Cartooning Workshop with artist, Phil La Borie
Saturday, March 24, 2018 | 1 – 3 pm
$20 per person | Registration required, ages 18 and up
Call the Art Museum at 843.238.2510 for registration.

Inspired by Garden City writer and illustrator Phil La Borie’s exhibition, Apparent Realities, participants will work with La Borie to create their own hand-drawn illustrations.

La Borie first became interested in apparent realities years ago when he learned of an 18th-century argument between Irish philosopher Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1783) and English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784). Berkeley held that reality was something that existed only in our minds, while Johnson argued that all human knowledge is based on experience. Regardless of what side of the argument one agrees with, La Borie recognizes that there are interesting and humorous opportunities for artistic expression to illustrate this and like controversies. After 50 years of art-making, La Borie continually returns to this fundamental argument about the nature of reality and how that translates into art. This exhibition consists of hand-drawn illustrations of apparent contradictions and confusing phenomena that will make you think and, hopefully, laugh!