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New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 15, 2015

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Collaborators, translators and friends of the legendary cartoonist Hugo Pratt discuss his work and place in comics history.

Panelists:

Fiore Sireci teaches Anglo-American social history as well as writing in the visual arts at Parsons and the New School, and British literature at Hunter College. He is also a translator, editor, and writer. He has a long time love of comic books and graphic novels and is currently working on translations of the works of Hugo Pratt.

Born in Argentina, Patrizia Zanotti started working with Hugo Pratt at the age of 17, in 1979. She began as a colorist for Pratt’s comics, and then went on to manage dealings with various publishers. She also was involved in the graphic design and editing of Pratt’s books and eventually came to oversee his international exhibitions, including shows in Buenos Aires, Paris, Venice, Milan, Rome, Siena and Lugano. She travelled with Pratt on many business trips throughout Europe, North America and the Pacific as well as other locations over the course of 17 years. In 1994, she partnered with Pratt to create the Italian publishing company Lizard Edizioni, which published graphic novels of Italian and foreign authors, among which were: Milo Manara, Marjane Satrapi, Hergé, Juan Canales and Guarnido and thanks to her knowledge of the Pratt works, Patrizia has managed and has led CONG, Hugo Pratt Art Properties, since 1995.

Born in Rome in 1956 Marco Steiner lives in Rome and New York. He’s a doctor who loves held a passion for reading and writing adventures stories. He has always been an avid traveller and photographer. His mentor and friend, Hugo Pratt, suggested the central European pen name. One year after Pratt’s death, Steiner completed Pratt’s novel Corte Sconta Detta Arcana, published by Einaudi in 1996.
Accompanied by the Swiss photographer Marco D’Anna, he has been travelling in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and South America covering all the geographic locations frequented by Corto Maltese in his adventures. The texts and images from those trips became the introductions to the 14 Corto Maltese books. In Steiner’s second novel Il Corvo di Pietra, a young Corto Maltese appears in this new adventure set in 1902. The book is published by Sellerio in Italy and by Denoël in France.

 

WHEN

December 15, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 139th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

Parsons China Summer Trip!

News

All AMT students pay attention!

PANORAMA is a work/travel AMT Collaboration Studio taking place spring semester 2016 (and beyond), in NYC and six Chinese cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, and hopefully Lhasa, Tibet). Participants will meet during the spring semester once every two weeks, and then travel to China between May 18th and June 8th. Students can enroll for between 1 and 3 credits. You must be enrolled in the PANORAMA studio to join the China trip. There are no prerequisites for this studio. Students of any age may join. This is an ideal studio for any AMT student. Come participate and represent, and experience the trip past participants have described as “the single coolest thing I did at Parsons”.

The panorama is an eternal topic of art, and we all identify with the theme. The idea of “panorama” can be interpreted from literal, spiritual, or cultural perspectives. This studio will augment traditional methods of creating panoramas (photographic, painterly, written) with state-of-the-art photo, video, or computational technology. Students will pursue their own individual projects, and will also work in groups: 2 or 3 students from NY will be combined with 2 or 3 from China to create “panoramas across a distance”. Such group projects might range from traditional image exchange or “exquisite corpse” experiments to projects taking advantage of cutting edge network capabilities, interactive work, or even dynamic creative coding and/or physical computing; focus will depend on student interest and skills. During the China trip there will be workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, and massive exploration of sixChinese cities.

An information session about PANORAMA: Parsons in China, 2016 will take place: 

Weds Dec 9th (next week) at 6:45pm, in UC L104 (lower level UC).

 You can also email parsons.china2016@gmail.com for more info.

The Parsons China trip is legend. Come join us!

New electives for 2016!

News

PANORAMA: Parsons in China, 2016

with legendary Sven Travis, Mondays 9am [CRN 3747]

PANORAMA is a work/travel AMT Collaboration Studio taking place spring semester 2016 (and beyond), in NYC and six Chinese cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, and hopefully Lhasa, Tibet). Participants will meet during the spring semester once every two weeks, and then travel to China between May 18th and June 8th. Students can enroll for between 1 and 3 credits. You must be enrolled in the PANORAMA studio to join the China trip. There are no prerequisites for this studio. Students of any age may join. This is an ideal studio for Illustration students. Come participate and represent, and experience the trip past participants have described as “the single coolest thing I did at Parsons”.

