Program

Schedule Overview | Program Details | Presentation Abstracts

Schedule Overview

Day 1: Thursday, November 2, 2023

Welcome tables for check-in and packet pickup will open at noon in Weil Commons for those whose first event is at Weil; there will be another welcome table at 5:00 pm in Umrath Lounge for those whose first event is the keynote address. 

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Day 2: Friday, November 3, 2023

Welcome tables for check-in and packet pickup will open at 8:00 am in both Weil Commons and Umrath Lounge, respectively. All activities through the 5:00 pm break take place at Umrath Lounge.

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Day 3: Saturday, November 4, 2023

Welcome tables for check-in and packet pickup will open at 8:00 am in both Weil Commons and Umrath Lounge, respectively. All activities take place in Kuehner Court in Weil Hall unless otherwise indicated.

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Program Details

Please see the Presentation Abstracts page for details.

Day 1 (Thursday): Workshops & Keynote

Workshop 1: Round Table Discussion for the Journal of Illustration: Looking Ahead
(Hybrid Event)
1:00 – 3:00 pm, Weil Hall 230
Moderators:

Workshop 2: Illustration Pedagogy
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Steinberg Auditorium
Panelists:

• Alison Nowak – Research and Observation as Liberatory Practices in Illustration
  Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Robert Young – Research and Writing in the Illustration Classroom
  Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Workshop 3: Collecting and Exhibiting Illustrated Materials [note: SOLD OUT]
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Special Collections at Olin Library
Presented by Interim Dowd Illustration Research Archive Andrea Degener, Curator of Rare Books Cassie Brand, and University Libraries Exhibitions Manager Jessi Cerutti

Keynote Address: Charles Johnson
“Drawing at the Margins: A Black Cartoonist’s Journey Through the Arts”
5:30 pm, Umrath Lounge
Q&A Moderator: Chris Dingwall, Washington University in St. Louis
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

Reception Following Keynote
7:00 pm, Olin Library Ginkgo Room

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Day 2 (Friday): Panels

Please see the Presentation Abstracts page for details. All panels on Day 2 (Friday) take place at Umrath Lounge.

Panel 1: Illustration Practice Today
8:45 – 10:15 am
Moderator: Nanette Hoogslag, Anglia Ruskin University
Panelists:

• Stephanie Black & Luise Vormittag – Colouring In: Polyvocal Publishing
  Kingston University
• Hilde Kramer – Tactile Picture Books: Illustrations to Be Read Through Our Fingertips
  University of Bergen
• Beth Duggleby – Lullabies in Lockdown: Illustration Exhibition to Address Isolation and Document the Experiences of New Parenthood
  Leeds Arts University

Panel 2: Excavations 1: Recovering and Recontextualizing Women in Illustration
10:15 – 11:45 am
Moderator: Erika Doss, University of Texas at Dallas
Panelists:

• Sarahjane Blum – Hiding in Plain Sight: The Relationship Between Models and Artists in Classic Pin-Up Illustration
  Grapefruit Moon Gallery
• Carey Gibbons – Uncovering Jessie Marion King and Revealing “The Great Within”
  University of North Texas
• Priyanka Kumar – At Work, At Rest: Women, Labor and Domesticity in Indian Illustration
  Maryland Institute College of Art

Interstitial Presentation: The TL;DR Zine Archive
11:45 am – noon
Speakers: Shreyas R. Krishnan & Aggie Toppins, Washington University in St. Louis

Panel 3: Lightning Round 1: Illustration and Counter-Narrative
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Moderator: Stephanie Black, Kingston University
Graduate Student Panelists:

• Danielle Ridolfi – Overlooked Rebellion: Postmodernism and Social Protest in the Picture Books of Seymour Chwast
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Selen Sarikaya Eren – Illustrating Dissent: An Exploration of Illustration in the Case of Gezi Protests
  Middle East Technical University
• Cora Trout – Marianne in Le Petit Journal: Visualizing French Identity in the Illustrated Press
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Emily Bielski – Horrible Pictures, Dark Undercurrents: Gothic Horror and Violence of the Illustrated News, and the Specter of the Second Industrial Revolution
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Madalyn Drewno – The Kaavad and Kamishibai: Narrative Illustration Beyond the Page
  Maryland Institute College of Art

Panel 4: Recasting Illustration
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Moderator: Jaleen Grove, Rhode Island School of Design
Panelists:

