Williamstown – David Sipress, a New Yorker cartoonist, will give a talk titled "Get it? The Art of Cartooning and the New Yorker," on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. The event will be held in Lawrence Hall, room 231. It is free and open to the public.
More than 250 cartoons by Sipress have appeared in the New Yorker since 1998. His cartoons and editorial illustrations have also appeared in Playboy, Harper's, The Funny Times, Utne Reader, The Washington Post, and Spectator of London, among others.
He is the author of eight cartoon books and the producer and host of "Conversations with Cartoonists," a series of live interviews with some of the leading artists of the New Yorker, staged over the past year in New York City.
Sipress will talk about the art of cartooning. He uses cartoons projected on a screen to talk about the profession, about his own work, and about the work of other cartoonists he admires. He tries to make the presentation not just funny -- the cartoons themselves usually take care of that -- but also informative about an under-discussed and much loved art form.
He will discuss the unique way in which cartoons combine drawing and writing, about how cartoonists employ both skills, about being funny, about the whole 'coming up with ideas' issue, and, of course, about the New Yorker. He will hold a Q&A session after his formal comments.
Initially inspired by European "gag" cartoonists, he also cites Saul Steinberg and other New Yorker cartoonists as his main influences. His drawing style is loose, personal, and most importantly, always built around the foundation of a funny but resonant joke.
He graduated from Williams College in 1968.
The lecture is sponsored by the departments of art, anthropology/sociology, Russian, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Lecture Committee.
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Pittsfield City Council Accepts Airport Funds, Honors Late PHS Teacher
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City Council last Tuesday accepted a $2.4 million federal grant for a new taxiway at the Pittsfield Municipal Airport, a project that will only require 2.5 percent support from Pittsfield.
"This is a great deal for the city of Pittsfield, and our airport has come a long way in a very short time," Ward 7 Councilor Katherine Moody said.
Councilors accepted $2,394,570 from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, and approved an order to borrow $2,520,600 for the construction of Taxiway A at the airport.
Moody was referring to the fact that 95 percent, or $2,394,570, is covered by the FAA. The remaining costs are split between Massachusetts and Pittsfield; 2.5 percent each.
That brings the city's contribution to a little more than $63,000.
The project will reconstruct, mark, light, and sign the new taxiway, which will also require pavement removal, excavation, pavement construction, installation of electrical and drainage infrastructure, pavement markings, seeding, and more.
Bidding was recently completed at $2,150,490.65 and, combined with engineering services and administrative costs, the project totaled $2,520,600.
At the beginning of the meeting, Councilor at Large Kathy Amuso paid tribute to a longtime friend of hers and many others, Colleen Quinn, who died on May 20 at the age of 69 after a brief battle with cancer.
Amuso described the loss of the longtime Pittsfield High School art teacher as devastating to the community.
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