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Nathan and Elisa Bond’s Fight Against Cancer

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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!

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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

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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!

Seeing Stories: Fiction, Manga & Graphic Novels at Japan Society

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© The Brother and Sister Nishioka.

American and Japanese artists have been inspiring each other for decades. Tonight, authors Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson share their strong apocalyptic imaginations, and Roland Kelts, half-Japanese author of Japanamerica, will discuss the mutual influences in narrative visual art. Haruki Murakami’s love of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver is well known; Susan Sontag and Paul Auster have professed their love of the filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and Ozu’s seemingly quintessentially Japanese films were created after he immersed himself in Hollywood movies during the war. American comics and animation by Walt Disney, Max Fleischer and others were transformed by Japanese artists into manga and anime, which now enjoy an enormous following among American youth. The panelists discuss how and why as they launch Monkey Business International, the first trans-national literary journal with fiction, poetry and manga from both nations. The influence has entirely been mutual, and they will discuss and contextualize contemporary Japanese visual and narrative culture.

Followed by a reception.

TICKETS
$12/$8 Japan Society members, seniors & students

Buy Tickets Online or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. – Fri. 11 am – 6 pm, Weekends 11 am – 5 pm.

Rest in Peace, Bob

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Bob at the Society of Illustrators

Longtime Parsons Illustration Faculty member Bob Levering died very early on April 22nd at St Luke’s Hospital.

You can see a few of his illustrations here.

Bob was a wonderful artist, an important mentor, and a sweet, generous soul.

He will be missed by those of us at Parsons and by the artist community he was a part of for so many years.

At a later date, there will be a memorial celebration. Details to be announced.

[image via: Today’s Inspiration]

Soo Kim Solo Show at Riverside Gallery

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Riverside gallery is pleased to announce NY based Artist (and Parsons Illustration Alum) Soo Kim’s first solo exhibition called “Allegory of Objects”.

In this body of work, she is showing new paintings of representative abstract style. Her recent work has become more abstract compared to her past paintings, which were more like paintings that are like drawings. She uses combination and contrast of vibrant and pastel colors, irregular patterns and brush strokes to create the melancholy mood and settings of the whole series.

The focus of “Allegory of Objects” series is about how object can bring out memories from past and resonate sense of a person and how the objects can have different meanings to different groups of people. There are conventional meanings, personal meanings for people who used to own the object, and for those who knew the person who originally owned the object, and the personal history.

Soo Kim observes how the objects imply assumptions about the characters in the first place, and how people would react when they found out their perception and guesses were wrong.

Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Soo Kim lived briefly for a year in Missouri, while she was attending Jr. high school. During that time, she had road trips of traveling all over the country with her family. She came to New York in 1999, and has been living and working in NY since then. She earned BFA from Parsons School of Design (2006-2008) studying Illustration and Fine Art, and holds another BFA degree in Design from Fashion Institute of Technology (1999-2003). Her art studio is located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, where she works on paintings and drawings.

Riverside Gallery
One Riverside sq. Suite 201
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Tel: 201.488.3005 Fax: 201.488.3550
E-mail: riversidegallery@usa.com
Web: www.riversidegallery.net

Artist Website: www.sookimart.com

Jeanine Gleaves designs a cover for Time Out!

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Senior Thesis faculty Frank Olinsky spearheaded a fantastic project which resulted in this week’s cover for Time Out NY which was drawn by Illustration senior Jeanine Gleaves (see above!).

In fact, all of the seniors created versions of a cover for the “Free Things to Do” Issue.

Jeanine’s is on newstands, a few others are inside the magazine, and the complete set is featured on Time Out’s website.

All the submissions are really fabulous and you should definitely check them all out: newyork.timeout.com/parsonscontest

Congrats to Jeanine, Frank, and all the students involved in this rad project!

Reminder: Parsons Illustration at MoCCA this weekend!

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MoCCA Festival 2011!!
April 9-10, 2011
at the 69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue New York City

MoCCA Festival is an annual two-day event that attracts thousands of fans, creators and publishers from around the globe, in celebration of comics and cartoons.

Parsons Illustration will have a table featuring all kinds of amazing student work!

The MoCCA Festival will take place over April 9-10, 2011 at the Lexington Avenue Armory located at 68 Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets. The event attracts thousands of comic art lovers and creators from around the globe to celebrate the world’s most popular art form in the heart of New York City. Since 2002 the MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork and more. Each year, the Festival invites dozens of established and emerging creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in two days of lecture/discussion panels on a variety of comics and cartoon topics. For 2011, the panels and programs are being organized by Brian Heater (The Daily Crosshatch).

Special guests at MoCCA Fest 2011 include Johnnie Arnold, Peter Bagge, Nick Bertozzi, Ken Dahl, Jules Feiffer, Pascal Girard,Tom Hart, Dean Haspiel, (Parsons Illustration Associate Professor) Ben Katchor, Chip Kidd, Michael Kupperman, Robert Mankoff, Tom Neely, Joe Ollmann, Bill Plympton, Alex Robinson, (Parsons Illustration Alum and Adjunct Faculty) R. Sikoryak, Eric Skillman, Ted Stearn, Adrian Tomine, Gahan Wilson, Julia Wertz, Sarah Glidden, Jessica Abel, Lisa Hanawalt, Leslie Stein, Domitille Collardey, Meredith Gran, and Kate Beaton and more…..

Featured exhibitors include Abrams Books, Danish Consulate, Drawn & Quarterly, Evil Twin Comics, Fantagraphics, First Second Books, Kirby Museum, Mammal Magazine, NBM, New York University, Pantheon Books, Papercutz, Parsons Illustration, Picturebox, Random House Publishing Group, Royal Norwegian Consulate General, Sparkplug Comic Books, School of Visual Arts, The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Daily Show, Top Shelf Productions, Will Eisner Studios and Zip Comics and more….

Make sure to stop by the Parsons Illustration table, grab a zine, and say hello!

[Poster by Peter Kuper]