Massachusetts College of Art and Design

And they make great cartoons.

Women Laughing screens tonight at 7 at MassArt's Tower Auditorium.

The screening is free with doors opening at 6.30. It'll be followed by a conversation with Donnelly, Wong, and MassArt illustration chair Lisa Kennedy, all moderated by MassArt president Mary Grant.

Amy Wong, whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker since 2010, that is, is also a recipient of the National Cartoonist Society Silver Rubin Award.

And she joins me now to talk about it all.

So you kind of had to pick one or the other, like you don't have time to just do electives all the time.

But I did take art classes, like fine arts classes in the community college with my mom.

Well, what's the satisfaction for you now to know that you have these pieces in the New Yorker? You're included in this documentary, which, by the way, people just tuning in, I'm speaking with Amy Wong, an award-winning New Yorker cartoonist featured in the documentary Women Laughing, which is screening tonight at 7 at MassArt, along with fellow artists, cartoonists, and Mary Grant moderating.

In August of 1976, four young men set out from Boston for a canoe trip in the north woods of Maine, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a long chain of lakes and rivers through the forest, far from any town.

Three of them were art students at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Twin brothers, Jack and Jim Weiner, and their friend, Chuck Rack.

The fourth, Charlie Foltz, was their guide.

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Working with found objects and deconstructed domestic materials, she creates sculptures and installations that challenge our ideas about beauty, nostalgia, femininity, and the meaning we attach to everyday things.

Elizabeth received her BFA in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions, including the Museum of Arts and Design, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and the Nasher Museum of Art.

Her work is also held in permanent collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, and 21C Museum Hotels.

She's going to go to a four-year art school.

She's applying to MassArt, and she's applying to UMass Dartmouth.

So I'm helping her with her portfolio.

I mean, I am an art teacher, so that's a good thing.

Which school? You at, at?

I was at, uh, Mass College of Art.

Mass.

Mass.

That's incredible.

[laughs]

... you, this was, uh, sounds like this was, like, your junior year at, at Mass College of Art.

Yeah, junior year.

You know, because this was happening, happening to these people, so I mean, what they'd gone through and, a- a- and to be able...

I remember Jim Weiner once, he was, um, in the elevator where he worked at Mass Art, and he overheard someone say, uh, "There's Alien Boy."

Oh, yeah.

Unfortunately, you hear a, you hear a lot a-

So I took a class.

I think it was at MassArt.

And then I got books, and then I joined groups, and it just blossomed, really, for me.

I always was an acupuncturist, a full-time person.

That was great.

You know, I would totally like Bogart their portfolio reviews at MassArt.

And that's how I met a ton of friends and also met a ton of industry folk.

And then the other one is, again, like the IDSA or just like the greater design culture.