In the Panama City Center for the Arts lower gallery, the Higby Gallery, Teresa Roberts Logan will be featured in a solo show, Laughing Redhead. The exhibition will feature both color and pen and ink drawings by Teresa, a comic artist with local ties.

All three new exhibitions at the Center for the Arts will open on June 8, with an opening reception on Friday, June 7, at 6pm. At the reception, visitors will get a sneak peak at the new exhibitions, meet local artists featured in the local cartoonist and comics show, and snack on light refreshments.

At 7pm that night, the Center for the Arts will also have a screening of the documentary Stripped in their main gallery. Stripped brings together the world’s best cartoonists to talk about the art form they love, and what is happening to it as newspapers die. The documentary explores comic strips in depth, why they’re so loved, and how the artists are navigating this dicey period between print and pixels.

In addition to her exhibit, Teresa will be teaching a comics workshop called ‘Writing for Comics’ in June

The two lower gallery exhibitions, Laughing Redheadand Pen, Paint, POP!: Local Comics and Cartoon Exhibit will close on July 5th, while the main gallery exhibition, The Art of Florida Cartoonists, will remain open until July 20.

More about Teresa Roberts Logan

A Silver-Reuben-nominated cartoonist, Teresa has been doodling designs, and writing and drawing comics since she was a kid in Memphis, and did her first “Snobby Models” comic book (basically a bunch of models with their noses in the air, wearing funky paisley clothes.) In her early 20s, she landed in stand-up comedy from her job as a Hallmark artist/writer (she was dared by the Shoebox staff to do an open mic night), and has appeared on HBO, A&E, The Comedy Channel, and lists the finest clubs in the US on her resumé, from Zanies Chicago to Comedy Works Denver to Catch A Rising Star Vegas, and Gotham Comedy Club NYC.  She has worked with Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Carey, and Paula Poundstone, among others.

Taking the funny from page to stage and back again, her comics have been featured in The Center for Cartoon Studies’ nationally distributed “Cartoon Crier,” and her comics “Purty Funny” and “Noodlehead” chosen to be in Dirty Diamonds All-Girl Comics Anthologies most recent iterations. She also loves painting on big canvases, and her work is in collections worldwide, including the extensive art collections of Kyoko Ono Cox and Whoopi Goldberg.

Andrews McMeel Publishing (Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side) is her publisher, and she is on her third book with them, a coloring book full of Mandalas, following her first hit coloring book, “Posh Coloring Book: Paisleys for Fun & Relaxation,” and her book of cartoons, “The Older I Get, The Less I Care.”

She is a regular exhibitor at festivals and comiccons including:  New York ComicCon, CreativeCon, AwesomeCon, TCAF, DINK, and SPX, where she sells her comics to pay for art supplies. Every two years, she takes a group of ne’er-do-wells onto the high seas, and conducts art journaling workshops, in between touring Mayan temples. She art directed a zombie movie in college, and loves zombies to this day.

She particularly loves travel, writing, drawing, being a mom, and wine, but not necessarily in that order.

For more on Teresa, go to www.LaughingRedhead.com.