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Catch Parsons Illustration at Mocca this weekend

June 3, 2009cartoons, comics, Current Students, Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, News, toyscartoons, comic books, comix, mocca, New York, parsons illustrationamt

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival 2009
June 6th & 7th

Parsons Illustration will have a strong presence at the Comic and Cartoon Art Festival this weekend–Stop by and talk to Steven Guarnaccia, the chair of the program, or visit with some students and look at their work! Interested in Illustration? We’ll have info about the program and Parsons in general.

Ask questions, see what’s going on, and look a little deeper into the world of Parsons Illustration! Never been to MoCCA? Now’s the perfect time. And here’s the full description of the Festival itself:The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is proud to announce MoCCA Festival 2009 will be held June 6th & 7th at the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street in New York City.

The Village Voice calls the MoCCA Festival “”the best small-press nexus (anywhere!)” Now BIGGER than ever! An incredible weekend of comic and cartoon art exhibitors, panels, lectures, sketches, autographs, and more! Thousands come every summer to meet and purchase works from some of the world’s best cartoonists, animators, and graphic novelists.

Where?
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Avenue, between 25th and 26th Streets

When?
June 6th and 7th, 11am-6pm

Cost?
$10 per day
$15 per weekend

MoCCA Members: $10 per weekend

More information available here.

Hope to see you there!

Quick Hit: Gretchen van Lente and puppets!

May 27, 2009design, Illustration Alumni, News, Performances, Randomly Intriguinggretchen van lente, Here Arts Center, kafka, puppetsamt

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Illustration Alum Gretchen van Lente showed up in the NYTimes last month with a write-up about her work with puppets, Kafka, and the Here Arts Center. Here’s a a snippet:

Most of the fun here is in the puppet creations. The bug is a delightful critter concocted from baskets and other odds and ends. A life-size inquisitor (manipulated at times by two puppeteers) has enough body language that you hardly notice his lack of a head. Flexible-necked lamps also come alive, to startling effect.

The puppeteers are fully visible, and the director, Gretchen Van Lente, has a fine time playing with perspective. The humans look like giants. It’s disorienting, and maybe that’s the point.

Read the rest of the write-up here.

Cool work, Gretchen!

Last Days: Bonnie Gloris’s work at LITM

May 25, 2009Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Newsbirds and the bees, bonnie gloris, jersey city, LITMamt

You are invited to:

The Birds and the Bees, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Morin at LITM, a gallery/restaurant in downtown Jersey City. Includes work by local artist and Parsons Illustration Alum Bonnie Gloris.

“Springtime is finally here! As the world comes back to life, sap flows, flowers bloom, and thoughts of romance stir. These artists capture those spring feelings of passion, sensuality, love, romance, and friskiness!” -LITM.

Show up until May 31st, 2009

140 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: 201.536.5557
Email: info@litm.com or andrea@litm.com

NYC Zine Fest

May 22, 2009Events, News, Randomly Intriguingbrooklyn, brooklyn lyceum, diy, handmade, nyc zine fest, zinesamt

NYC Zine Fest ’09

June 27 & 28, 2009

Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Makers of Zines, Chapbooks, Affordable artists’ books, Indie ephemera: all WELCOME and DESIRED!

It’s only $25 for a 4′ table each day ($40 for both days), so if you are inclined to whip up some zines or already have, consider booking–the deadline is May 30th and you get applications here! If you attend but don’t exhibit (or even if you do), bring lots of dollar bills (zines are usually cheap). They are also looking for zines, art, gift certificates, etc. for a RAFFLE, either at the Party or the Fest. If you have something to donate, please contact the organizers!

There will also be a FUNDRAISING PARTY at the Brooklyn Lyceum (sneak peak to the venue) on:
Friday, May 29, 2009.
8:00-midnight, $5 – $15 sliding scale.

Today–Illustration Pre-Commencement Reception

May 21, 2009Academic Calendar, Current Students, Events, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Newscongratulations, graduation, pre-commencement, soon-to-be alumniamt

All graduating Seniors and their families,
as well as all Illustration faculty members are invited to:

the Illustration Pre-Commencement Reception

Today: Thursday, May 21st from 4-6 p.m.

T. Lang Student Center, 2nd Floor, 55 W. 13th

Come celebrate graduation with the rest of your Illustration comrades!

This is a potluck reception–bring drinks, snacks,
and your portfolios/sketchbooks to share with everyone.

Don’t miss it!

Illustration students picked for Animation and Digital Film Festival

May 19, 2009animation, Current Students, Events, film, Newsanezka sebek, animation, digital film, lilah montgomery, noella borie, Parsons Animation and Digital Film Festival, parsons illustration, steven guarnacciaamt

from Parsons MFA Design Technology Director Anezka Sebek:

It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the juried 10th Annual Parsons Animation and Digital Film Festival.Thanks to our Jurors: Steven Guarnaccia, Jessica Irish, Colleen Macklin, Jane Pirone, and James Ramer for contributing their valuable time to the jury in this busiest time of the semester.

Here are the people who will be in the screening reel TONIGHT–Tuesday, May 19th and TOMORROW–Wednesday May 20th. The SAME REEL of the festival screens at 7PM both days in Swayduck Auditorium, 65 5th Avenue. On Tuesday, May 19th, we will be awarding the people who have taken the “best of” prizes.

