AIB Illustration & Animation Blog

Monster Party 2013 creeps out UGLY Gallery! –New Bedford MA

October is the season to be creepy!
Studio Miners are so excited to announce the lineup and details for Monster Party 2013, their second annual family-friendly celebration of monsters. This year, the exhibit will be on view at UGLY Gallery, in New Bedford MA. Orginal works by artists including:

David Guadalupe Jr., Eyeformation Ef, Natalie Elephante, Sean Kernick, Jessica George, Matthew C. Albanese, Clams Rockefeller, Casey Weibust, Chelsea Arruda, Ekiem Julien, Elizabeth Siegel, Dan Savoie, Ryan Robidoux, Fish McGill, Britton Walters, Tim Sullivan, Brian Butler, Patt Kelley, Ryan Maguire and Gregory Maxim!


Sean Kernick's piece for Monster Party 2013 at UGLYgallery


Installation for Monster Party 2013! Opening on Oct. 10th UGLYgallery, New Bedford, MA. — with Jessica George.


Installation for Monster Party 2013 has begun! Don't forget to come all dressed up to the opening on Oct. 10th UGLYgallery, New Bedford, MA. — with EVIL DESIGN.


Preview of Brian Butler's piece for Monster Party 2013


Zombie Lobsta prints by MADink available at Monster Party 2013.


Preview of Eyeformation Ef 's piece for Monster Party 2013.


Work in Progress from Dan Savoie. Make sure to make it out to Monster Party 2013 at UGLYgallery, Oct 10th to see the finished product.

The show opens Thursday, OCTOBER 10th from 7 - 10pm, during AHA! (art, history, architecture), a monthly arts and cultural event, and includes some of our favorites from last year - a monster mini golf hole, mural, face painting, artists coloring sheets and prizes.

For more information:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Studio-Miners/276279789054936

Please Touch opening reception!

"I am for an art... that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum."
-Claes Oldenburg

Check out the opening reception slideshow from Please Touch, the debut show of the sixteen diverse and talented illustration graduates of 2013 at the Art Institute of Boston.




The focus of the show is to reintroduce illustration to consumers not just as 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.



View all photos from installation to opening reception here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annajobeck/collections/72157633597878044/

We chose to create this shop to share our creations with the viewer and invite them 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.

The curator would like to thank Susan LeVan and Keith MacLelland for their patience, guidance, and support. Thank you to Andrew Mroczek, Fred Levy, Santiago Hernandez, Joe Schwab, Erich Shafer, and Matthew Cherry for humoring my often odd requests and helping me along the way. Thanks to Cambridge Arts Council, for helping spread our message. And lastly thank you, fellow illustration graduates of AIB, for without you, my college education would have been far less entertaining!

"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.

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.

SHARK LOVE INC. Art Benefit for Sharks & Oceans

PangeaSeed Presents: SHARK LOVE INC. - Art Benefit for Sharks & Oceans

In collaboration with Pow Wow Hawai'i, The Box Jelly and the Refinery Project, PangeaSeed is pleased to present Shark Love Inc. during Pow Wow Hawai'i 2013. PangeaSeed, with an inclusive approach to spreading its message by engaging audiences through the mediums of art, design, photography, film, music and discussion, will host a series of events tailored to address one of the biggest threats facing the health of the world's oceans, the rapid mass depletion of sharks.

Peter O. Zierlein: Under the Knife

Peter Zierlein’s symmetrical paper cuts are based around the concept of balance, power and equality. On view from Thursday, February 14, 2013 through Wednesday, February 27, 2013. This exhibition of Zierlein's paper-cut art features a special opening reception with a lecture and demonstration on Sunday, February 24, 2-6 pm. More information

UPDATE: Other Worlds @ AIB

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.

Saddle up for 2013!

Happy New Year everyone! Illustration faculty Keith MacLelland starts the year off with a a Dig Boston duck on wheels! Saddle up!

"We're gonna ride this year like a… duck on wheels. "Cowboy" Keith MacLelland gits us right on track with this awesome cover. Check out his work (as well as many other AIB Alumni) at the Objectified art show. More details here: http://digboston.com/this-weeks-cover/" – Tak Toyoshima

And in case you missed it, check out the AIB MFA Alumni Exhibition now on view at Washburn Hall Auditorium, 10 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA. Event details here: http://www.lesley.edu/EventDetail.aspx?id=8624