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"Art of the Line" new works by Marietta Apollonio

AIB Illustration alumni Marietta Apollonio '02, will have new work featured at the opening of "art of the line" at the Dedham Square Artist Guild on June 1st. Apollonio helped found the DSAG in October 2011. The show will run for the month of June and will include all new pieces. Congratulations and goodluck!

An Illustration Pop-Up Shop: Please Touch!

Please Touch hopes to reintroduce illustration to consumers not as just drawings in books and magazines, but as objects to be experienced. In the past fifteen years we have seen a change in illustration that mimics this sentiment. Illustration is leaving the page and enriching our cultural landscape.

The Please Touch shop shares our creations with the viewer and invites you to inspect, enjoy, and take the work home, as opposed to viewing it temporarily from a comfortable distance. Pop-up shops are perfect for limited edition products from niche retailers, such as artists. We also love our work, and want it to live and thrive outside of our view.

So please, touch.

See our progress on Twitter: www.twitter.com/pleasetouchshop

Work Featured From:
Sadie Allen
Ashley Almeida
Lucia Balcazar
Anna Beck
Samantha Benc
Olivia Dinnall
Ellen Dubreuil
Tegan Harmonay
Rue Hartsell
Kris Phero
Nate Mitchell
Nick Nazzaro
Chelsea Osgood
Tai Sae-Eung
Erin Stainken
Adele Tobin

May 7th - 12th 2013
Tuesday - Friday: 12 - 8pm
Saturday and Sunday: 12 - 7pm

Opening Reception on 
Saturday May 11th 5 - 7 pm

The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Avenue 

Cambridge, MA 02215

*Please note the PLEASE TOUCH shop  only accepts debit or credit cards payments. We will be utilizing PayPal Here for all transactions.

Yuko Shimizu speaks @ AIB

The AIB Illustration Club invites you Thursday, April 4, at 6pm for an artist talk by Yuko Shimizu. Yuko is a Japanese illustrator living in New York City. Her work, which is awesome, appears in DC Comics, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and she works with clients like the Gap, Pepsi and Visa. Feel free to check out more of her work on her website. The talk is at 601 Newbury, in Room N340. We hope to see you there!

AIB @ Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibition

The AIB Illustration Department, and AIB at Lesley University community as a whole, wishes to congratulate Illustration Majors Melissa McGill & Nick Nazzaro. They've been juried into this years Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Exhibition.

This summer, May 15-June 5, their work will hang in The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Their work will also appear in the printed exhibition catalog.


In addition to their print and exhibition honors, Melissa and Nick's work will also be considered along side 240+ other top students selected from art colleges around the country to receive financial awards. Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception Friday, May 17, 2013. Congratulations once again, and good luck Melissa & Nick, you make us proud! Check out there work on the Society of Illustrators website here.

UPDATE: Other Worlds @ AIB

AIB Screenprinting Workshop

Illustrator Anna Jo Beck, Art Institute of Boston Alumni, will be hosting a silk screen workshop and demo on Saturday February 16th at AIB. The workshop is free to attend and watch. Workshop participents will have the opportunity to print your own design - please be prepared to pay $15 and purchase a few of your own supplies. 

Email Anna an RSVP if you would like to attend: anna[dot]annajobeck.com

Please indicate if you just want to watch or intend on printing yourself!

The event is limited to 8 people. First come first serve. Sign up today!

Additonal workshops may be scheduled if more people show interest. If you have any questions, ask Anna and visit Annajobeck.com

Other Worlds @ AIB

Check out some senior illustration work now on view at the Other Worlds exhibit! Opening reception Febuary 8th 6-8pm at 601 Newbury Street, 2nd Floor.

Be Bold, Be Bald! 2012 Creative Call to Fight Cancer!

Ryan Maguire, Illustrator and AIB Adjunct Faculty, recently graduated from the MFA in Illustration Program at the Hartford Art School this past July, where his thesis project explored raising social awareness through illustration.

Since then, Maguire was asked by Small Army Inc. (Boston) to illustrate their Be Bold, Be Bald! 2012 national campaign to raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. Watch the BBBB campaign trailer shot locally in Boston here...

The Be Bold, Be Bald started as a grassroots campaign in Boston which now is a national campaign effort. Illustrated campagin advertisments have been featured in Time, GQ, and most recenlty the Wall Street Journal and Boston MBTA T Stations.



Illustrated campaign Be Bold, Be Bald! featured in The Wall Street Journal (10/05/2012)


Above photo: AIB Illustrator, Patrick Tierney





This year, for the first time, Be Bald, Be Bold! has developed a 'Creative Call' to include all artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers to participate in the 2012 Be Bald, Be Bold! campaign.

We invite students, profesionals and creatives from all industries to use their creativity to help fight cancer! Please share this creative effort, at your discretion, with family, friends, artists and designers who want to use art to help raise awareness and fight cancer! Creative call details are below.




Shown above: Illustrator MCA of Evildesign, Shown below: AIB Alumni Vincet Coviello





DRAW BOLD, DRAW BEAUTIFUL!
Your submissions will be accpeted up until November 2, 2012

Who knew your talent could make a difference?

Be Bold, Be Bald! invites you and your pencil, paintbrush or mouse to help us illustrate the beauty of doing beautiful things for others – on a bald cap.

Worn by thousands of participants for one day each year, the bald cap shows solidarity with cancer fighters who may not have a say in losing their hair. Be Bold, Be Bald! embraces the beauty of baldness by encouraging people to wear a bald cap on Nov 2, 2012 while raising money for the fight against cancer.

To illustrate the beauty in going bald, we are inviting illustrators, artists and designers to create your ideas of beauty on a bald cap. Your creation (and a link to your website) will be shared on our social media networks to help you share your talents while helping us raise money for our cause.

Potential submissions will be considered for a contest to have your design printed on a cap or poster that we will sell on our website (www.beboldbebald.org) with all proceeds going to cancer research.

DOWNLOAD FILES HERE:  http://beboldbebald.org/public/admin/BBBB_cap_illustrations.pdf

Help spread the word: http://beboldbebald.org/cmspage/3/spread-the-word

AIB hosts annual Independent Comics Expo September 29

Cambridge, will be playing host to the annual Independent Comics Expo (MICE), this Saturday, September 29.

MICE includes demonstrations with professional artists, panel discussions on topics central to comics, and an exhibit of original art featuring 100 comics artists and small publishers - as well as MICE 2012 Guest of Honor, renowned cartoonist and illustrator Robert Sikoryak. Guest of Honor R. Sikoryak’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Raw, Fortune, Esquire, GQ, among many other publications, and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Hosted by AIB and the Boston Comics Roundtable, MICE is free and open to the public.

The Expo runs from 10am to 7pm on Saturday, September 29, 2012 in Lesley’s University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

MICE is Boston’s only show dedicated to alternative comics, ‘zines, and web comics, and it features talented regional cartoonists, including AIB students, alumni and faculty. MICE is a great way to network and show off your passion for comic art, it is also a first-hand look into the local independent comics scene and thousands of unusual, entertaining and interesting comics, as well as the chance to meet the creators.

Come check it out, bring your friends and bring some comics! MICE is another great way to support the AIB community, at another great event hosted by AIB's Cenntenial Celebration!

Rob Dunlavey Visits us @ AIB

Illustrator Rob Dunlavey stopped by AIB's Illustration Junior/Senior studio last Friday! He gave a great talk, and showed off his process! Check it out :

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