life after language
2011 parsons illustration senior show
school of art, media and technology
MAY 9-MAY 23
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18
6-8PM
ALBERT AND VERA LIST
ACADEMIC CENTER
6 EAST 16TH STREET,
12TH FLOOR
NEW YORK CITY
[image by: leslie v. robertson]
life after language
2011 parsons illustration senior show
school of art, media and technology
MAY 9-MAY 23
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18
6-8PM
ALBERT AND VERA LIST
ACADEMIC CENTER
6 EAST 16TH STREET,
12TH FLOOR
NEW YORK CITY
[image by: hazel santino]
PARSONS FESTIVAL!
Please join us for this event
at 66 W. 12th street
room 404
4:30 pm!
(click image to see larger!)
Illustration Alum and current Faculty member R. Sikoryak had an illustration in last week’s issue of the New Yorker! So cool. You can see more of Bob’s work at this variety of places:
Masterpiece Comics on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Masterpiece-Comics/109084917611?ref=ts
Go Bob, Go!
CRY UNCLE
by Frances Jetter
8th Floor Gallery
Illustration Department
2 West 13th Street L Building
Through April 30, 2011
We are pleased to extend an invitation to visit Parsons Illustration to view CRY UNCLE, by Francis Jetter.
If you are not familiar with the work of Frances Jetter you will find this art engaging in many ways.
The work is a 23 page accordion fold book that Frances wrote, designed and illustrated. The 18″ x 24″ images are impeccably printed from linoleum cuts, on translucent, handmade, Japanese paper. The content is truly compelling; a graphic account describing and addressing the horror of torture through a political lens. By all accounts, and certainly in my humble opinion, it is an aesthetically stunning and impassioned piece. It challenges us on an intellectual and visceral level and shares the beautiful tactile mastery of her medium.
Given the recent interest and proliferation of exhibitions throughout the New School University and the city offering variations on sequential narrative straddling both the fine art and the communications fields, this work has the exceptional qualities that enable it to rest comfortably in both realms.
Editions of this book (limited to 15) have been acquired by various notable institutions, among them, The New York Public Library.
Frances Jetter is an alumna from Parsons and has maintained a highly distinguished profile in the communications field for three decades.
Please find an opportunity to visit the 8th floor of 2 West 13th L building to the Illustration Department gallery, to see this exceptional piece of art.
The exhibition will be up through the end of April.
I encourage you to visit her website as well. www.Francesjetter.com.
–Wendy Popp, Parsons Illustration Adjunct Faculty Member
© The Brother and Sister Nishioka.
American and Japanese artists have been inspiring each other for decades. Tonight, authors Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson share their strong apocalyptic imaginations, and Roland Kelts, half-Japanese author of Japanamerica, will discuss the mutual influences in narrative visual art. Haruki Murakami’s love of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver is well known; Susan Sontag and Paul Auster have professed their love of the filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and Ozu’s seemingly quintessentially Japanese films were created after he immersed himself in Hollywood movies during the war. American comics and animation by Walt Disney, Max Fleischer and others were transformed by Japanese artists into manga and anime, which now enjoy an enormous following among American youth. The panelists discuss how and why as they launch Monkey Business International, the first trans-national literary journal with fiction, poetry and manga from both nations. The influence has entirely been mutual, and they will discuss and contextualize contemporary Japanese visual and narrative culture.
Followed by a reception.
TICKETS
$12/$8 Japan Society members, seniors & students
Buy Tickets Online or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. – Fri. 11 am – 6 pm, Weekends 11 am – 5 pm.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 7pm
Reading with slideshow
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC
(202) 639-1700
Tickets: $15.00
https://getinvolved.corcoran.org/thepicturestoriesofbenkatchor
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 2pm
A Checkroom Romance
libretto by Ben Katchor
music by Mark Mulcahy
with Ken Maiuri, Flora Reed, Dave Trenholm and Mark Mulcahy
The New School Arts Festival Presents: Noir
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
with Ken Maiuri, Flora Reed, Dave Trenholm and Mark Mulcahy
Free, but reservations suggested. Follow this link:
www.nsafcheckroom.eventbrite.com
April 8, 2011 at 2:30pm
First Annual STRANDICON – book signing
Strand Bookstore
Broadway at 12th Street
New York, NY
http://www.strandbooks.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/event.show/ID/5fa446a3-5c5b-45bd-b78d-4a58cbef4435
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Fest 2011
Signing at Pantheon Books table and panel discussion with Parsons Illustration Associate Professor Lauren Redniss, Stephen DeStefano and Mark Newgarden at 1:30pm
Lexington Avenue Armory
68 Lexington Ave (Between 25th &26th Streets)
New York City
http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival
Sunday, April 10. 2011 at 2pm
Lecture: Halftone Printing in the Yiddish Press and Other Objects of Idol Worship
Albany Institute of History and Art
125 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY
http://www.albany.edu/judaic_studies/events_katchor.shtml
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 7pm
Reading
Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore
211 Bernard Ouest.
Montreal, Quebec
http://211blog.drawnandquarterly.com/
Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 7:30pm
Reading and discussion with Daniel Clowes
Free Library of Philadelphia
Central Library
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/index.cfm?ID=28178&type=2
Free
May 6- 29, 2011
Exhibition and readings
Périscopages festival
Recontres de lat Bande Dessinée d’Autheur et de l”Édition Indépendante
Franco-American Institute
7 Quai Châteaubriand
Rennes, France 35000
http://www.periscopages.org/