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John Jay, a memeber of our Illustration faculty have his beautiful Illustrations show case in a book Title " BELLACIAO " An exhibition follow that took place in Paris France.

 

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We want to congratulate our own faculty member Heidi Younger, she received a Bronze Award for her landscape illustration in Creative Quarterly #17

 

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Congratulation to Jessica Yeomans 2008, her painting title "SoJung" was accepted into the 67th Annual Audubon Artists Juried Competition. The exhibit will run from September 27th-October 2nd at the Salmagundi Art Club @ 47 5th Ave. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, September 27th from 12-5.

 

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Congratulation to Yu Ling Deng 2009, her illustration Title "cribs at sea" was a runner up in the Creative Quarterly 17. All Runner-ups will be exhibited online in Creative Quarterly 17's new special gallery.

 

 

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Congratulation to Olivia Magnotta and Paule Trudel_Bellemare, Both of these students received the Richard Ely Memorial scholarship of five hundred dollars each. Olivia and Paule will be graduating with a AAS and attending the upper division this fall.

 

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2009 SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITION OPENNING

Congratulation to Malia Huges, Jeff Liu, John Brody, Rachel Harrison, and Junko Miyakoshi, Their illustrations were selected to be in the 2009 Society of Illustratiors Annual Student Competition. This national competition are the most difficult jury show to get in and we are very proud to have five of our very talented students in this year's show.

 

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Yuling Deng's painting of his father was selected by CMYK. The work will appear in their website.

 

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Illustration Class

of 2009 Exhibition

 

Opening reception: May 7th,
Time: 6-8pm

Dates of the show: May 8th-19th, 2009
Address: Museum of The Fashion Institute of Technology, E Building
27th Street at 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10001

 

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Congratulation to Inga Poslitur 2009, she is our precipitant of the 2009 Chancellor's Award. This award is a huge honor for

The Illustration Department. It is the first time that one of our student is bestow with the Chanellor award.

 

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We at the Illustration Department are so proud of our colleague, Professor Bil Donovan, he recently was offered an exclusive one year contract with Christian Dior Beauty. Bil will be an Artist In Residence for Christian Dior Beauty and act
as a representative of the label during appearances and events. He will create in-house illustrations, promos and attend and hosts events where he will create on site portraits of the Attendees.

Beside this huge honor, Bil will have many of his illustration appearing soon in Elle Magazine,where he will create a Full page ad for May issue to promote a Green Issue, Lancome for Spring 09 promotion of Lancome kiosk in Macy's and Dillards, and Lord & Taylor's Spring 09 Cover of Catalogue promoting Beauty.

 

 

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Congratulation to YuLing Deng a senior student has just won BEST IN SHOW for the Student portion of the Creative Quarterly #15 Competition. This painting was also selected into the 3X3 student show. This illustration will appear in 3X3 annual in late fall 2009.

 

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Roman Sharf 2008, illustrated the cover for Farbrengen Magazine, a Los angelos base publication dedicated to jewish theme.

 

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Ariel Zuckerbrill and Qing Ping Mui 2007 were the artist and inkers for a recent published graphic novel title" Necessary Evil" Published by Desperado. Well done Ariel and Qing. I hope this is just the beginning.

 

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Congratulation to one of our senior student Hayoung Shin, the illustration she did of Curt Cobain was selected by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles West 47. She was also awarded $750 Scholarship for the student category

 

 

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Troy Frantz 2004 was ask to submitt two of his sculptures title "Eve" and "Fallen Angel" to the permanent collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historic Center in Brooklyn.

 

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The painting title The Reindeer created by Kristen Freeborn 2006 is a winning entry in the American Diabetes Association's Annual Gift of Hope contest. The painting will be made into a Christmas card, be part of a calendar and will be published in the Diabetes Forecast Magazine this fall.

 

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Malia Hughes, a graduating student of 2008, was given an assignment by the FlowersFx company. She created four illustrations that will appear on the packaging of their Air Fresheners that will be distributed in select stores on the east coast. Great job Malia.

 

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Qing Ping Mui, gradurate of 2007 just won best Fantasy in a competition sponsor by the Rising Stars of Manga .

Click on the cover above will lead you to his incredible work.

"Rising Stars of Manga is an annual competition dedicated to finding the newest and brightest stars in the manga sky. Entrants are required to submit a short manga (15-20 pages), in English. Entries are judged on technical skill, storytelling ability, artistic stylization, originality and reader enjoyment. With 8 US and 3 UK competitions under our belt, Rising Stars is stronger than ever. Read Rising Stars 8, in stores July 2008!"