CANCELED: Comix artist Mita Mahato to read from work at the Maier

Seattle-based comix artist, poet, and educator Mita Mahato will read from her work at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College this fall.

A Visiting Writers Series reading sponsored by the Randolph College Department of English in collaboration with the Maier, the event will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

In her cut paper and collage work, Mahato assembles fragments of used and discarded materials that dramatize entangled processes of death and renewal, specifically within the context of ecosystemic loss.

Mahato assembles her panels and pages with cut and collaged papers, joining fragments of used and discarded materials—newspaper, maps, mail ads, packaging scraps.

She is the author of two collections: Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing, 2024) and In Between (Pleiades, 2017), which was listed in The Best American Comics 2019.

Her poetry comix have appeared in Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere.

Her work has been supported by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Loghaven, Storyknife, the Black Earth Institute, the Mineral School, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and the Arctic Circle.

Free and open to the public, the reading also includes a reception. Visit www.maiermuseum.org for more information.