Art United workshop features poetry and zine-making

Register now for “Art United: In These Bodies,” a generative zine-making workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Hill Library Fishbowl Forum. Taught by poet Emilia Phillips and graphic artist Natalia Lopes, an NC State alumna, is for student artists and writers who want to think about, discuss, and create work that reflects the body positivity movement. Participants will hone their writing and drawing techniques in a supportive, collaborative two-hour workshop. 

The workshop is free and open to all NC State students, staff, and faculty. Because this is a collaborative workshop, students are encouraged (but not required) to register in artist-writer pairs. Register at go.ncsu.edu/artunited.

Natalia Lopes is an animator, story artist, and comic artist whose focus on horror and science fiction stems from a rich imaginative inner world and whose style is influenced by retro anime and indie comics. She received her Master’s degree from the College of Art and Design at NC State in 2017, where she developed a comic that explored diversity in storytelling and new media through a science fiction lens. She has recently published the collaborative horror anthology Paroxysm, and illustrated for a nightmare-themed poetry and art zine.

Emilia Phillips is the author of four poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including the forthcoming Embouchure, and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2019–2020 NC Arts Council Fellowship, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews appear widely in literary publications including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, and Poetry. Phillips is an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at UNC-Greensboro. 

Art United programs are co-sponsored by the NC State University Libraries, the MFA Creative Writing program, and the Department of English.