Local Action

Quick and proud shout-out for some of our former artists-in-residence who have graced the museum’s North Court.  If you can’t get enough of them in their chosen medium, you can find them on Google’s new comics themes:

Hellen Jo

Lark Pien

Gene Luen Yang

If it turns out I’m missing anyone, please inform me post-haste.

While Google certainly doesn’t need the cash and clicks, I think it’s a great move to get some talent to the rest of the world.  Most of my favorite artists I discovered through word-of-mouth, but if someone out there gets into one of our great local’s works through Google, so be it.

I don’t mean to sound as if they’re all local kids done good (see Yang’s work in the N.Y. Times, for example), but it just makes me happy to see the work getting out.  Yay hooray!