MODEL SESSION

Just a reminder November 7th is our next model night. We plan on having two models. Melanie is making the arrangements and FIT is covering the cost. It will be held in the new building where we had our Alumni meeting (236 W 27). Maybe we can start plans for a holiday gathering that night as well? Hope to see many of you there.

SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS
Vicki G. at FIT is working on having papers for us. This will make visiting the campus easier and will not entail a visit to the guard station or frantic calls to Melanie. Hopefully we will have them on the 7th.

David Levine: American Presidents Exhibit

David Levine has a show at the Forum Gallery in midtown until Nov 8th GO SEE IT!!! There are presidential caricatures dating back from the 1960s through today as well as over 30 of his watercolors. There is also two new illustrations one done in pencil of Barack Obama. The artist has begun using pencil instead of ink now that the artist is 81 and suffers from macular degeneration, a diseases that is slowly making him blind. The show makes me think of another political artist that had two very different visual lives that also went blind at the end of his life. Goya anyone?

LOCATION: 745 5th Avenue at 57th Street, 5th Floor

HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday

TELEPHONE: 212-355-454

[FYI] Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors

I saw the exhibition of Jean de Brunhoff and his son, Laurent de Brunhoff, and it was really nice.

Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors
September 19, 2008, through January 4, 2009
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
Hours
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is free on Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Click here to see about the exhibition

Creative Quarterly Winners!

Congratulations to all the Creative Quarterly winners from our Alumni!

In the Professional Illustration category Chad Wallace received a Silver while Monika Maniecki and Bri Hermanson received Merit Awards.

In the Student category Heekyung Hur and Stu Suchit both won Merit Awards.

Keep up the great work!

Models and Artists

We are having our model drawing session on Friday, Nov. 7th. The idea for this is is having two models in two different rooms. One will most likely be for portraits and the other for figure drawing. The session is planned to run from 6:30-10 pm in room SF107. Melanie and Vicky are working hard to make access to the buildings easier. Hopefully something will be in place for us that night.

Please post news of your own, ie: shows of your own, shows we should see, books, etc. Let's hear from you quiet ones out there!

News and Notes

Hey Everyone, Welcome to our new Blog. Melanie and I had a great meeting last week and were able to get some things accomplished. She and Vicky G. at FIT are working to get a handle on access to the school among other things. More to follow.

In the meantime, here are two dates to keep in mind.

1) The next open house for the class of 2011 will be held on 10/22 from 6-8pm. I don't know who the guest speaker is yet but it is always someone interesting. Again, a great way to meet future classmates.

2) Melanie arranged another drawing session! Models supplied by the wonderful folks at FIT. It's set for November 7th, Friday. More info to come. I hope to see many of you there.

DON'T FORGET about writing your Congressman about the Orphan Act!!