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Welcome! I’m Mia.

I love to tell stories –– on stages and pages, with words and images.  

I’m a student at Yale University and a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. For the Yale Daily News, I report on art and climate change, and edit illustrations. I’m Executive Editor of The New Journal, and contribute long-form articles Yale and New Haven.  

Browse my art below; click on an image to see more of the series.  
Longform comic, “On Stories.”  
Portrait series; illustrated article for The New Journal
“Cacophony” illustration
 
Stage projections for Fun Home musical.  
Longform comic, “On Stories.”  
Cartoon for the Yale Daily News



Contact

Instagram: @mia.r.kohn @miarosekohnart
email: mia.kohn@yale.edu 
phone: 917-647-3568

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About


I write and draw about family history, anxiety (eek!), and the nature of storytelling. The New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, with whom I study and taught a comics class at Interlochen Center for the Arts, influences my work, as do Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Liana Finck. 

I grew up in San Francisco and Toronto, went to high school in Michigan, and now live in Cape Cod, MA. To understand these strange new worlds, I asked questions. To find common ground, I told stories. With these two loves, of questions and stories, I’ve crossed boundaries of artistic disciplines. 

My short stories and poetry have been awarded by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (2023) and Canadian Independent Schools Incite Writing Competition (2020-2022). In 2021 the Global Videos for Change competition, my short film, “Promises, Promises...” won Best Senior Video and was screened at COP 26 in Glasgow. 

In dance and theater, I trained with Canada’s National Ballet School, American Conservatory Theater, and Interlochen Arts Camp. In high school, I studied Jazz and Classical Trumpet at Interlochen Arts Academy, and, in the summers, songwriting at Berklee College of Music. A story is a story, on the page or stage!

These days, I perform with the Yale Ballet Company, Yale Jazz Ensemble and Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra.  At The New Journal, voted best student magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2021,  I am the Executive  Editor.  At the Yale Daily News, I co-edit illustrations and report on climate change and art. 

Thank you for looking at my work! 


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Illustrations + Sketches


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For Yale Daily News “Yallies ‘playing catch up’ with classes held on Jewish High Holidays.”  
 Who am I? 

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Illustrated Article for The New Journal


 “Then A Miracle Occurs”
Three generations of cartoonists are divided: is ther craft thriving or endagered? 

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Graphic Narratives 

On Stories 


In a world starved for attention, how can artists ask for more? Do stories fracture or unite us? 



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Fun Home 
Stage projections for Fun Home musical in Yale University’s Off-Broadway Theater.
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Works in Progress  

Draft pages from story
about trip to Auschwitz
and Treblinka, where
my family died.
(Out of order)



 
Quick  sketch about 19. 


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Gag Cartoons

 
As a cartoonist for the Yale Daily News, I draw New-Yorker-style gags about once a month.