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Internship Fair for Current Students on February 3rd

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Attention all current Parsons students:  we hope you can join Parsons Career Services at the Parsons Internship Fair!  This event is a great opportunity for students to find spring and summer semester internships.  Even if students are not eligible to intern this semester or have already found an internship, we encourage them to attend the event and network with industry professionals. Forty employers will be in attendance, including companies that are new to the event such as BBH-ZAG, Delia’s, Disney Consumer Products, Harmonix, Kiehl’s, and Sam Edelman.  We hope to see you there!

Parsons Internship Fair
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
55 West 13th Street, Lang Hall, 2nd floor

Employers attending include:

Abercrombie & Fitch

American Eagle Outfitters

A|X Armani Exchange

BBH – ZAG

BCBG MAX AZRIA GROUP

Calvin Klein

CBX

Coach

Colette Malouf

Club Monaco

Delia’s, Inc.

Disney Consumer Products

Eileen Fisher, Inc.

G2

Gucci Group

Harmonix Music

Hyperakt

Interbrand

J.Crew

Johnson & Johnson

John Varvatos

Kenneth Cole Productions

Kiehl’s

Large Animal Games

Limitedbrands

Li & Fung USA

Marvel

Michael Kors (USA), Inc.

Movado Group, Inc.

MTV Networks

Ogilvy

Polo Ralph Lauren

Ralph Appelbaum Associates

R/GA

Sam Edelman Shoes

Stark Design

Stylecaster

Tracey Locke Partnership

Time Inc.

V Magazine / Vman

To participate, students must be currently enrolled in a Parsons degree program (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters program). Students must bring a student id to the event and also several resumes and a portfolio or reel, if applicable. Students who may have questions regarding how to find an internship, determine eligibility to take an internship, or how to register for credit, can go to the following link for further information: www.parsons.edu/internships.

Event sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 Street, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940. Please contact the office if you have questions or need further details.

The Storyteller exhibition opening at Parsons next week

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The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center presents:

The Storyteller

an exhibition exploring how contemporary artists use narrative as a way to understand the social and political events of our time.

Curated by independent curators Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell, The Storyteller features video, still photography, drawing, mixed media and installation works that engage the documentary capacity of art to bear witness to the rapid, sometimes violent, transformations of our time.

Featured artists include Cao Fei, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller with filmmaker Mike Figgis, Bucksbaum Award winner Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books (Maria Barnas, Maxine Kopsa and Germaine Kruip), Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Lisa Roberts, and Hito Steyerl.

The Storyteller
On view January 29 ‹ April 9, 2010
Opening Reception: January 29, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery

Tonight: Dave Eggers event about the McSweeney’s Newspaper

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A Vibrant Map of the World: McSweeney’s Panorama and the Beauty of Newspapers
January 13, 2010 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th Street

When McSweeney’s printed a prototype Sunday newspaper last month, the writers, editors, and artists who worked on the project were hoping to show some of the great things the print medium remains capable of. The result was the San Francisco Panorama, which sold out within its first week and garnered accolades across the country.

Dave Eggers, author and editor of McSweeney’s, joined by contributors to the project, will give a presentation on the Panorama, discussing the thinking that went into it and what newspapers as a print medium still have to offer.

Introduced by Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, The Writing Program at the New School

Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served.

Parsons Illustration Faculty featured at Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival this weekend!

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PictureBox & Desert Island Present:
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Saturday December 5th 2009: 11 AM – 7 PM
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Free admission

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival consists of 3 components in 3 nearby locations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn:

-Over 50 exhibitors selling their zines, comics, books, prints and posters in a bustling market-style environment at Our Lady of Consolation Church, 184 Metropolitan Ave.
-Panel discussions and lectures by prominent artists, as well as an exhibition of vintage comic book artwork at Secret Project Robot, 128 River St.
-An evening of musical performances at DBA, 49 S. 2nd St.

In the cozy basement of Our Lady of Consolation Church (184 Metropolitan), exhibitors will display and sell their unique wares. Exhibitors include leading graphic book publisher Drawn & Quarterly of Montreal; famed French screenprint publisher Le Dernier Cri; artist’s book publisher Nieves of Zurich, Switzerland; Italian art book publisher Corraini; master printer David Sandlin; and tons of individual artists and publishers from Brooklyn.

Featured guests include the renowned artists Gabrielle Bell, R. O. Blechman, Charles Burns, Anya Davidson, Kim Deitch, C.F., Carlos Gonzales, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Gary Panter, Ron Rege Jr., Peter Saul, Dash Shaw, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, Adrian Tomine, and Lauren Weinstein, among others.

FESTIVAL GUEST SIGNINGS

184 Metropolitan Ave.

1:00: Jillian Tamaki and Lauren Weinstein

2:00: Matthew Thurber, Ron Rege, Jr., C.F.

