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6 Parsons Students with 10 Images Selected to Appear in American Illustration 32 Annual Book

Parsons Illustration seniors Franca Barone, Leigh Cunningham, Kristen Davis, and Meghann Stephenson, and recent graduates Monica Ramos and Hazel Lee Santino (class of 2012) were selected by a distinguished jury to be included in the American Illustration 32 annual book. This year’s distinguished jury included Jordan Awan, The New Yorker; Sergio Baradat, United Nations Postal Administration; Chad W. Beckerman, Abrams; Joele Cuyler, Real Simple; Jennifer Daniel, Bloomberg Businessweek; Grace Lee, Priest + Grace; and Alexandra Zsigmond, The New York Times.

From 8,742 pieces entered by over 1,282 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers, and schools, the jury selected only 369 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures from 2011. It will be printed and distributed worldwide in hardcover this fall. Congratulations to them and their teachers!

Scroll down to view the 1o Selected works:

 

Franca BaroneMaremaid Dinner, Printmaking Studio, Paul Marcus (faculty)

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Franca BaronePattern 2, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Leigh Cunningham, Penitent IV (left); Penitent IX (right), Sr. Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss (faculty)

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Kristen Davis, The Wastes, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Monica RamosMake Your Own Orgy Kit, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Monica RamosNaked Ladies 2, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Monica Ramos, Pet Peeve: Selfies, commissioned for Oh Comely magazine

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Hazel Lee SantinoFlower Face, personal work

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Meghann Stevenson, January, personal work

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8 Parsons students with 13 images Chosen for American Illustration 31

Recent Parsons Illustration 2012 graduates Iain BurkeLeah GorenRachel Levit, Yasmin LiangRay MasakiHazel Lee Santino, and Chad Weaver, and 2011 grad  William Hatch Crosby were chosen by a distinguished jury to be included in the American Illustration 31 archive this fall.

These 13 works from the Parsons Illustration Program were chosen from over 8,000 pieces entered by illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers, and schools. Congratulations to them and their teachers!

Scroll down to view the 13 works chosen:

Iain Burke, Murderside, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Iain Burke, Ghostside, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Iain Burke, Hay Honey!, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Iain Burke, Stumpy G, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

William Hatch CrosbyStar Death, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Leah Goren, Cat Scarf, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Leah GorenMara Hoffman bustier, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Leah GorenMiu Miu sequin collar, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Rachel LevitSavila, Senior Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss (faculty)

Yasmin LiangManual Cruise Control, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Ray MasakiDustcloud, Senior Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss (faculty)

Hazel Lee Santino, Tiger Mask , Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

Chad WeaverRodger, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

8 Parsons students with 11 images selected for American Illustration 31 annual

Parsons Illustration seniors Iain BurkeKatie Dunham, Sukyung (Hannah) LeeRachel Levit, Chelsey Pettyjohn, and Julee Yoo, and recent graduates William Hatch Crosby and Rachel Friedman (class of 2011) were selected by a distinguished jury to be included in the American Illustration 31 annual. It will be printed in full color and distributed worldwide in hardcover this fall.

From 8,000 pieces entered by over 1,200 illustrators, magazines, agencies, publishers, and schools, the jury selected only 439 images to appear in the book and represent the best pictures from 2011. Students and professionals were juried altogether and when the dust settled 30 student images were selected. With an unprecedented 11 of the 30 coming from the Parsons Illustration Program, Parsons ruled this year! Congratulations to them and their teachers!

Scroll down to view the 11 works selected:

Iain Burke Hell 02, Junior Concepts, Guy Billout (faculty)

 

William Hatch Crosby, Wandering Giant, Printamking Studio, Paul Marcus (faculty)

 

Katie DunhamAshtray, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

 

Rachel Friedman, Los Angeles 1953, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

 

Sukyung Lee, Ice-cream, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

 

Rachel Levit, Little People, Senior Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss (faculty)

 

Chelsey Pettyjohn, 4 drawings from the Night Religion series, Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip (faculty)

 

Julee Yoo, The Last Queens, Senior Thesis 1, Juliette Borda (faculty)

PART TWO: 10 Parsons students selected for the 2012 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibition

Here are the next five of the ten stellar pieces that were selected by a distinguished jury to appear in the 2012 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship exhibition in May (see previous post for the first five):

Yasmin Liang (class of 2012)

YASMIN LIANG, "Tantrums", Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip

Chelsey Pettyjohn (class of 2012)

CHELSEY PETTYJOHN, "Night Religion 02", Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip

Monica Ramos (class of 2012)

MONICA RAMOS, "Internal Landscape I", Senior Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss

Leslie V. Robertson (class of  2011)

LESLIE V. ROBERTSON, "Washed Up", Senior Thesis II, Jordin Isip

Hazel Lee Santino (class of 2012)

HAZEL LEE SANTINO, "Bigfoot in the Woods", Relief Printmaking, Martin Mazorra

Lauren Redniss’ “Radioactive” a Finalist for LATimes Book Prizes

Parsons Illustration Associate Professor Lauren Redniss‘ recent book Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout has been chosen as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.  Radioactive is nominated in the Science and Technology category.  The awards will be handed out in late April.  Here is a full list of the nominees in Lauren’s category:

Science & Technology Finalists

You can see the other categories and nominees here.

