Events Surrounding the AAEC Convention
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The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention is just three weeks away and events there and around it are taking shape. Members-only and the public schedules are available at the AAEC website.
Sacramento organizer Maryellen Burns is involved in coordinating a number of events some lasting a month beyond the convention weekend.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is bringing its national convention to Sacramento September 18–19, and we decided that seemed like too good an opportunity to keep all those cartoonists to ourselves. So, we’re stretching the festivities through October 16 and inviting the rest of Sacramento to join us.
And what a group we have coming. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists Jack Ohman, Joel Pett, Matt Wuerker and Ann Telnaes will be here, along with the wonderful New Yorker political illustrator Steve Brodner and other nationally recognized cartoonists, historians, scholars and assorted people who spend an alarming amount of time thinking about what can be accomplished with a pen, a point of view and a willingness to annoy people in high places.
The programs will be scattered around town at the Sacramento History Museum, Sacramento Public Library, Celebration Arts, Sacramento State, Amatoria Fine Art Books and the Crocker Art Museum.
Among the events are talks by Jack Ohman and Matt Wuerker at Crocker-Con on September 20; Drawing the Other: Race, Immigration, and the American Cartoon at Celebration Arts on September 21; tentatively — Drawing Democracy at Sacramento State’s Democracy Symposium on September 30; Drawing the Line: A History of Editorial Cartooning at Amatoria Fine Art Books on October 1; and Drawing Sacramento: Cartooning the Capital City at McClatchy Library on October 8.
We’re still putting the finishing touches on the schedule, and I’ll post information in the next few days about how to attend the various programs. Most of the events will be free, because we really do want as many people as possible to come, listen, argue, laugh, and maybe look at political cartoons a little differently.
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