Monday, September 25, 2017, 07:00pm - 08:30pm

About The Event

Propaganda Posters of WW1 -- Dennis Dittrich, illustrator, and Associate Professor of Art, New Jersey City University

Observations from an Illustrator Embedding with Warriors in Training and on The Front Lines -- Victor Juhasz, illustrator

Dennis Dittrich will speak about the work of illustrators during WW I.  Dittrich served as Society of Illustrators President from 2008 to 2014. He is an active member of the Society’s Air Force Art Program with work in the USAF art collection. Currently an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University, Dittrich also teaches The History of American Illustration at Fashion Institute of technology in NYC.

Victor Juhasz has been active in TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION tours, drawing soldiers and Marines. Victor is a member of the USAF Art Program in conjunction with the Society of Illustrators, and his work is part of the permanent collection of the USAF in the Pentagon. His assignments have included documenting, through drawings and the training of Special Ops Combat Control and ParaRescue Jumper units. He has collaborated with The Joe Bonham Project, drawing and painting wounded soldiers as part of an artist documentation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In August of 2011, Victor embedded as a combat artist with the 1-52nd Arctic Dustoff, an Army helicopter MEDEVAC unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan for two weeks accompanying the medic teams on missions recovering the wounded. In an article titled, "An American Artist in the Combat Zone" the illustrations along with his writing were featured in a GQ app for iPad and later for GQ online in July, 2012.

 “Our work with the US Air Force Art program is part of the Society of Illustrators Government Service committee, which was established to aid the war effort in the early days of the 20th century.  The connection is a straight, unbroken line and we are always happy to talk about it.” Dennis Dittrich

Contact : Pamela Brooks, (908) 322-5007; pbrooks@scotlib.org
Category: New Jersey, Education