Comic Reading with Tia Wilson

A 1-800-DYKE Comics Reading featuring Tia and friends of the 1-800-DYKE. A select few comics from 1-800-DYKE will be projected slide by slide and read in front of an audience with original pages out for display.

Program presented as part of E23: DWIGHTMESS Comics Lab; Comics, et cetera public exhibition at Transformer. Exercises for Emerging Artists is a spring/summer peer mentorship program that Transformer launched in March 2004 to support a select group of DC area based artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and development. Concentrating on a different artistic discipline each year of the program, the goal of the Exercises is to advance participating artists’ creative careers through rigorous peer artist mentorship.

For this 23rd year of the program, the Exercises is focusing on illustration and comics. The mentorship program consists of biweekly meetings on weekday evenings beginning Mid-March and running through the end of June. During the course of the mentorship sessions, the participating artists learned from invited peer mentors about best practices, as well as insights on developing a new work or project to be presented as part of a summer exhibition at Transformer. The culminating exhibition, Comics, et cetera is on view July 25 through September 5, 2026.

E23: DWIGHTMESS Comic Lab is be led by Adam Dwight Griffiths, a DMV based Cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and community leader, as well as the Founder and Director of DWIGHTMESS, a comics compound based in Silver Spring, MD, with support from Camille DeSanto, Transformer’s Exhibitions and Programs Manager.