Notes from the "Society of Illustrators" meeting

Thanks to Dana for going to the meeting and providing us with these notes!



Society Meeting:

Main Topics:

1. Guest speaker Professor Harold Tine from Scenic Design in Production at SCAD-talking about illustration opportunity

2. Guest speaker Professor Mark Bazil from Advertising at SCAD-talking about SCADDYs

3. New York Times Art & Leisure Competition

4. Upcoming Illustration Department shows: Monsters Masquerade & Humane Society

1. Professor Tine came to discuss an opportunity for Illustration students to be a part of a new production called “A New Brain.” This is a story about a writer struggling with his creation of a children’s musical. He develops a medical problem and this ultimately changes him as a person as well as his writing.

About 20 images will be used and will be projected on giant screens as part of the set design. These screens will be 5ft by 7 ft placed above the actors. The images will enhance the plot of the production acting as “thought bubbles.”

This is a volunteer only opportunity although you will receive recognition for your work. These images do not have to be fully rendered and Professor Tine is looking for a team of about five illustrators to be part of the project. The show will be running November 6^th-9^th and the images will need to be done by the end of October. Please communicate with Professor Tine if you are interested at his contact information listed below.

htine@scad.edu 912.525.6046

2. Professor Bazil from the Advertising department came to discuss the upcoming SCADDYs. The SCADDYs are SCAD’s variation of the ADDYs, the largest and most prestigious advertising competition in the United States. The ADDY categories dictate the SCADDYs taking the best work from various departments like graphic design, photography, advertising, etc. (Illustration fits into the category of advertising)

This competition’s deadline is the first Thursday after fall quarter ends. There is no limit for the number of submissions but the illustrations need to, even in the smallest way, fit the category of advertising. Professor Bazil gave the example of tweaking certain assignments by adding a logo or text. Assignments like posters would already fit into the advertising category. Despite these suggestions some pieces that were not “advertising pieces” have placed.

The submissions are to be PDFs with correct labels. More information will be hung in Morris Hall in the next two weeks. You can reach Professor Bazil at the contact information below but he requests you wait until the posters are put up in the upcoming weeks, as they will answer most questions.

m.bazil@scad.edu

3. The New York Times Art and Leisure section is conducting a competition for illustration students at SCAD. The art director Paul Jean will be selecting the final sketch and the winner will be rewarded a $1,000 contract. The student will then be placed under direction to finalize the work. The piece will run nationally as the cover for the Art and Leisure section for the “Year in Review.”

The topic of the piece is Culture 2009 and the dimensions of the piece are to be 12.21 in x 22.035in. Some of the categories of the Art & Leisure section are Books, Music, Dance, Theatre, etc and the artwork should illustrate those that were big in 2009. This will require research of the last year of the Art & Leisure section as well as previous covers. The Society of Publication Designers can help with previous images and can be found at the Jenn Library.

The selection process will be in stages beginning first with thumbnails. These are due Oct. 8^th but also can be looked at during the next Society meeting on next Thursday the 24^th. It was recommended to make about four different ideas and various compositions for each. The thumbnails can include color and you can also expand into a more detailed version if you desire. From these choices a limited number will be selected to continue on to the final sketch phase. Paul Jean will judge these final sketches on Oct. 14^th at the River Club at 7:00pm.

4. There will be two upcoming shows for the Illustration Department. The first is the seasonally appropriate “Monsters Masquerade” show. This show will either be in the mall or the Student Center. These images are due by Oct. 14^th and must be the dimensions of 9x12 (they may be vertical or horizontal) Ultimately if chosen these will all have to be framed according to the set rules of a black frame and white matte.

The second show will be a winter show for the Humane Society. There will be an auction of the pieces in order to raise money for the Humane Society. The economy has been affecting this organization, as many people are not financially able to take care of their animals. SCAD is doing its part to raise money to help take care of Savannah’s four legged friends. The dimensions of the images are not set but this information will be coming soon. The Humane Society has no affiliation with Peta or any similar groups so keep this in mind when selecting your image.

The next Society meeting is this upcoming Thursday the 24^th at 8:00p in Morris Hall. This is a great opportunity to get involved and learn about competitions. I hope this helps everyone who was not able to make it! -dana

Deadlines.

Here are some upcoming deadlines.

Society of Illustrators 52.
October 30, 2009

Communication Arts Illustration Competition.
January 8, 2010

American Illustration 29.
January 2010

Creative Quarterly 18.
October 30, 2009 (thanks Catherine)

CMYK's Top 100 New Creatives.
September 20, 2009


I've listed these in order of importance. I've talked to quite a few illustrators this summer and they say that getting into the Society competition and the ComArts competition are the most important: those are the publications that art directors really look at.

