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Crossroads Comics #1

Crossroads Comics #1


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Now, educational comics for teens! Authors of Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, Keith Knight and Mat Schwarzman, have developed the first in a series of non-fiction comic books. Crossroads Comics #1 features stories about community-activist artists Chris Edaakie and Rhodessa Jones. Chris Edaakie brings Native American dance alive at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, offering residents needed exercise that can prevent diabetes, while reinvigorating traditional culture. Rhodessa Jones engages female inmates of San Francisco County Jail in creating original dance and theater that helps them discover themselves and their talents. The comics are derived from the Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, and include introductory background for each story as well as profiles of the artists. They make inspiring tools for high school classrooms or informal study circles.

About the Author :
The Los Angeles-based cartoonist and Graphic storyteller is the creator of three popular comic strips, The Knight Life, The K Chronicles, and (th)ink, and is part of a new generation of artists raised on hip-hop who infuse their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics, and race. His work has appeared in various publications worldwide, includingthe the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Mad Magazine, Salon.com, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. Weekly, The Funny Times, and World War 3 Illustrated. Knight's work as a media literacy educator with at-risk youth has been nationally recognized. Knight is also an award-winning cartoonist, rapper, and hip-hop musician. Three of his comix were the basis of an award-winning live-action short film, Jetzt Kommt Ein Karton, in Germany, and his original comic strip art has appeared in museums and galleries worldwide. He has published several books, including The Knight Life: "Chivalry Ain't Dead" (2010), The Complete K Chronicles (2008), and Are We Feeling Safer Yet? A (Th) Ink Anthology(2007). Knight's comic The K Chronicles won the 2007 Harvey Award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip and the 2007 Glyph Award for Best Comic Strip. In 2010, he received the Comic Con Inkpot Award for Career Achievement in Comics. Utne Reader named Knight one of ten "cartoonists to watch" in a special issue. Schwarzman has been a practitioner, instructor, student, and writer in the field of community-based arts since 1985. He is founder of the Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community and directs the Creative Forces Youth Educational Theater Corps, which employs public high school students as peer educators and leaders in the rebuilding of New Orleans's educational support system. He holds a Ph.D in Transformative Learning, founded Urban Arts in Oakland, California, and chaired the Arts & Social Change Program at New College of California. Schwarzman also studied theater with John O'Neal, John Malpede, Fred Curchack, Corey Fischer, and others, and has been a member of ensembles in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans. He has also helped establish arts education programs for teens, college students, and adults across the country; and has mentored youth leaders across the country in community-based arts education. He holds a doctorate in learning and change in human systems from the California Institute for Integral Studies and a PhD in transformative learning. Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts is his first book. He lives in the best place on earth (New Orleans) with the best woman (Mimi Zarsky) and canine (Lundi Gras). Schwarzman directs the Crossroads Center at Xavier University, which trains youth leaders nationwide in community-based arts activism.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780981559360
  • Publisher: New Village Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New Village Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 0981559360
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Weight: 62 gr


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