My Own Story Las Vegas Showcase Year 1  (2025)

MY OWN STORY (MOS) is an autobiographical writing/storytelling/performing workshop that gives participants the rare opportunity to come into a safe & creative space to dig deep beyond the surface and unearth, explore, and write stories based on autobiographical elements/experiences in their own lives, engaging in themes such as identity, racism, family history/rituals, gender/body dynamics, and immigrant narratives. The workshop culminates in a final performance wherein participants perform their autobiographical stories, stories that for the most part have been historically misrepresented, sidelined, misappropriated, and forgotten 

MOS was made possible by the Neon Pacific Initiative. I served as Producer and sound board (May 9, 2025 and May 10, 2025 at Marjorie Barrick Museum) beside Director Alex Luu who's been doing this workshop since 1998 in different states.

Neon Pacific Initiative Storytelling Zine Workshops Year 1  (2024)

UNLV's Asian and Asian American Studies program just launched the “Neon Pacific Initiative,” a three-year $800k Mellon Foundation grant-funded project which aims to expand, enhance, and elevate the placemaking and public-facing scholarship activities happening in the program.

It consists of a number of projects, including a mentoring program, community-based student internships, and a range of research opportunities designed to support AAPI students and Asian American Studies majors.

Hear Seen Here Zine is made possible by the Neon Pacific Initiative. I facilitated 2 workshops (April 5, 2024 at UNLV and April 6, 2024 at Afterlife Boba) to create this collaborative storytelling zine as a kick off to more projects within this department.

A pdf copy of the zine can be found in my free zines section.

Feather Shows: Las Vegas Writers on Movies, TV, and Other Spectacles (2023)

A collection of original essays and comics, Feather Shows: Las Vegas Writers on Movies, TV, and Other Spectacles presents readers with new appraisals of a city with a mythic reputation for dazzling fun and arousing frivolity. You’ll see the glory and the grit, the triumph and the tragedy, the dreams and the nightmares of those who have stared too long into a neon abyss—and have paid the price for their indulgences.

Jean Munson was 1 of 2 comic submissions in this anthology of essays. Her work is titled "Jean The Comix Queen" which details the origin and intent of Plot Twist Publishing.

Stretch Marks Graphic Novel Reading (2023)

Black Mountain Institute and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada co-hosted a graphic novel reading for Stretch Marks to on and off campus community of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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Photo Credit:

Norma Jean Ortega

Two Cultures, One Family: Building Family, Finding Home (2022)

Curator Dr. Erika Abad invited me to share an essay from a Bruha Baddies exclusive Patreon newsletter that I wrote for Women's History month this year. Grateful to share my grandmother's history through war, poverty, violence, and loss. Secrets zine about my mother has a total distribution of 400+ zines since the exhibit was open.

Whole text of Lola Herstory is preserved in Overachiever Magazine Echoes of the Past November 2022 Issue.

Photo Credit:

Top Right: Mikayla Whitmore

The Art People Podcast episode with Dr. Erika Abad about exhibit, listen here.

Guam Green Growth (G3) Innovation Hub Talk (2022)

The Guam Green Growth (G3) Makerspace welcomed Jean Marie Munson, a Guam-raised publisher, cartoonist, podcaster, and educator as a facilitator of one of its latest workshops, the first in their recently launched “Seedtalk Sessions” series offered at the facility’s innovation hub in CHamoru Village on June 29, 2022.  

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Article about visit here

Hollywood Empowerment Art (2022)

Team Comics & Zines Las Vegas (Co-Zi LV) taught a series of 4 zine workshops weekly with the Hollywood Recreation Center's after school program kids. We took their art and collaboratively designed empowering art for those kids. 

Photo Credit:

All Photos by Ailene Pasco

We Need To Talk About Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Inclusion (2021)

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Press Release

Photo Credit:

All Photos by Las Vegas Sun

Art of Us, An Exhibition of the UNLV Arts Department Women of Color Arts Festival (2020)

In collaboration with UNLV Department of Art Artists, I was invited to feature work as a woman of color in the Las Vegas Valley. This is where I featured the first 5 comic pages of Stretch Marks in the Warhol Gallery, Arts Factory. As part of the 3 day Festival, Comics and Zines Las Vegas (Co-Zi LV) did a zine workshop. I co-taught with co-creator Nicole Espinosa.

Photo credit:

Right by Krystal Ramirez

Top Left by Virginia Laurel

Bottom Left by Claudia Chiang-Lopez

Power to the Polls: Women's March (2018)

In 2018, my art was selected to be the main design for the Women's March that took place in Nevada. The image was carried, shown, and utilized world wide that year.