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Forget Sorrow: Artist & Author Talk with Belle Yang
Belle Yang presents an audio-visual tour of her illustrations, paintings, comic book pages, work environment and images of her family in Carmel and old China.
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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 an audio-visual tour 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.
Meet the author: 5:30; Author talk: 6:00. A book sale by Readers book store follows the event. Related exhibit: Forget Sorrow, Main Library, Jewett Gallery, July 2 – August 19, 2011.
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