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Invitation to “Red Rosa – A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” – November 5 – Brooklyn

October 21, 2015Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industry, Randomly Intriguing, Talks/Lecturespsdillustration

RELEASE EVENT: RED ROSA
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg – November 5 – Brooklyn, NY

Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost political thinkers of the 20th century. Her philosophy of socialism and democracy was present in every aspect of her life—her work as an economist and educator, her activism against war and socioeconomic injustice, her relationships with friends and lovers.

Red Rosa, a new graphic novel by Kate Evans, published by Verso Books in collaboration with the RLS–NYC, opens up Luxemburg’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding her ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting biography.

Join us at Verso Books on Thursday night, November 5, to celebrate the release of Red Rosa with a special event featuring Kate Evans and New York-based artist and writer Molly Crabapple. Evans will open the event with a presentation about the process of creating this graphic novel. She will then be joined by Crabapple for a dialogue about what it means to be a political feminist graphic artist in this day and age.

Please RSVP here.

The event will be followed by a reception with drinks and light snacks.

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – October 27, 2015

October 21, 2015Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industry, News, Talks/Lecturespsdillustration

Matthew Sontheimer
on
Flat Conversation

Matthew Sontheimer will discuss his drawings: The role text and images play in his works, and his continued exploration of “conversational drawings.”

Matthew Sontheimer received a BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas, and an MFA from Montana State University, in Bozeman, Montana. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing in The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His work is represented by the Talley Dunn Gallery, in Dallas, Texas, and the Devin Borden Gallery, in Houston Texas, and can be found in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York.

WHEN

October 27, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 132nd meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 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.

The Parsons Pop Up

October 14, 2015Call for Entries, Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Newspsdillustration

Parsons Pop Up Print Shop & Show

Coinciding with 2015 Print Week, the Parsons Pop Up Print Shop will showcase the printed form from fine art prints, illustrations and graphic designs to zines and book arts. Join us for a showcase of the printed form and printmaking workshops.
Are you a Parsons student, faculty or staff member who makes printed matter?

The deadline for entry is 25 October. Read the guidelines and Submit your work to this show!

The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – October 20th, 2015

October 14, 2015Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Talks/Lecturespsdillustration

Richard McGuire
on
60 objects of affection.

McGuire will discuss 60 of his favorite people, works of art and design, songs, films, poems, etc.

Richard McGuire is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Le Monde, and Libération. He has written and directed for two omnibus feature films: Loulou et Autre Loups (Loulou and Other Wolves,2003) and Peur(s) du Noir (Fear[s] of the Dark, 2007). He has also designed and manufactured his own line of toys, and he is the founder and bass player of the no-wave band Liquid Liquid. The six-page comic Here, which appeared in 1989 in Raw magazine, volume 2, number 1, was immediately recognized as a transformative work that would expand the possibilities of the comic medium. Its influence continues to be felt twenty-five years after its publication.

WHEN
October 20, 2015 at 7pm
WHERE
The 131st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 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.

SPECIAL New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – November 5, 2015

October 7, 2015comics, Illustration Dept. Events, Talks/Lecturespsdillustration

Comics on the Northern Edge of Europe

Bill Kartalopoulos in conversation with Tom Oldham, Patrick Crotty, Tommi Musturi and David Schilter discussing the alternative small press comics in the UK, Sweden, Finland and Latvia.

Tom Oldham is a co-founder of Breakdown Press, a comics publisher based in London, UK. Breakdown Press is dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past.
Patrick Crotty is an artist and the official boss of the Swedish PEOW! studio. PEOW! is a publisher, shop and risograph studio based in Stockholm, publishing intergalactic comics from Sweden and abroad.
Tommi Musturi is an artist and co-founder of KUTIKUTI, a non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland. KUTIKUTI are ca. forty members who make, teach and publish comics. They operate internationally with an aim to maintain and develop comics as an art form.
David Schilter is a co-editor of kuš!, a small press publisher from Riga. kuš! promotes alternative comics in Latvia and abroad. Next to publishing international anthologies and mini comics, they organize exhibitions workshops and other comic-related events.

Illustration by Patrick Crotty

WHEN

November 5, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Thursday, Nov. 5, 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.

Illustration’s 2013 Senior Thesis Book!

May 22, 2013design, Events, Exhibitions, General Info, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Inspiration, News, Publications, Randomly Intriguingamt

After months of hard work all the student’s pieces have been culminated into this interactive and print form book. Down below is the link to download your own copy of the book. Simply ‘right click’ the navigate to ‘save link as’ and presto! You’ve got your own interactive copy of the Illustration Annual.

Enjoy! And happy summer everyone!

ParsonsIllustrationAnnual_Final_LR

Aya Kakeda lecture

September 24, 2012Events, Exhibitions, General Info, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industry, Inspiration, Talks/Lecturesaya kakeda, gallery one twenty eightamt

Aya Kakeda gave a wonderful, insightful, humorous, and inspiring presentation of her work, both commercial illustration and fine art, to this year’s Parsons Senior Illustration class on Friday, September 21st in Kellen Auditorium.

Aya is currently in a three-person show, “Creamy Cat”, at gallery onetwentyeight in NYC. It is up until September 30th. Check it out if you can.