RELEASE EVENT: RED ROSA
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg – November 5 – Brooklyn, NY
Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost political thinkers of the 20th century. Her philosophy of socialism and democracy was present in every aspect of her life—her work as an economist and educator, her activism against war and socioeconomic injustice, her relationships with friends and lovers.
Red Rosa, a new graphic novel by Kate Evans, published by Verso Books in collaboration with the RLS–NYC, opens up Luxemburg’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding her ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting biography.
Join us at Verso Books on Thursday night, November 5, to celebrate the release of Red Rosa with a special event featuring Kate Evans and New York-based artist and writer Molly Crabapple. Evans will open the event with a presentation about the process of creating this graphic novel. She will then be joined by Crabapple for a dialogue about what it means to be a political feminist graphic artist in this day and age.
Matthew Sontheimer will discuss his drawings: The role text and images play in his works, and his continued exploration of “conversational drawings.”
Matthew Sontheimer received a BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas, and an MFA from Montana State University, in Bozeman, Montana. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing in The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His work is represented by the Talley Dunn Gallery, in Dallas, Texas, and the Devin Borden Gallery, in Houston Texas, and can be found in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York.
WHEN
October 27, 2015 at 7pm
WHERE
The 132nd meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
Please join Parsons Illustration for an exclusive screening of “Eleanor Ambos Interiors” followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and Eleanor herself!
As a celebrated interior designer loses her eyesight to macular degeneration, she begins to see her life’s work in a new light. This eccentric renegade topples ageist stereotypes as she grapples with the limitations of her aging body. Watch the trailer here!
WHEN: Friday, October 16th at 7:00PM
WHERE: University Center at 63 Fifth Avenue, room UL105
Coinciding with 2015 Print Week, the Parsons Pop Up Print Shop will showcase the printed form from fine art prints, illustrations and graphic designs to zines and book arts. Join us for a showcase of the printed form and printmaking workshops.
Are you a Parsons student, faculty or staff member who makes printed matter?
McGuire will discuss 60 of his favorite people, works of art and design, songs, films, poems, etc.
Richard McGuire is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Le Monde, and Libération. He has written and directed for two omnibus feature films: Loulou et Autre Loups (Loulou and Other Wolves,2003) and Peur(s) du Noir (Fear[s] of the Dark, 2007). He has also designed and manufactured his own line of toys, and he is the founder and bass player of the no-wave band Liquid Liquid. The six-page comic Here, which appeared in 1989 in Raw magazine, volume 2, number 1, was immediately recognized as a transformative work that would expand the possibilities of the comic medium. Its influence continues to be felt twenty-five years after its publication.
WHEN
October 20, 2015 at 7pm
WHERE
The 131st meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
Tom Kaczynski on his new book: Trans Terra: Towards a Cartoon Philosophy.
Tom Kaczynski will discuss his new book: Trans Terra: Towards a Cartoon Philosophy. Follow the process of the book’s creation, from it’s humble origin as a tiny mini comic to it’s lofty goal of reaching something called Cartoon Philosophy. Along the way he’ll touch on such topics as: the possibility of utopia in the age of dystopia and apocalypse, the uses of the nostalgic-critical method, the genius of Ignatius Donnelly, and more.
Tom Kaczynski is a cartoonist. His first book, Beta Testing the Apocalypse (Fantagraphics) was nominated for an Eisner Award. Tom Kaczynski is the publisher ofUncivilized Books. Tom Kaczynski is a designer of books and websites. Tom Kaczynski lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
WHEN
October 13, 2015 at 7pm
WHERE
The 130th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 at 7pm atParsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
Bill Kartalopoulos in conversation with Tom Oldham, Patrick Crotty, Tommi Musturi and David Schilter discussing the alternative small press comics in the UK, Sweden, Finland and Latvia.
