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Drag Icon Sasha Velour ′13 Makes Triumphant Return To Vermont As CCS Commencement Speaker

White River Junction, Vermont – CCS alumni Sasha Velour ′13, a gender-fluid drag queen and international icon, will deliver the commencement address to The Center for Cartoon Studies’ class of 2020. The Commencement Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 11am, at The Barrette Center for The Arts in White River Junction, Vermont. Velour first began performing in drag in White River Junction.

Velour was the winner of season 9 of the Emmy Award-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race. Since winning, she has had top billing in drag shows around the world, including sold out solo appearances in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Toronto, Vancouver, and Auckland. Her performances have been hailed as “expressionist performance-art illustration” by The New York Times and a “spellbinding tour de force” by Forbes.

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Sasha Velour at NYC Fashion Week

Sasha Velour ′13 is a story teller, and she is bringing that skill to the NYC Fashion Week spring 2019 line with “The Gift of Showz.” In collaboration with Opening Ceremony, a global fashion brand, Sasha is celebrating the art of drag and featuring special guests. For whom “you’re gonna flip!!” she says.

Opening Ceremony previously took their runway to Disneyland, getting Minnie Mouse to participate as a model. With their go-big-or-go-home attitude, it is not surprise they want to work with the season nine RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha.

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Alum Spotlight: Sasha Velour

Photo by Maddellyn Hatter

Sasha Velour ′13, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, is keeping busy. In June she did an interview with Darren Perron for WCAX, a Burlington, Vermont, station. They talk about winning the crown, eating disorders, losing her mom to cancer, and how she credits The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) for launching her career. She also spoke with Jeremy Hobson from NPR’s Here and Now a few weeks after her crowning.

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Tags: cartoonstudies, CCS Alum, centerforcartoonstudies, interview, One Dollar Drags, RuPaul's Drag Race, Sasha Velour, Velour

Alum Draw Sasha Velour

Uglina and Lump by Laurel Lynn Leake.

It was bound to happen. Take a visual extravaganza like RuPaul’s Drag Race and combine it with the visual output of alum from The Center for Cartoon Studies, and of course you will get amazing drawings of Sasha Velour, Season 9 winner, by alum.

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Alum Spotlight:
Sasha Velour

Stonewall by Sasha Velour

Sasha Velour (’13) is the most recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 9! And we all send her the biggest congratulations! Her thesis project back in 2013, Stonewall, is a graphic novel about the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York, and the patrons and other sympathizer rioted in a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations. Considered a turning in the history of LGBT rights, Sasha uses multiple protagonists in a variety of historical styles to navigate the complicated and elusive story.

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Tags: Alumni, Cartoon Studies, cartoonist, drag, Library, RuPaul's Drag Race, Sasha Velour, Thesis, winner

Congratulations to RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Alum Sasha Velour!

The Center for Cartoon Studies alum Sasha Velour ′13 is America’s Next Drag Superstar! Velour designs her own merchandise and products and is the creative force behind Velour: The Drag Magazine. Her illustration and comics have been published in QU33R, Posture, Cicada, InkBRICK, Suspect Device, and Comics Workbook Magazine.

NPR’s Danny Nett talks with Sasha about drag history and advancing an art form. Click here to read: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Winner Sasha Velour Cut From A Different Fabric

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CCS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE

Are you considering applying to The Center for Cartoon Studies MFA or Certificate program? Join us for our virtual campus open house and portfolio day. Learn about the campus and the renowned collection of the Schulz Library, hear from current students and graduates, and meet faculty and staff for a portfolio review*!

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BIPOC Cartoonist Fund Accepting Donations

CCS wants your old comics! These comics and many more were donated to support CCS's BIPOC Cartoonist Fund. If you're interested in making a comic book or cash donation drop us a line.

A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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Stories tagged RuPaul’s Drag Race