Warming Up Your Words with Visuals with Ariel Aberg-Riger
About the Event
Friday, May 12
6-7:15 PM ET
virtual event; open to the public and all mentees & mentors
Join us for a celebration of visual storytelling with artist and writer, Ariel Aberg-Riger.
We’ll hear about Ariel’s professional journey and her experience writing about everything from affordable housing to domestic violence for places like The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and CityLab before creating her debut book, America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History.
With writing prompts, drawing, and collage exercises, we’ll imagine ways to illustrate our own stories and use the power of visual storytelling to explore issues of equity and social justice.
More about America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History…
A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read.
What are the stories we tell ourselves about America?
How do they shape our sense of history,
cloud our perceptions,
inspire us?
America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day–from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of “progress” on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid across decades and among diverse groups.
Fully illustrated with collaged archival photographs, maps, documents, graphic elements, and handwritten text, this book is a dazzling, immersive experience that jumps around in time and will make you view history in a whole different light.
Ariel Aberg-Riger
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Ariel Aberg-Riger is a self-taught artist whose work has been featured in gallery shows, magazines, newspapers, apps, plates, and even…
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