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Come to the Illustration Academy. You'll learn a lot!



P.S. Congratulations to all of the grad students who just graduated!



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Pissing off Conservatives in AR

Arkansas Online
Mayor says time to ride herd on art
Paintings on public wall raise stir
By Bill Bowden
Sunday, May 24, 2009
EUREKA SPRINGS — The Eureka Springs City Council is drafting a contract to take control
of an outdoor art exhibit that some people find offensive.
The Artery exhibit, which has been on display since September, contains 26 paintings that
range from the Virgin Mary to one of the Drag Queen of Hearts tempting Alice in
Wonderland. The exhibit’s theme is idols.
Mayor Dani Joy said she has had several telephone calls from tourists complaining about
The Artery, which covers a 150-footlong retaining wall along First Street.
“People would call in and say, ‘How could you as a city let that happen?’” said Joy.
The two paintings mentioned above are among the most contentious at The Artery.The
painting titled The Divine Mother by Michelle Levy of Eureka Springs has been criticized
because it depicts the Virgin Mary breast-feeding the baby Jesus. Above her head are the
words “Does this halo make my face look fat?”
The Temptation of Alice, a painting by Beth Post of Fayetteville, shows Alice in
Wonderland standing next to a scantily clad man in women’s clothing. The paintings can be seen on The Artery’s Web site at www.thearterysite.com.
“To me, it’s just obscene,” Margaret Miller, 50, of Owensville, Ind., said of The Temptation of
Alice. “I would not want my children here with me or my grandchildren.”
Miller and her husband, Dave Miller, 51, parked their motorcycle in a space in frontof The
Artery on Thursday morning after riding down from Indiana.
“I don’t think it should be public art,” said Dave Miller. “You pull in here with a carload of kids, and boom! There it is, right in front of you.”
In her artist’s statement on The Artery’s Web site, Post states that her painting was inspired
by the Bible story of Christ being tempted by Satan in the desert.
The exhibit is to come down by September, but one artist took a painting down early to put it
in another show, and other artists may do the same. Normally, The Artery has 26 paintings
on display. Each one is 4-by-8 feet. Previously The Artery exhibits were up for one year.
The city owns the wall. Charlotte Buchanan, who founded The Artery in 2005, thought she
was doing the city a favor by providing art where there was once only cracked concrete.
Until the current exhibit, there had been no complaints, said Joy, who has been mayor for
the past three years.
“The previous sets she had up were good,” Joy said.
After speaking with a lawyer for the Arkansas Municipal League, Joy said she decided that a
contract is in order between the city and Buchanan. That means the city is taking possession
of The Artery, but for now at least, Buchanan still manages it.
The contract is still being drafted by the City Council. Joy notified Buchanan about the
contract in a Feb. 26 letter, adding that the City Council would consider proposals from other
people who want to manage The Artery.
Buchanan said she doesn’t believe that the city can take the project away from her and give
it to another person to run. She and her husband have registered The Artery Foundation as
a nonprofit organization.
“They don’t realize what they’re trying to do,” she said. “It’s trademarked and a foundation.”
Joy said she plans to establish a Eureka Springs Arts Council, which will decide what
paintings can be displayed on the wall. She has decided on eight members for the Arts
Council, but there may be as many as 11. The wall fronts a parking lot, butthe paintings are
visible from Main Street, which has a considerable amount of foot traffic.
“We were inspired,” said Denise White, 46, of Peculiar, Mo., who was walking by The Artery
with her daughter Jenna White, 20. “We were up a couple of days ago. It seems unique that
someone came up with this idea. My son would love this, whatever it is with the horns.”
Denise White was pointing at a painting described on The Artery’s Web site as Elpha’s Levis
Baphomet, by J.D. Davis of Eureka Springs. It appears to be a copy of Eliphas Levi’s 1854
drawing of Baphomet, an occult idol. Some people have complained that the humanoid
goatlike creature in the painting is demonic.
“I hope they don’t take them down because they are very cool,” Denise White said. “We are
back today to take pictures.”
“If I wanted to remember Eureka Springs, I would take my picture here,” Jenna White said.
She posed in front of several of the paintings while her mother took photos of her.
Denise White said that taking them down “would be disappointing.”
Buchanan, a former Eureka Springs City Council member, had the council’s blessing when
she started The Artery four years ago. She has three gallery owners who serve as her
selection committee. They decide which artists will be allowed to display paintings.
Buchanan said the artists were selected, then had several months to paint what they wanted
to be displayed on the wall. The exhibit was “curated,” not “juried,” she said. The Arts
Council will serve as a jury for the proposed art under the mayor’s plan.
“Anyplace you go, in any city,art is always juried before it goes up,” Joy said.
“Are we a gated community or are we a place where people come and be inspired by us?”
asked Buchanan.
“Charlotte did the city a big service by taking an area that was blighted and turning it into an
outdoor art museum,” said Karen Lindblad, a bookshop owner and another former Eureka
Springs City Council member.
“Tourists come in all the time and say this is incredible,” said Lindblad. “It reflects the artists
who are in town because we are an artist’s city. ... To me, if you put censorship on art, you’re
running the risk of not hanging the best art.”
But the mayor said, “It’s not censorship as much as stewardship.” She said, “Unfortunately,
there has to be responsibility.It’s not a matter of trying to hurt anybody or not be about art
because Eureka Springs is about art. ... If she had done this on private property, it wouldn’t
be a problem. But she did it on public property.”
John Rankine, a local artist, said: “If the city takes this away from Charlotte, there are a lot of
artists who won’t participate, including myself,”
About 25 paintings have sold since The Artery went up in 2005. Sixty percent of the
proceeds go to the artist, and the remainder goes to The Artery Artist’s Trust.
“We want Charlotte to keep this,” said Carol Peacock, an artist who sold a painting through
The Artery. Peacock said she doesn’t mind giving 40 percent of the selling price to The
Artery Foundation, but that money would go to the city under the mayor’s new plan.
“I really don’t think I would want to give 40 percent of my money to them,” Peacock said.
“Typically, when the city takes something over, it stops happening. A lot of people don’t
understand art. It’s often controversial and always has been.”
But the mayor said the contentious art is best left to private galleries. The Artery is on a
public wall.
“People happen onto it without meaning or choosing to,” she said of The Artery.
If a person walks into an art gallery, “you’re consciously making that decision,” she said.
One of the paintings has been peeling badly from the elements because it apparently wasn’t
sealed.
Since The Artery began fouryears ago, only one painting has been vandalized. It was a
painting of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., called It Takes a Village, by Elizabeth Wolf
of Eureka Springs.
“Somebody scratched her eyes out,” said Buchanan.
But, in true Eureka Springs fashion, Buchanan decided that the scratched-out eyes had
become part of the artwork. The painting had moved someone to act, she said. It’s still on
display at The Artery.
Arkansas, Pages 21, 24 on 05/24/2009

