After graduating, honors student Owen Jenkins has clear plans. He’s going to start a new long-form comics project while continuing to do freelance illustration work and sell his prints and books online.
“In the next few years, I hope to participate in the nationwide comics scene — to have my comics published and to be tabling at art book fairs,” said Jenkins, an art history and studio art student in the College of Creative Studies (CCS).
He is already off to a great start. His senior show, “Epiphany,” is on view in the CCS Gallery, June 8-13, with a reception on Tuesday, June 11, from 5-7 p.m. In the fall, he’s hoping to be a presenter at Off Register, the first Santa Barbara art book and print fair. And back in 2022, he displayed his work in the climate-themed group show “Through What Agency?” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. He was the Art Department’s 2022 Wendy Anne Finkel Scholar and a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow in the same year.
