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Miriam Libicki

Instructor

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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.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Humanities HUMN 308 26/SU

Description

This course is concerned with questions posed by pictorial practices in relation to contemporary social and cultural discourses. Students examine ideological, institutional and cultural investments that are reflected, explicitly and implicitly, in both mass-media illustration and representational work within contemporary art. Lectures, selected readings and assignments will highlight critical, political, and theoretical positions pertinent to representational art and the larger issues it generates. Woven throughout the course is an examination of artists' responsibility irrespective of the means of publication, exhibition and/or distribution of their images. Students will develop a discourse that helps to frame their own practice, producing various iterations in written form, from thorough cultural contextualization to concise statements of intent.

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Priority is given to ILUS students in Years 3 and 4. Students outside of the registration priority group may register/waitlist for this course as of the registration rule release date.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.