This year's Yeshiva University Arts Festival is entitled, Think Outside the Box. A comic book artist could not have asked for a more serendipitous tag line. I have been drawing inside and outside of boxes (or panels, as we comix geeks like to call them) for years. I'm elated to have the opportunity to share this creative process with YU students in my inaugural session as the 2010 YUM Teaching Artist in Residence.

On Sunday March 21st I led a group of YU students through the museum to explore the themes that flow through Jewish visual history. Participants then had the opportunity to make their own comix using images taken from current YUM exhibitions.  Blending drawing with snippets of illuminated manuscripts and word balloons, we dissected, remixed, and collaged together stories of personal or biblical proportions.

Check out images from the workshop!

I serve as tour guide and instigator during this journey through Jewish worlds. I hope that you'll come back to this site to discover how illuminated manuscripts, graphic novels, and the Jewish art of questioning come together. Stay tuned to this blog to discover what this artistic expedition has uncovered.

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