January 29, 2015
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Please join us in celebrating the work of our Illustration Seniors on their Thesis Projects with a reception on Tuesday, February 10th at 6:30PM in the President’s Gallery in the Tower Building at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The exhibition will be up from February 2nd to February 13th, available for viewing Monday through Friday, 9:00 – 5:00.
December 10, 2014
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Each semester Bob Maloney’s Experimental Illustration class collaborates with the DIG Boston on a seasonal themed Dig This illustration assignment. Last year pieces themed around spring customs, traditions, stories and myths from different cultures around the world. This semester the assignment involved researching and exploring how various cultures throughout history have celebrated and interpreted the changing of seasons from Autumn to Winter.
Congratulations to Julia Emiliani, whose piece about foods around the world, was published in the Dig This section of the paper!
December 1, 2014
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Congratulations to Illustration junior Dom Civiello, who has received an award in the first Transparent Watercolor Society of America’s Student Competition for his piece Red Rocks!
October 8, 2014
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Recently released is Visiting Lecturer John Roman’s new ebook, 50 Markets of Illustration. John’s book covers many of the niche markets found in the freelance illustration world. Learn more about 50 Markets of Illustration here.
August 29, 2014
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Written by Visiting Lecturer Lisa Daria Kennedy
Daily Painting #1121, After but Before, June 19, 2012, Acrylic, 6″ x 6 “
I’ve been making one small painting every single day for the last 1900 days.
After five years, I’ve no intention of stopping. Having cancer as a young adult, I discovered living is not just surviving. At age 29, I was a lead artist in the giftware industry when I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After six rounds of chemotherapy, one month of radiation, and now, years of monitoring to make sure I’m still cancer free, my perspective has changed. Young and faced with an existential crisis, I questioned, who am I? What does it all mean? Psychologically, existentially, transcendentally – what can a life amount to? I was acutely aware of all the time I’d wasted and the things I put off – like painting. But, like a lot of artists, I had trouble working up momentum. After all I had been through, the idea of starting an artistic project and failing was terrifying. I had a moment of clarity and pared the creative process down to this one idea – show up for the job. I treat creativity like a disembodied spirit and that I simply must be present daily to receive it.1 I started showing up for my new job in 2009 and without excuse I wake up every day at five and I paint.
August 28, 2014
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May 6, 2014
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April 24, 2014
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February 27, 2014
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Written by Visiting Lecturer Nancy McCarthy
“Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.” — Florence Nightingale, “Notes on Nursing”, 1898
Color is the visible portion of the electro magnetic spectrum; it is vibration. Certain vibrations are known to affect living cells. Is it possible that certain colors or combinations of colors can affect our wellbeing and physical health? An orange sapling in a cobalt blue sky; slate gray clouds hovering over an inky sea; hedges of blinding yellow forsythia, the purple and blue shadows of trees on snow. All are good to look at; all have a positive effect on my mood.
Continue reading after the jump to learn more about color…
February 24, 2014
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Congratulations to our two students, Hannah Perduta and Morris Gaman, whose pieces were selected for the prestigious Society of Illustrators Student Competition!
Hannah Perduta, It Feels, Instructor: Malgorzata Zurakowska
Morris Gaman, Neckbreakers, Instructor: Linda Bourke
Their work, along with other winners from across the country, will be displayed at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan, New York from May 7 – May 31.