Art Wars coming soon!

Design & Conquer
Student vs. Alumni Art Competition
Come see talented Art Institute students and alumni put their talents to the test in an all day competition!
There will be five challenging rounds to decide who will compete in the Final Battle!
The Winner will be awarded the title of “Ruler of Art Wars 2010,”
and be the recipient of a Grand Prize!
The Battle will take place in
The Art Institute of New York City Gallery.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
2 pm to 5:30 pm
Who will be the “RULER OF ART WARS 2010?”
Battle space is Limited
Sign up today.
Contact Marifrances Boccia, Alumni Coordinator.
Phone: 212-625-6018 or Email: mboccia@aii.edu

Pizza with the President

Continuing a frequent practice, President David Warren invites all students to come to the Student Lounge, have pizza and talk to him about anything on their minds. He is a big believer in open communication with students.

Dean of Academic Affairs Dave Moughalian also participated in the event, facilitated by Dean of Student Services Joe Pirrello.

Lost in the Crowd

Video Production instructor Susi Graf's film, Lost in the Crowd, will be shown at the Berlin Film Festival this month. Susie will attend, hoping to create a buzz, and have the film shown in 100 festivals. The signature song is done by Joana Zimmer, a well-known music star in Germany. AiNYC students, former students and faculty worked on the film which was shot over a 6 year period. Ross Williams did the sound design. The documentary film follows a group of transgendered youths living in the streets of New York City.

AiNYC and Honeybees!

AiNYC will be working with the Honeybee Conservancy, with projects from many programs. Stay tuned for updates!

Career Services Week

Under the leadership of Director Marc Scoleri, each day at noon, a Career Services Advisor held a seminar designed to be helpful to students entering the job market.

Danny Bridgemohan offered Interviewing Tips. His guest speaker was a Career Advisor at Everest college, who spoke about how to obtain interviews.

Carmen Reynal & Jason Matthews offered a seminar with the provocative title, "Obtaining a Job is Easy!

Marifrances Boccia introduced two very successful Alumni who are doing great things in Graphic Design - Shamel Washington & Calvin Peete.

Regina Pokidaylo presented a seminar on Fashion Internships: Getting Your Start in the Industry. Student Guest Speaker Chris Anguita spoke about his experience, parlaying a Fashion Week internship into a long-term internship as a Stylist and Designer’s Assistant. Special Guest Trina Morris, CEO of Style-Root PR, then gave an educational and motivational speech about making it in the Fashion industry, complete with tips and secrets especially for our students .

Donna Holder brought representatives from Apple to discuss working at that hot company -- always a very well attended event!

FASHION & INTERIORS – A COLLABORATION

Exciting gallery show was a joint effort of the Fashion Design & Interior Design programs. The Opening Reception was held on February 4th, with Asian food carrying out the theme. Show description appears below.



This exhibit is a collaboration of inspiration by the fashion and interior design departments.

The exhibit displays Fashion Design students Vikki Nulman and Heather Slingerland's spring/summer 2010 collections. The ID department chair, Erin Cantor, asked Richard Munson to create a backdrop for the designs of some of the fashion students.

From Rich Munson, Interior Design Curator:
With my history in working with stylist Jason Farrer as well as independently styling a few shoots for Tokion Magazine where I worked as market editor, I was happy to take on the project. I began working with various layouts and material usage for the gallery at 11 Beach Street over Christmas break.
Both of the fashion student’s collections are very structural. Vikki Nulman even sent me photos of buildings that inspired her. With these photos I was able to put a plan into effect.

Upon review of the gallery space I found a color palette of off white, chocolate brown and charcoal. The walls of the gallery are extremely textural with marks of the past work shown throughout. I found this to be a beautiful texture that I wanted to work with instead of cover up.

In choosing materials I felt it would be best to work with organic cottons and to use natural tea staining techniques to dye the less organic paper lanterns. Also in preparation of the approaching Chinese New Year February 14th I included a bowl of tangerines which traditionally are meant to bring good luck.

A few of the other interior design students found a way to work with my aesthetic of raw exposed edges, looking like the infrastructure of an architectural system. They created a beautiful geometric installation counterbalancing my organic shapes and shadows.

From Vikki Nulman, Fashion Design Curator
I happen to love architecture and am always looking up as I walk down the street, so I decided to use that as my inspiration. I have done a collection inspired by Japanese architecture. Each piece was designed after a specific building or space. The collection is asymmetrical. I created the fabric design as well. The fabric colors are black washed lame, Belgium light teal linen and embossed cream organza.

From Heather Slingerland
My collection is entitled Sleep Study, and with that in mind I chose fabrics with a soft dreamy appeal, a thick and thin neoprene in light pink and gray with gray elastic. The technique I used to construct the garments is similar to a dream, fabrics or pieces placed randomly together with a few bare spots or holes in between. Sleep is an idea that we do no fully understand and I wanted to propose this idea as clothing.

Creative Competition for All

According to President Warren, AiNYC is in the process of preparing a self-study in order to demonstrate to various authorities that the school is ready to offer the 4 year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree.

We want to create a message that captures the essence of our efforts. Here are some ideas already put forth:

On our way to the BFA!
Onward! Upward! BFA!
Next stop: BFA!

Got any ideas? If we use your entry, lunch for 2 at the Tribeca Grill is yours!
Send ideas to Dr. Warren, dwarren@aii.edu