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January 23 – January 29, 2011

1/ Get Your Portfolio Online! (or make a better one)

Learn different ways to get your portfolio online.

When: Monday, January 23, 2011, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Where: Noble Desktop, 594 Broadway, 12th Floor, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public

2/ Jeanne Silverthorne

Artist Jeanne Silverthorne will discuss her investigation of the notion of vanitas, including the studio itself as a kind of ruin. She is best known for using rubber as a medium for dark, earthy and humorous sculpture.

When: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 6:30pm -8:00 pm

Where: School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C

Price: Free and open to the public

3/ Prototypes: The Experimental Typography of Andrew Byrom

Andrew Byrom will discuss his experimental typefaces and designs.

When: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, NYC

Price: Free TDC members, $20 general public

4/ Poetry as Music: A Different Way of Thinking

Poets Anselm Berrigan and Kimberly Lyons, alongside painter and publisher Phong Bui will discuss ways in which musical forms can be seen as fruitful terms for a poetics of art that does not yield easily to analysis.

When: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 7:00 pm

Where: School of Visual Arts, MFA Art Criticism, 136 West 21 Street, Room 220, NYC

Price: Free and open to the public