• Christopher Lukasik – We Are the Blind Spot: Rethinking the Place of Illustration History
  Purdue University
• D.B. Dowd – Pieces of Eight: A Mnemonics of Illustration
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Erika Doss – Honest Illustration: Maynard Dixon and the American West
  University of Texas at Dallas

Panel 5: Preserving and Presenting Illustration
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Moderator: Georgia Barnhill, American Antiquarian Society Emeritus
Panelists:

• Heather Campbell Coyle – Building New Narratives: Reimagining American Illustration at the Delaware Art Museum
  Delaware Art Museum
• Steve Compton – Rethinking our Collections
  The Society of Illustrators, New York
• Stephanie Haboush Plunkett – Imprinted: Illustrating Race
  Norman Rockwell Museum

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Day 3 (Saturday): Panels

Please see the Presentation Abstracts page for details. All events on Day 3 (Saturday) take place in Weil Hall.

Panel 6: Issues in Contemporary Illustration Practice
8:45 – 10:15 am
Moderator: Desdemona McCannon, University of Worcester
Panelists:

• John Hendrix – “Three True Outcomes: Tool, Trend, Tragedy” – A Perspective on Art-making and Artificial-Intelligence
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Roderick Mills – Expanded Fields: Illustration beyond Definition a Speculative Discourse
  University of Brighton
• Carolyn Shapiro – The Blind Spot of the Blind Spot: Re-thinking the Lustre of the Illustrator Today
  Falmouth University

Panel 7: Lightning Round 2: Illustration as Evidence
10:15 – 11:45 am
Moderator: Shreyas R Krishnan, Washington University in St. Louis
Graduate Student Panelists:

• Julien Posture – How to Do Things with Style
  University of Cambridge
• Deanne Fernandes – The Missing Degree in the India Education System
  Rhode Island School of Design
• Danielle Gro’ak – Coney Island Postcards: Mementos of the Working Class at the Turn of the Century
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Phoebe Santalla – Angel in the Centerfold: Finding Queer Community in the Masculine Physique of J.C. Leyendecker’s Illustration
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Charlotte Fleming – Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: Packaging Nature Through Weyerhaeuser Advertisements
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Sigrid Peterson – Lithopinion (1965-1975): Craftsmanship, Creatives and the Commonweal Combine in a Midcentury Lithographic Labor Periodical
  Washington University in St. Louis
• Evie Yuqing Zhu – Immersive Study in Illustration Narrative of Vernacular Culture: A Practice-Based Research in North Italy
  University of Bologna

Interstitial Presentation: Journal of Illustration Editor
11:45 am – noon
Speaker: Nanette Hoogslag, Anglia Ruskin University

Panel 8: Excavations 2: Recovering and Recontextualizing Race and Gender in Illustration
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Moderator: Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, University of Delaware
Panelists:

• Theresa Leininger-Miller – If You Don’t Get It, Tain’t No Fault of Mine: Illustrated Sheet Music by Albert Alexander Smith in the U.S. and Paris, 1919-1925
  University of Cincinnati
• Christopher Lee – Yellow Peril to Blade Runner: The Persistence of Anti-Asian Tropes in Illustration and Science Fiction
  Pratt Institute
• Daniel Yezbick and Christy Knopf – Aluminum and Lace: Milton Caniff’s “Bombshells” at the Intersections of World War II Illustration and Insignia
  STLCC-Wildwood / SUNY-Cortland

Panel 9: Illustration History: Unseen Artifacts
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Moderator: Heidi Kolk, Washington University in St. Louis
Panelists:

• Lauren Freese – Gender, Agricultural Science, and USDA Pomological Illustrations
  University of South Dakota
• Melissa Geisler Trafton – A Part for the Whole: Anatomical Transformation and Juxtaposition on Trade Cards of the 1880s
  College of the Holy Cross
• Matt Johnston – “Scarce a Dozen Steps Will Take Us Where We Wish to Go”: Sentimental versus Sensational Narrative and Illustration in Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives
  Lewis & Clark College

Plenary Session
Moderator: D.B. Dowd, Washington University in St. Louis

Steven Guarnaccia, Parsons School of Design Emeritus
Jennifer Greenhill, University of Arkansas
Jaleen Grove, Rhode Island School of Design
Nanette Hoogslag, Anglia Ruskin University
Christopher Lukasik, Purdue University