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Illustration Student of the Week: Vincy Cheung

Student News

This week’s student of the week is Vincy Cheung. Vincy specializes in pattern, illustration, and motion work featuring quirky and bold imagery. Scroll down to view a sample of her work and…

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Tonight the Parsons Typography Club meets at “Booklyn”

Student News

Tonight, the new Parsons Typography Club will be going to “Booklyn,” an artists and bookmakers organization located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to look at artists books that focus on typography and then…

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Tonight the Parsons Typography Club meets at "Booklyn"

Student News

Tonight, the new Parsons Typography Club will be going to “Booklyn,” an artists and bookmakers organization located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to look at artists books that focus on typography and then…

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series – Wu Tsang

Visiting Lecture Series

Wu Tsang is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His artworks and performances have been presented at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial in New York, the ICA…

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NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Michael Joseph

Presentation

(left) Reading Girl by Gustav Adolph Hennig (1797-1869), c. 1828 (oil on canvas) Museum der Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig. (right) drawing by Robert Crumb. The thirty-fifth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be…

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Tonight: “The Public Private” Artists’ Reception

Exhibitions

TONIGHT!  Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery 2 W13th, New York, NY ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: The Public Private Sheila…

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Tonight: "The Public Private" Artists' Reception

Exhibitions

TONIGHT!  Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery 2 W13th, New York, NY ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: The Public Private Sheila…

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Illustration Senior Annie Seo Has Work Published in Today's NYTimes!

Student News

Annie Seo Check out today’s Opinion Pages in the New York Times and you’ll see the work of Illustration Senior Annie Seo attached to a Letter to the Editor by an…

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Illustration Senior Annie Seo Has Work Published in Today’s NYTimes!

Student News

Annie Seo Check out today’s Opinion Pages in the New York Times and you’ll see the work of Illustration Senior Annie Seo attached to a Letter to the Editor by an…

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Ben Katchor's Book Reviewed in L.A. Times

Faculty News

This past weekend, the L.A. Times’ book section takes a look at Katchor’s new book, Hand-Drying in America. The review hails Katchor as “an urban visionary, building his stories brick by…

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SJDC WALLPAPERS: FRESH WALLS 2013

competitions

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS deadline: April 1, 2013, midnight Parsons community! The walls at the elevator banks at 2 W. 13th Street and 66 5th Avenue are ready for a makeover! These…

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Illustration Student of The Week!

Student News

This week’s Illustration student of the week is Emmy Reis, illustrator, pattern/printmaker, and animator. Along with a few of her peers, Emmy was chosen to speak at a special student character…

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Faculty Steven Guarnaccia Featured on PBS’s OFF BOOK

Faculty News

Watch as Steven contributes to the episode, The Art Of Illustration. Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety…

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Vera List Center Event – What We Made: Conversations on Art & Social Cooperation

Presentation

Rick Lowe, Residents and visitors gather in the courtyard at Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, 2006. Courtesy the artist. Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 6:30–8:30 p.m. The New School, Theresa Lang Community…

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Kickstarter Info Sessions – Feb 19 & 21

Workshops

The New School wants to help you get your next project off the ground and funded. Kickstarter has been a powerful vehicle that has launched many student, faculty and alumni’s projects….

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NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Robert Weaver Book Event

Events Presentation

Join us for a celebration of the publication of Robert Weaver’s split-level picture-book A Pedestrian View/The Vogelman Diary (Verlag Kettler) on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 7pm at Parsons The New School, 2…

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Join the first ever meeting of The Parsons Typography Club this Thursday, 7pm!

Student News

Free pizza and hobnobbing with fellow type fetishists! What could be better?! Thursday, February 7th at 7pm 79 5th Ave, 16th Floor The first meeting will be an introduction for people…

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NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Jack Feldstein and Lea Mairet

Presentation

The thirty-third meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, February 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street in…

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AIGA/NY @Parsons Lecture Series: Designer's Debate Club NO.3

Events

A limited number of complimentary tickets are available for New School students, faculty, and staff (NSU ID required).  CLICK HERE FOR RESERVATIONS. The reservation system will shut down once we have…

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Looking@Democracy Contest

competitions Opportunities

The MacArthur Foundation and Illinois Humanities Council is sponsoring a national competition for creative media pieces about strengthening American democracy. $100,000 in prize money will be awarded in May. Submissions are…

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