Gather with others to draw and discuss comic-book images inspired by Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen. The Art of EC Comics.  Sponsored by Copic Markers. 

Lecture by Qiana Whitted, Associate Professor, Department of English, Studies, University of South Carolina.

Comic Creatures free Family Day is filled with art activities and performances inspired by Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics. Families and children can create their own graphic novel page, make an animated short in a zoetrope, explore character development through illustration, and learn how to draw anime and manga characters.  Local artist Marianne Walker will teach families how to create anime and manga characters and learn the fundamentals of Japanese comic design.

Join us to celebrate the artists and schools included in our annual NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition. This year’s show was inspired by Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” which features students’ visual depictions and descriptions of their lives, travels, and hopes for the future, their journeys from heartbreak to joy and hope

Enjoy free admissions as we celebrate International Art Museum Day!

Join us for the opening of Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics, an exhibition that celebrates the achievements of the most artistically and politically adventurous American comic-book company of the twentieth century: Bill Gaines’s Entertaining Comics, better known to fans all over the world as EC. Featuring DJ Andy Austin and the release of the latest edition of University of Oregon’s Art Ducko Magazine. Galleries close at 9 p.m.

JSMA members' preview of the exhibition Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics. Not a member? Join Today

Schnitzer Cinema’s Queer Productions continues its film series with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's “Women in Revolt” with introduction by Zachary Drucker. 

Join EC collectors Glenn Bray, Grant Geissman, Roger Hill, and Rob Reiner in a roundtable discussion moderated by Ben Saunders. 

Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, explores the history of chocolate in the Americas, using as her starting point an early- 20th century American chocolate pot on display in the Margo Grant Walsh Collection of Silver and Metalwork.