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Christina Lee is an illustrator based in Brooklyn by way of San Jose and Pittsburgh. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Illustration from FIT. Recently, she was a Designer at VICE, and currently teaches in the Illustration BFA at FIT. Energetic mark making and colorful subjects define her zines, animations and comics.
Literary critic and feminist theorist Gayatri Spivak defines education as a non-coercive rearrangement of desire. This presentation will show how I translated my graduate school research into the classroom to teach students how to broaden their media literacy skills, navigate professional environments, and most importantly, help them discover what they love; as self-awareness is the key to discovering your visual voice.