Chris Ware in his studio in Oak Park, USA, 2016. Production still from ART21’s series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 8, 2016. Cinematography: Keith Walker. © ART21, Inc. 2016.
Join ART21 this Friday for a panel discussion and screening at the Art Institute of Chicago. Season 8 artist Chris Ware will sit down with ART21 executive director Tina Kukielski, multidisciplinary artist Gary Panter, and literary scholar and comics expert Hillary Chute to talk comics, emotion, and art.
The panel will follow a screening of Ware’s Art in the Twenty-First Century segment. The event is already sold out, but a standby line will start at 5:45pm for tickets that become available.
Friday, October 14
6–7pm, free
“A book itself is sort of the perfect metaphor for a human being. It’s got a front and a back. It’s got a spine, and it’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.” —Chris Ware