Paper Cuts

The start of our final season!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 an