Kathryn A. Smith on Crafting the Old Testament in the Queen Mary Psalter:  Image, Text, and Contexts in Early Fourteenth-Century England.

[above] Scenes from the lives of Saul and David, Queen Mary Psalter, c. 1310-20 (London, British Library Royal MS 2 B VII, fol. 52).

Ms. Smith will speak on one of her current projects — an unusual captioned Old Testament picture cycle in a lavishly illuminated psalter made in England c. 1310-20

Kathryn A. Smith is Professor of Medieval Art in the Department of Art History, New York University.  She is the author of Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England (2003), The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England (2012), and numerous articles, essays, and reviews on early Christian and late medieval art.  She is currently working on several projects concerning image-text relationships in medieval manuscripts and the roles of images, including manuscript illuminations and sculpture, in late medieval religion and culture.

WHEN

September 29, 2015 at 7pm
Please note: There is no meeting on Sept. 22nd.

WHERE

The 128th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 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.

Marc Moorash on Bringing Art Young Back to Life

On Publishing the Previously Unpublished Types of the Old Home Town and Rediscovering the Legacy of the Dean of American Cartoonists

Art Young (1866 – 1943) was the best known political cartoonist in the first half of the twentieth century, but you’ve likely never heard of him.  If you have, you’ve likely never seen much of his work.  Sadly, he’s been mostly forgotten – and the story behind this, as with most Art Young tales, is quite remarkable and unfortunate.  He’s a cartoonist almost legendary, yet nearly become myth.
Yet, let’s jump ahead to the beginning of 2015 and the serendipitous publication of a long-lost manuscript – a collection of images some unpublished, some which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in the mid-1920s.  A publication in handmade art-book form.  Let’s also throw in that in April of this year we held the first gallery exhibition since 1939 of Art’s works.

Marc Moorash, curator of The Art Young Gallery (housed one mile from where Art built his gallery in Bethel CT in 1928) will talk about publishing Types of the Old Home Town,the handmade book process of making Types, Art’s history and legacy in American cartooning, and show slides of a number of images and photographs that haven’t been seen in public for decades.  In addition, on display will be a number of Art’s original cartoons from his newspaper Good Morning (1919 – 1921), drawings of Helen Keller and Eugene Debs, as well as original illustrations from Types of the Old Home Town.

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.

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.

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