June 1, 2020
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Each year juniors in the Illustration department collaborate with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society to provide artwork for one of their annual masterworks performances. This year, H&H partnered with the department for Project Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. While the performances … Continue reading
April 24, 2020
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Congratulations to Illustration junior Cherish Springer, the recipient of MassArt’s $5,000 Morton R. Godine Travel Award for her proposed project: Arctic Research in the Norwegian Archipelago! Selected from proposals submitted by juniors and seniors across the college, the Godine Travel … Continue reading
April 15, 2020
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Congratulations to several of our Illustration students who were accepted into the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition! The SOI Student Show is the most prestigious student competition in the world. There are often nearly 7000 entries and only 200-300 … Continue reading
March 3, 2020
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In Mexico, it is tradition to make clay or sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead. These sculptures are elaborately decorated with a variety of motifs. How does one reinterpret an ornamented skull? That’s the problem posed to students … Continue reading
November 7, 2019
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The November 2019 issue of The Artist’s Magazine is in bookstores and libraries now! The issue includes a feature story by Illustration Department teacher, John Roman, “Urban Sketching and Plein-Air Painting: Descendants of the Renaissance.” In the story John traces … Continue reading
May 21, 2019
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This semester Robert Maloney’s Experimental Illustration class collaborated with the Arlington International Film Festival to illustrate the image for their 2019 film festival poster. This year Biana Bova’s piece was chosen as the winning design. Here’s what Biana had to … Continue reading
May 20, 2019
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This spring the Illustration Department collaborated with MassArt’s Sustainability Fellow, Jane Marsching, on a climate change assignment given to six sections of the Sophomore Illustration class. These 85 Sophomore Illustration students used the recent IPCC report as a prompt to … Continue reading
April 5, 2019
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Congratulations to the Illustration students who were accepted into this years Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibit! From the Society: In a competition which can kick start a career, students bring their most sophisticated, well-crafted and original work to be … Continue reading
January 31, 2019
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Popular new elective Virtual 3D Illustration has been serving up some incredible projects, including a recent assignment to make a set of crockery that could include vases, cups, bowls and plates. Students used a virtual lathe to extrude the shapes, … Continue reading
January 3, 2019
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This semester Robert Maloney’s Experimental Illustration class worked with the Improper Bostonian on an assignment about the Charles Playhouse Theater Company and it’s founding artistic director Michael Murray. In the decade of Murray’s tenure (1958-1969) the Charles launched the careers … Continue reading