Illustration student Randi Cheng’s work a finalist for CAPIC’s Rodeo 6 illustration contest. Winner’s to be announced May 22 at the Rodeo Gala! Stay tuned! http://www.capic.org/photography-and-illustration-contest-winners/rodeo5/
From May 7 to 8, Seneca will be hosting a special showcase of graduating student work at the prestigious House of Moments Lounge and Art Gallery, 386 Carlaw Ave., in downtown Toronto. Graduating students will be given the chance to show off their best work.
Entitled “Seneca Coalesce”, this is the third year we have held this high profile gallery showcase of new works produced by Seneca’s upcoming graduates in DMA, ILU, IDP, GRA, AFD, ACV, our four Animation programs, and highlighting past works from SCAA’s Summer Institutes in Animation & Documentary Filmmaking . Works will be displayed through a through printed works and also through a number of large interactive LCD screens situated throughout the gallery space. Viewers will be able to browse through work onscreen via a specially designed iPad app.
Then, please join us on Tuesday May 7th from 6PM-midnight at House of Moments, 386 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto, for our big year-end graduate celebration party. Family and friends welcome! Register for the party at http://senecacoalesce.eventbrite.ca/ .
Come celebrate, share your achievements with family and friends, and get a chance to mingle with people who could be your future employers in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
The event is produced by students in the Event Media Production program.
Note: the illustration work for the promotional material was by ILU graduate Salini Perera!
April 9 to 14, 2013
Reception Thursday, April 11th, from 7p.m. to 10p.m.with artists in attendance
The Winter 2013 Graduating Class of Seneca College’s Independent Illustration program grad show titled “To Be Illustrated …” takes place between April 9th and 14th at the Norman Felix Gallery. The reception will be on Thursday, April 11th, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The Norman Felix Gallery is located at 627 Queen Street West in Toronto.
There will be a broad variety of artwork on display both traditional and digital work covering every area of illustration, including children’s illustration, comics, visual development, advertising, spot illustration and more. Past graduates have been honored by the Society of Illustrators and are now working throughout the field of illustration.
Gallery hours:
Tuesday, April 9th to Friday, April 12th – 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 13th – 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 14th – 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The past weekend TheArtistProject, a juried art exhibition, took over the Better Living Centre at Exhibition place. Row upon row of beautifully realized artwork filled the cavernous space. The work varied in subject and medium, at times pushing the limits of the concept explored, each artist there representing themselves. The emerging artist category supports the development of emerging artists through the juried Untapped Emerging Artists competition. It awards artists a FREE space at the exhibition, and is an opportunity for artists to participate in a professional-level art fair and showcase their work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts at no cost! Submissions to this fair begin in September of each year.
The Society of Illustrators in New York has selected student Shaolei (Ray) Zhang’s illustration Chinese Zodiac – Rat for inclusion in their Student Scholarship Exhibition and for publication in the Society of Illustrators Annual.
Zhang’s illustration was among about 250 selected from more than 8,000 international submissions.
The Student Scholarship Exhibition will be held at the Society’s Museum of American Illustration in New York from May 5 to June 7 with a reception on May 17, when awards and certificates will be given to students.
This gallery contains 55 photos.
The third graduating class held an exhibit of their work in Gallery 1313. It opened December 13, 2012 and ran to December 18. A diverse and talented display of work was previewed by many who made it to the opening … Continue reading
This work titled Miss America by Kent Monkman was one of the many works to take over the Toronto Convention Centre this weekend at the annual Art Fair titled Art Toronto. Galleries from Toronto and around the world took over the North Building to put on a very fine show. Sales seemed to be brisk as the exhibit on Friday was very different from that on Sunday. As work was sold, new work was put up! Much of the work seemed very accessible with the recent return to illustrative visualizing in paint and manipulated photos. While most of the work was by established artists, there was some effort to show emerging artists with RBC’s annual painting competition on display.
The Focus on Asia was a large curated exhibition of Asian Artists who were chosen or worked within a theme of Beyond Geography, commenting on the duality that exists when so much of the world is not exclusively connected to one culture. Works on paper, video and porcelain plates created an intriguing cross-section.
Throughout the entire show, artists were pushing the limits on how and what to display with a large range of materials, surfaces and combinations thereof. The best year yet for Art Toronto!
A recent graduate of Independent Illustration, Marina Siu-Chong, was hand-picked to develop this year’s artwork by the organizers of the 2012 Word On the Street Festival. Her colourful painting of two pigeons surrounded by stacks of books is featured on posters, ads and online. The artwork took Marina one night to develop and was painted entirely in Photoshop.
Marina currently works as an artist at Indie Stone Studios, a company she co-founded after graduating from Seneca.
The Word On The Street is a national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines.
It still feels like summer outside, but it is back to school and work inside! The hallways are bustling with students and faculty alike, with the anticipation of a great semester ahead. In Illustration, we have one new faculty to welcome, Martha Newbigging, who will be teaching the Children’s Illustration course in 3rd semester. She comes to us with rich experience both as an accomplished children’s book illustrator and teacher as well! She has taught in far off lands where the facilities are not as equipped as Seneca, and this experience served her well for when she showed up to teach her first class and rolled calmly with the first week computer glitches!
Here’s to a great semester ahead!
Independent Illustration student Jeanna Leclair is the winner of the Ontario Library Association Super Conference Design Competition. Students and recent graduates at post-secondary institutions across the province took part in this annual contest.
Jeanna’s winning design
earned her $1,500 and will be used as the “visual identity” at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference — Canada’s largest library conference. Her work will be featured on programs, signage, the Super Conference website, brochures, T-shirts, mugs, pins and much more.Second place went to Ashley Dadoun, who is also studying in the Independent Illustration program. Her work will be featured online and in one of the conference’s event programs.
This marked the second year in a row that Seneca students have placed first and second at this competition.
Independent Illustration 