The RADAR reading series, going strong for more than a decade, features a diverse group of artists every month. For this installment, though, the cast is particularly interesting: all artists who work in the visual realm. New York-based Ariel Schrag, in addition to publishing a novel with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Adam), has written several graphic novels, autobiographical comics, and scripts for HBO and Showtime. Cate White is a recent Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow and the author of what she calls a graphic journal book series, The Book of Life. Kari Orvik, a photographer and tightrope walker, is also a recent graduate of the Headlands program; she’s set up public portrait studios all over S.F. and now has her own tintype studio. Painter and dog trainer Jaime Niedermeier has written a feature-length film and a couple of plays, which ran at the Bartell Theater in Madison, Wis. All told, there are pretty good odds that someone will take advantage of the library’s multimedia system. And, to all who ask a question at the artist Q&A that follows these readings: a fresh baked good, courtesy of Michelle Tea.
— Evan Karp
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