MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. The core takeaway from “Drawing Lessons” is anyone can draw. Set during the ...

Change is hard for anyone but especially for a twelve year old girl who doesn’t understand why they have to pick up their lives and move one city over, seemingly for no reason. Drawing Lessons, the ...

What inspired you to write the Drawing Lessons? The play has two sources of inspiration. My friend Jack Tamburri (who is currently directing the production at CTC) and I collaborated on a project ...

Among the great advances in education over recent decades is the rejection of a “one size fits all” approach to learning. Different brains process information differently, and there are skills that ...

Barall wrote “Drawing Lessons,” a coming-of-age play about a Korean American adolescent who is into graphic novels. The play premieres Saturday at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, where, ...

For many adolescents, graphic novels serve as an unexpected bridge to art, literature, storytelling, and occasionally to independence and adulthood. This is the liminal space that Michi Barall, SoA ...

Review: Tween turbulence, comics come alive in unique Children’s Theatre play ‘Drawing Lessons’ Playwright Michi Barall combines a graphic novel and a live play in a story about a neurodivergent ...

Children already spend a lot of time looking at screens, so if they can be taught to draw using a physical pen and paper, so much the better. That's the thinking behind DrawBo, a wall-mounted robot ...

Work-from-home has become the new normal for adults in the U.S. at the same time that school closures have forced millions of children inside. Parents are trying to juggle being teachers, caretakers, ...