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Follow-up: Katie Turner’s Illustrated Journal from Bologna
In March, Parsons Illustration Senior Katie Turner attended the Bologna Book Fair as a representative of the program. She was kind enough to share some of her wonderfully illustrated journal pages from the trip. Click on each picture and you will be taken to a full-size version so you can really see some of the neat details. Thanks for sharing, Katie!
Stella Lee’s piece chosen for American Illustration 29!
Skein, Stella Lee, graphite on paper
It is our pleasure to announce that Senior-year Illustration Program student Stella Lee had a piece selected by a distinguished jury to be published in American Illustration 29 annual. It was 1 of only 388 selected from 8,033 entries.
The work was created this fall in Senior Thesis with Jordin Isip. This is a high achievement and honor, congratulations to Stella!
Parsons Illustration Pre-Commencement Reception on May 20th
Parsons Illustration Pre-Commencement Ceremony
Pot Luck Reception–bring food and drinks to share!
Snacks, Music, Fun! Pomp, Circumstance!
All Graduating Seniors and Parsons Illustration Faculty are invited to this informal reception on Thursday, May 20th.
Bring your family and bring some snacks!
Mingle with faculty and friends!
Listen to some tunes, relax, and reflect on all the accomplishments you’ve achieved during your time at Parsons!
Thursday, May 20th
4-5:30 p.m.
T. Lang Center
55 W. 13th, 2nd Floor
Ed Koren at Columbia University: The Capricious Line
The artist’s name may ring a bell: Koren has contributed close to a thousand cartoons to the New Yorker since 1962, featuring a lovably shaggy cast of characters, which one wag described as “Muppets on Rogaine.” This five-decade survey features original drawings for Koren’s cartoons and illustrated books, and also débuts a quartet of panoramic drawings, inspired by the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History. A public reception, from 5 to 7, celebrates the show’s opening. (A related exhibition is installed at the Luise Ross gallery, in Chelsea, where a reception will be held on May 1, from 3 to 5.) Opens April 27.
Date: April 27 – June 12
Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University
Venue Address: Schermerhorn Hall, 116th Street and Broadway, New York, N.Y.
Venue Phone: 212-854-7288
Follow-up: Foolish Corpse Event
Check out these dreamy photos from the recent “Foolish Corpse” event on April 1, 2010. All these images were photographed by Parsons MFA student Conway Liao–be sure to check out his website here for more wonderful imagery.
Foolish Corpse was a collaboration between the Parsons Foundation and Illustration programs. It was a live drawing event with rotating teams and three video projectors that create one scroll-like image in the Aronson gallery. Participants worked on three Wacom Cintiq screen tablets and responded to each other as the images unfolded. This unpredictable event, loosely based on the Surrealist parlor game the Exquisite Corpse, was further unhinged by musical and word cues lobbed at the artists like bad April Fools jokes. An additional group of artists draw simultaneously on Wacom Cintiq Intuos tablets uploading their work to a drop box as raw material for the project.
Foolish Corpse was part of the Palimpsest exhibition.
Recent Student Work: Katie Turner and Delaney Gibbons
Parsons Illustration Senior Katie Turner recently did her first Op-Ed for the New York Times–the fantastic illustration above is the result. It ran on April 15th, 2010. See the article here.
Congrats, Katie!
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Parsons Illustration Sophomore Delaney Gibbons, a student in Lauren Redniss’s Illustrative Print Class, created the animation above. It’s called “Night People.” Fascinating, creative stuff!
Keep up the good work, Delaney!
Quick Hit: Speed and Glamour–Early Automobiles and NYC at MCNY tonight!
Tuesday, April 20, 6:30 PM
Speed and Glamour: Early Automobiles and New York City
New York City played an important role in making the automobile an icon of modernism. Join Phil Patton, automobile design expert and co-curator of the Museum’s exhibition Cars, Culture, and the City, for an in-depth look at how New York influenced the design of early cars and parkways and promoted speed and glamour, from Gatsby’s Rolls Royce to the Ford Mustang. Presented in conjunction with Cars, Culture, and the City.
Reservations required: 917-492-3395 or programs@mcny.org
$6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members
$6 when you mention Parsons/New School
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org
American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art at SI
American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art is the story of one of America’s truest folk art forms, the rock poster. The film explores the history/rise of the current rock poster movement in America, and features a cast of quirky/interesting, and extremely talented rock poster artists talking about what inspired their work, and telling the story of their underground art movement. It features interviews with renown artists as well as fans, collectors, and musicians.
Featured Artists: Stanley Mouse, Frank Kozik, Art Chantry, EMEK, COOP, Derek Hess, Mark Arminski, Tara McPherson, Justin Hampton, Victor Moscoso, Jermaine Rogers, Jay Ryan, Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Lindsey Kuhn, Leia Bell, Jim Pollock, Randy Tuten, Jim Sherraden & Hatch Show Print, Scrojo, Winston Smith, Print Mafia, Paul Imagine, Kevin Bradley, Julie Belcher, Jeff Wood, Steve Walters, Mat Daly, Stainboy, David Singer, Dennis Loren, Mike Martin, Gary Grimshaw, and Chris Shaw. 88min.
About the Director: Producer / Director Merle Becker is a 15+ year veteran of film and television. Her films have been included in the permanent collection at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
For more information go to: http://www.AmericanArtifactMovie.com
$15 non-members $10 members $7 students
RSVP jessica@societyillustrators.org or call 212 838 2560 www.societyillustrators.org
Tonight: Peter Blegvad’s “A Brief History of Amateur Enterprises”
Peter Blegvad
A Brief History of Amateur Enterprises
April 16th, 7-9 p.m.
2 W. 13th, Bark Room (in Lobby)
Free and Open to the Public!
Peter Blegvad is a writer, illustrator, songwriter, broadcaster, and teacher.
Since 1975 his drawings have been published in magazines, books, on record covers and websites internationally.
He wrote and drew “Leviathan”, a weekly comic strip (starring a faceless tot of philosophical propensity), for the Independent on Sunday Review, from 1991 to 1999.
As a musician Peter has been involved in the making of more than 20 albums and has performed extensively. He was active in the avant-garde music scene of the 1970’s & 1980’s, in Germany and England with Faust; in England with Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, the Art Bears, Andy Partridge of XTC; and in the States with The Golden Palominos, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Jack Bruce and Carla Bley.
Peter Blegvad’s work contains some of the most oblique and poetic wordplay to ever make its way to song. It’s a testament to his hard work and clear vision that, though his references can sometimes be too arcane, literary or personal to be widely recognized, the completed form of his work is generally downright friendly and inviting. (The Trouser Press Rock Guide)
Since 2002 he has written, performed and produced ‘eartoons’ (audio cartoons) for “The Verb” on BBC Radio 3. His series “Static in the Attic” featured a “singular double act” — the two halves of his divided self in conversation.
He was awarded the Ordre de la Grande Gidouille by the Collège de ‘Pataphysique, Paris, in 2000, and won a Sony award in 2003 for “Eartoons for the Verb.”