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“Life After Language” 2011 Parsons Illustration Show reception is tomorrow

life after language

2011 parsons illustration senior show

school of art, media and technology

MAY 9-MAY 23

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18

6-8PM

ALBERT AND VERA LIST

ACADEMIC CENTER

6 EAST 16TH STREET,

12TH FLOOR

NEW YORK CITY

[image by: paula searing ]

“Life After Language: 2011 Parsons Illustration Show” reception is Wednesday

life after language

2011 parsons illustration senior show

school of art, media and technology

MAY 9-MAY 23

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18

6-8PM

ALBERT AND VERA LIST

ACADEMIC CENTER

6 EAST 16TH STREET,

12TH FLOOR

NEW YORK CITY

[image by: leslie v. robertson]


“Life After Language: 2011 Parsons Illustration Show” is up now

life after language

2011 parsons illustration senior show

school of art, media and technology

MAY 9-MAY 23

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18

6-8PM

ALBERT AND VERA LIST

ACADEMIC CENTER

6 EAST 16TH STREET,

12TH FLOOR

NEW YORK CITY

[image by: hazel santino]

“Life After Language: 2011 Parsons Illustration Show” is up now

life after language

2011 parsons illustration senior show

school of art, media and technology

MAY 9-MAY 23

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18

6-8PM

ALBERT AND VERA LIST

ACADEMIC CENTER

6 EAST 16TH STREET,

12TH FLOOR

NEW YORK CITY

[image by: cecilia de corral]

Illustration Type/Zine/Animation Pop-Up Shop today!

TYPE-ICAL
a pop-up shop featuring zines and animations from TEAM 2070B
Wednesday, MAY 11th 2011
Parsons 55 West  8th floor – Room i803
9:30am – 11:30am
2 HOURS ONLY!!
cash only
– refreshments will be served!
– brought to you by the students of Typography – 2070B 

Francis Jetter’s “Cry Uncle” on display in the Illustration Program

CRY UNCLE
by Frances Jetter
8th Floor Gallery
Illustration Department
2 West 13th Street L Building

Through April 30, 2011

We are pleased to extend an invitation to visit Parsons Illustration to view CRY UNCLE, by Francis Jetter.

If you are not familiar with the work of Frances Jetter you will find this art engaging in many ways.

The work is a 23 page accordion fold book that Frances wrote, designed and illustrated. The 18″ x 24″ images are impeccably printed from linoleum cuts, on translucent, handmade, Japanese paper. The content is truly compelling; a graphic account describing and addressing the horror of torture through a political lens. By all accounts, and certainly in my humble opinion, it is an aesthetically stunning and impassioned piece. It challenges us on an intellectual and visceral level and shares the beautiful tactile mastery of her medium.

Given the recent interest and proliferation of exhibitions throughout the New School University and the city offering variations on sequential narrative straddling both the fine art and the communications fields, this work has the exceptional qualities that enable it to rest comfortably in both realms.

Editions of this book (limited to 15) have been acquired by various notable institutions, among them, The New York Public Library.

Frances Jetter is an alumna from Parsons and has maintained a highly distinguished profile in the communications field for three decades.

Please find an opportunity to visit the 8th floor of 2 West 13th L building to the Illustration Department gallery, to see this exceptional piece of art.

The exhibition will be up through the end of April.

I encourage you to visit her website as well. www.Francesjetter.com.

–Wendy Popp, Parsons Illustration Adjunct Faculty Member

Nathan and Elisa Bond’s Fight Against Cancer

I’d like to encourage you all to donate artwork to what will be a terrific auction for a great cause, to benefit Illustration’s own Nathan Bond and his family. Some of you may have heard Nathan’s story in the news. He and his wife were diagnosed with advanced forms of cancer virtually simultaneously, and they have an 18- month-old daughter.

Artwork should be delivered to the Illustration Program office no later than May 6. Please pass the word on. Details below!

Yours,

Steven Gaurnaccia
Director, Illustration
Parsons The New School for Design

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Hi Everyone,

I am organizing a benefit auction for Nathan and Elisa Bond.  For those of you who do not know their story, please see below.  There are links to articles and videos that tell all.  Nathan teaches painting in the Illustration Program and drawing in the Foundation Program.

