The comic-book story “The Way Home” by writer Joshua Dysart, artist Pat Masioni, and colorist Jose Villarrubia, has been nominated for Story of the Year for the 2010 Glyph Awards. The story appeared in Unknown Soldier #13-14, and was the US debut of Pat Masioni, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The story takes place in Acholiland, Uganda, in 2002 during the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and Ugandan People’s Defence Force.
The Glyph Awards, honor the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color.
http://www.popcultureshock.com/2010-glyph-comics-awards-nominees/54766/
Jaime Zollars’ image, ”The Maze, She Breathes” was accepted into this years’ annual. The acrylic, Graphite, and Ink illustration was created for Gallery Nucleus’ 5th Anniversary Show.
Brandon Wu’s drawing from Visual Journalism was featured in today’s Baltimore Sun. It’s on page three, in Laura Vozzella’s column “The art of democracy”. Warren’s class was attending a City Council meeting to sketch democracy in action, catching the eye of a reporter. The class has also sketched on the subway, in Camden Yards and other areas around the city.
Concepts class (I & II) provides a forum for students to practice the development of ideas as visual communication utilizing a variety of commercial categories to convey information. The goal is to problem-solve text, stories, music, etc. with images that give life to ideas, mood and narrative. This is an independent analysis of content in the creative search for new ideas or solutions. It doesn’t necessarily give visual representation to the content literally, but rather should bring a new ideas, mood or point of view to the text or project. A strong idea is the starting place- the foundation- of successful illustration.
Work from the classes will be on display in the Illustration Gallery from February 18th to March 1st.
Faculty:
Rebecca Bradley
Allan Comport
Rachel Salomon
Congratulations to the following IL students for being accepted in the 2010 Society of Illustrators Student Competition. The exhibition of their work along with student winners from various art colleges around the US will be held in May when cash prizes are announced. you can view the MICA winners art at full size at http://www.soicompetitions.org/?section=gallery&competition_id=48&
Of special note is the inclusion of Alex Uyeno’s piece created for last year’s MICA IL Showcase 2009!
MICA is represented by 10 different students, placing us 3rd in numbers behind SVA [30] and Ringling [19], but well above RISD [7], Pratt [5], Art Center [5] and Parsons [3]. Please congratulate:
Al Marks
Colin Schappi
Yao Li
Nargol Arefi
Rebecca Mock
Yelena Bryksenkova
Cam Floyd
Willem Rosenthal
Babs Tarr
Alex Uyeno
Niv Bavarsky IL’10 has the honor of being the first MICA IL student to have work accepted in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual. This professional illustration competition draws entries from across the US. Bavarsky’s entry, the poster he illustrated, designed and handlettered for the MICA Halloween dance is shown here. To see more of Niv’s work go to http://www.nivbavarsky.com
Longtime IL Dept friend Greg Christie’s latest book, “Bad News for Outlaws” got a nod from Blogger Barb Langridge in a segment on her picks for WBALTV Channel 11. Greg’s award-winning books have been the focus during two residencies in the IL Dept. See more of Greg’s work at http://www.gas-art.com/
3 X 3 ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL 7 (March 15)
http://www.3×3mag.com/callforentries.html
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 29 (February 19)
https://www.ai-ap.com/reg/cfe/
PRINT’S REGIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL 2010 (March 1)
http://tinyurl.com/yhejvqe
SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS (TBA – usually early November)
http://www.societyillustrators.org/index.cms
The deadline for the competition has been extended to February 3rd at midnight, so be sure to get those entries in!
