The Infinite Possibility of All Things by Elly Ruslan

We even made the local paper!

Read below for most of the text appearing on the poster (designed by Steve SImorka – thanks Steve!):

Get our your coffee! Local artists, art enthusiasts, and/or comic book lovers who want to test their creativity

and push their artistic limits are invited to this years 12-Hour Comic Event sponsored by the Student Art

Association of East Stroudsburg University. The day of extreme cartooning allows 12 straight hours for

amateur and professional cartoonists of any age to challenge themselves to write, draw, and letter an entire

12-page comic story in 12 hours (one page per hour).

Creating comic art can be lonely work; the 12-Hour Comic Event provides an opportunity to stretch creative

muscles and get invigorated by working alongside (or with) a group of fellow artists.

The event is all about sharing the love of comic book creation, and it draws in young and old, experienced and

novice. Don’t let lack of experience or materials keep you away — previous participants have been as young

as 7 and as old as 97!

Normally, each semester, in my Communication Graphics class I have my students work on an introductory typography project called the Letterform/Counterform Project. This project’s goal is to take two different letterforms and combine them in such a way as to accentuate/highlight certain interesting and/or aesthetically pleasing elements of these letterforms while also considering the overall composition in a rectangular format. This semester my Communication Graphics students will be doing this project, but instead of choosing arbitrary letterforms, they will each be given 5 or 6 of the elements on the periodic table of elements to use. When completed, they will be printed, and displayed in frames in the hallway of the 2nd floor of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, directly opposite of the Chemistry Analytics labs. The frames will be arranged in the same order and configuration as the periodic table of elements, as pictured below. This is the first step in (hopefully) a few more collaborations between the science and art departments.

The location:

The first work that has been accepted to ‘Innovations’ is a digital print intervention titled: Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space and will appear in Bowers Hall (the science building) on the campus of SUNY Cortland.

In case you are interested in some of the jargon on this poster, here are some details:

The other piece that was accepted is Transmeanderation Helix (Parts 1, 2 & 3) and will be installed in the Dowd Gallery. Here is Transmeanderation Helix as it appeared at the William King Museum in 2010:

The exhibition’s theme is (as the title suggests) based on drawing. . . “bringing artists from all over the world together to celebrate the act of drawing on a postcard sized work. [They are] looking for original drawings or other artworks that celebrate the act of drawing (understanding that the act of drawing can also be celebrated in a variety of media outside of traditional drawing materials such as graphite and charcoal.”

Closer toward the opening of the exhibition there will be a downloadable catalog displaying all of the artists’ work that will appear in the exhibition. I will post a link as soon as the catalog is on-line.

And this is what they look like when displayed side-by-side:

Entanglement P6 (A, B, & C) • ink & marker • 15cm x 10.5cm (each) • 2011