BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20120505T180000Z DTEND:20120505T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Free Comic Book Day DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by:\n\n\n\nHeroes Your Mom Threw Out\n\n128 West 14th St.\n\nElmira Heights\, NY 14903\n\n(607) 737 1347\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with:\n\n\n\nComic Art Indig ne exhibition\n\n\n\nAbout Free Comic Book Day:\n\n\n\n"Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores."\n\n\n\nAbout Comic Art Indig ne:\n\n\n\nFrom January until May 2012\, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art will present Comic Art Indig ne\, an exhibition which examines the influence of comic strips and comic books on contemporary Native American Art. Comic strips\, and their unruly offspring\, comic books\, are maturing as indigenous American art forms. Comic art has been influential to some Native American artists in part because two-fisted tales of suspense\, featuring fantastic heroes\, villains\, and gods old and new\, have always been a part of Native American culture. Like American Indian cultures\, comic art is amazingly complex and adaptive. As the first widely accessible mass media\, comics were consumed by Indian people as a recognizable form of storytelling\; expressing cultural stories through pictures. Comic Art Indig ne examines how American Indian artists today articulate identity\, art\, worldview\, politics and culture through the kinetic expression of sequential comic art.\n\n\n\nComic Art Indig ne has toured the U.S. and has been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington\, D.C. and the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs\, California. It is the distinct honor of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art to host the exhibition from January 13 through May 29\, 2012. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sponsored by:
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\nHeroes Your Mom Threw Out
\n128 West 14th St.
\nElmira Heights\, NY 14903
\n(607) 737 1347
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\nIn conjunction with:
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\nComic Art Indigè\;ne exhibition
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\nAbout Free Comic Book Day:
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\n"\;Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores."\;
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\nAbout Comic Art Indigè\;ne:
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\nFrom January until May 2012\, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art will present Comic Art Indigè\;ne\, an exhibition which examines the influence of comic strips and comic books on contemporary Native American Art. Comic strips\, and their unruly offspring\, comic books\, are maturing as indigenous American art forms. Comic art has been influential to some Native American artists in part because two-fisted tales of suspense\, featuring fantastic heroes\, villains\, and gods old and new\, have always been a part of Native American culture. Like American Indian cultures\, comic art is amazingly complex and adaptive. As the first widely accessible mass media\, comics were consumed by Indian people as a recognizable form of storytelling\; expressing cultural stories through pictures. Comic Art Indigè\;ne examines how American Indian artists today articulate identity\, art\, worldview\, politics and culture through the kinetic expression of sequential comic art.
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\nComic Art Indigè\;ne has toured the U.S. and has been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington\, D.C. and the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs\, California. It is the distinct honor of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art to host the exhibition from January 13 through May 29\, 2012. LOCATION:Rockwell Museum of Western Art 111 Cedar Street Corning\, NY 14830 UID:e.869.326 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260504T092506Z URL:https://www.corningny.com/events/details/free-comic-book-day-05-05-2012-326 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR