Green Spiral Zoe ScheinPaper, glue, illustration board 2” H x 16” W 2024
Zoe Schein is a teaching artist, freelance illustrator and cartoonist from Urbana, Illinois. As a teacher, Zoe creates and teaches classes in drawing, comics, art history and memoir writing for students of all ages. For this work, Zoe received the Berliner Award from the Brookline Arts Center in 2024. As an illustrator, their focus is on educational comics: their book of short comics stories, titled Clinical Ethics: A Graphic Medicine Casebook, was published by Penn State University Press in 2022. Their next book, Love Is Learned: A Choose Your Own Relationship Adventure, in partnership with the One Love Foundation, was published online in 2024. Zoe has created public artworks commissioned by the Boston Children's Museum (2023) as well as the City of Boston's Office of Arts and Culture (2021). Zoe earned their MA in Art + Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2017, and their BA in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies from Grinnell College in 2012.