Illustration Faculty Member Steven Guarnaccia will be exhibiting his work in Line-Up at the Tricromia Art Gallery in Rome. Learn more about his exhibition below!

About the Exhibition: Line-Up is a retrospective exhibition of the illustration work of Steven Guarnaccia. The “line-up” is the classic parade of possible perpetrators before the victim of a crime. Guarnaccia works primarily in line, with pen, ink and watercolor. He is above all interested in how, with a minimum of means, line conveys character, and in turn how character conveys an idea.

Learn more about Steven’s work here.

The 108th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 8 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Please note 8 pm starting time.

Hanneriina Moisseinen will discuss and show her recent work. A trailer for the documentary Laulu: http://www.tuffifilms.com/documentary

The comic artist Hanneriina Moisseinen (born in Joensuu, Finland in 1978) has an artistic background in fine arts, especially drawing, sculpting and installation, but she has been doing comics since her teenage years.
Moisseinen’s debut album Sen synty (2005) is a collection of illustrated old folktales from the Viena Karelia area. The follow-up, Setit ja partituurit / Sets and Scores (2010), contains more contemporary stories about embarrassing situations in daily life. Isä / Father (2013) tells a real life story how a father of a family disappears with no reason, and is never found again. The themes in her stories are serious, but many times the humor bursts out in unexpected ways.
In the recent years, Moisseinen has been challenging the limits of comic expression by including sewing and embroidery in her work. The technique is slow but produces a strong emotional effect. At the moment she is working on her fourth comic album about cows and other animals in the Second World War.

http://nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/

“Allen Robbins is a Houston, Texas-raised artist. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and is now currently pursuing Illustration at Parsons: The New School for Design, in New York City. He has had professional work experience in multiple aspects of design including Illustration and animation. Allen is currently working as a lead designer of the upcoming apparel brand, Wavey Squad, while working as a freelance designer in his spare time. His specialities include character design, t-shirt design, tattoo design, album artwork, poster work, and digital portraits.”

To see more of Allen’s awesome illustrations, follow him at: facebook.com/allenrobbinsartwork

    Sylvia Jun is an illustrator, designer, and native New Yorker. She graduated from Parsons the New School for Design with a BFA in Illustration. She loved to draw from an early age but never thought it could turn into a career, let alone a real job, so she pursued other interests until she could no longer deny her calling. She loves working with her hands, whether it’s drawing or sewing or knitting and even though she was completely opposed to the idea of technology, she embraced it by incorporating technology and the work she makes with her hands together.

Visit her website sylviajun.com and contact her at sylviajunillustration@gmail.com !

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     Amalia’s art communicates the physicality and spirituality of the human being.  She intends to explore individuals, access their remarkable stories, and recreate what she has learned about the mind and the world through paint, pencils, sculpture, performance and film.  With so many different possibilities in creating art, Amalia desires to experiment in a variety of mediums and ways of expression. Her exploration revolves around the integration between her passions  as well as an impulse to create masks and painting faces or figures.

You can contact her via email at amaliadrewes@gmail.com  and visit her web pages on Behance and Youtube!

Join Illustration Associate Professor Steven Guarnaccia, Olimpia Zagnoli, Marina Sagona, Irene Rinaldi, Sergio Ruzzier, Alessandro Gottardo (Shout) and Riccardo Vecchio on Tuesday, November 4, for a lively conversation about Italian illustrators working for and in the US!

http://www.societyillustrators.org/Events-and-Programs/Lectures/2014/Italian-Illustrators/Itallustration–Italian-Illustration-in-NY.aspx

We wanted to let you know about ILLUSTRATION WEEK, an annual event celebrating what we do as illustrators! There will be many events throughout town, such as lectures, exhibitions and drawing activities that you might be interested in taking part in.

Check out the following page of events, and see you there:
http://www.ai-ap.com/illustration-week/

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 7 pm
at Parsons The New School for Design,
2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby)
Free and open to the public

All images courtesy of leo-and-diane-dillon.blogspot.com

Many great artists can attribute the core foundation of their work to their matriculation at Parsons, but how many can attribute the core foundation of their marriage to our institution? Leo and Diane Dillon can do both.

Illustration power couple and class of ’56, the Dillons met in 1953 while studying at Parsons where they “became instant arch-rivals and remained together from then on.” Shortly after graduation, they married and developed a very unique method of creating work together.

With a career spanning over 50 years, the Dillons created more than 100 speculative fiction book and magazine covers. Together, the two amassed over 20 prestigious awards for their work including the 1971 Hugo Grant Award for Best Professional Artist, five New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, the 1976 and 1977 Caldecott Medal, and the 2006 Knickerbocker Award.

Following Leo Dillon’s death in 2012, the New York Times referred to the Dillons as “one of the world’s pre-eminent illustrators for young people, producing artwork — praised for its vibrancy, ecumenicalism and sheer sumptuous beauty — that was a seamless amalgam of both their hands.”

In 1997, the Dillons were inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame and in 1991 they received a Doctorate of Fine Art Degree from Parsons.

“The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon” is on display October 21 – December 20, 2014 at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators. For more info on the Dillons and the current exhibit, visit the Society’s official website.