Schedule Overview / Program Details

Schedule Overview

Day 1: Thursday, November 2, 2023

1:00 – 3:00 pm




3:30 – 5:00 pm



3:30 – 5:00 pm



5:30 pm

Workshop 1: Round Table Discussion for the Journal of Illustration: Looking Ahead (Hybrid Event)
Registration Required
Weil Hall

Workshop 2: Illustration Pedagogy
Registration Required
Weil Hall

Workshop 3: Collecting and Exhibiting Illustrated Materials
Registration Required
Special Collections at Olin Library

Keynote Address: Charles Johnson
Followed by 15-Minute Q&A and Reception
Registration Requested
Location TBA


Day 2: Friday, November 3, 2023

All activities through the 5:00 pm break take place at Umrath Lounge.

7:30 – 8:30 am

8:30 – 8:45 am

8:45 – 10:15 am

10:15 – 11:45 am


11: 45 am – noon

noon – 1:00 pm

1:00 – 2:00 pm


2:00 – 3:30 pm

3:30 – 5:00 pm

5:00 – 5:30 pm

5:30 pm

7:00 pm

Coffee and Breakfast

Welcome & Setting the Stage

Panel 1: Illustration Practice Today

Panel 2: Excavations 1: Recovering and Recontextualizing Women in Illustration

Interstitial Presentation: The TL; DR Zine Archive

Lunch

Panel 3: Lightning Round 1: Illustration and Counter-Narrative

Panel 4: Recasting Illustration

Panel 5: Preserving and Presenting Illustration

Break

Tours of the Dowd Illustration Research Archive [note: SOLD OUT]

Graduate Student Event


Day 3: Saturday, November 4, 2023

All activities take place in Steinberg Auditorium unless otherwise indicated.

7:30 – 8:30 am

7:30 – 8:30 am


8:30 – 8:45 am

8:45 – 10:15 am

10:15 – 11:45 am

11:45 – noon

noon – 1:00 pm

1:00 – 2:30 pm


2:30 – 4:00 pm

4:00 – 4:30 pm

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Breakfast in Kuehner Court (Weil Hall)

Journal of Illustration Round Table Part Two (Hybrid Event)
Weil 230

Welcome & Synthesis of Day 1

Panel 6: Issues in Contemporary Illustration Practice

Panel 7: Lighting Round 2: Illustration as Evidence

Interstitial Presentation: Journal of Illustration Editor

Lunch

Panel 8: Excavations 2: Recovering and Recontextualizing Race and Gender in Illustration

Panel 9: Illustration History: Unseen Artifacts

Break

Plenary


Program Details

Day 1: Workshops & Keynote

Workshop 1: Round Table Discussion for the Journal of Illustration: Looking Ahead
(Hybrid Event)

1:00 – 3:00 pm, Weil Hall
Moderators:

  • Nanette Hoogslag, Anglia Ruskin University
  • Desdemona McCannon, University of Worcester

Workshop 2: Illustration Pedagogy
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Weil Hall
Panelists:

  • Alison NowakResearch and Observation as Liberatory Practices in Illustration
    Minneapolis College of Art and Design
  • Robert YoungResearch and Writing in the Illustration Classroom
    Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Workshop 3: Collecting and Exhibiting Illustrated Materials
3:30 – 5:00 pm, Special Collections at Olin Library
Presenter details to come

Keynote Address: Charles Johnson
5:30 pm, Location TBA
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.


Day 2: Panels

All panels on day 2 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 VormittagColouring In: Polyvocal Publishing
    Kingston University
  • Hilde KramerTactile 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 BlumHiding in Plain Sight: The Relationship Between Models and Artists in Classic Pin-Up Illustration
    Grapefruit Moon Gallery
  • Carey GibbonsUncovering Jessie Marion King and Revealing “The Great Within”
    University of North Texas
  • Priyanka KumarAt 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 ErenIllustrating Dissent: An Exploration of Illustration in the Case of Gezi Protests
    Middle East Technical University
  • Cora TroutMarianne in Le Petit Journal: Visualizing French Identity in the Illustrated Press
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Emily BielskiHorrible 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 DrewnoThe 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 LukasikWe Are the Blind Spot: Rethinking the Place of Illustration History
    Purdue University
  • D.B. DowdPieces of Eight: A Mnemonics of Illustration
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Erika DossHonest 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 CoyleBuilding New Narratives: Reimagining American Illustration at the Delaware Art Museum
    Delaware Art Museum
  • Steve ComptonRethinking our Collections
    The Society of Illustrators, New York
  • Stephanie Haboush PlunkettImprinted: Illustrating Race
    Norman Rockwell Museum

Day 3: Panels

Panel 6: Issues in Contemporary Illustration Practice
8:45 – 10:15 am
Moderator: TBA
Panelists:

  • John Hendrix“Three True Outcomes: Tool, Trend, Tragedy” – A Perspective on Art-making and Artificial-Intelligence
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Roderick MillsExpanded Fields: Illustration beyond Definition a Speculative Discourse
    University of Brighton
  • Carolyn ShapiroThe 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 FernandesThe Missing Degree in the India Education System
    Rhode Island School of Design
  • Danielle Gro’akConey Island Postcards: Mementos of the Working Class at the Turn of the Century
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Phoebe SantallaAngel 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 PetersonLithopinion (1965-1975): Craftsmanship, Creatives and the Commonweal Combine in a Midcentury Lithographic Labor Periodical
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Evie Yuqing ZhuImmersive 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-MillerIf 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 LeeYellow 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 TraftonA 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