Yali Lin leads 'Manga Madness' workshop at the Festival!

HiArt's Yali Lin (林雅丽) will lead 'Manga Madness', a workshop for young artists where you can perfect (or learn!) to draw manga with one of the most distinguished practitioners of the style.  The workshop will be held Saturday, June 11 at the Festival, on East 4th Street between Second Ave & Bowery, at 2pm, mid block.

Yali was born in southern China, lived there for 11 years, and moved to New York with her family in 1995. Although she loves the city, she missed climbing trees, walking barefoot on grasses, chasing dragonflies near the river... those days when she was very close to nature. That's why she loves Totoro and her Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) DVD collection!! Whisper of the Heart is her favorite <3

Here in New York, Yali attended LaGuardia High School and the School of Visual Arts.  After graduating from the BFA Cartooning program in 2006, she illustrated Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet - Manga Edition, which published by Wiley in February 2008. Her second book: The Scarlet Letter - Manga Edition was released in February 2009. When Yali is not at her drawing table, she teaches Cartooning courses to young teens in lower Manhattan, NYC at places like HiArt Kids. 

Now in its 14th year, HiArt! is New York's most prestigious interdisciplinary arts immersion program for kids. Working with a wide range of ages - from toddlers to teens - HiArt! puts New York's most up and coming young artists together with MFA style programming to bring kids in the city new challenges, new horizons and plenty of real art programming including Culture Bugs! - the amazing summer mini-camp featuring Manga, Sculpture, Painting, Fabric-based Art and so much more -- and for the Fall:   Manga Madness with Yali Lin, Manga Styles of the 60s and 70s with Zoe Greenbaum, Paint with Ellen Berkenblit, Come in and Paint:  Paint and Collage with Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Mixed Media Mix-up with Johana Skalsky, Opera and Art!, Lisa's Letters, Silkscreening with Martin Roth.  HiArt! is also the home of The Time In Children's Arts Initiative, bringing whole classes of the city's youngest and most at-risk kids OUT of public schools  and immersing them in the full HiArt! program as a part of their regular school day.  Once a week, every single week of of the school year!    http://www.hiartkids.com/ or call 212-209-1552 for more information.