WFIT: CRESCENT HOTEL PRESENTATION

Spring Arts & Culture Festival Wednesday, March 9, 3:00-4:15 p.m. / NWACC, Burns Hall, White Auditorium

Join artist Sean Fitzgibbon at the NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival (SACF) as he talks about his recently completed nonfiction graphic novel entitled What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel which will be available soon. The book, set in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, explores how a community is both affected by and fights demagoguery in the upland south in the late 1930’s. Sean will give a visual presentation about this unique nonfiction graphic novel and the collaborative process he went through while putting it together.

The NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival (SACF), a multi-day, interdisciplinary festival that brings together artists, academics, intellectuals and other members of the NWA and NWACC community to reflect on an annual theme. The festival offers in-person, streaming and recorded events that are FREE and open to the public, unless otherwise noted on the SCHEDULE.

CONVERSATIONS IN COMICS

Spring Arts & Culture Festival / Thursday March 10, 12:00-1:15 p.m. / NWACC, Burns Hall, White Auditorium

Presenters: Gustav Carlson, Sean Fitzgibbon, John Lucas, and Chad Maupin; moderated by Ty Beringer

Whether it's a thought-provoking graphic novel, or a syndicated Sunday comic strip, sequential art has become an important part of our popular culture. However, no comic is made in a vacuum. Influences, partnerships, and community all serve a purpose to make this unique art form possible. This panel features a variety of working comic artists and authors who will discuss those relationships and how they navigate them while working in this beloved medium.

NARRATIVE ART GROUP EXHIBITION

Group Exhibit / June - July / Community Creative Center McCoy Gallery

Featured Artists: Sean Fitzgibbon, Chad Maupin, Gustav Carlson, John Lucas, Cole Closser, Michael Sweater

Be sure to check out the narrative art group exhibition this June and July at Community Creative Center’s McCoy Gallery. More information coming soon.