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Miriam Libicki

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BFA
MFA

Bio

Miriam Libicki is an Eisner-nominated and Inkpot-awarded cartoonist with a BFA in Visual Art from ECU and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her graphic nonfiction is published by Fantagraphics, the Journal of Jewish Identities, and Abrams Books. Her work received the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, and she was the 2017 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library. Miriam exhibits and lectures internationally at galleries, comicons and academic symposia.

Research Interests

Miriam works in the intersection of sequential art and literary nonfiction. She makes media theory comics, criticism comics, journalism comics and memoir comics. She uses the diaspora Jewish experience to explore colonialism, race, hierarchies, conditional and unstable identities, and the potentials and limits of empathy. Her visual art practice showcases both exaggerated cartoon figuration and photorealism, in pencils, ink, paint and digital media. Her use of photo reference with traditional tools creates art that looks handmade, full of human error and personal judgment. The medium of drawing foregrounds the subjectivity of the creator-narrator, encouraging both identification and skepticism.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Illustration ILUS 206 26/SP

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the ways that ideas can be generated for the purpose of illustration, and how they can be expressed through sequencing processes. Using conceptual and logistic prompts, students will reference historical image making strategies and contemporary formats as they relate to both single and sequential works, underscoring the importance of iteration, critical thinking, and visual problem-solving as integral parts of the ideation process. Through workshops, lectures, and demonstrations, students will explore sequential narrative techniques using series, catalogue, and paneled pages at the individual and communal classroom level.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Professional Practices PROF 311 26/SP

Description

This professional practice course prepares students for further professional and educational opportunities. Students gain practical and critical, conceptual, and theoretical skills. Topics include project management, business formations, the fundamentals of proposals and contracts, intellectual property and the complexities of authorship, budgets and financial administration, the market planning process within the private and public sectors, and the social role of the artist or designer. Larger societal constructs are examined as well as assumptions about the nature of professional practice research and discourse. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to enter the cultural or design sectors with assurance, awareness and integrity. Through faculty and guest presentations, individual and group research projects, students learn to identify the ways in which the artists and designers respond to their cultural, social, and economic contexts.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.