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MoCCA Comic Art Festival this weekend!

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The program for this year’s MoCCA Art Festival features a rich mix of animators, cartoonists, graphic artists, and writers. Our special guests include Jessica Abel, Rebecca Donner, David Hajdu, David Heatley, Chip Kidd, Alex Robinson, Frank Santoro, and Brian Wood. Saturday’s program opens with author Blake Bell talking about his new Steve Ditko biography, and closes with Dan Nadel in conversation with Chris Forgues (“CF”), whose comics, according to one critic, “exude the ease of someone just now putting all the pieces together to make for consistent great work.” Sunday’s program opens with an illustrated history of radical cartooning, by social movement cartoonist Nick Thorkelson, and closes with a screening of new animated shorts from Scandinavia.

Parsons Illustration associates will be out in force–Tara McPherson, Neil Swaab, Bob Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, Brian Wood, and Peter de Seve–so make sure you stop by and see their work!

The MoCCA Art Festival, now in its seventh year, is an annual fundraiser for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). Each year the MoCCA Art Festival Award is presented to a creative figure whose work has elevated the cartoon arts. The Award was presented to Jules Feiffer in 2002, and in subsequent years to Art Spiegelman (2003), Roz Chast (2004), Neal Adams (2005), Gahan Wilson (2006), and Alison Bechdel (2007).

This year’s Award recipient, Bill Plympton, is an internationally renowned cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. His cartoons have appeared in major newspapers and magazines, from the Village Voice and the New York Times, to Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. He is the author and/or illustrator of numerous books and graphic novels, including Hair High, Mutant Aliens, Tube Strips, and The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. He is probably best known for his short and full-length animated films, which include The Tune, I Married a Strange Person, Guard Dog, and Idiots and Angels, which premiered earlier this year. Bill Plympton will be introduced by the animator Signe Baumane.

The 2008 program is being held in tandem with an event at NYU that will take place the day before the Festival officially opens, on Friday, June 6. Sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities and MoCCA, “Post-Bang: Comics Ten Minutes After the Big Bang!” features roundtables and presentations on “key trends and debates facing comics in this new, ‘post-bang’ environment.” For more information about this, click here

MoCCA Comic Art Festival
Saturday, June 7th & Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Hours: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)
The Puck Building, 293 Lafayette, New York, NY

Programming Schedule
Exhibitor List (Parsons Illustration will be sharing a table with Cat Lauigan at B45!)
Map of Exhibitors
Featured Artist Sketch Table Schedule (featuring Illustration Alum & Faculty Bob Sikoryak on Sunday!)

[MoCCA Art Festival poster art by Parsons Illustration Faculty Tara McPherson and DKC]

Aftermath: Parsons Illustration Alumni Event at the Society of Illustrators

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Back in March, New School Alumni Relations held a fantastic shindig up at the Society of Illustrators. The event was well-attended and a total blast! Here are a few snapshots:

Associate Professor Nora Krug, Dept. Chair Steven Guarnaccia, and Adjunct Faculty Eddie del Rosario

Soon-to-be Alumnae Lindsey Balbierz and Jasmine Wigandt

Alumni Peter de Seve addresses the crowd.

Graduating Illustration Senior Shanna Mahan and Adjunct Faculty & Alum Bob Sikorayk are in view!

See the rest of the photo set here and visit the New School Alumni Relations site to learn more about upcoming alumni events. Also, make sure to keep the department updated on your accomplishments so we can let everyone know!

Tara McPherson News

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In addition being interviewed (and providing the cover art) for the recent issue of Clutter Magazine (#12! Get your copy here!), Illustration Adjunct Faculty member Tara McPherson is keeping herself busy this summer. Here’s some of her upcoming events:

—Sunday, June 8th, 2008: Tara will have a table at this year’s Museum of Contemporary Comic Art event.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
MoCCA Art Festival 2008
June 7th-8th, 2008
The Puck Building
Hours: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Admission is $10 each day / $15 weekend pass (weekend pass only $10 for MoCCA members)

Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Three days of entertaining and educational panel sessions!

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–Tara will also be a guest speaker in this years ICON 5 in NYC, along with Jordin Isip (another Illustration Faculty member!) and gallery-owner Jonathan Levine.

Gallery 101
Saturday, July 5, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Martha Rich with Tara McPherson, Jordin Isip and Jonathan Levine

Here’s a description of the panel:

The increasing popularity and success of the small gallery has created a need for new, affordable and original art. Exhibiting in a gallery is a great way for illustrators to expand beyond traditional forms of illustration and generate additional income. How do you take that next step into the exhibiting world and get your work out of the studio and on the gallery wall? Illustrator Martha Rich questions gallery curator Jonathan Levine and illustrators Jordin Isip and Tara McPherson about the challenges and successes connected to their gallery experiences. Curious about showing your work in galleries, curating your own shows or developing a new line of revenue and expanding your creativity? This session is for you.

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Tara will also be at Comic-Con 2008: July 24-27 in San Diego!

New shirt by George Bates Studio

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Illustration Alum and Faculty member George Bates recently passed along this exciting news:

The George Bates Studio has created an Eco minded t-shirt for the UK clothing company HOWIES entitled “Consumption Totem”.

The shirt comes in 5 colors on a sort of tan and also a “spine chilling” white on black…wow,dig.

Guaranteed you’ll be the coolest Eco-friendly hipster at the barbecue w/ one of these pups on this summer!!!!

Check it here!

Nice work, George!

Recent Accomplishments: Illustration Students Shoot for the Moon

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Congratulations to Parsons Illustration Students!

