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Creating The Sequential Artists Workshop is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Creating The Sequential Artists Workshop must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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My name is Tom Hart and Im a cartoonist and the creator of bunch of graphic novels, comic strips and mini-comics most notably the character Hutch Owen, and Ive also been an instructor of core classes at New York Citys School of Visual Arts for 10 years.
Ive decided to take what Ive what Ive gathered and accomplished here and what Ive learned as a teacher in one of the finest art schools in the country, and move to a mellow place to open the kind of school I always wish I had gone to. An informal but intensive place in an affordable artistic town.
It will be called The Sequential Artists Workshop, and it will be in a place I love: sunny, swampy, punky Gainesville, Florida. To start, it will be an small, informal, intensive school to learn all the aspects of becoming a cartoonist. Writing, drawing, thinking, history, responding. From there, well grow as we need to grow, and as the students need us to grow. Whether that means accreditation, or granting an MFA or not granting an MFA or whatever (undergrad accreditation will probably be an short term goal.), well see whats possible and what the needs of the people coming to the school are.
Thats one reason we are calling it The Sequential Artists Workshop, because our focus is on the student: making the student an artist. And making the artist able to work.
As a teacher I've helped countless amazing amazing students at SVA become artists, and if we build this school correctly, I hope to attract countless more, because they are certainly out there. Cartooning and graphic novels, etc. are becoming bigger and bigger. I tutor and teach to more and more people who are fascinated by this medium but dont know its workings or dont know its history, or who just need time and mentoring to practice and work. We want to be a place to for those people to work, learn the form and become sequential artists.
THE SEQUENTIAL ARTISTS WORKSHOP
The plan is for the school to begin operating with an intensive single-year certificate program. 5 classes a week, two-three hours a day. There would be an exercise-driven comix class, a project-centered studio class, and classes in drawing and technique and also history, culture and context.
Our great instructors will include my wife Leela Corman (whose illustrated dozens of books and whose giant graphic novel Unterzakhn comes out from Pantheon spring 2012), and Dan Stepp, who did terrific comics in the mid 90s and now focuses on these great weird narrative oils paintings, bringing in formal ideas from renaissance painting with modern accoutrements and motifs. Other instructors well find in the ensuing year.
WHY GAINESVILLE?
Gainesville, Florida is the perfect place for this kind of school for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the connection to the University of Florida. At UF, there are a dozen or so men and women who study graphic novels and comics history as a regular practice. They host a yearly academic seminar there where theyve flown down luminaries like Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Dylan Horrocks, Joe Sacco, etc. The school is a place interested in sequential art.
Next, the town itself is arty, and very DIY. There are always new cafes, stores, bands, cooperative organizations, and art studios opening up, its got good theater, good movies, good bookstores, small film festivals, live music, an amazing, arty pizza place, lots to do for free, etc. Its also completely bike-able, with plenty of bike lanes on important avenues.
Its also beautiful. Theres Spanish Moss hanging from every tree, giant water birds, and little lizards walk around, bats fly in the evening, and a perfect climate fall, winter and spring. Its hot in the summer but still lovely, often with brief daily thunderstorms to break the heat.
YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
To start the school we need to file lots and lots of forms and fees to the State of Florida Department of Education and their Commission of Independent Education. But before we can apply for a license to do that, we need to have secured a correctly zoned space etc. There are lots of great, empty spaces in Gainesville, warehouses and raw 2nd floor commercial spaces especially. If we can secure a place long enough to get our forms filled out, then weve made it past the first hurdle.
Thats our goal, is to make it through this first hurdle. Finding and securing a space, filing our forms with the Florida DOE and CIE.
Your donations will help us do that.
Were setting a goal of $7000 for this first round, which we hope to augment with grants and other donations. Feel free to kick us far beyond that because a lot is needed that can go to rent and marketing in these first few months. As added perks, weve got original drawings by John Porcellino and Leela, original art by Nick Bertozzi, Jason Little and others, original strips by me, prints by Vanessa Davis, Josh Bayer and other stuff, please see the page.
Your donations above and beyond our $7K goal will go to further rent, inspections and insurances, shelves for books and tools, drawing tables and chairs, and hopefully even computers and printing materials, so please feel free to push us far beyond that number!
