About the Performers

Gianna Paniagua is a two-time heart transplant recipient of 30+ years, paper cutting sculptor, and graphic medicine artist who is from and based in NYC She utilizes her lifetime of experiences in medicine to create artwork about the dualities of the human body, as well as comics that ask questions about the chronic illness patient experience Her lifelong goal is to find solutions to problems that exist in the field of transplantation for young adult patients.

Lauren R. Weinstein is a cartoonist and artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Nautilus, and The Guardian, among many other outlets. For the past twenty years, her funny, beautiful, and bizarre comics and graphic novels have addressed universal human issues such as mortality, time, motherhood, and most recently, domestic violence.

Wednesday, April 26, 6:30-8:00pm Murphy Auditorium