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WaterShed Vol.1 by Melanie Stevens
December 14, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeChingada is thrilled to present Melanie Stevens longtime in the making graphic novel, WaterShed, Volume 1: PostModern.
Join us on December 5th at from 6:00 pm to 10:00pm for the presale and presentation of the work in form of an exhibition.
Friday December 14 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for the sale and panel discussion on comics and Watershed led by Rubén García Marrufo.
“WaterShed, Volume 1: PostModern” is the pilot for a graphic novel series that will span nine volumes.
WaterShed is a love and death story about America through the lens of race: a sweeping account that merges nonfictional elements of history and current events with speculative fiction and features a Black femme protagonist who unwittingly finds herself directly and indirectly oscillating between three time periods: the unsettled past of this country’s original sin, present day (at the infancy of a new wave of the Black Liberation Movement), and an uncertain dystopian future consumed by a questionable oligarchy.
Melanie Stevens is an artist, illustrator and writer. She is the co-founder and editor of Miss Anthology, an organization that supports and publishes racially and economically diverse young comic artists who identify as female or LGBTQIA+. She is also the co-curator of Nat Turner Project, a fugitive gallery space that grants artists of color the freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree for Political Science from Yale University and her Master’s of Fine Arts degree for Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she currently teaches.
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