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Celebrate Inktober with a visit to the INKTOBERxCOMD exhibition opening at the Grace Gallery (Namm 11th floor) on Thursday, November 7th, 12:30-2pm . Brought to you by City Tech InkClub, checkout the great work students have assembled for this student-curated exhibition. The exhibition is up thru 11/22/24.
Exhibition Info:
About the Exhibition:
The Self Portraits: Explorations of Identity exhibition showcased the artistic talents of NYC high school students, inviting submissions that explored themes of identity, the underrepresentation of people of color, and gender in visual communication.
Supported by the BRESI grant, the New York City College of Technology’s Department of Communication Design in collaboration with the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Committee and Faculty Commons, received over 70 submissions, from which 30 finalists were selected by jurors who were COMD BFA alumni. The opening, on December 1st, 2022, in COMD’s gallery space, garnered a diverse audience with the young artists, their families, friends, and art teachers in attendance.
Three students received special recognition awards for their talent and creativity. The exhibition aimed to foster discussions about identity while preparing first-year COMD faculty to guide students in understanding demographics and user personas in communication design.
Top 3 Student Works:
This Gordon Parks Themed Exhibition is open to all to all work, big or small, inspired the work of the visionary creator. For this show we invited you, COMD students, to respond to the life and work of Parks in any medium. Or rather, to choose as your “weapon”.
The response was completely overwhelming! You have spoken in a resounding voice, across all of the creative disciplines we teach. You, like Parks are using your creative “weapons to stand against the things you dislike about America”. We are so very proud of all of you: our artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, filmmakers, communicators, problem-solvers, change-makers and strategists.
Best in Show and Honorable Mention honors will be awarded during the April 29th Panel Discussion. Visit the Gordon Parks themed Student Show site to view the full exhibition.
Autograph’s pop-up photography display featuring 30 remarkable image panels, reproduced from rare 19th-century photographs portraying people of African, Caribbean and South Asian descent during the Victorian era in Britain.
Part of The Missing Chapter project, which aims to bring together a distinct body of photographs that showcases diverse ‘black presences’ in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, offering a unique portrait of black lives and migrant experiences during the decades following the birth of photography in 1839.
They portray a diverse range of people living and working in Britain at the time, from politicians to performers to service men and women. Their collective presence bears direct witness to the nation’s colonial and imperial history, and the expansion of the British Empire during the 19th and 20th Centuries.
These portraits reveal an important, complex black presence in Britain before the SS Empire Windrush steamship arrived in 1948, which is often cited as a key moment in the emergence of a multicultural British society.
Photographed in commercial studios in the latter half of the 19th century, many lay buried deep within the archives for decades, unseen for more than 125 years.
Collections represented include Autograph, Hulton Archive (a division of Getty Images), National Portrait Gallery, Royal Collection Trust as well as the private collections of Val Wilmer, Michael Graham-Stewart, Amoret Tanner/FotoLibra and Paul Frecker/Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography.
BLACK / EXCELLENCE is the story of visual artist, Khary Randolph’s multifaceted illustration career. This month-long solo exhibition is free and open to the public.
Randolph’s bold style breaks from comics tradition, drawing on influences such as Saul Bass, Norman Rockwell, and HIP-HOP. He maintains throughout his diverse body of work a clear artistic voice and unapologetically addresses issues of representation, race, class, and diversity in a medium historically dominated by one-dimensional white male power fantasies.
The works on display are a generous gift of the artist to the department of Communication Design at New York City College of Technology and will be made available to the public for the purposes of fundraising, helping to educate and launch the careers of the industry’s next generation of creators.
BLACK / EXCELLENCE will be on View in the City Tech Grace Gallery from 9/26 through 10/ 31 2019.
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