Our general drawing class yesterday got a last-minute e-mail from our instructor, Dean Dalfonzo, informing us that class would be a field trip to the opening at a gallery for Ugallery.com. Ugallery is a place for students and other emerging artists to be able to sell their work, and conversely for people to be able to buy art at a reasonable price.
We saw some cool things, drank some weak drinks, and were given a nice break from drawing still life. My favorite part of going to the opening, though, held at Openhouse Gallery, a cool space on Mulberry Street, was stumbling upon the original St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the way, as well as McNally Jackson, the independent bookstore I’ve been meaning to check out. We also saw very cute golden retrievers on the sidewalk, who were so soft and sweet.
I arrived home to discover that AIGA had tweeted about their new article, about dress code, a studio consisting of two guys in their twenties who have just released a book about transitioning from school to the professional world of design. The book’s title, Never Sleep, is somewhat troubling to me, since I already never sleep, and figured I’d get a tad bit more when I am a professional. Alas. Anyway, these two also teach at Pratt, but I am assuming they teach undergraduates at the Brooklyn campus, because we certainly have not heard of nor seen them at the Manhattan campus. It’s always interesting to hear about designers who are so young, because it certainly gives you something to strive for, or at least think about.
Today my Communication Design II class is going to Potential Energy, the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author students’ graduate thesis forum. With an opening keynote by legendary Milton Glaser, each student is given 20 minutes to present his or her masters thesis. The presentations will run all day, from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Our friend Steve Haslip, at 10 a.m., will be presenting his Dirty Weekend workshops, which Nina, Stephanie, Jessica and I were lucky to participate in for its kick-off workshop in March. Steve has guest taught at our Communication Design I class, as he knows our instructor, Lara McCormick, from the MFA program. Lara is also one of the coordinators of the Potential Energy event, which is actually being held at the Visual Arts Theater on West 23rd Street that SVA purchased for the school’s use. This is the first such MFA thesis forum, so it should be interesting.
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