Unleash your creativity by learning how to draw comic strips with Layet Johnson. Ages 12-18.
Johnson will introduce teens to essential comic book practices including brainstorming, scripting, page layout, and drawing techniques. He is an illustrator and sign painter in Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnson holds an MFA from the University of Georgia in drawing and painting and has exhibited art internationally, with solo exhibitions in Arkansas at Good Weather and the Thea Foundation. His comics include "Sick Day" and "Pizza Therapy” in collaboration with writer Dan Gold (Los Angeles.) Johnson is also a frequent cover illustrator for the Arkansas Times.
The Central Arkansas Library System and the City of Sherwood completed construction of the new Amy Sanders Library in early 2018. The new building has 14,500 square feet of space on a heavily wooded 15-acre parcel. The setting of the building is within the existing trees and steep terrain to enhance the uniqueness of the site, bringing the outside in.