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Author Talk and Presentation with Belle Yang
Belle Yang presents her illustrations, paintings, comic book pages, work environment and images of her family in Carmel and old China.
When:
July 16, 2011 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Where
Artist and author Belle Yang will explore how the Chinese culture and history, from which she had distanced herself as a young immigrant to the United States, came to inform her artistic and philosophical journey as a writer and artist of a graphic novel, illustrated prose memoirs and picture books. She will present a Power Point presentation of her illustrations, paintings, comic book pages, work environment and images of her family in Carmel and old China. Examples include Forget Sorrow; An Ancestral Tale, a graphic novel documenting the hardships of 20th century China. The talk is in Mandarin. A book sale by Readers Bookstore follows the event.
Related exhibition: Forget Sorrow, Main Library, Jewett Gallery, July 2 – August 19, 2011.
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