Category Archives: Current Students
Fellowship for Research in the Humorous Arts of Caricature and Cartoon
Fellowship for Research in the Humorous Arts of Caricature and Cartoon
Library of Congress/Swann Foundation
Deadline: 02/13/09
The Swann Foundation seeks to award 1 fellowship annually (with a stipend of up to $15,000) to assist the fellow in his/her ongoing scholarly research and writing projects in the field of caricature and cartoon. In lieu of 1 fellowship, the board has made smaller awards to several recipients in recent years due to the number, nature, and quality of fellowship applications. To be eligible, one must be a candidate for an MA or PhD degree in an accredited graduate program in a university in the US, Canada, or Mexico and working toward the completion of a dissertation or thesis for that degree, or be engaged in postgraduate research within 3 years of receiving an MA or PhD. Although research must be in the field of caricature and cartoon, there is no limitation regarding the place or time period covered. For full application details, please visit http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html.
Click here for a direct link to the application!
Expires on 02/13/09 at midnight.
Jerelle Kraus at 92nd Street Y and Society of Illustrators
The official description of the event:
Kraus, Suares and Holland will discuss the beginnings, the development and the current state of The New York Times Op-Ed Page, whose illustrations started to revolutionize journalism in the 1970s. The lecture will focus on the Op-Ed’s use of illustration over the years, how illustration is commissioned and why, the artists that helped create its image and the importance of message-driven illustration.
The lecture will be followed by book signings by all three paticipants.
Moderated by Fernanda Cohen
Limited to 120 people $15 non-members $10 members $7 students
RSVP kevin@societyillustrators.org or call 212 838 2560
The Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065
Tel: (212) 838-2560
Earlier that the same day–February 4th–Jerelle Kraus will be appearing at the 92nd Street Y in Tribeca. There are half-price tickets available for art students! Here’s the lowdown:
In her 30 years as The New York Times art director, Jerelle Kraus observed many battles between editors and artists over the parameters of respectable journalism. Here she reveals some of the censored treasures that editors deemed too blasphemous to publish and explains how op-ed art has changed the course and purpose of illustration, and why it is more relevant and indispensable than ever. Kraus is the author of All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page.
You can grab your copy of Jerelle’s book here!
University Writing Center is moving!
The University Writing Center is moving from 65 Fifth to 71 Fifth Ave (9th floor). The move is scheduled for Friday January 30th and we plan to be fully open and operational on Monday February 2nd.
Students can continue to make appointments using the online “e-scheduler” which can be accessed from the web site of the University Writing Center.
Faculty can continue to request in-class workshops using the workshop request form which is available from the Faculty tab on My New School.
The Writing Center is an amazing resource and everyone should take advantage of it!
A couple of last days to put things off…
Urban Interventions course still open!
Students: Still looking for a class to complete your Spring schedule? How about one that includes art, performance, and local activism? Look no further! Illustration full-time faculty Ben Katchor and Parsons instructor Jim Osman will be offering a course called “Urban Interventions” and there are still slots open! Here’s the official description from the flier above (click on it for a full-size version.):
In this studio, students will investigate possibilities of using the means and methods of public art, street art, urban play and civic activism in order to reframe and critique contemporary notions of urban revitalization and urban beautification. Three basic methods will be used to explore these ideas.
1. Low budget Public sculpture
2. Street Theater/performance
3. Pamphleteering or Print interventionThe site for student work will be 14th Street between First and Sixth Avenues. Our studio partner will be the Union Square Partnership, a community-based, not-for-profit organization that has been a catalyst behind the neighborhood’s transition. Students will address issues of community participation, communication, economies of scale, the impact and meaning of message in the public sphere, particularly in the context of multiple and often alienated audiences.
Through both research and art/design responses, students will develop a critical understanding of the visual landscape and roles that social imaginary plays in the complex processes of urban transformation. Students will develop their proposals to a final stage, ready for implementation. Our partner may implement some projects.
PUIC 2000–3 credits. Open to Majors, non-majors, Lang and Milano students, sophomores and above.
This is a great opportunity to put your art into action and get college credit while you’re doing it. So get active, get artistic, and sign up!
Greetings from the Illustration Department
Happy holidays, a warm winter, and a bright solstice to all of you: our devoted readers, students, faculty, and alumni. Thank you for making 2008 a wonderful year. Fresh updates will resume around January 12th after we take a much-needed rest. See you in 2009.
[Illustration by Jillian Tamaki, Parsons Adjunct Faculty and all-around wonderful artist.]
Bonnie Gloris in Creative Quarterly and a Call for Entries!
