Dana Walrath
CommentatorDana Walrath, a writer, artist and anthropologist, likes to cross borders and disciplines with her work. Passionate about the power of art for social change, her creative works include Aliceheimer’s, a graphic memoir about life with her mother and dementia; Like Water on Stone, a verse novel about the Armenian Genocide; and “View from the High Ground” an interactive installation on dehumanization and genocide. She has spoken extensively about the role of comics in healing throughout North America and Eurasia including two TEDx talks. Her new picture book I Am a Bird inserts constructive male role models into the #metoo movement. You can visit her at danawalrath.com
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Cherry blossoms speak of the beauty and fragility of all living beings. But to me they also speak of war, and the mothers and fathers who cannot protect…
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On his way to a National Ballet performance of Sleeping Beauty, a young boy heard its plotline for the very first time: A man approaches a sleeping woman…
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My grandparents arrived in America, refugees of a genocide perpetrated by an Islamic government against its Christian citizens. In 1915, at height of the…