Roz Chast, Doctor and Donor
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Roz Chast, Rhode Island School of Design ’77 PT, is honored with an honorary doctorate from her alma mater. From Roz:
Very excited to have received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from RISD, my alma mater, today. I had a complicated feeling about art school but absolutely no regrets about going there. I met many wonderful, shockingly talented people. There was not much interest in cartoons or cartooning back then which was a bit of a problem. But I did learn about Art…
At the same time the cartoonist was donating the sales of 21 pieces of art to Food For All Services, Portland.
Peggy Grodinsky for The Portland Press Herald reports on the act of kindness (or here):
Famed New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast posted a surprise notice on her Instagram account [link added] in late May next to a sketch in her signature whimsical style: “I’m selling this block print to benefit Food for All Services, an organization in Portland ME which distributes food to people in need,” it said.
The post went on to note that the cartoonist would sell 21 prints for $200 each, and that 100% of any money raised would be donated to the nonprofit. Within a day, another charming sketch [link added] on Instagram announced that the prints had sold out.
So how did a cartoonist whose work feels quintessentially neurotic New York end up donating to an organization in Portland?
More cuisine cartooning from Roz with Jason Adam Katzenstein coming in the Fall of 2026.
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