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Lynn Saville’s Public Art Exhibition: Grand Central Revealed

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Photo Lynn Saville

In a series of eight photographs commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for the Lightbox program, fine-art photographer and CALA instructor, Lynn Saville, captures a unique moment at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York’s ever-changing architectural landscape. For the first time in nearly a century, the western façade of Grand Central Terminal has been revealed. 

Saville specializes in photographing “the boundary times between night and day” such as early morning or in the evening. Her long exposure, large format photographs are typically of built spaces and artificial as well as natural light, often in contrast together. Saville reimagines an everyday environment as a cinematic film set discovered by the artist’s eye through framing and timing.

For more information on this public art exhibition, which will run until June 2020, click on the MTA link: Grand Central Revealed: Photographs of the West Façade

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Lynn Saville will be teaching at CALA this semester. To see information, and to register for her course starting on Saturday, April 6, click Photographing NYC From Remarkable Locations

For additional Spring 2019 Photography courses click Photography

Please join us next Tuesday, January 22nd, for our first CALA Group Artists Show, in which Lynn Saville’s work is included.

Kimmel Center for University Life at NYU
60 Washington Square South, 8th floor

Opening Reception: January 22nd, 6-8pm, room 802
RSVP here

 

Kay Kenny Solo Exhibition: A Poetic Tribute to the Rural Night

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Opening Reception on Sunday, Jan. 13, from 2-4 PM. Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center St., Clinton, NJ

Full Moon Rising by Kay Kenny

Kay Kenny has enjoyed a busy career as a photographer, teacher, painter, and critical writer of visual arts. She has curated several exhibitions and her work can be found in an array of corporate, museum and private collections.

And it all began with a class at the Hunterdon Art Museum (HAM).

Kenny was eight years old when she won a scholarship to HAM. She’d climb aboard a bus in Flemington for the trip to the charming stone mill on Lower Center Street where she’d learn from Anne Marsh, a highly regarded painter and a founder of the Museum.

“I was ecstatic: traveling on my own, learning from a master, absorbing each moment until I thought I would burst. I decided from then on ‘I will be an artist!’,” Kenny said. 

To read HAM’s full introduction click on Hunterdon Art Museum You’ll find wonderful details about Kenny’s process, working in the dark, scouting locations, dealing with weather and animals, and sometimes singing very loudly to warn hidden creatures of her presence!

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Kay Kenny, along with other CALA studio art faculty and students, will exhibit work in the first annual CALA Group Artists Show, which opens on January 22, 2019 at 6 PM on the 8th Floor of the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South. 

For information, and to attend the CALA Opening Reception, please RSVP here

For the spring 2019 semester Kay Kenny will be teaching: In Print: Creating and Designing a Photographic Exhibit as a Photography Book

Parkersburg News and Sentinel Story on CALA instructor Meredith Sue Willis

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News from The Parkersburg News and  Sentinel. Reporter: Madeline Murphy

PARKERSBURG — Meredith Sue Willis, novelist and teacher, provided a writing workshop and reading from her new novel “Their Houses” Wednesday night at the Parkersburg and Wood County Public Library. 

Photo: Madeline Murphy

Willis was born and raised in Harrison County, W.Va., and teaches novel writing at New York University’s School of Professional Studies and conducts workshops for writers.

“I offer these writing exercises as a place for a community of sharing and exchange,” Willis said.

“I call them ‘exercises’ rather than ‘prompts’ or ‘lessons’ because I think of them as ways to strengthen the writing muscles that you already have and as ways to expand your range of techniques,” she said. For the full article click on News and Sentinel

There’s still time to enroll in Meredith Sue Willis’s fall course, Novel Writing, at CALA. Click on the link below for full information and to register – first class is on Monday, October 1.

Novel Writing

Receive the help you need to get started and to get structured, whether your goal is to write a novel or to mold a series of short stories into a longer work. In this course, delve into writing exercises that practice establishing tone, exploring character, tightening and deepening dialogue, and adding interior monologue. Topics covered include sustaining interest as a writer and a reader, understanding the value of an agent, and excerpting from a lengthy work for publication in magazines. This course is appropriate for anyone who has done some writing or who has taken an introductory writing course.

Jenny McPhee on Shortlist for 2018 Italian Translation Award

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Congratulations to our beloved leader! The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation Award. Starting in 2015, the Italian Prose in Translation Award recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This prize is awarded annually to a translator of a recent work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction). This year’s judges are Geoffrey Brock, Peter Constantine, and Sarah Stickney. (see full details here American Translation Award)

Jenny McPhee’s pellucid new translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s 1963 masterpiece, Family Lexicon, is the best English version yet of this genre-defying classic. “The places, events, and people in this book are real,” Ginzburg tells us in her famously monitory preface; “I haven’t invented a thing.” And though she calls it “the story of my family” and claims to have written “only what I remember,” she insists we read it “as if it were a novel.” 

