The
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Performing Arts Series event featuring
author and artist Lynda Barry has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 13.
Barry’s
presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 221 of the Noel Fine Arts Center.
Current ticket holders will receive a new ticket in the mail or may request a
refund through the Ticket Office. Additional seating will be limited. Tickets
are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $6
for youth. UW-Stevens Point students with I.D. may buy tickets in advance for
$4 or be admitted free the day of the show if seats remain.
Purchase tickets through
the University Information and Tickets Office in the Dreyfus University Center
concourse, 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378, or at http://tickets.uwsp.edu.
A
storyteller in graphic novels and comics, Barry created the syndicated “Ernie
Pook’s Comeek” comic strip which ran in alternative weeklies for more than 30
years. She has been profiled by The New York Times Magazine and National
Public Radio for her “Writing the Unthinkable” workshops.
Her
books include “The Greatest of Marlys,” “Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel,” “One Hundred
Demons” and “Good Times are Killing Me,” which was adapted as an off-Broadway
play and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Barry also has received the
2013 Lifetime Visual Arts Award and the American Library Association’s Alex
Award.
“What
It Is,” her bestselling creative-writing graphic novel for “Drawn and
Quarterly,” won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and the
R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author. Her
most recent graphic novel, “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor,”
details her writing method, which focuses on the relationship between the hand,
the brain and spontaneous images.
Born
in Richland Center, Barry lives near Madison and is an assistant professor in
interdisciplinary creativity at UW-Madison. She runs the Image Lab at the
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, where her research into how children and
adults learn the arts earned her the Holtz Center for Science and Technology’s
2014-15 Outreach Fellowship.
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