(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- A new documentary about the life and work of artist Art Spiegelman will get its premier screening in New Jersey on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Stockton University. "Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse" will be shown at 6:00pm in the L-112 lecture hall at Stockton's Galloway campus. The screening is sponsored by the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center.
Directed by Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin, the film won the Metropolis Grand Jury Prize at the DOC NYC film festival in 2024, which is the largest film festival for documentaries in the country. The film details how the artist and cartoonist rocked the world when he transposed his parents into mice to tell their Holocaust survival story in his Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel “Maus.” Both volumes of “Maus” have been voted by the New York Public Library as one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
Spiegelman is also known for several provocative covers for “The New Yorker” magazine where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993 to 2003. With his wife, Françoise Mouly, Spiegelman published and edited the acclaimed and influential comics magazine “RAW” from 1980-1991, where “Maus” was first serialized.
The screening is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required by emailing [email protected] or calling 609-652-4699.
Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Their more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at their coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.
