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Illustration students wanted to collaborate on animation and video game projects

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Christiane Paul and Harold Moss are conducting a collaborative course called “Beyond Noir” (see course description below) in which students are working on media projects to be screened at the University-wide Noir Festival in April 2011 Their students would like to collaborate with illustration students on an animation project and a game project.

Please contact Christiane at paulc@newschool.edu for more information.

Collab: Beyond Noir
Harold Moss and Christiane Paul
PUDD 4550B CRN 5008 Monday 1500-1740

Beyond Noir is a joint Media Studies production course and Parsons COLLAB Studio focused on creating work for the Noir Festival that is being organized by The New School in the Spring of 2011. The classic film noir genre of the 1940s and 1950s — characterized by distinctive themes, plot devices, and visual elements — has experienced revivals throughout the decades, as in the neo noir of the 1970s and 80s, which utilized elements of classic film noir but updated its themes, content and style.

Through readings and discussions, the genre of noir, its influences on, and legacy in today’s media will be analyzed from a theoretical perspective to prepare students for the production of projects that critically engage with the genre. Throughout the semester students will develop proposals and produce work to be presented in conjunction with the Festival. Students are encouraged to create work across a range of media — including film/video, games, and Web-based projects.

George Bates creates public art for the MTA

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Parsons Illustration Alum and current Adjunct Faculty member George Bates has a lot going on these days.  He sent along images from a project he’s working on for the MTA and we wanted to share them all with you!  Here’s the scoop from George’s blog:

Recently I traveled to PETERS GLAMALEREI STUDIOS in Paderborn Germany to oversee a public art project for the MTA subway station in Rockaway Beach, New York. Directly below is the original art I created that will be painted on glass blocks and installed in the spring of 2010. The following images show the initial fabrication process, some glass experiments I did while I was there…

Keep up the amazing work, George!

Quick Hit: Curious about Cartooning–Screening and Panel at MCNY

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Thursday • April 15 • 6:00 PM

Curious about Cartooning: Film Screening and Cartoonist Panel

Join director Lyda Ely for a screening of her film Funny Business (2009), featuring some of the most celebrated cartoonists of The New Yorker magazine. This insider’s look at a previously unexamined world includes George Booth, Roz Chast, Matt Diffee, Mort Gerberg, Sam Gross, Ed Koren, Lee Lorenz, Arnie Levin, Frank Modell, Victoria Roberts, and David Sipress. Following the screening, Lyda Ely will lead a discussion with a select group of New Yorker cartoonists featured in the film about their craft and the lasting influence of cartooning legend Charles Addams. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Charles Addams’s New York. $

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

$12 Non-Members
$8 Seniors and Students
$6 Museum Members

*A two dollar surcharge applies for unreserved, walk-in participants.

For more information please call 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org

[illustration by Charles Addams]

Drawn to Action: Peter Kuper speaks about his work

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DRAWN TO ACTION
PRESENTED BY PARSONS ILLUSTRATION
DECEMBER 15th, 2009 at 6 p.m.
KELLEN AUDITORIUM, 66 5th AVENUE, NYC

Peter Kuper takes you on a visual tour of his comics, illustration and sketchbook diaries covering his world travels from Mexico to New Guinea.

Peter Kuper co-founded the political zine World War 3 Illustrated and his work has appeared in Time, The New York Times and MAD. He has written and illustrated over twenty books including an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Peter lived in Oaxaca, Mexico from July 2006-2008 and his work from that time can be seen in can be seen in his latest book Diario de Oaxaca.

Updated Info: Political Cartooning in New York City

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The New York Center for Independent Publishing presents:
Comics History/ New York History

Political Cartooning in New York City
Tuesday, November 3rd, 6:30 p.m.

Boss Tweed may have been the most powerful man in the city, but he was
still tormented by Thomas Nast’s biting parodies of him as a cartoon.
Decades later, Jules Feiffer took on Presidents from Eisenhower to
Clinton in the pages of The Village Voice. Parsons Illustration faculty member
Bill Kartalopoulos will lead a panel exploring the historical – and ongoing
– interaction between political cartoons, New York City, and the
public. Panel members will include: graphic novelist and illustrator
Eric Drooker, whose work regularly appears on the cover of The New
Yorker; cartoonist and SVA faculty member Tom Hart, whose Hutch Owen
has appeared in two book collections and a daily comic strip in the
Metro; New York Times contributor and cartoonist Tim Kreider, whose
cartoon, The Pain – When Will It End?, has been collected in two
books; and World War 3 Illustrated co-founder, graphic novelist, and
Spy vs. Spy artist Peter Kuper, whose “Eye of the Beholder” was the
first comic strip to regularly appear in The New York Times.

Join us at our historic building at 20 West 44th Street as we explore
New York City through comics. Visit our website at www.nycip.org for
more information!

Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for members, and $5 for students, and
can be paid in advance online or at the door on the day of the event.

This program is supported, in part, by NYSCA (New York States Council
on the Arts) and public funds from the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

NYCIP is an educational program of the General Society of Mechanics
and Tradesmen.  You can read more about this event at their website.

Quick Hit: True Self opens tomorrow at Jonathan Levine

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True Self Group Exhibition curated by Gary Baseman
and
Make Room For The Emptiness Solo Exhibition by Jim Houser

opening on October 24th at 7 – 9pm
529 W. 20th Street 9th floor, between 10th and 11th ave.

