Artist Workshop: Joke in a Box with Emily Flake

June 22 @ 11:00 am EDT

90-minute workshop
Price: Members free. Free with Museum Admission

Materials provided. 

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An introduction to the art of gag cartooning, led by New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake. In this all-ages workshop, participants will be introduced to exercises meant to generate ideas, spark jokes, and inspire cartoons in the single-panel format. All drawing skill levels (including “none”) are welcome; art technical guidance will be provided.

Image credit: Mindy Tucker

Emily Flake is a cartoonist and writer whose work is currently featured in What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine. Flake is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is the author of Joke in a Box: How to Write and Draw Jokes, a creativity deck. Her previous books include: That Was Awkward: the Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug and Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting. She is the founder and proprietor of St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency, located in Williamsport, PA.

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It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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