See new work by Illustration Seniors at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City on view November 30-January 27th! The artwork for the exhibition’s poster was created by Hailey Dugan.
Illustration Seniors:
Sanika Phawde
Alicia Raines
Yogee Chandrasekaran
Hailey Dugan
Belonging (US title) / Heimat (foreign title)
A 280-page illustrated and hand-lettered visual memoir on a German family’s memory of WWII.
Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoir—equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative—Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong. A wholly original record of a German woman’s struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries’ pasts.
Fall 2018 release in the following countries: USA (Scribner), UK (Particular Books), Germany (Penguin Hardcover), Holland (Balans), France (Gallimard). 2019 and 2020 release in the following countries: Norway (Spartacus), Sweden (Norstedts), Spain (Salamandra), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Stile Libero), and Denmark (Gads).
The NY Comics and Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly symposium for artist/writers working in various text-image forms: comics, picture-stories, animation, etc. at which to present and critique current work. The symposium will examine new ideas for the distribution of print and electronic work that move beyond the existing models of publishing and advertising. We will re-examine the relationship between readers and autographic writers. Emphasis will be placed on self-initiated work and the development of a self-sustaining economic model for such work. Meetings will be facilitated by a rotating group of practitioners and guest speakers. The symposium will offer an ongoing place to learn and think about the traditions and future of text-image work.
We meet at Parsons The New School for Design at 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011, on the lobby level in the Bark (Orientation) Room, M101.
The symposia are hosted by the Parsons BFA Illustration program and the Parsons School of Art Media and Technology. All events are free and open to the public.
Aug. 29 – Andre and Ed Krayewski on FKT Comics
Sept. 5 – Josh Bayer, Adam McGovern and guests on All Time Comics
Sept. 12 – David Leopold on Al Hirschfeld’s book illustration
Sept. 19 – Martin Wilner on his work
Sept. 26 – Katie Fricas, cartoonist
Oct. 3 -Sue Coe on her recent work
Oct. 10 – Kurt Ankeny, cartoonist
Oct. 17 – Craig Gropper on William Gropper
Oct. 24 – Michael Hearn on Russian Constructivist Children’s Books
Oct. 31 – Maya Edelman – animator
Nov. 7 – Ethan Persoff – cartoonist, archivist, and sound artist
Nov. 14 – Mark Newgarden and Paul Karisik on How to Read Nancy.
Nov. 28 – Bob Grossman – illustrator and cartoonist
Dec. 5 – Elizabeth C. Denlinger on Frankenstein
Dec. 12 – Stephen Norris on Borris Efimov, Russian cartoonist
If you would like to make a presentation, please send an email with your ideas: symposium(at)katchor.com
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We are pleased to announce that Illustration faculty Lauren Redniss has been named a MacArthur Fellow. Recognizing 23 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and the potential for significant contributions in the future, the Foundation named the 2016 MacArthur Fellows. Fellows will each receive a no-strings-attached stipend, allowing recipients maximum freedom to follow their own creative visions. “While our communities, our nation, and our world face both historic and emerging challenges, these 23 extraordinary individuals give us ample reason for hope,” said MacArthur President Julia Stasch. “They are breaking new ground in areas of public concern, in the arts, and in the sciences, often in unexpected ways. Their creativity, dedication, and impact inspire us all.” |
Rising senior and Zankel scholar finalist, Elena Lloyd, had her first illustration published in the NYTimes Sunday review this past Sunday.
It is with great pleasure to announce the 8 Parsons Illustration students that were selected for the 2016 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Show. Only 250 works were chosen from over 7,500 submissions by a jury of 25 renowned illustrators, artists, art directors, and designers. It is a high honor and a great achievement. The student work will be exhibited at the Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators this May. There will also be an accompanying full color catalog. Congratulations too, to the the faculty that guided them with these winning pieces.
The students will move on to the Society of Illustrators for the Awards Judging to determine which works will receive scholarship awards.
1 of 1, “Avocado Girl”, Photoshop, pixels 1000 x 450 px, Spring 2015, Frank Olinsky, Beyond the Page, Comic panel about a girl who loves avocados
Title: Avocado Girl
Artist: Amanda Chung
Medium: Silkscreen
Instructor: Frank Olinksy
(class of 2016)
Title: Beneath the Moon
Artist: Silvia Coco
Medium: Phototransfer and mixed media
Instructor: Jordin Isip
(class of 2015)
5: “Ballerina Funeral”. Needlefelted Wool. 7 x 2. March 2015. Caty Bartholomew. Toy Concept Development & Design. A little ballerina who didn’t make it, but she still looks great.
Title: Ballerina Funeral
Artist: Alexandra Glenn-Collins
Medium: Needlefelted Wool
Instructor: Caty Bartholomew
(class of 2016)
“HOLLA!, from Eraser Heaven,” Pencil on Paper, 9 in x 14 in, 2015, Chang Park and Guy Billout, Senior Thesis 1
A sketchbook excerpt from “Eraser Heaven.”
Title: HOLLA! From Eraser Heaven
Artist: Keith Jones
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Instructor: Chang Park/Guy Billout
(class of 2016)
Title: 100 Drawings
Artist: Mei Kanamoto
Medium: pen, ink and risograph
Instructor: Jordin Isip
(class of 2018)
29, “squash,” Gouache and Acrylic on Canvas,45 x 45 “, 2015, Lauren Redniss, Thesis My overall goal with this series of drawings and paintings is to bring forward the theme of sports in the context of fine arts. This specific subject was chosen bescause of its significance in societies around the world. As a subject, it touches on issues of nationalism, spectacle, and my personal, the common human experience. This work is based mostly memory and skill. By tying the sport directly to the action of creating the work, my pieces will rethink the identities and abilities of individual athletes, thus showing a more total and universal appreciation of the performance. The drawings will not try to be realistic at all, shifting our notion of sports imagery and questioning high definition, hence presenting sports in its raw nature: pure emotion. The strokes, colors and quality of the works will be used to call into question the viewer’s memory of specific moments, shedding light on ideas of collective recollection.
Title: Squash
Artist: Adrian Mangel
Medium: Gouache and Acrylic on Canvas
Instructor: Lauren Redniss
(class of 2015)
Image number 3
“Classroom”
mixed media painting
19×22″
Senior Thesis- Chang Park, Fall 2015
For my thesis project I would like to explore the worlds that exist within Haruki Murakami’s novels and short stories. I would focus specifically on Kafka On The Shore, The Elephant Vanishes, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and 1Q84. What appeals to me about these stories is the existence of an alternate world and how characters and strange incidents parallel one another in each world. Rather than illustrating each novel or story on its own I would like to layer and mesh many of the different worlds together to create a new scenario that seems familiar yet removed.
Title: Classroom
Artist: Erica Mao
Medium: mixed media
Instructor: Chang Park/Guy Billout
(class of 2016)
Title: Childhood Memory V
Artist: Qiaoyi Shi
Medium: Etching
Instructor: Paul Marcus
(class of 2015)
Parsons Illustration Faculty R. Sikoryak has adapted the complete text of the “iTunes Terms and Conditions” into a 94 page graphic novel, incorporating a different comics style for every page. It’s a new reading experience: the pictorial legal agreement!
The graphic novel has garnered a lot of press, notably from the Observer, Huffington Post, Variety, and The New Yorker.
For more awesome excerpts and interviews check out these links below:
Canadian (CBC) Radio Interview
And if you want to follow the novel as it’s serialized check it out on Tumblr, where it’s uploaded one page per day!
