JoAnn Purcell — Concept Proposal, Lead Producer and Art Director | Reciprocity Mural | Seneca Students

JoAnn is the current and founding Program Co-ordinator of Illustration diploma program and previously co-ordinator of the Animation Arts Centre. She completed her PhD in Critical Disability Studies at York University where she drew comics as a research method to inquire into disability and difference. She has a MA in Art History from York University, a BScN from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Recent publications include Disability Daily Drawn: A Comics Collaboration in Graphic Medicine (U Hawaii Press, 2022), Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time in Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood (Leuven U Press, 2022). Her dissertation will be published next year by Wilfrid Laurier U Press.