FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: Jeff Benham's topic:  “Truth, Justice and the American: How Comics Animate Culture”

For the past four decades, Jeff Benham has been telling stories through image and language, through the mediums of comics, live theatre, handmade books, and a variety of other arts. As Education Coordinator for arts non-profit 7000 BC, he has developed and taught the comics medium to teachers, librarians, students, and members of the general public of all ages and experience levels. He is especially interested in uncovering deeper connections, using comics and other story-based art as a bridge to unexpected disciplines such as science and medicine.

Guiding participants through explorations of how comics function, Jeff helps students to understand the place of visual literacy in communicating a broader sense of history and culture.