*Emmanuel Tavares and Nicholas J. Gannon were accepted to
the Society of Illustrators Student Competition.

*Sae-am Lee will have two illustrations published
in the upcoming American Illustration 27th Annual.

[images t-b: Emmanuel Tavares, Sae-am Lee]

Repost and Reminder: Electric Windows in Beacon, May 17th-18th!

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ELECTRIC WINDOWS
BEACON, NY
May 17th-18th

24 street artists will converge in Beacon, NY from May 17th to May 18th to create live artwork and have their work installed on the exterior of a 19th century factory building. Electric Windows draws its name from the former electric blanket factory at the foot of Mount Beacon that will act as the backdrop for the event. E.W. turns the idea of a gallery inside out using the large industrial windows as frames for each artists work. Usually street art is not so easily contained in a rectangle but this installation ingeniously bridges the gap between indoor and outdoor art both inverting and subverting the concept of the art gallery. Each of the 24 pieces will be approximately 8 ft x 12 ft. The installation will be on display for 12 months.

Electric Windows coincides with the fifth anniversary of DIA:Beacon and Sitelines, a Hudson Valley arts fair. The project will be documented from the beginning of the weekend through completion of the installation for possible future publication.

There will be a companion show of Electric Windows artists at the Open Space gallery (owned by Adjunct Illustration Faculty Dan Weise!). Featured artists include Ron English (NYC), Above (San Francisco), Ripo (Barcelona), Lady Pink (NYC), Michael De Feo (NYC), Jim Darling/Tina Andersen (Los Angeles), Rick Price (Beacon), Peripheral Media Projects (Brooklyn) and Dan Funderburgh (Brooklyn) and many more…

Organizers will also be flying in DJs for the latest version of Next Step, a live art and dance party that has been gaining ground as the place for locals and expats from Brooklyn and Manhattan alike.

This weekend should be an unprecedented convergence of the arts from live street art to high end museum pieces that will have heads turning to Beacon.

Electric Windows Beacon
1 East Main Street
Beacon, New York
May 17th-18th

Competitions: Science Idol–The Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest

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This spring, creative minds like you can show off their artistic and comedic talents in support of independent science. Enter the third annual Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest today!

Federal government science has played a large role in the policies that keep us safe and healthy and protect our environment. Unfortunately, recent investigations and surveys show that political interference in science threatens the great scientific legacy that the United States has worked so hard to establish.

With the presidential election only six months away, we are at a critical point in our campaign to protect federal government science from manipulation, suppression, and distortion. While guarding against last minute attacks from the outgoing administration, we need to build a foundation to guide the next
president.

Now, concerned scientists, citizens, and cartoonists, can join together against the corruption, distortion, and censorship of federal government science!

Here’s your chance to defend science with your doodles and win some great prizes in the process!

DEFEND SCIENCE WITH YOUR ART!
The Union of Concerned Scientists is looking for your creative take on the issue of political interference in science and the tasks that await our next president to restore scientific integrity to federal policy making. Submit one- panel or multi- panel print cartoons that address the misuse of science on a specific issue or in general, the affects of this abuse on our society, or your hope for the new administration. This year, we are looking for cartoons that fit into one of three specific categories, so before you put pen to paper, please check out the contest guidelines to make sure you’re on the right track. The deadline for submission is June 11.

Last year’s contest educated hundreds of thousands of people about how our health, safety, and environment suffer when scientists are censored, reports are suppressed, and scientific documents are altered. And because of the 2008 Scientific Integrity Calendar, featuring all 12 finalists, the cartoons are hanging nationwide in cubicles and on doors in universities, government offices, private companies, and even on Capitol Hill!

MEET YOUR CELEBRITY JUDGES!
Here are the judges for this competition– talented cartoonists who will be choosing the top  12 finalists:

–  Dave Coverly –  Creator of the syndicated cartoon “Speed Bump”
–  Kevin Kallaugher –  Editorial cartoonist for The Economist
–  Mike Keefe –  Editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post
–  Wiley Miller –  Creator of the syndicated cartoon “Non Sequitur”
–  Jesse Springer –  Last year’s Science Idol winner
–  Signe Wilkinson –  Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Daily News

SCIENCE IDOL STARTS TODAY!
Whether you are a scientist, an artist, a professor, or a high school or college student, your cartoons will help us restore scientific integrity to federal policy making. Check out the contest guidelines and get those creative juices flowing.

For more information on prizes, guidelines, deadlines, visit the official website.  Good luck!

West Coast Alert: Witnessed from Afar at Carmichael Gallery

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Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Witnessed From Afar, a showcase of artwork by Andrew Pommier, Irina Troitskaya, Karen Preston, Ken Garduno, Mel Kadel, Michael Hsiung, and Parskid. In an atmosphere of effervescent quietude, gorgeous misfits and delicate animals float across paper, cardboard, and wood – lost and lonely, but swelling with emotion and extraordinary grace. Evoking forgotten pains and philosophical yearnings, the artists contemplate the oddities of life and death with warmth and sincerity, yet always maintain their distance. Witnessed From Afar will be on view April 26 through May 18, 2008.

Get more info about the artists involved here!

Carmichael Gallery Presents:
Witnessed From Afar
Featuring Andrew Pommier, Irina Troitskaya, Karen Preston,
Ken Garduno, Mel Kadel, Michael Hsiung, and Parskid
Exhibition Dates: April 26 – May 18, 2008
1257 N. La Brea Ave
West Hollywood, CA 90038

[Thanks to Nora Krug for the tip!]