Best Character Animation
Best Motion Graphics
Best Overall Technical Execution

We hope that you will join us to congratulate the filmmakers and animators who participated and those who have been selected to the screening reel:

Slaves to Technology Yelena Mirchevskaya
Little Boxes Hsing Yu Chen (Cha Cha)
Duo Duo and Xiang Min Fengyu Hao
Art in Motion by Lilah Montgomery [Illustration Student!]
Faceless Neil by Noella Borie [Illustration Student!]
Plus-size Problem Pasquale Chieffalo
Count your Blessings Nicolas Perez-Gurri
Ranga’s Meat Shop Rohini Metharam
Rat on the Moon Nurbanu Asena
Conversation Nina Torr
UNICEF-Make Children’s Dreams Jaehquck Lee
Serial Killer Jaehquck Lee
Claybrothers Jaehquck Lee
Opening Movie for MFA DT Thesis Show Jun Yung Moon
What if the Food Chain was Broken? Tibo Charroppin
The Watermelon GirlEun Hee Sidney Shin
Bubbletea Jessica A. M. Chen
The Globetrotter Magnus Schullere-Cablay
Urban Rhythm, Surface Tu Varathit
Audio Visual Experiments Claudio Midolo
Metamorphosis of Media Melissa Marcus
The Unseen Journey Jason Tseng
DOA Erik Carter
Apegado Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat and Cem Misirlioglu
Vuela Alto Tomas Pichardo-Espaillat
Ipod Nano Commercial Sangho Moon
BET TV network spot Sangho Moon
The Many Glasses of Me Sangho Moon
In the Life Open Alec Donovan
Open Frame Luke Hanson
Fito Craft Brewery Adolfo Facasse

Congrats to Lilah, Noella, and all other winners for their inclusion!

Art, Media, and Technology BFA Exhibition Show opens tomorrow!

May 14, 2009Current Students, Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Industry, News, PerformancesAMT, BFA, CDT, parsons illustration, photo, sheila johnson design center, visual musicamt

AMT BFA show

School of Art, Media, and Technology Thesis Exhibition

Friday, May 15-Saturday, May 23

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

Parsons presents an exhibition of work by graduating students in the Communication Design, Design + Technology, Fine Arts, Illustration, and Photography programs. This is the first time all programs in the newly formed School of Art, Media, and Technology will be exhibited together, in an exhibition curated by the architect Ivan Kucina, a Visiting Scholar at Parsons this spring. During the opening, there will be a public screening in the Kellen Auditorium of work produced in the course Visual Music (co-taught by Associate Professor of Illustration, Nora Krug) a collaborative studio that brings together jazz, communication design and technology, and illustration students.

Opening Reception is tomorrow–May 15th from 6-8 p.m.–and everything is free and open to the public!

Congrats to all the Illustration students whose works were chosen by the jury:

Beryl Chung
Zachary Zezima
Christine Young
Ana Mouyis
Hannah K. Lee
Roxanna Vizcarra
Lilah Montgomery
Shu Okada
Gabriella C. Garson
Liz Whelan
Dawoon Jung
Kristina Reddy

There will also be a selection of books by different Illustration students included in the exhibition. Don’t miss it!

Pinocchio available for pick-up!

May 13, 2009Academic Calendar, Class Projects, Current Students, Education, Illustration Dept. Events, Newscarlo collodi, geoffrey beck, mussino, pinocchio, summer reading, umberto eco, works in translationamt

If you are going to be a student in the Illustration Department next year, your very own copy of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi!

We are using a new translation (put out by the New York Review of Books) by Geoffrey Beck which features a foreword by Umberto Eco. In addition to an earlier post about more classical illustrations of the book by Mussino, we’ll be featuring some more information about the book, the story, and the art of Pinocchio here on the blog, so keep your eyes open for that!

Come by today and get your copy!

Quick Hit: Educating Illustrators panel tonight!

May 13, 2009Education, Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, News, Talks/Lecturesann field, art center pasadena, Education, Illustration, parsons illustration, Society of Illustrators, steven guarnaccia, SVA, tom woodruffamt

Featuring Ann Field (Art Center, L.A.), Steve Guarnaccia (Parsons The New School for Design) and Tom Woodruff (School of Visual Arts).

The Chairs behind the illustration programs of three of the top art schools in the United States will discuss how they educate each next generation of illustrators; what their goals are for young illustrators in the real world; the differences among their programs; the endless possibilities found in the illustration market today; the role of fine arts and graphic design in illustration; and trends in the east and west coasts.

Moderated and coordinated by Fernanda Cohen.

$15 non-members $10 members $7 students and educators

RSVP kevin@societyillustrators.org or
call 212 838 2560 www.societyillustrators.org

Tonight–Illustration Senior Show: Art T/K

May 11, 2009Class Projects, Current Students, Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Dept. Events, Newsart t/k, Art to come, Illustration, Parsons, parsons the new school for design, senior show, sheila johnson design centeramt

ART T/K

Monday, May 11 5 p.m..-11 p.m.Parsons The New School For Design, Illustration Program
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Admission: Free and open to the public

Parsons The New School for Design presents a one-night curated exhibition of work based on the theme of “obsession” from 35 graduates of its BFA illustration program. The show will feature thesis work as well as other pieces exploring this theme.