9/23/2023 0 Comments Punk rock moku hangaJ.C: The best advice I got was from Alex Bruning. What is the best advice you got in art school? From whom? Sketchup drawing for a project at Ohio University © Jarod Charzewski Everything from detailed schematics with dimensions, vegetation and pedestrians to doodles and scribbles. J.C: Right now I am using Sketchup to do drawings of all forms. My wife is an architect so I frequently bounce ideas off her as far a traffic flow and the height of things. Many of the drawings I do today are schematics for planning my installations. I wasn’t very spontaneous with my subject matter. I could blow my friends away with drawing, but that was only copying things from photographs. I don’t really think I was very good at it. It’s the first creative thing I did when I was growing up. Jarod Charzewski: Drawing has always been an important part of what I do. How important is drawing to your process of visualizing an installation? He is currently teaching at College of Charleston, S.C. Detail showing Books about War.īorn in Winnipeg, Charzewski graduated with a BFA from University of Manitoba. Artists (students or not) who would like to assist him in the project can contact Karen Stanford via the Miller Gallery webpage. His Kutztown U gallery installation will be in progress from Jan 21 – Feb 7. Army Man Made of Books about War © Jarod CharzewskiĬharzewski’s winning artist residency proposal was one of nearly 125 that came from all over the world. Based on his past installations, Charzewski’s work is likely to be colorful and eye-pleasing, yet also thought-provoking. Kutztown University will host Canadian artist Jarod Charzewskias he transforms the Miller Gallery into a “site-specific installation based on the consumer culture of Kutztown shoppers.” What’s that mean? Come find out. “SCARP” A prior clothing installation from To see the wide range of his illustration work, visit .Īll artwork on this page © 2012 Thomas F. If you can’t get to the Hoboken Museum, Thomas’s publisher has a nice page about the book with more pictures. Thomas Yezerski at Kutztown’s Children’s Lit Conference in 2012 Admission to the Museum is $2 for adults, free to children and members. (And sign books!) More info on the event can be found here. Feb 10 at 4pm to describe his research, writing, and illustration process. Thomas Yezerski will return to the Hoboken Historical Museum on Sun. The artist custom matted his illustrations to include the supporting details. Thomas includes dozens of these supporting images in the current exhibition. Nearly all of the panoramic two-page spreads are framed by multiple vignettes, like those appearing here. The book is a generous 40 pages, more than the typical children’s picture book. The New York Times gave the book a glowing review: “Meadowlands is tremendously (but not intimidatingly) informative, fun to read and gorgeous to look at.” His watercolor washes and finely detailed pen and ink drawings are perfect for depicting this strange world. Thomas found some remarkable wildlife thriving beside some of our nation’s noisiest, and ugliest highways. Then he got into a canoe so he could observe the North Jersey wetlands firsthand. His ten years of research began by reading everything he could find about the natural history of the area. Thomas has illustrated a variety of kid’s books, but Meadowlands: A Wetland’s Survival Story is his masterpiece. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s famed illustration program. Raised in Allentown, PA, he now lives in Hoboken. I met Thomas last year when he came to Kutztown University Children’s Literature Conference. The exhibit runs to March 10 at the Hoboken Historical Museum, my favorite small museum. His book is about the battered, but amazingly resilient, ecosystem that exists just a few miles from Hoboken and it’s better-known neighbor, New York City. I visited Hoboken, my old hometown, for the opening of an art show from Meadowlands, Thomas Yezerski’s beautiful children’s book.
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