Check out this great interview with Ben Katchor on the Los Angeles Review of Books website.
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Figure Drawing Fridays Are Back!
Welcome back, students! While we hope you are enjoying your new classes for the fall semester, we are excited to announce the scheduled sessions for Open Figure Drawing at the University Center (Academic Entrance 63 Fifth Avenue), Room 619.
Open figure drawing is open to all Parsons students and faculty with a New School issued ID to enter the building. All that we ask is that you come with your own tools of choice and clean up after yourself before you leave. There are only 16 seats available however, participating students and faculty may come and go as they please.
The sessions run from 4:00-6:00 and from 7:00-9:00
Here are the dates to watch out for during this semester!
September 5th
September 12th
September 19th
October 10th
October 17th
October 24th
October 31st
November 7th
November 14th
November 21st
December 5th
October 3rd and November 28th are holidays, so there will not be a drawing session.
See you there!
Illustration Students to be Featured on the Commencement Pamphlet Cover
Congratulations to four illustration Students on having their artwork featured on the cover of the Commencement Pamphlet this year. Those students are Beth Zimmerman, Shahena Zaveri, Sarah Bibel, and Jessica Yuen.
The Commencement Cover Project was a collaboration between the Professional Practice course offered by the Illustration Program at Parsons and the Communications and External Affairs office (CEA) at The New School.
Under the tutelage of the Professional Practice Professors, Caty Bathaolomew, Viktor Koen, Niel Swaab and Wendy Popp students worked with the CEA art director Ed Pusz to have their work showcased!
“Gourmandise: the pleasures of life”
To all those with a passion for illustration,
Parsons is participating in the annual showcase in Bologna at the Alléance Française and we are now accepting entries! This year theme is “Gourmandise: the pleasures of life”. You can find more information in the following flyer. We hope to see great work, the deadline is MARCH 7! Good luck!
Niels Bugge Award
Exciting opportunity to show your work internationally! Participate to Niels Bugge Award, a cartoon contest, have a chance to be exhibited in Denmark and win cash prizes! Following are all the details:
Dear digital and other friends, we start with Niels Bugge Cartoon Award 2014. I hope the message is spread in all computers, laptops, smartphone around the world.
We wish you a lot of creativity and look forward to exciting cartoons.
Participation conditions can be found here or on the homepage
Participation conditions can be found here or on the homepage
Theme explanation
Oceans are in our hands
Conditions and rules :
Initially, each participant can submit up to 3 entries in digital format by sending them before March 5th, 2014 via internet (Upload) to the following address :
Oceans are in our hands
Conditions and rules :
Initially, each participant can submit up to 3 entries in digital format by sending them before March 5th, 2014 via internet (Upload) to the following address :
Together with the digital entry form and with the informations about the author.
Size for the first round: A4 Format, 300dpi, 2480×3508 pixel, Max. 5 MB each file.
Size for the first round: A4 Format, 300dpi, 2480×3508 pixel, Max. 5 MB each file.
The cartoons received after the deadline will be rejected.
Out of these submissions, the jury will make a selection of 100-150 drawings.
Only the selected artists will be asked to send the original work by post.
All these works will be shown at the exhibition.
The works can be made in black & white or color, with any drawing technique. We accept only wordless cartoons, without subtitles.
The submitted work should not have been awarded before the deadline of this contest.
The submitted work should not have been awarded before the deadline of this contest.
Cartoon works will be appreciated by the International Jury.
The award winners selected by the jury will be personally informed via e-mail. The final decisions of the jury are incontestable.
The Prizes are :
1st Prize : 3.000 €
2nd Prize : 2.000 €
3rd Prize : 1.000 €
The selected participants give the organizers permission to use their drawings only for promoting the artist and the event itself.
Every other aspect of the copyright remains with the artist (except for the awarded submissions). It ensures that the awarded works can no longer be submitted in other contests or published by their authors or third parties after the official publication of the results.
The drawings that were awarded one of the prizes will become property of the organizer.
The exhibition and the award ceremony will take place in late May 2014.
By taking part in this contest the participants accept the above mentioned rules.
Contact for further information: award14@hae.de
Notice : The prizes should be payed by the diplomatic way if unexpected problems occur with the bank account.
Contest Watchers!
Illustrators and designers, did you know about Contests Watcher? This amazing resource will help you keep track of a lot of great competitions where to enter your work!
Come to Comic Book Club!
Check us out, bring your favorite comic, and come be nerdy with us!
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Student of the Week: Mary Rockcastle
This week’s student of the week is Mary Rockcastle. Primarily a digital illustrator, Mary also makes prints, paintings, and multimedia works.
Scroll down to view a sample of her work and artist statement:
Mary Rockcastle, Mystical Grrrl Print, Relief Printmaking, Martin Mazorra
Mary Rockcastle, Trouble, Illustrative Painting, Gavin Speilman
Mary Rockcastle, Timid Creatures, Personal
Artist Statement:
My work revolves around topics of female sexuality and bending the perception of gender as a binary concept. Inspired by photographers like Francesca Woodman and Cindy Sherman, I try to incorporate their inspiring and honest self portraiture into my work while creating something more illustrative for a commercial audience. I work in a number of mediums, but mostly revolve between oil painting, digital painting, and a combination of ink and watercolor. I enjoy creating shocking or thought provoking work with soft aesthetics in order to create a vital juxtaposition that keeps me sane. My goal is to eventually to find work that combines my love for storytelling and gender studies in order to inform an audience
To see more of Mary’s work, be sure to check out her portfolio at: http://www.behance.net/maryethel.
Find Out the Process Behind the “Virgin Mobile Office Murals” with George Bates Studio
Below is only a fraction of the amazing work by George Bates Studio in executing the Virgin Mobile Office Murals. To learn more about the backstory and process of this project or to simply just take a gander at the rest of the photos of their work, visit the blog to read the full post at http://georgebatesstudio.blogspot.com/2013/11/virgin-mobile-office-muralsit-always.html.
Parsons Alum Sophia Chang joins forces with PUMA and Steve Madden!
The following images are of the “Next Starts Now” collection in which Sophia Chang collaborated with PUMA as well as illustrations for Steve Madden Magazine’s favorite places of NY and LA !
Visit her site at http://esymai.com
