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Last Open Studio days at the V&A

Joe — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:02:34 +0000

Karen Rubins six month residency at the Victoria and Albert is coming to an end, but she still has a final set of Open Studio days to come this weekend, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th, from 1 to 4pm. The collaborative comics experiment Stories for Humanity: Contemporary Comics has now been taken down, but Karen tells us she is hoping to take all the pictures by visitors which she has collected and post them up on the V&A website in the near future. I think its terrific that a world-famous museum and gallery like the V&A has held a comics residency like this, its great to see the medium so recognised by those in the arts community, kudos to them and to Karen for making such a success of it.

(part of Stories for Humans: Contemporary Comics, organised by Karen Rubins)

Karen’s V&A blog is here and you can follow her own personal blog and website too.

Open studio at the V&A

Joe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:01:28 +0000

Karen Rubins, one of the resident artists at the Victoria & Albert, kindly drops us a line to let us know of some upcoming dates; on Sunday 16th Karen will be holding another open studio (from 1 to 4pm) demonstrating how to create comics art to coincide with a visit by Laura Child, creator of the brilliant kid’s picture books (and now TV series) Charlie and Lola, and also on Friday 21st of August along with fellow artist in residence Mary Butcher. You need to book for the talks Laura Child is giving but Karen tells us that you don’t need to book to see her during her open studio gigs; more details on the V&A site (Karen’s V&A page)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eijtmMgIiS4

(perusing Karen’s site to look at some of her art I found this; I had no idea she had been dabbling in animation too, I like this!)