Good luck and congratulations, Lauren!

Quick Hit: Lauren Redniss at 192 Books tonight

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RADIOACTIVE: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE A TALE OF LOVE AND FALLOUT
(It Books 2010)
Wednesday, March 30, 7PM

192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street
New York, NY 10011

In 1891, 24 year old Marie, née Marya Sklodowska, moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple’s romance, beginning articles on the Curies with “Once upon a time . . . ” Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought.

In the century since the Curies began their work, we’ve struggled with nuclear weapons proliferation, debated the role of radiation in medical treatment, and pondered nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss links these contentious questions to a love story in 19th Century Paris.

Seating is limited, please call 212.255.4022 to make reservations.
Books purchased at the reading will be signed by the author!

Lauren Redniss’s new book: Radioactive!


Associate Professor Lauren Redniss has a new book out!  Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout is an art book comprised of history, love story, and gorgeous imagery.  Here’s what Lauren has to say about the book and her creative process:

To research the book, I traveled to Hiroshima to interview atomic bomb survivors, to the Nevada Test Site outside of Las Vegas to talk with weapons specialists, to Warsaw to see the house where Marie Curie was born, to the Curie Institut in Paris to interview the Curie’s granddaughter. I spoke with an oncologist exploring innovative radiation treatment in San Bernadino, California and the Idaho National Laboratory’s Director of the Center for Space Nuclear Research about how nuclear power and propulsion could enable space exploration and crystal cities built on the moon.

I made the artwork for the book using a process called “cyanotype.” Cyanotype is a camera‐less photographic technique in which paper is coated with light‐sensitive chemicals. When the chemically-treated paper is exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, it turns a deep blue color. Photographic imaging was critical to both the discovery of X-rays and of radioactivity, so it made sense to me to use a process based on the idea of exposure to create the images in Radioactive.

You can read more about Lauren’s methods and the book here.  You can grab a copy here, or at any number of fine bookstores.

Lauren will also be taking part in a talk with Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus, MD.  They will discuss Lauren’s work, science, and discovery.  The talk will be Friday, January 21, 2011 – 7:30 PM EST at the NYPL.

New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018-2788

Congratulations on your tremendous accomplishment, Lauren!

Illustration Professors in Ink Plots show at SVA

Full-time faculty members Ben Katchor, Nora Krug and Lauren Redniss will be part of INK PLOTS, an exhibition curated by Marshall Arisman and Tom Woodruff, featuring original drawings, books, prints and animation by over 100 artists, showcasing the work of School of Visual Arts alumni who are pushing the boundaries of the graphic novel today. Other exhibitors include Sue Coe, Will Eisner, David Sandlin, R.O. Blechman, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, and many more.

Reception: Thursday, October 14 · 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Location: Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th floor, New York, NY

Tomorrow! Moving Pictures: A Symposium on Illustration and Motion

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Moving Pictures
A Symposium on Illustration and Motion
presented by the Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design

NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 7:00–10:00 P.M.
Free and Open to the Public

2 WEST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011
The New School Jazz Performance Space
Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 5th floor, New York, NY

LAUREN REDNISS reveals a history of blind spots.
JODY ROSEN unveils The Knowledge of London taxi drivers.
JOEL SMITH maps the mind of Saul Steinberg.
RICHARD MCGUIRE screens Fears of the Dark and more.

Moderated by Lauren Redniss, assistant professor, Illustration Program, Parsons The New School for Design

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RICHARD McGUIRE is an artist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Le Monde, and other publications. He is the founder and bass player of the punk-funk band Liquid Liquid. Currently a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, McGuire is working on an illustrated book entitled HERE. His most recent animated film, Peurs du Noir, will be released on DVD this fall.
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LAUREN REDNISS is an artist and writer who recently joined the full-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. She is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. Redniss was a 2008–2009 fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her new book, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie & Other Stories of Love and Fallout will be published in fall 2010.
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JODY ROSEN is the music critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The Nation, and other publications. He is the author of White Christmas: The Story of an American Song and the compiler of Jewface, an acclaimed anthology of early-20th-century Jewish vaudeville recordings. Rosen is working on a new book, The Knowledge, about London, cartography, and taxi drivers.
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JOEL SMITH is the author of Steinberg at The New Yorker (2005) and Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, the catalog of a traveling retrospective of the artist that opened at the Morgan Library & Museum in 2006. Smith is the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he is working on exhibitions about architecture and memory, pictures of pictures, and the history of photographs of nothing.

 

This symposium is presented with support from…

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