InternationalvisualartistStanMullins

residesinarenovatedand

redesigned18thcenturycottonseed

oilrefinery,inpicturesque

downtownAthens,GA.Thisspace

expresseshisdeeploveofhistoryandculture,localand

NICKSOUSANIS

Out of the Box and into the Margins February 3-4, 2017

UGA Hotel & Conference Center, 1197 S. Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30607

Nick Sousanis is an assistant professor in theSchoolofHumanities&Liberal Studiesat SanFrancisco State University. He is the authorofUnflatteningfromHarvardUniversityPress,originally his dissertation written and drawnentirely in comics form. Unflatteningwon the2016 American Publishers AssociationHumanitiesaward,the2016LyndWardprize,andisnominatedfora2016EisnerAward.Inaddition, itwasnamed the best graphicnovelof2015bynumerouscritics.

Children’s book illustrator and author EricVelasquez, the son of Afro-Puerto Ricanparents, was born in Spanish Harlem andgrew up in Harlem. His dual heritagecoupledwiththeexperienceoflivingindualcultures inNewYorkCity gives Eric a richanduniqueculturalperspective.Asachild,his love for doodling and drawing wasstrongly encouraged by his mother. Fromhis grandmother he inherited a love ofmusic and from his father he developed aloveoffilm.

ERICVELASQUEZ

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