the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, on December 7th, Robin Ha, author of the graphic memoir Almost American Girl, visited Ridgewood High School and shared her time and talents with students and staff. Ms. Ha presented two hands-on Memoir Comics Workshops, each attended by over 250 students! She joined members of the Asian Festival Club to give a more intimate lunchtime talk. Ms. Ha offered strategies for improving one’s writing and drawing skills, engaged the audience with amusing and poignant stories from her past, and brought out the inner artist in all who attended. When asked how we become writers, Ms. Ha responded, “You have to write a lot!” Many thanks to the RHS Home and School Association for their generous sponsorship of this event.
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‘Tell Me Your Story’ is a schoolwide English Language Arts book group initiative with the goal of increasing empathy and understanding through shared memoir reading. This year over 500 students chose to read Almost American Girl by Robin Ha, which tells her story about immigrating to the United States from South Korea and the challenges of coming of age in a foreign culture.
It’s 2022 and a woman is doing a presentation on a book about a woman . . . we are NOT doing enough to engage males in ARTS. My daughters undergraduate English program, at a Big Ten School, was around 75% female that percentage increases at “arts” institutions. Sad that this hasn’t changed since 40 years ago when I went to arts academy and was the only male.