Barbara Schulz | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Barbara Schulz

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Portrait of Barbara Schulz

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Professor
Education
MA, University of Wisconsin-Superior
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MCAD Professor Barbara Schulz helped establish and run the current Comic Art degree program at MCAD. She has her degrees in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin. She has served as Chairperson for the Will Eisner Week annual event recognizing and promoting the awareness of the graphic novel as an art form. She has also co-programmed the international PFC event in the United States. PFC (“Pierre Feuille Ciseaux” or “Rock Paper Scissors”) an experimental comics laboratory formerly held on the grounds of a 17th century salt factory (Saline Royale, Arc et Senans) in rural France. She has been working professionally in comics since 1991, and has been credited in DC, Dark Horse, Image and Devils Due comics. Her books are also in classrooms and libraries across the nation in a series of myths, biographies, and science graphic novels. Currently she is working on personal projects focusing on the formal structure of experimental comics.