I am looking for artists to donate a work for this cause.  All works collected will be featured in an exhibition for one night (May 10) at Flux Factory in Brooklyn.  Here is the format for the auction:  There will be one ticket sold for each work collected.  Purchasing a ticket guarantees you will receive a work in the show.  When the auction begins, the holder of the first ticket number pulled randomly will be allowed first choice of the show.  We will then proceed drawing tickets until all works in the show are claimed.  Ticket prices are yet to be determined, but will be approximately $200-$250.  Works are taken home as they are chosen.  We will have volunteers on hand during the choosing
of the works to collect contact info to be made available to each artist on who chose their work.

I have been asking many of you in person as I see you if you would be willing to donate a work for this auction.  I currently have about 40 commitments and I thank you all.  My goal however is to bring this number to between 100-150 so if you would like to participate, or know of another artist who could donate a work, I would appreciate knowing as soon as possible.   I need to have the art collected and accounted for in order to sell tickets, and as I am sure you can imagine, preparing for a show of this magnitude will not be easy in such a short amount of time.

If you have already committed to donating a work to this auction or would like to, please send an email to toddlambrix@gmail.com.  Please include a current Bio, Artist statement, and or CV to be printed and made available at the show, the name of the work, medium, dimensions, and date the work was made.  I will respond to you with directions for delivering the work.  We intend to hang the works at the show in the most appropriate manner possible.  If your piece requires special handling, hanging instructions or hardware, please be sure to detail this in the email.  Please keep in mind that people should be able to leave the night of May 10th with their collected work with relative
ease.  We cannot leave anything in the gallery space past the night of the reception.

I would also like to request that you share this story with artists within your professional circles and see if they are interested in donating a work for this show.  Please pass along my email to them or send me theirs so that I may get in touch.

As with any opening or gallery reception, all are invited to attend and I hope that you will spread the word so that we can have a supportive turnout.  Flux Factory is located at: 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens.  Again, the event will be held on May 10, 2011 from 5:00-8:00pm  Auction will begin promptly at 6:15.

NY Times Article
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/a-couples-knot-tied-tighter-by-dual-diagnoses/?scp=1&sq=elisa+nathan+bond&st=cse

Support website:
http://friendsofnathanandelisa.blogspot.com/

The Today Show-MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42450455#42450455

I thank you all for reading this and appreciate your support.

All the best,

Todd Lambrix, Assistant Professor
Associate Director of Foundation
School of Design Strategies
Parsons The New School for Design
2 W13th St. Rm 907
New York, NY 10011

Zine and Cookie Hoedown during Parsons Fest!

Come on up to the 8th floor on May 10th
(during the amazing Parsons Festival)
to indulge on tasty treats and zany zines!

The Parsons Illustration Department
is partnering with Moleskine® to host

the Ultimate Zine & Cookie Hoedown!

Featuring rad activities such as:

Zine tradin’
Sketchbook swappin’
How-to workshops
Cookies galore
and much, much more!

So grab your friends (and maybe a napkin) and
join us in this fantastic hands-on experience
into the wild world of zine culture!

Tuesday, May 10th
2 W. 13th, 8th Floor, Room 809
12-2:40 p.m.

Did we mention there’d be cookies?

Cahiers, albums and drawing tools provided by Moleskine®!

Attendance is limited,
so you MUST RSVP by May 3rd to

guarnacs@newschool.edu

if you want to be part of the rad zaniness!

Rima Fujita’s “Save the Himalaya” event in LA

Rima Fujita (Illustration, ’87) dropped us a line about an upcoming event featuring her work!  Here’s the scoop:

My 4th book, “Save the Himalaya” (forewords by the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere) will be published this fall, and I will be donating a few thousand copies to 82 Tibetan refugee schools in exile. I am having a charity exhibition event at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills.  I would like to invite you to the special opening on April 29 (ed. note: click the link for more information!) if you are in LA area that day.

“Save the Himalaya” is an educational book about the crisis of the Himalayan environment, and Mr. Tagore and I are donating all proceed to educating Tibetan children in exile about the environmental issue.

Beautiful work, Rima.  Congrats!