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Writing for Children Forum at the New School

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Writing For Children Forum: Getting Published Panel
March 31st at  6:30 p.m.

Experts in the field of children’s book publishing discuss how to get your work published. Featuring Alvina Ling, senior editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Ben Tomek, marketing associate, Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing; and Anna Olswanger, literary agent, Liza Dawson Associates.

Moderated by Deborah Brodie, editor.

Location
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, room 510

Admission
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

In-person ticket purchases
The New School Box Office
66 West 12th Street, main floor
Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m.

Reservations and inquiries can also be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488.

Career Services events!

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Upcoming Parsons Career Services Events

The Fundamentals of Freelancing
 Friday, March 27, 6 PM to 8:30 PM
Parsons Kellen Auditorium (room N101), 66 Fifth Avenue, ground floor

Fundamentals of Freelancing:  Workshop and Alumni Panel Discussion on How to Negotiate Contracts and Start Your Own Business.
Event co-hosted by the School of Art, Media, and Technology and the Office of Career Services.

Art, Media and Technology Career Fair
Wednesday, April 15
10 AM to 1 PM
55 W. 13 St, Lang Student Center, 2 floor

Career Day for students in Art, Media, and Technology.  IDC and Design and Management students are encouraged to participate. Employers such as Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, Click 3x, Conde Nast Publications, Eye Ball NYC, G2, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and Razorfish will be meeting with graduating students to discuss job opportunities, give portfolio feedback, and offer career advice.
Students must bring a portfolio  and/or reel and several resumes to the event.

All events sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 St, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940.  Students should be sure to have their resumes reviewed by Career Services prior to events they plan to attend.

Bonnie Gloris in “Everyone We Know”

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A sketchbook of Parsons Illustration Alumni Bonnie Gloris is included in the Sketchbook Project:  “Everyone We Know” .   This traveling group exhibition of sketchbooks organized by Art House (an artist co-op and gallery) is on tour February 27 – April 2, 2009.  And in fact, the tour stops in Brooklyn tonight!  Here are the details:

Mar 13, 2009
7:00 PM – 7:00 PM Brooklyn, NY

3rd Ward

195 Morgan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Over 2,000 artists from around the country were sent a small Moleskine sketchbook. Their task was to fill the book with “everyone we know”. Every book that we receive back will be on display. Visitors are encouraged to pick up the books and freely browse through them.

3rd Ward is a member-based artists’ co-op who has remarkable facilities available to artists as well as a great vibe. 3rd Ward’s views are so similar to Art House’s, that it is clearly a match made in heaven. We can’t wait for the show and especially to meet everyone at 3rd Ward as well as all of our New York participants!

Way to go, Bonnie! And if you’re in the Brooklyn area, stop by and see all this fantastic art.

Quick Hit: Ben Katchor at the Brooklyn Public Library

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7 pm:
Brooklyn Independents: Graphic New York

Graphic novelists Ben Katchor, Dan Goldman and Youme Landowne explore  New York City through their work.  They will discuss their work and their artistic processes.

Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library
Dweck Center
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
tel. 718.230.2100

[illustration by Ben Katchor]

KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games

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KRAZY! will be New York’s first major show dedicated to the Japanese phenomenon of Anime, Manga, and Video Games—three forms of contemporary visual art that are exercising a huge influence on an entire generation of American youth. The exhibition, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, will be presented in an environment designed by cutting-edge architectural practice Atelier Bow-Wow, featuring life-size blowups of popular figures from the worlds of anime and manga within an intriguing sequence of spaces that evoke Tokyo’s clamorous cityscape. Co-curated by leading North American and Japanese specialists, KRAZY! will give visitors a direct experience of new forms of cultural production and offers fresh insight into the interdependence of three art forms of the future.

KRAZY!
The Delirious World of Anime + Manga + Video Games
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery
Friday, March 13 — Sunday, June 14
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017 

Debra Ziss’s New Children’s book and other projects!

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Parsons Illustration alum Debra Ziss has a brand new children’s book coming out this summer!  Over at her blog, she’s sharing a sneak peek of sketches and pages, like the one above.  She’s also involved in a plethora of other projects like creating a t-shirt for the Gap and doing hand lettering like this:

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Keep up the good work, Debra!

International Ideas Competition: Grand Concourse at 100

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The Bronx Museum of the Arts in partnership with Design Trust for Public Space launched Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an international ideas competition. Open to all, the competition solicits bold visions from architects, planners, artists, designers, students, area residents, and others, that illustrate and describe how the Bronx and the Grand Concourse can evolve in coming decades to cope with pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation.

Up to 7 finalists will be awarded a $1,000 cash stipend to further develop their proposal for inclusion in the exhibition–Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100 – Future at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, opening Nov. 1, 2009. A $5,000 first prize will be awarded to one of the seven finalists at the exhibit’s opening. Honorable Mentions will be awarded to up to 50 submissions, and will be displayed digitally during the exhibit in the Museum’s North Wing Lobby and also in an online gallery on the competition website.

Competition entries will be accepted until May 1, 2009 and judged by diverse and distinguished jury.

By 2030, New York City is projected to grow by over one million residents, and 124,000 will settle in the Bronx — the equivalent of the entire population of Ann Arbor, Michigan, or New Haven, Connecticut. With this substantial population growth on the horizon, recent robust investment in development, and the Grand Concourse’s centennial, now is the time to look at what the Bronx and its important thoroughfare will become beyond 100.

Visit the competition website and begin your submission today! In addition to application details, the website hosts extensive information about the Bronx and the Grand Concourse, including a slideshow of historic images, a video about the history of the Concourse, many current and historic maps, demographic data, recommended books and movies, and more.

Read more about this project here.  Good luck!

Bonus footage: Here’s a video of Sam Goodman, lifetime Bronx resident, giving a tour of the Grand Concourse this past October.

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Society of Publication Designers @ FIT Speaker Series

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DWI: Do It With Illustration
Under the Influence with Today’s Most Arresting Illustrators

Tuesday, March 3rd
7:00 – 8:30pm
FIT Katie Murphy Amphitheater
27th and 7th Avenue, Building D
Doors open at 6:30pm.
NOTE: A screening of the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline video will be shown at 6:45pm, so come early.

Student Fee: $5 at the door
Professional Fee: $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
Make reservations on the SPD web site: http://www.spd.org/

The 6 presenting illustrators for the panel discussion and Q&A will include:

• Peter Arkle
• Juliette Borda
• Christopher Silas Neal
• Tim O’Brien
• Katherine Streeter
• Jillian Tamaki (Parsons Illustration Faculty)

Moderated by Mark Heflin, Director, American Illustration and American Photography