Molly Crabapple

American writer and artist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1983 · age 43

Molly Crabapple is an American artist and writer. She is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia on the Greek economic crisis, the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012),...

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A life in dates

2016“The Jewish heritage that resonates the most with me is our history as rebels and rootless cosmopolitans. Our history as the first white Freedom Riders who were murdered.”In their wordsinterview with The Forward (2016)Read the whole statement

“I started drawing when I was four. It fast became a way to relate to a world where classmates wrote death threats on my book bag.”In their words"Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)Read the whole statement

“Drawing is disruptive. You're producing when you're expected to consume.”In their words"Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)Read the whole statement

“You take photos. Drawings you make. Cameras steal life force. Paintings, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, give you more.”In their words"Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016)Read the whole statement

2015“I think one of the problems that Americans often have when we're thinking about the Middle East is that Americans often only see images of the Middle East that come from war.”In their wordsInterview with NPR (2015)Read the whole statement

“I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they have to sit in a place for eight hours.”In their wordsInterview with NPR (2015)Read the whole statement

1983Born13 September 1983

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Dr. Sketchy's at Avant Garden bar in Houston, Texas, 2010

Crabapple (right) at the ACT-I-VATE panel at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

2016 self-portrait

In their own words 2

Molly Crabapple

2 statements, newest first

I feel like political engagement is something that people, if they’re so inclined, all people should do...It’s not something that’s just for special, branded activists.
2016 · interview with The Forward (2016), Own words
Women are looked at. But as an artist, I had permission to look back. Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare.
2016 · "Statement" in The Outlaw Bible of American Art (2016), Own words

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About this person

She is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia on the Greek economic crisis, the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012), and a history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country (2026), which is a New York Times best seller. Crabapple's works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Barjeel Art Foundation and the New-York Historical Society.

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United States