Due to Covid 19 we have had to cancel the IMC 2020. All enrolled students were sent information directly
to their email about next steps and their options, including a transfer to the fall online sister school for a 2020 SmArt School session should they wish.
This would have been our 13th consecutive year. We will miss everyone more than you can imagine!
If you have any other questions email us!
to their email about next steps and their options, including a transfer to the fall online sister school for a 2020 SmArt School session should they wish.
This would have been our 13th consecutive year. We will miss everyone more than you can imagine!
If you have any other questions email us!
IMC 2020 . TEACHING Guest Artists IN Residence
Every year the IMC brings in special guest teachers to work one on one with our students along side the core faculty. This year we are thrilled to announce that artist and creative director for Magic :The Gathering Cynthia Sheppard and celebrated gallery painter Brad Kunkle will be guest teachers for the full IMC 2020 session and Eisner award winning artist Becky Cloonan will join us as a three day guest!
BRAD KUNKLE
Cynthia Sheppard
BECKY CLOONAN
IMC CORE FACULTY
Rebecca Leveille Guay/Julie bell/boris vallejo/donato giancola
greg manchess/dan Dos santos/scott fischer/irene gallo
2020 Guests / Portfolio Reviews
and Special LecturEs
Drawn and DrafteD/EDO
Lauren Panepinto/Marc Scheff
Lauren Panepinto
After 11 years designing and art directing book covers, Lauren Panepinto has worked in every publishing genre and collaborated with artists of all disciplines. As the Creative Director of Orbit Books and Yen Press for the past five years, she has been trying to merge the worlds of genre and commercial publishing and figure out what SFF publishing looks like in the present world of mainstream "geek" media. Recently she also became the Creative Director of a new commercial fiction imprint, called Redhook.
Marc Scheff Is an artist and entrepreneur. Currently Marc has work showing in in New York, Denver, and California. His current resin work earned him a solo show with Haven Gallery, a 6 person show with Rehs Contemporary, and a Gallery Award with the ARC Salon.
Marc Scheff and Lauren Panepinto started EDO with a new model for collecting original small works by new and emerging artists and illustrators.
EDO has made it possible for people who love art and want to collect original pieces to start collecting for the first time. The benefits for the artists have been present in a thriving platform for experimentation for small works and the sale of the those pieces every month.
This creative team has also developed and information driven platform called Drawn+Drafted for helping hopeful commercial illustrators gain their business footing and expand their knowledge.
Marc and Lauren will be doing portfolio reviews at the end of the week.
After 11 years designing and art directing book covers, Lauren Panepinto has worked in every publishing genre and collaborated with artists of all disciplines. As the Creative Director of Orbit Books and Yen Press for the past five years, she has been trying to merge the worlds of genre and commercial publishing and figure out what SFF publishing looks like in the present world of mainstream "geek" media. Recently she also became the Creative Director of a new commercial fiction imprint, called Redhook.
Marc Scheff Is an artist and entrepreneur. Currently Marc has work showing in in New York, Denver, and California. His current resin work earned him a solo show with Haven Gallery, a 6 person show with Rehs Contemporary, and a Gallery Award with the ARC Salon.
Marc Scheff and Lauren Panepinto started EDO with a new model for collecting original small works by new and emerging artists and illustrators.
EDO has made it possible for people who love art and want to collect original pieces to start collecting for the first time. The benefits for the artists have been present in a thriving platform for experimentation for small works and the sale of the those pieces every month.
This creative team has also developed and information driven platform called Drawn+Drafted for helping hopeful commercial illustrators gain their business footing and expand their knowledge.
Marc and Lauren will be doing portfolio reviews at the end of the week.
SPECIAL Lecture SERIES:
"DECODING THE AVANT-GARDE"
FEATURING Talks by:
WALTER ROBINSON
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“Most people know Robinson as the founding editor of the original incarnation of the online magazine Artnet, where he worked from 1996 until 2012. Others are familiar with his bon mots (he coined the now ubiquitous term “zombie formalism”, describing an omnipresent kind of bland abstraction). A habitual chronicler of the New York art world, Robinson is always aware of who’s doing what (and who’s doing whom), which artists are hot and which ones are lousy.
[Robinson] is interested in desire; from salivating couples to heartfelt pictures of his daughter as a baby. Robinson paints things that people like to buy: jars of Vaseline, striped shirts and doughnuts. He immortalizes images of catalogue models – throwaway material signifying consumerist utopia. There’s something both sly and sincere about his work, which often masquerades as clumsy art because Robinson likes to downplay his considerable technical prowess. His paintings are clever and silly at the same time. They’re about desire but also about loss. They’re goofy and they’re sad. You want to keep looking.
Something of a contrarian, Robinson says he trained himself “to like things that are bad. My whole position is that it’s what I think about it, not what it is. And you can have interesting thoughts about bad art.”
-From Charlotte Burns’s piece on Robinson for The Guardian
[Robinson] is interested in desire; from salivating couples to heartfelt pictures of his daughter as a baby. Robinson paints things that people like to buy: jars of Vaseline, striped shirts and doughnuts. He immortalizes images of catalogue models – throwaway material signifying consumerist utopia. There’s something both sly and sincere about his work, which often masquerades as clumsy art because Robinson likes to downplay his considerable technical prowess. His paintings are clever and silly at the same time. They’re about desire but also about loss. They’re goofy and they’re sad. You want to keep looking.
Something of a contrarian, Robinson says he trained himself “to like things that are bad. My whole position is that it’s what I think about it, not what it is. And you can have interesting thoughts about bad art.”
-From Charlotte Burns’s piece on Robinson for The Guardian
Joseph hutchinson
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Joseph Hutchinson is the Creative Director for Rolling Stone where he oversees design and visuals for print, digital and the brand portfolio. In 2018, Joseph led a major redesign to refresh content strategy, elevate the design, create more impact for photography and evolve the brand.
Before joining Rolling Stone, Joseph served as Creative Director and Deputy Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times, where he redesigned and revitalized the paper, turning it into one of the nation’s visual journalism powerhouses. Prior to the Times, he served as Assistant Managing Editor for Design and Graphics of The Baltimore Sun, where under his leadership the paper earned the “World’s Best Designed Newspaper” award from the Society for News Design 
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FRANK j STOCKTON
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Frank J. Stockton is an artist and draftsman with experience in a wide range of creative professions, including comics, magazines, and book publishing. In 2012, he walked away from a lucrative career as a commercial artist to dedicate himself full-time to fine art. Since then, his paintings have been exhibited at art fairs and galleries around the world. At IMC, Stockton will discuss his transition from commercial work to fine art, and share mindsets and strategies for engaging with contemporary art.
Matthew mitchell
Matthew Elliot Mitchell
Matthew Mitchell is an established artist with a current solo installation touring with Smithsonian Exhibitions. He is also a regular contributing writer to Beautiful Bizarre, and a new contributing writer to http://www.artcritical.com/
Matt will be giving a lecture on the definitions of "Free Art" , "Illustration" and the "Avant-Garde"
Matthew Mitchell is an established artist with a current solo installation touring with Smithsonian Exhibitions. He is also a regular contributing writer to Beautiful Bizarre, and a new contributing writer to http://www.artcritical.com/
Matt will be giving a lecture on the definitions of "Free Art" , "Illustration" and the "Avant-Garde"
A TEN YEAR SNAPSHOT OF THE IMC!
**IMC PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAVID PALUMBO**