Come join Parsons Type Club for the first meeting of the semester. We will be making valentines (’cause you’re just our type) and announcing a new project (spoiler alert: fyeahtypefacedesign).
Monday, February 10th at 7pm
6 East 16th St, Room D1200
There will be pizza. Don’t miss out!
Pat Cummings who teaches the Illustration course “Children’s Book Illustration” will be having a book launch for her latest picture book on Feb. 15th. The retelling book by Chuku Lee of Beauty and the Beast has been translated it from the original French version and on Feb. 11th, it will be released by HarperCollins Books for Children. It has received great reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book and got a starred review from Kirkus.
The book launch will be held on Saturday, Feb. 15th at 2pm at BookCourt in Brooklyn.
Conor Stechschulte
The seventy-fourth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, Kellen auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave. Free and open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: Events this semester will take place on Tuesday evenings.
Presentations by Conor Stechschulte and Christopher Adams.
Conor Stechschulte on To and From The Amateurs: A comprehensive look at the ideas and influences that lead to the making of The Amateurs, the lessons learned while making it, and how I’ve applied those lessons to my current comics work. Other topics that may or may not be glancingly addressed: accidental dismemberment, the true sound a screaming pig makes, drawing comics while standing up, and what affineurs and cartoonists have in common. Conor Stechschulte began self-publishing comics in 2005 as a member of the Closed Caption Comics collective in Baltimore. Since then he has made more than a dozen acclaimed hand-made books. His work has appeared in Happiness!, Smoke Signal, and Sundays, on the notable list for both Best American Comics and Best American Non-Required Reading, and in national and international art exhibitions. A reprint of his graphic novel, The Amateurs is forthcoming from Fantagraphics in 2014.
Christopher Adams will talk about his work and some of the work that appeals to him and the direct and indirect connections between the two. Specifically he will talk about the non-comics work that appeals to him. Specifically work that is somewhat brief, dry, technical and descriptive. Work that brings to mind instruction manuals or user guides. Work from different fields. He will also talk about how he likes to think about looking in relation to this work and how that informs what he would like to draw and paint and write. And ultimately how he would like to proceed making comics that are maybe not comics. Christopher Adams is an artist and musician who lives and works in Baltimore. He has made three comic books: Period, Strong Eye Contact and Yule Log – all published by 2D Cloud. He has made two music albums: Baby Hair and Vegetables. He also sells art supplies.
Christopher Adams
The seventy-third meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. PLEASE NOTE: Events this semester will take place on Tuesday evenings.
Presentation: Keren Katz will discuss and show work from the small history of cartooning in Israel as represented in three recently published catalogs by The Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics. She will sample artwork from these catalogs, representing three time periods, focusing on work by contemporary Israeli cartoonists. She will also share slides from her thesis work and her documentation of guerrilla poetry readings at the MoMA.
Keren Katz is an Israeli illustrator and cartoonist based in New York. A graduate of the Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program, School of Visual Arts (New York) and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jersusalem), she has contributed comics to anthologies worldwide, self published six graphic novels and many zines. Titles include: Crossing the Rubikon, Chronicles of the Falling Women, Before The Dark Gate, Rashomon Ramat-Gan, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Coat Check Dream, Were You Watching?, The Night Poetry Class in Room 1001, and Uncontested Spaces which will be published by No Press. For more of her work visit: http://kerenkatz.carbonmade.com/
Join us for an information session with Ryan Howe, University Relations Specialist at Pixar.
February 13th
2:50-3:50 PM
80 Fifth Ave., Rm 802
Open to all students of The New School
Pixar is offering paid internships. Please review these descriptions and come loaded with questions!
Pixar Undergraduate Program (PUP):
This is a classroom based training (taught at Pixar) that is designed for students early on in their academics who are wanting to become Technical Directors. We look for eager students who are artistic, but have an understanding and curiosity for the technical side as well.
Job Description: http://www.pixar.com/careers/Available-Internships#Pixar-Internships-TechnicalArtists
Animation:
This is a classroom based training for students who are looking to develop their skills as animators. This program is taught by Pixar employees.
Job Description: http://www.pixar.com/careers/Available-Internships#
Story:
This is also a classroom based training that is design to educate students who are looking to become illustrators/storyboarding. This is also taught on our campus by Pixar employees.
Job Description: http://www.pixar.com/careers/Available-Internships#Pixar-Internships-Story-965
Art Internship:
This internship supports our pipeline in area’s such as character design, sets design and graphics.
Job Description: http://www.pixar.com/careers/Available-Internships#Pixar-Internships-Art
Rachel Levit’s (BFA Illustration 2012) ‘Dots’ and other works in Juxtapoz and on Cool Hunting.
Check out the awesome video from Cool Hunting’s visit to her Bushwick studio space.
Rachel Levit is a Brooklyn based illustrator born and raised in Mexico City. Her illustrations are a collection of nonchalant characters in somewhat muted surroundings. A few of Rachel’s pieces have been featured in The New York times for issues like breast cancer and her ‘Dots’ series benefitted victims of the double hurricane that hit Mexico’s coast in September of this year. Take a look at more of Rachel’s work here.
Parsons Illustration and beauty brand Fresh recently collaborated on a contest to illustrate the brand, story and persona of Fresh founders Lev Glazman and Alina Roytberg.
After much deliberation in deciding the winners, it was evident that the Fresh team was committed to this process and all the great work submitted.
Two winners ended up being selected: Vincy Cheung and Mitsi Solano, who took home $1500 each! Enjoy their work below!
The Museum offers forty-one paid internships for undergraduate and master’s-degree students each year. Interns commence in June and are placed in host departments where they work closely with supervisors on special and ongoing projects. All paid interns also participate in MuSe (Museum Seminars) and receive training to teach in the Museum’s galleries. Individuals selected for paid internships have the opportunity to meet and network with one another through MuSe and other intern events. Note that Juniors should apply for the Summer internships, while Seniors should consider the long-term internships.
The Museum offers four internship tracks within the internship program:
Please select the track that best matches your qualifications and interests. The Summer Mentoring Program for College Juniors requires a separate application.
The application deadline for all paid internships for college and graduate students at the Main Building is January 9, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. (EST). We will not accept applications after the deadline.
International Applicants
Internships at the Metropolitan Museum are open to international applicants. Every foreign national who does not have the legal status to hold an internship and is accepted as a paid or unpaid intern must obtain a J-1 visa to participate in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s internship program. Although the Museum will act as your host institution, we cannot sponsor your visa. To participate in the Exchange Visitor Program (J-1 visa program), you must go through an outside agency that has been authorized by the State Department to sponsor your J-1 trainee visa. These sponsors are responsible for supporting and monitoring foreign nationals during their exchange programs in the United States. We recommend that you consult with the U.S. embassy in your home country to determine which visa will allow you to participate in this internship. Please be aware that obtaining a visa is usually a lengthy process and can cost upwards of US$1,500; it must be completed well in advance of the internship start date.
Internships for college and graduate students are made possible by Ittleson Foundation, The Tianaderrah Foundation, The Billy Rose Foundation, The Lebensfeld Foundation, and The Solow Art and Architecture Foundation.
Image from www.metmuseum.org