POSTER CONTEST launches the 10th anniversary

of the ARLINGTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

https://aiffest.org/#/postercontest/

You are invited to join us via ZOOM for the AIFF Poster Competition Award Reception, the first project to spin-off connecting film with the arts. We gather to celebrate creativity in illustration and design through our on-going partnership with Professor Robert Maloney of Mass College of Art & Design’s Illustration class. We congratulate all of the art students on their designs and look forward to unveiling the winning poster. Special thanks to our sponsor, Watertown Savings Bank who will award the winning artist with a cash prize of $500.

Entries are evaluated by an esteemed panel of judges with expertise in composition, design, public relations, and marketing. The selected poster design will appear in various forms; i.e. print, TV, and web promotions, locally, nationally, and internationally, becoming the face of AIFF 2020.

This year’s guest speaker is Fabio J. Fernandez, artist, curator, teacher, and arts administrator. Arlington, MA Poet Laurate, Steven Ratiner will recite a poem created to commemorate this occasion.

AIFF, not just a film festival, a celebration of the arts!

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aiff-2020-poster-contest-award-reception-tickets-105579647568?aff=ebdssbeac

Meet the Program Participants Students of Illustration Class 2020 ~

Allison Cashins, Caroline Barlow, Dakota Gillies, Elizabeth Derby, Emma Sudak, Isabella Penney, Jackson Schleicher, Kai Zimmerman, Madeline Peck, Nicole Lyczynski, Pauline Pitts, Rayna Walters, Sara Li, Sara Micciche, Sierra Escobales and Sy Corso.

Poster Contest Judges ~

Biana Bova, David Ardito, Erica Licea-Kane, Jennifer DesAutels, Marc Gurton, and Nilou Moochhala

Professor Robert Maloney is a Massachusetts native and a Master of Fine Arts graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he teaches Illustration. His recent work focuses on the connections between the temporary materials of our man-made, urban structures and how these fragile forms relate to the erosion of memory. His work has been featured in Creative Quarterly Magazine, Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, The Pulse of Mixed Media, Art Revolution, and Art scope Magazine. Maloney’s work is held in the collection of Wellington Management, Liberty Mutual, and private collections with his exhibitions, commissions, and publications being numerous.

Fabio J. Fernández is a Boston-based artist, arts advocate, educator, and curator. He is the former Executive Director of the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston where he led the organization through a pivotal time in its long and venerable history. He also served as the Exhibitions Director at the Society and as Associate Curator at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Fernández has planned and executed national exhibitions that presented fresh explorations into the conceptual, technical, and material approaches of contemporary makers. Fernández is a notable advocate in the craft community. He is an Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts College of Art + Design and serves as a Trustee of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. He has been a visiting critic at universities around the world and has served as a juror on numerous grant panels. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Steven Ratiner, Arlington Poet Laureate, poet and educator, has had a long-standing commitment to expanding the ways audiences experience poetry and the arts. He has collaborated with jazz and classical musicians, visual artists, and dance companies to create cross-genre pieces for diverse audiences. Steven has published three poetry chapbooks, and his work has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad including Parnassus, Agni, Hanging Loose, Poet Lore, Salamander, QRLS (Singapore) and Poetry Australia. He is featured in the new anthology Except for Love – New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall. He has also written poetry criticism for the Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. As an educator, Steven has conducted 300+ intensive poetry residencies in elementary and secondary schools throughout New England and lectured on poetry and workshop techniques in numerous schools and colleges.