The panorama is an eternal topic of art, and we all identify with the theme. The idea of “panorama” can be interpreted from literal, spiritual, or cultural perspectives. This studio will augment traditional methods of creating panoramas (photographic, painterly, written) with state-of-the-art photo, video, or computational technology. Students will pursue their own individual projects, and will also work in groups: 2 or 3 students from NY will be combined with 2 or 3 from China to create “panoramas across a distance”. Such group projects might range from traditional image exchange or “exquisite corpse” experiments to projects taking advantage of cutting edge network capabilities, interactive work, or even dynamic creative coding and/or physical computing; focus will depend on student interest and skills. During the China trip there will be workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, and massive exploration of six Chinese cities.

An information session about PANORAMA: Parsons in China, 2016 will take place Weds Dec 9th (next week) at 6:45pm, in UC L104 (lower level UC). You can also email parsons.china2016@gmail.com for more info.

Expressive Drawing Across Media
with Veronica Lawlor, Mondays 9am [CRN 6794]

Create experimental drawings, both from the model and on location, through exercises with color, texture, calligraphy, pattern and shape.

What makes a “good” drawing? This studio class will experiment hands-on with mixed media to investigate the ingredients of drawing and picture making: calligraphy, marks, pattern, color, shape, and dimension. Students will work with these elements individually as well as combining them in different ways, becoming more aware of their own taste and proportion in the process.

Each week will feature a different medium, location, and direction. Class time will be spent working with the figure, both nude and in costume, and drawing on-site at New York City locations such as Grand Central Station, the Highline, Rockefeller Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We will review drawings of current and master artists to inspire our work as well.

This class will encourage you to push yourself artistically; trying new mediums, new thoughts, and new design ideas. Explore picture making differently from your usual way of working, and free up your expectations of what a drawing can be!

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COLLAB: OPERA
with Sammy Cucher, John Jerard, Alla Eizenberg, [CRN 6242]
more information here.

3 cr Independent Study: Animation for TEDC
with Jess Irish (Tues afternoons). Email irish@newschool.edu with some samples of previously animated work.
Be part of a select team of students to create public facing animated work to provide information about Energy and Greenhouse Gases, Food, Water, Waste/Pollution, Advocacy. The Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) fosters the integration of bold design, policy, and social justice approaches to environmental issues to advance just and sustainable outcomes in the context of diverse community participation. Let’s Design a future we want to live in.

Dixon Place presents CAROUSEL – With Illustration Faculty R. Sikoryak

Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Performances

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Cartoon Slide Shows and Picture Performances

Hosted by R. Sikoryak

Featuring
Maëlle Doliveux (Hollywood Freeway Chickens)
Felipe Galindo  (No Man Is a Desert Island)
James Godwin (The Flatiron Hex)
Glenn Head  (Chicago)     
Carolita Johnson (The New Yorker)
John Mejias (PAPING)
Andrea Tsurumi  (Cake Vs. Pie)
M. Sweeney Lawless (@Specky4Eyes)

With graphic narratives, gag cartoons, shadow puppets, and much more.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC

Tickets:
$12 (advance), $15 (at the door), $10 (students/seniors) or TDF

Advance tickets & info: www.dixonplace.org    (212) 219-0736

(The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. All proceeds directly support DP’s mission and artists.)

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 8, 2015

Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industry, News, Talks/Lectures

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Camilo José Vergara
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Text & Image Found in the Street.

Acclaimed photographer/sociologist Camilo José Vergara will present a slideshow and discussion of urban street drawings, murals and signage collected over his decades of research in New York City, Detroit and Los Angeles.

Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. Beginning in the 1980s, Vergara applied the technique of rephotography to a series of American cities, photographing the same buildings and neighborhoods from the exact vantage point at regular intervals over many years to capture changes over time. Trained as a sociologist with a specialty in urbanism, Vergara turned to his systematic documentation at a moment of urban decay, and he chose locales where that stress seemed highest: the housing projects of Chicago; the South Bronx of New York City; Camden, New Jersey; and Detroit, Michigan, among others. His books include: Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto, American Ruins and The New American Ghetto.

WHEN

December 8, 2015, at 7pm

WHERE

The 138th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 55 West 13th St., in the Hirshon Suite, room I205. PLEASE NOTE THIS WEEK’S NEW LOCATION! Free and open to the public.

 

Apply for the Jay Kennedy Scholarship!

Call for Entries, Current Students, News

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If you are a current student who will be a Junior or Senior for the 2016-2017 academic year, this is for you! The Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline is quickly approaching. If you haven’t already, please download the application form from here. For the complete guidelines and terms for entry, check out the details here. This is FREE money that you don’t wanna miss out on. Best of luck!

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 1, 2015

Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Talks/Lectures

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Lauren Redniss‘s work combines reporting, historical research, artwork and design. She will speak about her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future.

Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History.  Her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future,was published by Random House in 2015.

WHEN

December 1, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 137th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 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.