Tom Oldham is a co-founder of Breakdown Press, a comics publisher based in London, UK. Breakdown Press is dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past. Patrick Crotty is an artist and the official boss of the Swedish PEOW! studio. PEOW! is a publisher, shop and risograph studio based in Stockholm, publishing intergalactic comics from Sweden and abroad. Tommi Musturi is an artist and co-founder of KUTIKUTI, a non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland. KUTIKUTI are ca. forty members who make, teach and publish comics. They operate internationally with an aim to maintain and develop comics as an art form. David Schilter is a co-editor of kuš!, a small press publisher from Riga. kuš! promotes alternative comics in Latvia and abroad. Next to publishing international anthologies and mini comics, they organize exhibitions workshops and other comic-related events.
Illustration by Patrick Crotty
WHEN
November 5, 2015 at 7pm
WHERE
NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.
The New School Libraries and Archives seeks one student to create 11 illustrated portraits to be used for our online research guide profiles: http://guides.library.newschool.edu/prf.php
The work entails corresponding with, meeting with, and creating profile pictures for 10 staff members. Also create one additional generic profile picture (a reading Narwhal, for example). The illustrations should be of the same style and same dimensions.
To apply: Send an email to reference@newschool.edu introducing yourself in one paragraph. Please include your name, program, and expected graduation date. Upload a sample of your work or provide a link to your Parsons Learning Portfolio or other website showing the style of your work.
Dates: Please apply by November 1, 2015. All applicants will be responded to by November 15, 2016. Work must be completed by February 15, 2016. Stipend: $100 to be paid upon completion of the project.
Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, debuts her new title. Developed while she was an artist in residence at the Museum,Thunder & Lighting: Weather, Past, Present, Future brings her unique style to a journey from the driest desert on Earth to an island in the Arctic and beyond. She considers the danger and beauty of weather, how it informs our history and the world’s religions, and the forces that drive these meteorological events.
Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages.
This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change.
Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface.
The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science.
Join us this Wednesday for a live event at the NYU Moleskine store to celebrate the Parsons-Moleskine Collaboration in an informal talk.
Hear from the participants about the process behind the creations for #WanderingMind.
The first 5 to come in with RSVP receive a free #WanderingMind Limited Edition Notebook by artist & Parsons alumni Noe Paparella.
All atendees will receive a 20% discount* during the event. RSVP here.
Moleskine Store – NYU New York 75 University Place New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Noe Paparella’s winning designs
“The hardest decision to make when it comes to this kind of project is whether you should pursue your own style or if you should match the style of the brand,” said Noe Paparella, winner of the Parsons School of Design/Moleskine project, a competition that challenged 51 seniors from Parsons’ BFA in Illustration program to design a cover for a Moleskine cahier journal and bellyband using the prompt #WanderingMind. “In my case, it wasn’t so complicated because my aesthetic is aligned with Moleskine’s aesthetic.”
Paparella’s design has been produced and will start being sold Aug. 14 exclusively in Moleskine’s store at 75 University Place, just a few blocks from The New School’s University Center (New School students receive a 10 percent discount on all purchases at the store).
Students responded to the prompt #WanderingMind in myriad different ways, designing illustrations that range from the whimsical to the literal, the organic to the geometric, and the minimalistic to the ornate. However, there is a common thread running through each of the designs: a passion for exploration.
Thea StevensThea StevensSilvia Coco Silvia Coco Qiaoyi Shi Qiaoyi Shi Karen HassonKaren HassonMencia ZagarellaEmma SelbyEmma SelbyShruti SharmaShruti SharmaSarah BermanSarah BermanTy Ning
Steven Guarnica, Associate Professor of Illustration, said the project provides students with the opportunity to design a product for a company that is “intrinsic to their lives.”
“Besides being a cultural artifact with a high profile in the creative industry, the Moleskine notebook is something students actually use—something that they are deeply invested in,” he said. “Even though students fully embrace the digital age, the sketch book and the pen is still the starting point for everything that we do.”
Read the full story about the project here on The New School News, but come Wednesday to ask questions and get yourself a Moleskin!
