Presented by MFA Illustration as Visual Essay

Amalgam

Sep 25, 2025; 7:00 - 8:30pm
Frances Jetter and Steve Brodner in Conversation
Diptych woodcut: workers sewing in a dim room (left); boy carrying heavy fabric in factory (right).woodcut illustration of two figures with a book.
Credit: Frances Jetter
Credit: Frances Jetter

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay presents a talk with faculty members Steve Brodner and Frances Jetter on Jetter’s new book, Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn (Fantagraphics), and her other images, over five decades, blending the political and the personal. Books will be available for purchase at this event.

Free and open to the public