Molly Crabapple Illustration

"Molly was a guest speaker in our arts management program, lecturing on arts entrepreneurship for the individual artist. Her presentation was amazing, stimulating and captivated the imagination of our students. Molly is at the forefront of using the web to uniquely and creatively market the arts."

Dr. Robert Thompson, Dean of the Conservatory of Music
Purchase College
State University of New York

Molly Crabapple is an award winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, the largest chain of art salons in the world. Called a "downtown phenomenon" by the New York Times and "THE artist of our time" by infamous comedian Margaret Cho, Molly is a frequent speaker on art and entrepreneurship.

Specialties:

Molly talks regularly on a variety of issues, including

* self-branding
* entrepreneurship for artists
* comics and graphic novels
* burlesque
* her own fine art work
* the history of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, the 80+ city chain of alt. art salons she founded in 2005

Sample Venues:

Molly Crabapple has emceed Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a biweekly alternative drawing salon in New York, since 2005. Under the banner of Dr. Sketchy's, she has produced and emceed events around the USA, and in Germany, Scotland, England, France, and Finland.

As well having done hundreds of media interviews both in the United States and internationally, Molly's speaking experience includes:

Museum of Modern Art. New York. December 2009
Massachusetts College of Art. Boston. November 2009
Baby Tattooville: A Limited Edition Art Collector's Retreat. Los Angeles. October 2009
Pixel Design Festival. Sao Paolo, Brazil. October 2009
"The ACT-I-VATE Renaissance" Panelist. Brooklyn Book Fair 2009
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. New York. 2009
San Diego Comic-Con. Panelist. "Making Webcomics" 2009 [LISTEN]
SketchyCon: An International Conference of Dr. Sketchy's Organizers. New York. 2009
Parsons School of Design 2007, 2009. New York.
SUNY Purchase. New York. 2009
South by Southwest Interactive. Panelist. "Taking Webcomics Mobile" Austin, Texas. 2009.
The Non-Motivational Speakers Series, produced by Gelf Magazine. New York. 2009
The New York Comic Convention. Panelist. "50 Years of Weird Tales." New York. 2008
The Museum of Sex. "Design is Sexy." New York. 2008
Dr. Sketchy's 2008 European Tour. Glasgow, London, Berlin, Helsinki Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. Helsinki, Finland. 2008.
Dr. Sketchy's 2007 US Tour: Boston, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Durham, Greensboro, Richmond, Washington DC, Baltimore, San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles.
The Graphic Arts Guild of Boston, 2007

Upcoming Events

Panel Leader. "Selling Subculture Without Selling Out." South By Southwest Interactive 2010.