Vanni

A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict

Research and story by Benjamin Dix, Script and illustration by Lindsay Pollock

“The full story of the 2009 war in Sri Lanka has largely been ignored by the global press and international society. This graphic novel is telling the story to a new audience and simultaneously telling it in new ways to the few that already knew it. This Vanni story needs to be heard in order to avoid it happening again.”—Liv Tørres, General Secretary, Nobel Peace Centre

Source: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08497-8.html 

Read article about this graphic novel:

https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/what-comic-books-can-teach-us-about-war-guilt-and-trauma/

 

White Pencil on Black Paper

 

Student Work

 

Student Work, Work Back Into Blind Contour Drawings, Fall 2020

 

Postcard Project, Fall 2020

Students completed 14 drawings on postcards. Drawing exercises included observational drawing on and around campus. After the semester was complete, students mailed a postcard to each classmate. 

Postcard Drawings In-Process

A Selection of Completed Post Cards

 

The Book of Tea Exhibition and Presentation

In The Book of Tea, Okakura Kakuzo discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the 

secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese 

many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that tea-induced simplicity affected 

the culture, art and architecture of Japan. Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/904538.The_Book_of_Tea

Exhibition on view

February 5 to April 16, 2021

First Floor, Proctor Library, Flagler Campus

Opening Event:

Friday, February 5, 5:00 -7:00 pm

Presentation by Dr. Nicholas Miller, Professor of History, 6:00 pm

A History of Milk Tea: Trade, Empire and Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Exhibition Includes:

Haiku Poems from Professor Lauren Tivey's students. 

Drawings completed for Professor Laura Mongiovi's Drawing II course. 

A copy of The Book of Tea from Proctor Library Special Collections. 

A collection books that explore Japanese culture. 

Event produced by:

Jolene DuBray, Flagler College Archives Specialist

Laura Mongiovi, Professor Art and Design

Katherine Owens, Special Collections Librarian

The Book of Tea, from Proctor Library Special Collections, copyright 1956, 

on display with student drawings. 

A selection of drawings from Professor Mongiovi's students. 

Students completed observational drawings of Eastern and Western tea cups 

and made personal response drawings to The Book of Tea.

A selection of Haiku poems from Professor Tivey's students. 

Dr. Nicholas Miller presents an overview of tea history. 

Books that explore Japanese culture available for check-out.

E-books that explore Japanese culture.