Kathryn A. Smith on Crafting the Old Testament in the Queen Mary Psalter:  Image, Text, and Contexts in Early Fourteenth-Century England.

[above] Scenes from the lives of Saul and David, Queen Mary Psalter, c. 1310-20 (London, British Library Royal MS 2 B VII, fol. 52).

Ms. Smith will speak on one of her current projects — an unusual captioned Old Testament picture cycle in a lavishly illuminated psalter made in England c. 1310-20

Kathryn A. Smith is Professor of Medieval Art in the Department of Art History, New York University.  She is the author of Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England (2003), The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England (2012), and numerous articles, essays, and reviews on early Christian and late medieval art.  She is currently working on several projects concerning image-text relationships in medieval manuscripts and the roles of images, including manuscript illuminations and sculpture, in late medieval religion and culture.

WHEN

September 29, 2015 at 7pm
Please note: There is no meeting on Sept. 22nd.

WHERE

The 128th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

Marc Moorash on Bringing Art Young Back to Life

On Publishing the Previously Unpublished Types of the Old Home Town and Rediscovering the Legacy of the Dean of American Cartoonists

Art Young (1866 – 1943) was the best known political cartoonist in the first half of the twentieth century, but you’ve likely never heard of him.  If you have, you’ve likely never seen much of his work.  Sadly, he’s been mostly forgotten – and the story behind this, as with most Art Young tales, is quite remarkable and unfortunate.  He’s a cartoonist almost legendary, yet nearly become myth.
Yet, let’s jump ahead to the beginning of 2015 and the serendipitous publication of a long-lost manuscript – a collection of images some unpublished, some which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in the mid-1920s.  A publication in handmade art-book form.  Let’s also throw in that in April of this year we held the first gallery exhibition since 1939 of Art’s works.

Marc Moorash, curator of The Art Young Gallery (housed one mile from where Art built his gallery in Bethel CT in 1928) will talk about publishing Types of the Old Home Town,the handmade book process of making Types, Art’s history and legacy in American cartooning, and show slides of a number of images and photographs that haven’t been seen in public for decades.  In addition, on display will be a number of Art’s original cartoons from his newspaper Good Morning (1919 – 1921), drawings of Helen Keller and Eugene Debs, as well as original illustrations from Types of the Old Home Town.

Lluvia’s work is inspired by the complexity of lines and shapes. The process of making them, incorporating color and human figures, become an intriguing odyssey for this artist. Lluvia starts by adapting her patterns to the surface she chooses, then explores ways to make the composition work in terms of color and shapes. When it comes to portraits, she creates elegant and elongated shapes that evoke sensitivity and vulnerability, characteristics which can also be distinguished in her color palettes and the expressions on her muses. The intuitive elements in Lluvia’s process keep her work fresh and varied in each new wonderful project she undertakes.

To see more of her work:  www.lluviajimenez.com and www.instagram.com/lluviajc
To contact her, write at jimenezllu@gmail.com

Jessica is a New Jersey grown illustrator who enjoys delving into the relationships between people, whether they are positive and platonic, or negative and destructive. She uses lighting, color, and composition to create mood and meaning between her characters’ interactions. Jessica’s goal is to make her audience feel distinctive emotions through the understanding of what her characters are experiencing. Using her Wacom Cintiq, ink, watercolor, or silkscreen, this artist digs deep to create a story that enables the audience to be immersed in her fantastical worlds.

You can see more of her work at www.jessmercado.com. To contact her write at jessgetsisnspired@gmail.com or follow her on Instagram @jessmerco!