Event
Crossing the Line with Pedro X. Molina and Rob Rogers
Virtual
Friday, October 2, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Event organized by Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) and City of Asylum Pittsburgh
ARC is delighted to join City of Asylum Pittsburgh and Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) to present “Crossing the Line,” a virtual – and highly visual – conversation about cartooning, humor, free expression, and personal risk. Guests are ICOA artist-in-residence Pedro X. Molina of Nicaragua and nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers of Pittsburgh.
Both artists have paid a steep price for their work. Molina (self-portrait above) was forced to flee Nicaragua with his family in December 2018 after his main media outlet, Confidencial, was taken over by government forces during a crackdown on dissent. He won the 2018 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from Cartoonists Rights Network International and is now ICOA’s artist-in-residence and a Visiting International Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College. Rogers, winner of several national cartooning awards and a two-time Pulitzer finalist, was fired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in June 2018 for his cartoons critical of Donald Trump. They will discuss their experiences and compare cartoons before taking audience questions.
The event is organized in recognition of Banned Books Week.
“Crossing the Line” is co-presented with the International Cities of Refuge Network, PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, and Group 73 of Amnesty International. It is made possible by funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.