He/Him http://jeremysorese.com/ jeremysorese@gmail.com Comic Arts, Drawing/Painting Online Mentorship BIO Jeremy Sorese is a cartoonist and painter based out of Brooklyn, NYC. After graduating with a BFA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, he was accepted to the La Maison des Auteurs, a comics specific residency program in Angoulême, France, where he lived from 2012 through 2013. His first book Curveball, published with Nobrow in 2015, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel titled The Short While was published with Archaia in 2021. He’s been teaching art for the past eleven years; from Elementary School children in Chicago, to Middle Schoolers in Brooklyn through the after school program LeAp, to the Maryland Institute College of Art and most recently at Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, as well as The Animation Workshop at VIA University College in Viborg, Denmark. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY & MENTORSHIP In my experience, classroom teaching, that is teaching a classroom of individual students as a collective whole, rarely yields good quality work. As class sizes at most schools steadily increase, finding the time to know my students as individuals, let alone attempt to make them better artists, feels harder and harder to come by. My belief is that one-on-one time with a student allows me to better understand their needs as not only artists but as people, which allows for greater insight into what makes their work uniquely theirs. All too often the large art schools I've taught at treat students like cattle, moving them from year to year to make a profit, which the smaller mentorship-based programs I've known have less of a tendency of doing. Ultimately, if a student still feels like the process of making art is a joyful one after our time spent together, then that is a success in my book.