Guest: Adam Griffiths
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on June 24, 2025 in Silver Spring, MD
Adam Griffiths
Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington, DC area. He received his BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and has also continued education at the Center for Cartooning Studies in White River Junction VT, where he took classes and received a BIPOC Scholarship. Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region galleries such as transformer, Rhizome DC, Strathmore Mansion and Washington Project for the Arts, and sharing numerous conceptual illustrations, webcomics, animations, sketches, and photography series online, he authored Washington White, a surrealistic graphic novel reimagining his grandmother's landmark Civil Rights case as a science-fiction spy thriller.
In 2022, Griffiths opened DwightMess, a comics 'compound' in his Silver Spring, MD home that includes several gallery spaces, screen-printing workshop, an extensive library of comics, zines and periodicals, a 'video vault' collection of hard-to-find films on DVD and VHS, and Halcyon Scene, a thrifting boutique of 80's vintage tchotchkes and furniture. DwightMess has mounted over 25 exhibitions since opening, sponsors an annual artist residency program, hosts a regularly-convening comic book readers' club, organizes an artists' summer retreat program in West Virginia and has thrice hosted the StoryBox Comics Fair, a 2-day mini-convention for area creators to showcase their artwork to the general public.
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