMICS WORKSHOP
TEACHING & LEARNING COMPLEX 1211 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 @ 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Breena will guide attendees through a comics-making workshop centered on visual and verbal aspects of memoir storytelling. No experience necessary to attend!
REGISTER FOR FREE BY USING THE LINK: BIT.LY/BREENAATUCDAVIS
This event is made possible in part by funding from the UC Davis Humanities Institute.
