{"id":1459,"date":"2015-04-02T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2015-04-02T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:13:00","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-49-tbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/02\/creativity-breadcrumb-49-tbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 49: #TBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1459'] = [\n{id: 1460, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/02\/creativity-breadcrumb-49-tbt\/dsc_0097\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div 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'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1282_2_2-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/02\/creativity-breadcrumb-49-tbt\/img_1282_2_2\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>IMG_1282_2_2<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/04\/02\/creativity-breadcrumb-49-tbt\/img_1282_2_2\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p>It&#8217;s our first Throwback Thursday! Remember when comic book artists John Jennings and Damian Duffy came to campus?<\/p>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1460\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1460\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0097\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0097-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1461\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1461\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1461\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1461\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0104-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ALANA Center Workshop on inner monsters\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0104-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0104-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALANA Center Workshop on inner monsters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1462\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0106-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0106\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0106-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0106-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1463\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0110-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0110\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0110-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/DSC_0110-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the workshop, they also attended Mia Mask&#8217;s African American Cinema class in which they discussed\u00a0<em>Shaft<\/em> (Gordon Parks, 1971), Blaxploitation, and the African-American superhero. They also workshopped comic content with Peter Antelyes&#8217; Comics Course and visited Christine Malsbary&#8217;s Race and Representation course and Annie Menzel&#8217;s Black Political Thought course. Before they left, Duffy and Jennings visited the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center for a tour of the museum&#8217;s highlights. At the end of the tour, Jennings and Duffy were greeted by their own installation.<\/p>\n<p>Their piece entitled <em>Working Out Our Issues <\/em>(2014) was assembled with basic instructions by museum staff, leaving much of the work open to variability and interpretation. It&#8217;s scale, as evident in the picture, lends to its immersive impact; all at once it&#8217;s a barrage of visual stimuli, that&#8217;s graphic, confrontational, and humorous all at once. Pulling from narrative, racial, and their own career histories the work is a retrospective as much as it is a leap forward.<\/p>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1471\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1285_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1471 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1285_3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1285_3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1285_3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1285_3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1459\" data-imgid=\"1473\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1282_2_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1473\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1282_2_2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1282_2_2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1282_2_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_1282_2_2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the pictures above of their work and of them working. We encourage you to look into more of their work such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Hole-Consumer-Culture-Volume\/dp\/0977868923\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hole<\/em><\/a>, one of their most famous\u00a0graphic novels. Keep an eye out for an upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler&#8217;s novel\u00a0<em>Kindred<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our first Throwback Thursday! Remember when comic book artists John Jennings and Damian Duffy came to campus? 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