PIZZA NIGHT!

Drafting Table For Sale

Hi Everyone,

I posted it on the SCAD Grad Illustration group on FB, but I am selling my drafting table and chair and wanted to see if there was any interest among Grads who are sticking around before I list it on craigslist.  Email me if you are interested, acfeagan@gmail.com.  And I'll send you some pics.  Thanks!

-Alice

Deadlines!

Keep in mind, if you want to submit art to publications, the due dates are coming up soon.
Creative Quarterly is due this Friday, May 1
CMYK is due next Monday, May 3

Handmade sketchbooks

My girlfriend makes hand-made books and sketchbooks. She'll make you one for fairly cheap (even cheaper if you provide the paper). You can pick whatever kind of paper you want in it.
She also makes little stuffed animals.
Look at her books: http://nickicrock.blogspot.com

Richmond Illustrator's Club Call for Entries

I got a friend request from "Richmond Illustrators' Club" on The Facebook. Looks like they're taking submissions right now for their Third Annual Juried Show
There are several ways to enter:
1.) Email your entries to info@richmondillustratorsc

lub.com

2.) Submit the entry form, either as a PDF with your emailed entries,
OR
by snail mail to:
Richmond Illustrators Club
17 w. Marshall St. apt A Richmond, VA 23220

3.) Pay via paypal
OR
mail a check or money order with your hard copy entry form.*

(No entries will be processed without payment.)

Their website with more information on entering is www.richmondillustratorsclub.com. There's a little more information here.

Entries are due April 24th and the judge for the competition is Marshall Arisman.

Self-pixel-me!

I did an exercise on deviant art, that I hope you like it, and you can show it here! Wanto to paint with pixels? here is the template.


This is mine, it doesn't show so well but is me looking at the stars... like the quote of Disney:
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

3x3 Call for Entries. LAST MINUTE!

The 3x3 call for entries for their Professional Show is today! If you haven't gotten your images in get them in now. If you want to enter but don't have your work ready, you can pay the entry fees now and upload your images at a later time.

The deadline for their Children's Book Show is coming up next month on April 14.
You can find information and forms for entering both shows here.

Monsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnujO3SCGBE&feature=related

PIXAR IS HERE!!!

HI EVERYONE!
On Thursday at 8pm will be a PIXAR PRESENTATION on Trustees theater! DO NOT MISS IT! and also I will try to upload my blog in English!