Parsons Illustration Alumni Bonnie Gloris recently won a Merit Award in the catergory of Fine Art in Issue 13 of Creative Quarterly for the piece above. You can check out out more of Bonnie’s work here at her official website.
Congratulations, Bonnie!
And Creative Quarterly is currently making a call for entries for Issue 15! Here are the details:
Who’s eligible to enter?
All art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists in all media. We’ll judge both professional and student work. Students must be either undergraduate, graduate students or recent graduates. Entrants must be in the US or Canada. We’ll begin our international show with our next issue.
Easy to enter.
If you enter online, you can pay online. Click to learn how to prepare your entries for online submission. Click here to enter online.
Want to mail your payment? Download the Call For Entries 15 PDF and send your payment along with a disc with your entries.
Same categories, just more winners.
Same categories: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Fine Art but we’ll have separate sections for professional and student work. One more way we’re going to share the inspiration.
Speaking of inspiration, winners will be asked to submit their own person, place or thing that inspires them which we’ll reproduce in the magazine as space allows—we’ll also select one of those inspirations for the cover.
The deadline is January 30th, 2009 so head over to the CQ site and get all the information.
88th Annual Art Directors Club Call for Entries!
The Art Directors Club has posted the official guidelines and deadlines for their 88th Annual Call for Entries. Here’s a summary:
IL215 MAGAZINE EDITORIAL
IL216 NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
IL217 COVER, NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE
IL218 BOOK (Commercially Published Volumes Only)
IL219 BOOK JACKET
IL220 CARTOON/COMIC BOOK
IL221 CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL (Annual Reports, Brochures, Etc.)
IL222 SELF-PROMOTION
IL223 CALENDAR OR APPOINTMENT BOOK
IL224 POSTER OR BILLBOARD
IL225 MISCELLANEOUS
IL226 MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT
IL227 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT
IL228 POSTER OR BILLBOARD ADVERTISEMENT
IL229 PHOTOILLUSTRATION
- All Illustration entries, excluding books and physical volumes, should be mounted on Bristol boards with a roughly one-inch (3cm) margin.
- Illustrations alone will not be accepted: no fine art.
- For works less than 24 x 34 inches (metric A1) in size, please submit mounted originals, printed copies, proofs, reprints or tear sheets trimmed as published. Oversized entries may be represented by scaled artwork reproductions or in-situ photographs, mounted on boards.
- Non-English-language entries must be translated into English or have a typed English translation taped to the back of the board.
- For single entries, tape the printed Entry Label to the back of the board.
- Series entries consist of three to five (3-5) components. Please tape the printed Entry Label to the first board in the series and number the back of each board accordingly (1/3, 2/3, 3/3, etc.).
- Do NOT hinge, tape or “accordion” boards together.
- For Book categories (PH204, IL218), only commercially published volumes are accepted
For a full listing of information, check out the official website here. Good luck!
3×3 Call for Entries!
Passed along by Parsons Full-time Faculty Nora Krug, here’s the scoop on 3×3 magazine‘s most recent call for entries:
Mark Your Calendars! As our 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5 is coming off the press it’s time to start thinking about our next international illustration competitions. Here is our schedule and a few details.
3×3 Student Show
As always this show is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in all art schools, colleges and universities around the globe. Work must have been completed in calendar year 2008. A partial list of this year’s judges include illustrators/educators Alexandra Kardinar, Germany; Gary Embury, United Kingdom; Clemente Botelho, Canada and Martha Rich, John Hendrix, Nora Krug of the US. Rounding out the judges is artist representative Pat Lindgren, Lindgren & Smith.Entry deadline: February 14, 20093×3 ProShow
Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators. Categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished. Our judges to date include art directors Alexandre Lagoet, Amsterdam, Raban Ruddigkeit, Germany and SooJin Buzelli and Darlene Simidian, the US as well as illustrators Roman Klonek and Monika Aichele, Germany, Marco Ventura, Italy and Yuko Shimizu, the US.Entry deadline: March 14, 20093×3 Children’s Book Show
Open to all art directors, editors, authors, designers and illustrators from around the world. All published and unpublished children’s books completed in 2008 are eligible. We are in the process of naming our judges for this year’s show. Entry Deadline: April 14. 2009We will begin accepting entries on January 5 but full details are available online at 3x3mag.com. All entries must be either uploaded or received by the deadline. Winners will be featured in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 coming out in late 2009. Full details on both shows are online. Remember you can pay and upload your images online. Children’s book details will be available beginning in February.
Thanks for sending along the info, Nora!
[image by Illustration Alum Jake Messing, who is listed in 3×3’s New Talent Gallery]