Rorie Still

Location
Wynnefield

Awarded Grants

2018
Art and Change Grant (ACG)

$2,500
Discipline(s)
Literary Arts
Visual Arts
Social Change Intents
Racial Justice

Rorie Still is the creator of Flashbang : Sci-Fi Stories That Will Blow Your Mind!, an inclusive book of sci-fantasy for Black and Brown people. She plans to turn this work into a graphic novel, making it accessible to a wider readership and addressing the absent and/or negative images of people of color within the comic book genre. By making the book into a visual piece, Rorie will promote with the power of radical imagination and racial pride within her community. She seeks to fight racial injustice within the comic book medium by sharing the work through a series of readings and workshops at Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse.

Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse

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The Flashbang Graphic Novel Workshop Series with Rorie Still (ACG '18) will be held May 11, 18th, 25th and June 1st at 1:00 -3:00 pm at Amalgam Comic...
22 women and trans artists and cultural producers receive project-based grants to further social change in Greater Philadelphia.