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“She sits beside me like a silhouette”
As told to by fourth semester photography student Haleigh Foray: It’s my job as a photographer to make my subject feel comfortable and real in front of the camera. Yet I wasn’t able to feel that way myself as a subject. How could I ask someone to do that for me? During a six-week project…
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“Another level of reality” in Andrew Williams-Leazer’s thesis work
The whole world is an assemblage when you think about it. Things drop off, get picked up and reused. In Andrew Williams-Leazer’s Fine Arts thesis work, you can often tell where he’s been, and what he’s picked up and contemplated along the way. Williams-Leazer’s assembleges, as he calls them, go beyond the borders of his…
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NYC: Drawing on First Impressions
The magic of digital design isn’t all on the screen. It’s also what students learn roaming the Manhattan street grid and the even more colorful places like Coney Island and the Highline. Students in Professor Lauren Zodel’s Digital Design Studio class learn Photoshop and Illustrator techniques specific to fashion design. Course assignments emphasize sketching, color,…
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A memorable dinner party at the Flatiron
There’s a memorable dinner party in the window at the northern wedge of the Flatiron building, where Broadway angles across Fifth Avenue. The “hosts” who put it all together are three Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design (VPED) seniors taking Advanced Store Window Presentation class with Professor Anne Kong. Riffing on postmodern installation artist Judy Chicago’s…