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UArts closure in students and faculty’s own words, photos, and illustrations

“I feel so sad for the students, who are being ripped apart from their community, who may never feel that sense of belonging again,” said Un

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This year's Polyphone Festival poster won Silver in the Graphis Poster Annual! Art by Katelyn Harris; Design by faculty Kevin Mercer

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The Art of Armando Veve

The Richard C. von Hess Gallery is pleased to welcome our next visiting artist, freelance illustrator Armando Veve.

September 10—November 15, 2018 Richard C. von Hess Illustration Gallery Anderson Hall 717 • 333 S Broad Street

Lecture Friday, October 5, 2018, 1:00 - 2:30 pm CBS Auditorium Dorrance Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad St. Reception in the gallery following the lecture.

Armando Veve is an artist and illustrator working in Philadelphia. Veve has won two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York for his intricate, realistic works, which he draws by hand with graphite. Among his clients: The New Yorker, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Mother Jones, Wired. He was named an ADC Young Gun by The One Club for Creativity and selected to the Forbes 2018 30 under 30 list.

Lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

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Kailey Whitman’s World

Kailey Whitman ‘16 is so busy with great new projects that it’s hard for us to keep up! Here is a mural for a local tech company, a book cover for Knopf Teen, and Kailey’s first illustrated picture book, Under the Bodhi Tree.

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Alex Eckman-Lawn for Wall Street Journal

Check out alum Alex Eckman-Lawn’s recent editorial piece for a Wall Street Journal article about how people are hiring ‘house historians’ to investigate the back stories of their homes.

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Loveis Wise Grabs Headlines

Fresh off the whirlwind of her first New Yorker cover, recent UArts alum Loveis Wise (insta) did some interviews about her work, her point of view, and her journey to now and beyond. Give them a read:

New Yorker / Philadelphia Inquirer / Philly.com / Philadelphia Tribune

Congrats again to one of our best and brightest!

Photo by David Maialetti / Inquirer Staff Photographer

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Recent Grad Loveis Wise Illustrates the Cover of the New Yorker 

Recent graduate Loveis Wise '18 has illustrated the cover of the New Yorker for this year's fiction issue! Creating a New Yorker cover is one of the most remarkable achievements of an editorial illustration career; illustrators have been known to submit pitches for years before even receiving a reply. Loveis is joining the ranks of Barry Blitt, Christoph Niemann, and UArts alumni Laura Jean Allen '39 and Harry Bliss '90. To see her illustration, Nurture, and find out more, check out this interview  with Loveis and famed New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, who has published over 900 covers since 1993.

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Lizzy O'Donnel '19, Brushing Teeth Three Illustration Students accepted into Society of Illustrators Exhibition UArts

Illustration student Loveis Wise ‘18 and recent alumni Rachael Longo '17 and Lizzy O'Donnell '17 have been accepted into the Society of Illustrators Student Exhibition, featuring the work of top level illustration students in the country! Lizzy is exhibiting five pieces and has won the Warby Parker Visionary Scholarship Award for $1,500 for her piece Brushing Teeth.

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Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Volume 25

Hey neat! We spotted UArts alums Gina Matarazzo Stewart and Alex Dos Diaz on the artist list of those who were juried into the new volume of Spectrum.

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Kelly Migliori Goes Tropicthulhu

Illustration alum Kelly Migliori ‘16 has done the impossible, artfully blending fiesta vibes with H. P. Lovecraft on a Cthulu Fiesta dress pattern for local retailers Sourpuss Clothing. Want!

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En Route: The Junior Illustration Exhibition

Highlighting the best work of the year by our junior students, En Route: The Junior Illustration Exhibition will be on view from April 18–May 7 in the 7th floor hallway of Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street.

Students and faculty collaborated to conceive, plan, curate and install the exhibition. En Route recognizes this moment of growth, reflection, and looking forward to what’s ahead for these talented artists. This year's poster was created by Julia Barnes '19.

Congrats to all of our juniors on a great show and a great year! 2018 En Route / The Junior Illustration Exhibition April 18—May 7 Reception: Monday, April 23, 4-6:00pm Anderson Hall 7th Floor Corridor 320 South Broad Street, Philadelphia

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Alum Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Artwork featured in Spike Lee’s New TV Series 

@uarts-illustration alumna Tatyana Fazlalizadeh ‘07 is an art consultant on She’s Gotta Have It, a new Netflix Original series directed by Spike Lee based on his 1986 movie of the same name. The series follows an artist named Nola Darling as she juggles her friends, her art, and three relationships. The show heavily features Tatyana’s artwork, including Stop Telling Women to Smile, a street art project addressing gender based street harassments featuring portraits of women with captions directed to offenders, like “Women are not seeking your validation” or “My name is not baby, shorty, sexy, sweetie, honey, pretty, boo, sweetheart, ma.”

Image: Still from She’s Gotta Have It, featuring paintings by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (IMDB)

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