BFA Illustration Alum Adrian Mangel was recently featured on the art and design website, It’s Nice That. Featured work includes unique portraits of the most famous footballers around the world.
Check out Adrian’s portraits here.
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Fall 2015 NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium Schedule
Parsons Faculty Winner of 2015 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award
Ilustration professor, Ben Katchor, is the recipient of the 2015 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award, presented at the annual AEJMC conference this past weekend. The jury, composed of Urban Communication Foundation board members and past winners of the award was “truly impressed with [his] creative and dynamic approach to the urban landscape and it’s bizarre variety of complex urban issues.”
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Awards recognize outstanding achievements. AEJMC conferences feature journalism and mass communication administrators, educators, and researchers; well-known authors and publishers of communication texts; companies and organizations tracking emerging trends in higher education; social media professionals and internet and technology professionals; and practitioners.
Read more about Ben’s award here.
BFA Illustration Alum Leah Hayes Publishes Book
Leah Hayes, former Illustration student and faculty member, published Not Funny Ha-Ha, a bold and slightly wry graphic novel about two young women going through abortions. It’s a little bit technical, a little bit moving, and often funny, in a format uniquely suited to communicate.
The book is available for pre-order here.
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Early press for Not Funny Ha-Ha:
“A woman’s written a comic book about abortion and everyone should read it”- Metro UK
“Hayes’ illustrations are straightforward and witty. She defines technical terms and medical processes while still managing to capture the deeply personal, human side of the reproductive decisions a woman makes.” – Huffington Post
“Conveys a feeling of comfort and openness, while also conveying the weight of the topic.” – Buzzfeed
“A serious work that aims to ease anxiety and bring clarity.” – Bitch Media
” Judgement-free, but still witty and brutally honest enough to demystify the topic.” – Ravishly
“An amazingly thoughtful, empathetic guide to abortion.”- Listen to the Publisher’s Weekly More to Come podcast interview with Leah
AMT and Illustration Faculty Steven Guarnaccia to Exhibit Work at Nobrow ELCAF in London
Work by Steven Guarnaccia
AMT Illustration Faculty Member Steven Guarnaccia will be featuring his exhibition titled, Fatherland, at the upcoming Nobrow’s ELCAFestival in London. The exhibition will be on view from June 20 – 27th. Fatherland originally opened this spring at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
About the exhibition: Guarnaccia’s childhood, family history and fraught relationship with his father are the themes of this exhibition. The show features a series of transformed objects, which Guarnaccia dedicates to the memory of his father: painted shoes, vests, pipes, duckpins and rusty saws, along with wooden shirts and paper neckties made by the artist. Guarnaccia emblazons these objects with patterns, puns and emblematic phrases from his childhood. The objects suggest a narrative, an interplay of images and words that explore notions of memory, father-son relationships and coming of age.
Illustration Faculty George Bates to Exhibit Work and Give Lecture at Society of Illustrators on June 6th
Part-Time Illustration Faculty George Bates will be giving a short lecture as well as a panel discussion on the New York View: MTA Arts & Design Illustrates the City exhibition. Work from Milton Glaser and several other illustrators who have been commissioned by the MTA to design posters will also be on view.
The panel discussion will be on June 6, from 1 – 3p at the Society of Illustrators with Deputy Director Amy Hausmann and public project artists George Bates, Béatrice Coron and Susan Farrington. Brunch will be available from 11 – 3p.
The Society of Illustrators is located at 128 East 63rd Street. New York View is on view from June 3rd to August 15th.
TONIGHT! Opening Reception for “Full Plate”, Last night for MFA FA Symposium
Full Plate: 26 BFA Illustration seniors transform glass plates into tasty pieces of art
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14, 6-8pm / Located at Los Perros Locos gallery, 201 Allen St.
Selected works from the Parsons Illustration Senior class
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MFA Fine Arts Symposium
Wednesday, May 14th, 7 to 10 pm / Located at 65 W 11th St., Room B500 in Wollman Hall
The Fine Arts graduating students will present excerpts of their thesis papers combined with visuals of their work to the audience. Their papers will be responded to by invited guest critics.
The evening will give an exciting overview of the intellectual landscapes and discursive contexts of the graduate students thesis projects on view at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York.
These events are part of Parsons Festival 2015
TONIGHT! Opening Reception for “Full Plate”, Last night for MFA FA Symposium
Full Plate: 26 BFA Illustration seniors transform glass plates into tasty pieces of art
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14th, 6-8pm
Located at Los Perros Locos gallery, 201 Allen St
Selected works from the Parsons Illustration Senior class
MFA Fine Arts Symposium
Wednesday, May 14th, 7 to 10 pm / Located at 65 W 11th St., Room B500 in Wollman Hall
The Fine Arts graduating students will present excerpts of their thesis papers combined with visuals of their work to the audience. Their papers will be responded to by invited guest critics.
The evening will give an exciting overview of the intellectual landscapes and discursive contexts of the graduate students thesis projects on view at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York.
These events are part of Parsons Festival 2015
TONIGHT! Opening Reception for “Full Plate”, Last night for MFA FA Symposium
Full Plate: 26 BFA Illustration seniors transform glass plates into tasty pieces of art
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14th, 6-8pm
Located at Los Perros Locos gallery, 201 Allen St
Selected works from the Parsons Illustration Senior class
MFA Fine Arts Symposium
Wednesday, May 14th, 7 to 10 pm / Located at 65 W 11th St., Room B500 in Wollman Hall
The Fine Arts graduating students will present excerpts of their thesis papers combined with visuals of their work to the audience. Their papers will be responded to by invited guest critics.
The evening will give an exciting overview of the intellectual landscapes and discursive contexts of the graduate students thesis projects on view at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York.
These events are part of Parsons Festival 2015
Illustration alumnus Luis Nazario creates machines (and other things) for MAYDAY!
Illustration graduate Luis Nazario, a Dominican Republic native who moved to NYC in 2012 to gain his B.F.A. in illustration at Parsons, secured a job as a designer at MAYDAY design agency. MAYDAY works with high-end clients, including Levis Strauss, Manaolo Blahnik, Prada, Kenneth Cole, Cadillac, Comedy Central, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and for the Rauschenberg Foundation.
Luis recently designed an exhibitor’s booth, a Victorian-style steampunk machine, for TACKLEBOX, which was featured at the NY Tech Day Fair. He’s currently working on a series of illustrations for The Algonquin Hotel. We can’t wait to see what else he’s coming up with!
You can find more of Luis’ work here.
