Category Archives: Illustration Faculty

University Writing Center is moving!

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The University Writing Center is moving from 65 Fifth to 71 Fifth Ave (9th floor).  The move is scheduled for Friday January 30th and we plan to be fully open and operational on Monday February 2nd.

Students can continue to make appointments using the online “e-scheduler” which can be accessed from the web site of the University Writing Center.

Faculty can continue to request in-class workshops using the workshop request form which is available from the Faculty tab on My New School.

The Writing Center is an amazing resource and everyone should take advantage of it!

Urban Interventions course still open!

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Students: Still looking for a class to complete your Spring schedule?  How about one that includes art, performance, and local activism?  Look no further!  Illustration full-time faculty Ben Katchor and Parsons instructor Jim Osman will be offering a course called “Urban Interventions” and there are still slots open!  Here’s the official description from the flier above (click on it for a full-size version.):

In this studio, students will investigate possibilities of using the means and methods of public art, street art, urban play and civic activism in order to reframe and critique contemporary notions of urban revitalization and urban beautification.  Three basic methods will be used to explore these ideas.

1.    Low budget Public sculpture
2.    Street Theater/performance
3.    Pamphleteering or Print intervention

The site for student work will be 14th Street between First and Sixth Avenues.  Our studio partner will be the Union Square Partnership, a community-based, not-for-profit organization that has been a catalyst behind the neighborhood’s transition.  Students will address issues of community participation, communication, economies of scale, the impact and meaning of message in the public sphere, particularly in the context of multiple and often alienated audiences.

Through both research and art/design responses, students will develop a critical understanding of the visual landscape and roles that social imaginary plays in the complex processes of urban transformation.  Students will develop their proposals to a final stage, ready for implementation.  Our partner may implement some projects.

PUIC 2000–3 credits.  Open to Majors, non-majors, Lang and Milano students, sophomores and above.

This is a great opportunity to put your art into action and get college credit while you’re doing it.  So get active, get artistic, and sign up!

Last Minute: Opening Reception for “Miami in New York”

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MIAMI IN NEW YORK
Nancy Margolis Gallery

Works by:

Marie von Heyl
Eva Hild
Susan Jamison
Edward Del Rosario (Parsons Illustration Adjunct Faculty)
and Kim Simonsson

January 15 – February 28, 2009

Here’s a sneak peek at a work by Mr. Del Rosario:

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And here’s a statement from the artist:

My work is a dramatization of events caused by cultural liaisons. The drama is a cyclical tale of a power struggle between the progeny of cultural clashes. The tale examines the absurdity of the games played to secure power. The balance of power sways tenuously. Alliances are formed and players are enslaved or liberated. Comic or tragic, there is no goal other than maintaining power. Those in power define the rules of liaisons.

Great work, Eddie!  So brave the snow and head out to the show’s opening reception tomorrow, January 15th, from 6:00PM – 8:00PM.

Nancy Margolis Gallery
523 west 25th Street (between 10th Ave and 11th Ave)
New York, NY 10001
Email: margolis@nancymargolisgallery.com
 Tel:  212.242.3013

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday 10am-6pm

Greetings from the Illustration Department

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Happy holidays, a warm winter, and a bright solstice to all of you:  our devoted readers, students, faculty, and alumni.  Thank you for making 2008 a wonderful year.  Fresh updates will resume around January 12th after we take a much-needed rest.  See you in 2009.

[Illustration by Jillian Tamaki, Parsons Adjunct Faculty and all-around wonderful artist.]

Bonnie Gloris in Creative Quarterly and a Call for Entries!

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Parsons Illustration Alumni Bonnie Gloris recently won a Merit Award in the catergory of Fine Art in Issue 13 of Creative Quarterly for the piece above.  You can check out out more of Bonnie’s work here at her official website.

Congratulations, Bonnie!

And Creative Quarterly is currently making a call for entries for Issue 15!  Here are the details:

Who’s eligible to enter?

All art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists in all media. We’ll judge both professional and student work. Students must be either undergraduate, graduate students or recent graduates. Entrants must be in the US or Canada. We’ll begin our international show with our next issue.

Easy to enter.

If you enter online, you can pay online. Click to learn how to prepare your entries for online submission. Click here to enter online.

Want to mail your payment? Download the Call For Entries 15 PDF and send your payment along with a disc with your entries.

Same categories, just more winners.

Same categories: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Fine Art but we’ll have separate sections for professional and student work. One more way we’re going to share the inspiration.

Speaking of inspiration, winners will be asked to submit their own person, place or thing that inspires them which we’ll reproduce in the magazine as space allows—we’ll also select one of those inspirations for the cover.

The deadline is January 30th, 2009 so head over to the CQ site and get all the information.

3×3 Call for Entries!

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Passed along by Parsons Full-time Faculty Nora Krug, here’s the scoop on 3×3 magazine‘s most recent call for entries:

Mark Your Calendars!  As our 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5 is coming off the press it’s time to start thinking about our next international illustration competitions. Here is our schedule and a few details.

3×3 Student Show
As always this show is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in all art schools, colleges and universities around the globe. Work must have been completed in calendar year 2008. A partial list of this year’s judges include illustrators/educators Alexandra Kardinar, Germany; Gary Embury, United Kingdom; Clemente Botelho, Canada and Martha Rich, John Hendrix, Nora Krug of the US. Rounding out the judges is artist representative Pat Lindgren, Lindgren & Smith.Entry deadline: February 14, 2009

3×3 ProShow
Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators. Categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished. Our judges to date include art directors Alexandre Lagoet, Amsterdam, Raban Ruddigkeit, Germany and SooJin Buzelli and Darlene Simidian, the US as well as illustrators Roman Klonek and Monika Aichele, Germany, Marco Ventura, Italy and Yuko Shimizu, the US.Entry deadline: March 14, 2009

3×3 Children’s Book Show
Open to all art directors, editors, authors, designers and illustrators from around the world. All published and unpublished children’s books completed in 2008 are eligible. We are in the process of naming our judges for this year’s show. Entry Deadline: April 14. 2009

We will begin accepting entries on January 5 but full details are available online at 3x3mag.com. All entries must be either uploaded or received by the deadline. Winners will be featured in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 coming out in late 2009.  Full details on both shows are online. Remember you can pay and upload your images online. Children’s book details will be available beginning in February.

Thanks for sending along the info, Nora!

[image by Illustration Alum Jake Messing, who is listed in 3×3’s New Talent Gallery]

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]

Quick Hit: “Carousel” hosted by R. Sikoryak tonight!

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carouselCAROUSEL
Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures presented by a glittering array of artists, performers, graphic novelists, & other characters.

Hosted by R. Sikoryak (Parsons Illustration Alum and Faculty Member)

Featuring:
Gabrielle Bell with Karen Sneider
Jon Keith Brunelle of The Psychasthenia Society
Emily Flake
Dale Goodson
Jen Perez
Doug Skinner
R.S.
and more!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
8 pm (door opens at 7:30 pm)

at the
NEW Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
NY, NY

Tickets:
$15 each  or $25 for 2
or TDF;  or $12 student/senior

Advance tickets & more info:
www.dixonplace.org
(212) 219-0736