MFAVN will be at MoCCA Arts Fest 2025!

Hey storytellers, it’s that time of year again! MFA Visual Narrative is a proud sponsor of MoCCA Arts Fest 2025.

On March 15th and 16th, come visit us at Tables 012-017 to check out student work for sale, chat with our MFAVN community members about the program, and try the risograph demo.

• Meet students and alumni and buy an array of comics, zines, prints, stickers, and more
• Sign up for the portfolio review contest to win the chance to have a one-on-one review with Chair Nathan Fox
• Create unique prints at the RisoLAB demo station, run by RisoLAB staff and artists-in-residence

Check out a sample of the student work we’ll have at the table!

Come Support Our Community Members at MoCCA’s Talks and Workshops!

SATURDAY | SPACE TWO | 12:00 pm | Dissidents in Exile: Badiucao and Edel Rodriguez (Thesis Mentor to Mariana Tapia ’24)

Badiucao is a Chinese Australian artist and activist. His early political cartoons were censored by the Chinese government; his most recent work is the graphic novel You Must Take Part in the Revolution, produced in collaboration with Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan. Edel Rodriguez is well known for his political graphics on the cover of Time Magazine and elsewhere, and for his graphic memoir Worm, depicting his family’s experience as Cubans who came to the US after Castro came to power. British comics scholar Paul Gravett will speak to these two artists about drawing comics as dissent from a position of exile.

SUNDAY | SPACE TWO | 3:00 pm | MoCCA Presents: R. Sikoryak’s Carousel ft  Katie Skelly thesis mentor to Matthew Bustamonte ’24

Cartoonist and Master of Ceremonies R. Sikoryak returns with another installment of Carousel, his long-running series of comics readings! This year he will be joined on stage by satirical autobiographical cartoonist Caroline Cash (Pee Pee Poo Poo); Swedish cartoonist Bim Eriksson (Baby Blue); illustrator and cartoonist Olivia Fields, who drew this year’s gorgeous MoCCA badge art; woodcut cartoonist John Vasquez Mejias (The Puerto Rican War); genre synthesist Katie Skelly (The Agency, My Pretty Vampire); and more. These artists will all read live from their work, accompanied by projection. Join us for an audio-visual journey to the place where comics and performance collide!

Stop by and say hi:

Faculty, Amanda Chung at Lucky Risograph | Table 142

Mentor, Rumi Hara | Table 130

RisoLAB Staff, Sabii Borno | Table 119

Faculty, Wren McDonald | Table 113

Alumni, Alex Barsky at Zine Hug | Table 109

Past RisoLAB AIR & current CE Faculty – Alexander Laird | Table 171

Past RisoLAB Tech & CE Faculty – Andrew Alexander | Table 172 / his publishing imprint CRAM Books | Table 172

RisoLAB AIR – Natalie Andrewson | Table 114, 115