Garry Trudeau created the cartoon Doonesbury (in 1970), now syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer at the time, since it is traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 1990. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film. Trudeau has been called “far and away the most influential editorial cartoonist of our time.” He is married to the former broadcaster Jane Pauley and maintains a low personal profile.
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Doonesbury In A Time Of War Original drawings by Garry Trudeau |
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Sunday, October 4, 2009 3 p.m. Chris Lamb, associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston, will speak about Trudeau’s work. Lamb is the author of Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States. This free program will be held in the Art Gallery and will be followed with a reception. The event is co-sponsored by the Guilford College Friends of the Library.
Wednesday , October 7 7:30 p.m. Garry Trudeau opens this season's Bryan Series at the War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com
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Guilford alumnus David Hewson '89 has been living in Iquitos, Peru since 2006, where he has been painting, studying shamanism, and and documenting the destruction of the Amazon by multinational oil companies. His exhibition, which is now touring the eastern U.S., includes portraits of "curanderos" (healers), paintings of the myths and legends of the jungle centered around plant healing Shamanism, and photographs, maps, and video about the negative impacts of the oil, mining and lumber companies on the rain forest. Hewson graduated from Guilford College with a double major in Sculpture and Economics, and then moved to New York where he apprenticed in the studio of Marco Grassi, an Old Master painting restoration specialist. His interest in the Old Masters then led him to Italy, where he studied drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, and later earned a diploma in conservation of paintings on canvas and wood panel at the Istituto per l'Arte e IL Restauro, Palazzo Spinelli. A practicing artist for two decades, Hewson has completed major commissions in churches and hospitals in North Carolina and Virginia. In addition to Italy and Peru, he has also traveled extensively in India.
Click here to view a pdf of Pinestraw Magazine's interview with David Hewson
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