True Self Group Exhibition participating artists include:

Adam Wallacavage, Alex Prager, Amor Munoz, Boris Hoppek, Christian Clayton, Dalek, David Sandlin, Deedee Cheriel, Eric White, Esther Pearl Watson, Fons Schiedon, Frieda Gossett, Friends With You, Gary Taxali, Gary Baseman, Gerard Debois, James Jean, Karen Hsiaio, Korin Faught, Lauren Bergman, Leah Hayes (Parsons Illustration Alum!), Lola, Luke Chueh, Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Mark Todd, Martha Rich, Mike Shinoda, Natalia Fabia, Orly Cogan, Rob Clayton, Robin Van Valkenburgh, Ron English, Ryan Heshka, Ryan Jacob Smith, Shag, Shannon Freshwater, The London Police, Tim Biskup, Travis Lampe and more!

Cutters collage show at Cinders Gallery featuring Illustration faculty!

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Cutters showcases a variety of contemporary collage from North America and Europe. With over 40 artists contributing close to 150 works, the gallery will be transformed into one giant assemblage, glue stains and all.

Featuring:
Andreas Banderas (Norway), Michael Bartalos (USA), Melinda Beck (USA), Brian Belott (USA), Jorge Chamorro/ La Cascara Amarga (Spain), Brian Chippendale (USA), Ophelia Chong (USA), Saiman Chow (USA), Cless (Spain), Rebecca Conroy (USA), Cristiana Couceiro (Portugal), Valero Doval (UK), Andy Ducett (USA), Carl Dunn (USA), Lisa Eisenbrey (USA), Elroy (Germany), James Gallagher (USA), Jason Glasser (France), Hort (Germany), Jordin Isip (USA), Lidy Jacobs (Netherlands), Sophie Kern (UK), Eva Lake (USA), Vanessa Lamounier (Netherlands), Matt Li[pps (USA), Sean Mackaoui (Spain), Max-o-matic (Spain), Taylor McKimens (USA), Cameron Windish Michel (USA), Agnes Montgomery (USA), Justin Mortimer (UK), Pedro Oliveira (Brazil), Julien Pacaud (France), David Plunkert (USA), Kareem Rizk (Austrailia), Matthew Rose (France), Brion Nuda Rosch (USA), Joe Ryyckebosch (USA), Katherine Streeter (USA), Mario Wagner (Germany), Oliver Wiegner (Germany), Johanna Wilhelm (Germany), Jessica Williams (USA), Bill Zindel (USA)

Opening Date: Friday, October 16, 2009

Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Location: Cinders Gallery

Street: 103 Havemeyer St., Brooklyn, NY

Abstract Comics: a panel discussion at MoCCA

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Abstract Comics

Please join the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA for
ABSTRACT COMICS: a panel discussion
Saturday, September 12th, 4 p.m. 2009
Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members

featuring
Derik Badman
Richard Hahn
Patrick McDonnell
Janusz Jaworski
Andrei Molotiu
Anders Pearson
Henrik Rehr
Alexey Sokolin

Join MoCCA for a discussion about Abstract Comics: what they are, who is making them and why. Abstract Comics explores what is essential to the medium of comics – panel rhythm, page layout, the sequential arrangement of formal elements – and tells us how comics function and where they can go.  This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition Silent Pictures at James Gallery, CUNY, opening on Thursday, September 10th and the new book Abstract Comics, edited by Andrei Molotiu from Fantagraphics Books.

Parsons Reunion Weekend

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Parsons Reunion Weekend 2009: April 17-19, 2009

The Parsons Reunion is for all alumni (all class years, all programs) and is an annual opportunity to gather your classmates, reconnect with Parsons, and network with fellow alumni. We encourage you to take the weekend to reconnect with Parsons and your fellow alumni. See below for information about the various events, ticketing, and more.

This year, 2009, is also a special reunion for the classes of 1959, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004!

Friday, April 17

8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. View Spanning the Decades: 100 Years of Student Work from the Kellen Archives in the Gimbel Library. On display will be examples of student work from 1906 through 2007, including sketches, travel diaries, presentation drawings, and more. Departments and disciplines represented in the exhibit include Advertising Design, Communication Design, Costume Design, Environmental Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Architecture & Design, Product Design, Printmaking and Photography.

4:00-5:00 p.m. Tour Parsons’ Kellen Archives. The Kellen Archives documents the history of Parsons, with materials including archival records, manuscripts, posters, art and design works on paper, oral histories, photographs, films, videotapes, serials and ephemera. Wendy Scheir, Director of the Kellen Archives, will lead the tour and answer alumni questions about the materials. An RSVP to alumni@newschool.edu or 212-229-5662 x3784 is required for this event. Please indicate your class year or any questions you have about Parsons history when you RSVP, as the information on display will be specially geared towards alumni attendees. For more on the Archives, click here.

5:00 -8:00 p.m. Visit Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at 66 5th Avenue. In the Aronson Gallery you’ll find a student project called “Oyster Gardens” led by faculty member Mara Haseltine. In the Kellen Gallery you can view “Into the Open: Positioning Practice,” which is coming from the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

6:00-8:00 p.m. Join Felicitas Oefelein ’95 and Christine Leitner ’95 for a reception celebrating the launch of their new website, DESIGNintermix, a networking resource for designers.

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