3:00: Kim Deitch, R.O. Blechman, Dash Shaw

4:00: Ben Katchor and Gary Panter

5:00: Mark Newgarden, David Sandlin, Lisa Hanawalt

6:00: Gabrielle Bell & R. Sikoryak

The commerce portion of the Festival is partnered with an active panel and lecture program nearby at Secret Project Robot, 5 minutes down the street at 128 River St. This mini symposium will run from 1 to 6 pm and is being overseen by noted comics critic Bill Kartalopolous.

PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE:

Secret Project Robot
128 River St. and Metropolitan

1:00 GARY PANTER & PETER SAUL

Two generations of painters, Gary Panter and Peter Saul, will discuss their shared history, image-making, narrative, and the joys and dilemmas of making difficult work. Moderated by Dan Nadel.

2:00 PANELS AND FRAMES: COMICS AND ANIMATION

Comics and animation operate very differently, yet retain deep historical and stylistic connections. R. O. Blechman, Kim Deitch, and Dash Shaw will discuss the relationship between the two forms with moderator Bill Kartalopoulos.

3:00 BEN KATCHOR

Ben Katchor has chronicled the pleasures of urban decay and other metropolitan phenomena in comics including Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Jew of New York. Katchor will read performatively from his comics and discuss his work in this rare spotlight presentation.

4:00 FLATLANDS: COMICS ON THE PICTURE PLANE

Do comics need a third dimension? Lisa Hanawalt, Mark Newgarden, Ron Regé, Jr., and David Sandlin will consider the tension between comics’ illusionistic worlds and
their status as images on a picture plane. Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos.

5:00 LIVE COMICS DRAWING

In a one-of-a-kind comics drawing session, Frank Santoro will present Gabrielle Bell and R. Sikoryak with a rough page layout based on his principles of composition and design. These two artists will translate Santoro’s layout into two unique pages of comics, live, before your very eyes.

Also: An exhibition of 1950s original comic book art curated by Dan Nadel

Guest artists:

Gabrielle Bell
R. O. Blechman
Mat Brinkman
Charles Burns
Anya Davidson
Kim Deitch
C.F.
Carlos Gonzales
Ben Katchor
Nora Krug
Michael Kupperman
Mark Newgarden
Gary Panter
Ron Regé, Jr.
Peter Saul
Dash Shaw
R. Sikoryak
Jillian Tamaki
Matthew Thurber
Adrian Tomine
Lauren Weinstein

PERFORMANCES

Death by Audio
49 S. 2nd Street

Finally, at the end of the day visitors can troop over to Death by Audio at 49 S. 2nd Street, for an evening of musical performances by cartoonists, organized by Paper Route, and including performances by Kites, Ambergris, Sam Gas Can, Boogie Boarder, Nick Gazin, Graffiti Monsters, Dubbknowdubb.

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival

Exhibitors and Artists:

Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11 AM – 7 PM

Panel Discussions, Lectures & Art Exhibition:

Secret Project Robot
128 River @ corner of Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1 PM – 6 PM

Musical Performances:

Death by Audio
49 S. 2nd St Between Kent & Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9 PM onward

Voices of Afghanistan premiere on Friday

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THIS FRIDAY

the debut of

“VOICES OF AFGHANISTAN”

A multimedia exhibit composed of Artfully Unforgotten’s film “VOICES OF AFGHANISTAN” together with Afghan inspired artwork created by students from the Illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design. All artwork will be for sale in benefit of the women and children of Afghanistan served by Bpeace and the Mashale Noor School.

DECEMBER 4th, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Best Buy’s Loft at 394 Broadway, 6th Floor

Tickets can be purchased online at www.artfullyunforgotten.com for $20, which includes food/open bar and entry into raffle.

[Image credits= top: Jeanine Gleaves bottom: Darbi Lee]

When Fountainheads Collide: Lawrence Weschler on Robert Irwin & David Hockney

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On the occasion of the publication of his braided biographical volumes, ‘Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin” and “True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney,” longtime New Yorker contributor Lawrence Weschler describes what it has been like, lo these many years, to be ponging back and forth between these two giants of contemporary art, who disagree about almost everything, in the profoundest of ways, and yet have never actually spoken with each other.

When Fountainheads Collide
Lawrence Weschler on Robert Irwin & David Hockney
Kellen Auditorium 66 5th Avenue, NYC
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9th
Free and Open to the Public

Writing for Children Forum: Pat Cummings

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December 8, 2009 6:30 p.m.

Pat Cummings, writer/producer for Nickelodeon, Adjunct Faculty in the Parsons Illustration program, and author of Angel Baby and Talking with Artists will discuss her work.

Moderated by Deborah Brodie, freelance editor.

Sponsored by the New School Writing Program.

Location:

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510

Admission:
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

Box Office Information:

In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. The box office opens the first day of classes and closes after the last paid event of each semester. Reservations and inquiries can be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488

For events scheduled during the summer term, the box office will open one hour before each event. During this period only, reservations can be made using the above contact information.