Comics Artist Joel Christian Gill Launches BU's New Visual Narrative MFA Degree | BU Today
New CFA master’s program in visual narrative teaches graphic storytelling by marrying images and text.
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New CFA master’s program in visual narrative teaches graphic storytelling by marrying images and text.
“Book Review,” to mock the glitzy wedding announcements or tackle the crossword. But over the last year of pandemic and political tumult, Dana Clancy has been picking it up looking for pages to paint on. “I paint only on the Sunday New York Times, keeping or covering the news as the week unwinds in unexpected, often shocking ways,” says Clancy (CFA’99), the director of the College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts and an associate professor of art. She paints over part or all of each chosen page with blocks of color, adds portraits of people she’s Zooming with, then adds words...