Also realize that your donations, through IndieGogo or through our website are Tax-Deductible. Our project is being sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts support organization and as such your donations are tax-deductible. Visit our website if you more information about our school-to-be; were really excited about it and think its going to be a great place to learn about comic art, and to discover your vision and become a cartoonist.
www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org
PS- REGARDING THANK YOU GIFTS:
You have to leave a public comment about which posters you want or which original art you want, OR send us a private email at thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org
Also, the "$400 Original Art Preview Link is broken and can't be fixed. It's this: http://sequentialartistsworkshop.org/wordpress/...
Please note that there are only a few of those pages available at any one time. Be sure to comment or ask in the comments field if unsure.
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Inclusion on Funding Poster: $15
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| We'll be creating a limited edition poster featuring a group shot of cartoon versions of all of our funders. We'll include your name and attach it to some character on the poster, print it up cheap and lovely and send copies everywhere. Include your address so we can send you a copy, in 2012.
Plus we'll send you a hand-written thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $5 is tax-deductible) |
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Ballpoint Boxers Poster!: $25
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| One of two posters made for the Ballpoint Boxers Event. What was that? See here:
http://sequentialartistsworkshop.org/wordpress/...
Scroll down for the two posters.
Please send us an email to tell us which poster you want: thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org (amount over $5 is tax-deductible) |
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Sara Varon print: $50
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| Only 1 of these left- silkscreen and pencil. From Sara's stash of lovely prints.
http://sequentialartistsworkshop.org/wordpress/...
Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $10 is tax-deductible) |
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Hutch Owen original art: $75
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| Original Art from one of the Hutch Owen comic strips. You can choose, go to the archives at www.hutchowen.com or read the 380 page collection from Top Shelf in Sept 2011 and if I have the strip, it's yours. Otherwise, I'll send you a favorite of mine.
Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $10 is tax-deductible) |
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John P. wildlife sketch: $100
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| 3" x 5" hand-drawn sketch by John Porcellino of some example of Florida Wildlife. Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $15 is tax-deductible) |
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John P. Wildlife print: $150
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| Giant new print of Florida Wildlife Ecosystem especially for SAW by John Porcellino and printed at Zak Sally's press. So new he hasn't drawn it yet, but he assures us it will resemble this: http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/images/content/Ha...
Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $25 is tax-deductible) |
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Leela Corman Embracing Drawing: $300
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| A black and white hand drawing of you and your sweetie or any embracing couple, drawn by Leela Corman in style of Cuddle Sutra, see: http://www.tomhart.net/leela/illustration/cuddl... (Put description of couple (body, hair, etc., plus pose) in comments.
Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. AND it includes the Tom Hart Hutch Owen strip- see above, ($75), pick a strip. (amount over $50 is tax-deductible) |
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Original Page of Art: $400
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| We have many pages of original art to choose from. Please see the blog posting here: http://sequentialartistsworkshop.org/wordpress/... to see and make your choice in the comments field or email us personally. At present, we have pages from Nick Bertozzi, Jason Little, Nick Abadzis, Jon Lewis and Brendan Leach.
More expected soon, keep your eye on the blog link at top. Plus we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you postcard (amount over $100 is tax-deductible) |
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Comic Strip Your Life: $1,000
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| Tom Hart will interview you, and will create 1 week's worth of comic strips based on your and your life events, interests and themes. Monday-Saturday as dailies plus 1 Sunday. Editorial control remains Tom's but strip concepts and rights will be joint ownership. Original art goes to you. More info on the Sequential Artists Workshop site. (amount over $50 is tax-deductible) |
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Bonfire Drawing, Manatee Swim: $2,500
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| Come to Gainesville and we'll have pizza at Satchel's, go swimming with the Manatees (in season (winter).) Then we'll make ink drawings and a documentary comic book or jam comic while drying off in the sun or at an evening bonfire at Travis' house.
Plus the Leela Corman drawing and Hutch strip OR the Comic Strip Your Life perk. And we'll include you on the funders poster and send you a handwritten thank you on the Bayer postcard. (amount over $100 is tax-deductible) |
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