Jenny McPhee is currently teaching Literary Translation for the MS in Translation at NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts (CALA). 

Also offered at CALA:

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

Registration is also open for our five-course, online Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials! This comprehensive certificate—available for all language pairs—will provide an overview of translation concepts and techniques, as well as hands-on training in the translation of documents from a wide range of fields: financial, commercial, legal, and other topics pertinent to today’s market.

On September 29th, CALA will be hosting a symposium focused on the importance of publishing translations as part of the 2-day NYU/NSTS Annual Translation Conference. For more information and registration, visit: https://tinyurl.com/NYU-NSTS2018

NY Post Article: This Manhattan Firm is Proving Translation is a Human Industry

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Whether you’re backpacking in Madrid or attending an international conference in Dubai, anyone with a smartphone has access to machine translation services to help them communicate and navigate in real time. The increasing sophistication and availability of this technology make it reasonable to imagine that perhaps the need for human translators is declining. A recent article in the New York Post, however, proves that translation is now a more popular (and profitable) industry than ever. 

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Last year, Manhattan-based firm Transperfect— already the largest language service in the world—experienced unprecedented growth in revenue and profit, allowing them to add 290 new jobs to their roster. CALA is proud to say that Steven Mai, an MS in Translation alum and the keynote speaker at our 2017 Translation Symposium, began working for the company shortly after his graduation in May 2015 and has grown quickly into his role as Senior Project Manager. With no sign of slowing down, Transperfect’s success is a good indicator of continued growth for the industry.

Check out the full article here: https://nypost.com/2018/09/07/this-manhattan-firm-is-proving-translation-is-a-human-industry/

Interested in furthering or pursuing a career in translation?

Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.

Registration is also open for our five-course, online Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials! This comprehensive certificate—available for all language pairs—will provide an overview of translation concepts and techniques, as well as hands-on training in the translation of documents from a wide range of fields: financial, commercial, legal, and other topics pertinent to today’s market.

On September 29th, CALA will be hosting a symposium focused on the importance of publishing translations as part of the 2-day NYU/NSTS Annual Translation Conference. For more information and registration, visit: https://tinyurl.com/NYU-NSTS2018

Storytelling on Instagram: The Sev7nth Circle Begins …

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The Sev7nth Circle is a feminist sci-fi thriller about a young woman named ROO (age 23) and an ancient society of women called the Sev7nth Circle. The story unfolds via Instagram and a website (sev7nthcircle.org) and will include real world “events.” Chapter one is about the lost and erased women of science, who will be revealed, at the end of ROO’s quest to open a secret portal. This is basically what Marilyn Oliva, one of its creators, told me early this summer when she asked if I would like to play one of the guardians of the sev7nth circle. We met in a direct action activist group after the 2018 presidential election. I said yes, of course! It’s hard to imagine what storytelling looks like on Instagram and the best way to “get it” is to follow the series through your Instagram account @sev7nthcirle

L to R, Jan Libby and Marilyn Oliva

The creators of the Sev7nth Circle are Marilyn Oliva – an Affiliated Scholar at Fordham University and a freelance archivist, and Jan Libby – writer, designer, and producer of immersive and interactive stories. 
The Project: We wanted to tell the story of the women who have been whitewashed from history in a compelling and unusual way. To do this we developed the idea of a limbo-like universe where women from the Humanities, Arts and Sciences languish and wait to be released into the public consciousness. We then created an Instagram series about two young women who go on a sort of personal quest–to discover the whereabouts of one of their mothers–and stumble on a secret society that both guards and seeks the return of these forgotten, lost, and erased women. Instagram is the perfect platform to share the Sev7nth Circle story: it allows us to use a fun combination of content: still images, video, gifs, music, and text to tell our feminist sci-fi thriller and lets followers stay connected to the unfolding story whenever they check into Instagram.

