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SATURDAY | SEPTEMBER 7
1:30 – 3 PM | NORMA KERSHAW AUDITORIUM | LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING

The comics medium holds unique qualities when it comes to exploring time, making it a powerful tool for showing the complex relationships between the personal and the political, the present and the past. Hulls’s graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, traces the entwined story of three generations of women in her family, set against a tumultuous backdrop of Chinese history and diaspora. Hulls spent almost a decade retracing the footsteps of her grandmother, a Shanghai journalist writing through the 1949 Communist victory before succumbing to mental illness in the wake of Maoist-era thought reform. Delving into her own graphic memoir and the work of other comics artists, Hulls will demonstrate why this form allows for the deep interrogation of personal history.

Tessa Hulls is an artist, a writer, and an adventurer. She is equally likely to disappear into a research library or the wilderness. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Adventure Journal, and her comics have been published in The Rumpus, City Arts, and Spark. She has received grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the McMillen Foundation, and she is a recipient of the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. Feeding Ghosts is her first book.

Ticketed Onsite Event: Members $15 | General $20

Recorded Online Screening: Members $5 | General $10 | Online version will be emailed to ticketholders one week after the onsite event.

Questions? Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 714.567.3677. Proceeds benefit Bowers Museum Education Programs. Tickets are non-refundable.