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Kate Beaton in Conversation

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

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Sep 27, 2024 4:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

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Join celebrated Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton for a conversation about her award-winning graphic novel Ducks.

Award-winning cartoonist Kate Beaton joins editor Irene Velentzas for a conversation about such past works as Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops as well as her most recent graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022). The book captures Beaton’s stint working in the Alberta oil fields as a young woman, where she experienced loneliness and harassment and witnessed first-hand the brutal toll the industry exacts on the land. (approx. 60 mins.) 

After the conversation, gather with fellow CXC fans at a free reception from 5 to 7 PM at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, which is just south of the Wexner Center across the plaza.

See other 2024 Cartoons Crossroads Columbus events at the Wex.

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly; Kate Beaton, courtesy of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.

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Kate Beaton is a Canadian cartoonist who gained popular and critical acclaim with her comic series Hark! A Vagrant. Her recent release Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is about her experience working off her student loan debts in the oil fields of Alberta, Canada. She has won numerous awards for her work, including two Eisner awards and a Harvey for Ducks.

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Cosponsored by Cartoon Crossroads Columbus and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Greater Columbus Arts Council
 
The Wexner Family 
Institute of Museum and Library Services
 
Mellon Foundation 
Every Page Foundation 
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Nationwide Foundation 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Ohio State Energy Partners 
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle

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Sep 27, 2024 4:00 PM EST
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Free for all audiences with ticket

ACCESSIBILITY 
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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