The first episode was posted today. There will be daily posts from now until the story’s finale in October. Turn on the audio and don’t forget to scroll! Let the adventure being @sev7nthcircle

Everyone loves a good story and now there are even more ways to tell them – check out CALA Fall courses, and our certificates, by clicking on the links below:

Certificate in Storytelling

Certificate in Filmmaking

Multimedia Storytelling

Fundamentals of Storytelling

Introduction to Filmmaking

United Nations Language Internships – Deadline June 7

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The UN has recently opened applications for language internships. These positions are specifically related to the development of the UN’s proprietary CAT tool, terminology database, and machine translation solutions. Some translation may also be required. Open to graduates as long they apply within a year of graduation. For application details and to apply please click Careers UN

 

 

Interested in becoming a translator or interpreter? CALA has a variety of program options suitable for students who are new to the industry, established professionals looking to expand their skill sets, or anything in between.

This summer, we will be offering interpreting courses in Spanish/English, Chinese/English, and French/English:

French/English Simultaneous Interpreting
Medical Interpreting: An Overview of Education and Training (Spanish/English)
Medical Interpreting: An Overview of Education and Training (Chinese/English)

We will also be offering our Translation and Interpreting Summer Institute, a three-week intensive program suitable for beginning and mid-career translators from all language pairs.

Or, apply for the NYUSPS Masters in Translation!

One Book One New York Winner Announced

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Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach is the 2018 One Book One New York winner. From the Mayor’s office of Media and Entertainment:

“We are so pleased to announce this year’s One Book, One New York winner, and thrilled at the level of enthusiasm and participation in this year’s program,” said Media and Entertainment Commissioner Julie Menin. “Manhattan Beach is steeped in New York history and is a deep dive into the city’s waterfront neighborhoods. Because it features such a strong and compelling female protagonist who defies the gender stereotypes of her day it feels especially timely today.”

Manhattan Beach is the fifth novel–and first work of historical fiction–written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, a Brooklyn resident. Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the book was also long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and selected as a top book of 2017 by publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Time. Manhattan Beach tells the haunting World War II-era story of Anna Kerrigan, who becomes the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s first female diver, and her search for her missing father. …

For the second consecutive year, the NYU School of Professional Studies Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies (DAUS) will be participating in One Book, One New York. This year, it also will be joined by the School’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts (CALA). Both units will host a number of initiatives in which students can read and discuss Manhattan Beach by the end of the semester. They will launch a virtual book club via Twitter, moderating discussions about the book, its themes, and connection to New York City. In addition, they will have a faculty led discussion on topics related to the book.

“Manhattan Beach is a terrific choice! There’s something for every reader—a strong female protagonist, depictions of Brooklyn of long ago, and the influence of the water, which can soothe and threaten, inspire and mystify,” noted Billie Gastic, associate dean of the NYUSPS Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies.”

For full press release please click on the link: Mayor’s Office Press Release

So, stayed tuned for CALA and DAUS summer events related to New York City, Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach, and writing at NYU SPS.

Or, register for one of CALA’s Summer courses – click on links below for information:

Writing Fiction & Poetry

Film and TV Writing

Non-Fiction Storytelling

Literature

Calling All Artists and Art Students!

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CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Atlantic Gallery Juried Exhibition 2018 

Who. Are. You?

Grand Prize is a Solo Exhibition in September at Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NYC

Submission Deadline: June 24, 2018

For more information click National Juried Exhibition 2018

Check out and/or register for CALA’s Summer 2018 Studio Art Classes:

Landscape Painting in Central Park

Still-Life Drawing

Drawing & Painting with Mixed Media

Drawing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Painting

The Art of Drawing Sculpture at the Met Museum of Art

NYU Connect: From LaGuardia Studio to NYU Langone Health

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A recent article published by Connect, the NYU IT news source, discussed an innovative partnership between the 3D printing and medical industries, highlighting new real-world applications of the technology and opening the door for further collaborative possibilities. Doctor Eduardo D. Rodriguez, director of the NYU Langone Face Transplant Program and surgeon responsible for the first successful facial transplant in New York, worked with the LaGuardia Studio team (including CALA instructors Taylor Absher and Dhemerae Ford) to develop a process for 3D printing detailed and highly realistic masks of facial transplant donors.

The impetus for the project stemmed in part from a perceived shortcoming in the donation process; the new and improved masks preserve a donor’s likeness and honor their family in a way that previous silicone versions simply could not. But Dr. Rodriguez also hopes that it will alleviate some of the hesitancy around making donations in the future, saying, “It is important to ensure we are meeting the needs of these families; to make their decisions easier while at the same time creating the best opportunity for our face transplant patients who are waiting to find their perfect match.”

Read the full article here: https://wp.nyu.edu/connect/2018/03/01/from-laguardia-to-langone/

Interested in learning more about 3D printing and design? Take a CALA course this summer!

Design Drawing and Visual Development

ZBrush for 3D Artists and Designers