Drawn to Berlin : Comic workshops in refugee shelters and other stories from a new Europe / Ali Fitzegrald, Editor: Kristy Valenti

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Seattle, WA; Fantagraphics Books; 2018Description: 200p; 22x19cmISBN:

9781683961321

Subject(s):

NC950-(996) Drawing. Design. Illustration- Illustration

Genre/Form:

Graphic novel

Summary: Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir entwines political and personal displacement. Ali Fitzgerald is an artist trying to find herself in a rapidly changing city facing an influx of asylum seekers. In Berlin, she teaches an art class to displaced people who have traveled from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Given Fitzgerald’s encouragement, her students take pen in hand and express their painful memories of home and cautious optimism about their new life. Revealing the humanity behind the politics of immigration, Drawn to Berlin is about loss, community, and the art that binds people together.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Flying Saucer Library	Drawing. Design. Illustration.	NC950-(996) 16.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		6060

Fitzgerald’s graphic memoir entwines political and personal displacement. Ali Fitzgerald is an artist trying to find herself in a rapidly changing city facing an influx of asylum seekers. In Berlin, she teaches an art class to displaced people who have traveled from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Given Fitzgerald’s encouragement, her students take pen in hand and express their painful memories of home and cautious optimism about their new life. Revealing the humanity behind the politics of immigration, Drawn to Berlin is about loss, community, and the art that binds people together.

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