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From the Inbox: Diane Dillon and Brian Selznick visit Pat Cummings

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We’re passing along this fantastic invitation from Parsons Illustration faculty member Pat Cummings…

For the final sessions of my classes (both Parsons and Pratt) I’m having two guest speakers next week.  Any students you think might be interested in either or both presentations would be welcome to come.

Both presentations will be held at my apartment in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn and there’s a limit on how many can attend. So please have anyone interested email me for directions and/or more information ASAP at:

write2me@patcummings.com

please write: ‘children’s book program’ in the subject line so I don’t toss it out as spam.

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MONDAY, DEC. 15TH
1-2PM
DIANE DILLON

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TUESDAY, DEC. 16TH
11AM-Noon
BRIAN SELZNICK

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity!  Thanks for passing along the invite, Pat.

[top illustration by Brian Selznick]

Reminder: Important Class Schedule Changes for this Week!

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In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, the university will be closed Thursday, November 27 through Sunday, November 30.  The Illustration Office will be closed Tuesday through Friday.

There will be class schedule changes during the week of November 24. These changes are necessary in order to fulfill the number of class sessions during the academic semester.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Tuesday classes will not meet. Instead, any class that regularly meets on Thursdays will meet on Tuesday, November 25 at the regular times and locations.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Classes that start before 4:00 p.m. will not meet, which means NO ILLUSTRATION DEPARTMENT COURSES WILL BE RUNNING.  However, all classes starting at 4:00 p.m. or later will meet.


**PLEASE CONFIRM CLASS SCHEDULES WITH YOUR INSTRUCTORS**

Quick Hit: Nicholas Blechman and Max Bode at SI

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Lecture: Art Directing and Illustrating
with Nicholas Blechman and Max Bode
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Society of Illustrators

Nicholas Blechman, Art Director for The New York Times Book Review and Max Bode, Art Director for The New Yorker, will discuss the pros and cons of illustrating and art directing, their different approaches, how the editorial field works in relation to illustration, how it’s changed over the decades, upcoming trends and illustration vs.photography.

Begins at 6:30pm.
$15 non-members, $10 members, $7 students.
RSVP via email or call 212-838-2560.

[illustration by Nicholas Blechman]

Reminder: Important Class Schedule Changes for Nov. 24th

Current Students, Education, Illustration Faculty, News,

In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, the university will be closed Thursday, November 27 through Sunday, November 30.

There will be class schedule changes during the week of November 24. These changes are necessary in order to fulfill the number of class sessions during the academic semester.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Tuesday classes will not meet. Instead, any class that regularly meets on Thursdays will meet on Tuesday, November 25 at the regular times and locations.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Classes that start before 4:00 p.m. will not meet, which means NO ILLUSTRATION DEPARTMENT COURSES WILL BE RUNNING.  However, all classes starting at 4:00 p.m. or later will meet.


**PLEASE CONFIRM CLASS SCHEDULES WITH YOUR INSTRUCTORS**

From the Inbox: The Real Cost of Prisons Comix

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Comic artist Kevin Pyle (Blind Spot) sent us the following info recently…

With over 125,000 copies of the comic books printed and more than 100,000 sent to people who are incarcerated, their families, and to organizers and activists throughout the country, The Real Cost of Prisons Comix series is a great example of the comic as an activist and educational tool for social change.

Originally published in a comics pamphlet format, the three issues have now been collected in a perfect bound collection published by PM Press, publisher of Slingshot, the Postcards of Eric Drooker. The three chapters were written and drawn by longtime World War 3 illustrated co-editors Sabrina Jones (Isadora and Girltalk), Kevin Pyle (Blindspot and Lab U.S.A.) and Susan Willmarth (Black History for Beginners) and addresses the war on drugs, the economics of the prison boom, and the effects of incarceration on women and children.

With the U.S.A. now leading the world in incarceration, this thoroughly researched and documented collection seeks to unpack the rhetoric of punishment and expose the impact of a prison system out to control. All in the easily understood and entertaining medium of comics.

If you’re interested, you can get more information here.

Last Minute: Mentoring Opportunity Info Session

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Parsons SPACE (Parsons’ Summer, Pre-College Academy & Continuing Education) is recruiting for student mentors for our Parsons Scholars Program.  This position also offers teaching assistant opportunities in our Academy courses and the chance to make a difference in young artists lives.

Mentoring Information Session
Thursday, September 25
6pm
New School Orientation Room
2 West 13th Street, lobby
RSVP: academy@newschool.edu

Quick Hit: Workshop for Classical Representation

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INTENSIVE PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM IN CLASSICAL REPRESENTATION
Weeklong Intensive, Friday September 19 – Saturday, September 27, 2008
$1,750 (Scholarships Available)

Instructors:  Cindy Porcu, Architectural Renderer; Christine Franck, Architect and ICA&CA Board Member;  Michael Grimaldi, Fine Artist and Drawing Atelier Head, Art Students League; Stephen Harby, Architect and Watercolorist; Andre Junget, Architectural Render; John Woodrow Kelley, Architect and Fine Artist;  Edward Schmidt, Fine Artist and Faculty Head of Drawing, New York Academy of Art; Andy Taylor, AIA, Architect; Geoffrey Taylor, PhD, Architectural Historian, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Andrew Zega and Bernrd H. Dams, Architects, Authors, Watercolorists and Historians;

The intensive professional program supports ICA&CA’s core curriculum and aims to provide a working knowledge of various drawing and rendering practices, materials and techniques applicable to the graphic representation of classical architectural form.  The program’s faculty comprises architects, designers, professional renders and fine artists having noted national and international careers based upon their drawing, design and allied fine studio practices.

Course segments include: Contour Rendering, Measured Drawing, Analytique, On Site Watercolor Rendering, and a private viewing of the Metropolitan Museum’s architectural drawing collection.  Guest presenters include the famed watercolorist and authors Zega and Dams and Alma Shapiro Prize recipient Michael Grimaldi.

Lastly, to encourage drawing as a traditional skill within the classical tradition and in recognition of excellence in practice the program will culminate with a juried cash prize in the amount of $2,500 funded by Zivkovic Associates Architects to be awarded for work completed during the program.

For detailed course information and class schedule please visit this site. For scholarship information or to register please contact Leah Aron, Education Programs Coordinator or call (212) 730 -9646 ext 101.

Illustration Kids at Parsons

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Fantastic news–there’s a new blog for Parsons Illustration students.  Spearheaded by an active group of seniors, this new blog will function as a forum for all Illustration students to interact with each other, as well as a way to strengthen communication between students and the departmental administration.

So…bookmark it!  Get involved!

Also note: the above picture is taken right outside the main door of the Illustration office (Room 806, 2 W. 13th).  That’s right–a “suggestion bot” has been created and is open for business.  It will be available during office hours.  (We’d leave it out all the time but it’s so cool, it would probably get stolen instantly.)