BY NICOLE HOLLANDER I’ve been working on a visual memoir called In the Old Neighborhood, which is a treatment of the ideas I worked on at Ragdale in 2010. I’m concentrating on the courtyard section of the building and the 3 families that lived in those apartments. My family lived in the middle apartment. The … Continue reading
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER 2 years ago I took a residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest Illinois. I was a given a huge studio with enormous ceilings, and a view of the prairie all around. I had been thinking about working on a graphic memoir telling the story of my childhood in Chicago from age 7 … Continue reading
BY NICOLE HOLLANDER [Nicole Hollander, age 6] Perhaps you woke up this morning with the word “memoir” written in black crayon on a piece of orange origami paper stuck to your forehead. Or maybe, like me, you write and draw and you are out of work and you notice that people are deep into memoir … Continue reading
