{"id":73582,"date":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-creates-cover-art-for-newsweeks-special-edition-about-womens-march\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-creates-cover-art-for-newsweeks-special-edition-about-womens-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/uri-graduate-creates-cover-art-for-newsweeks-special-edition-about-womens-march\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate creates cover art for Newsweek\u2019s special edition about Women\u2019s March"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I., Jan. 3, 2018\u2014When Newsweek\u2019s anniversary edition of the Women\u2019s March comes out this month, look for Narya Marcille\u2019s pink sky and strong-willed women on the cover.<\/p>\n

Marcille\u2019s iconic images first appeared in a poster she designed for the demonstration in Washington last year and now they\u2019re back\u2014on an even bigger stage.<\/p>\n

The 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna created the cover art for the magazine\u2019s special edition, which is scheduled to hit newsstands Jan. 23.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thrilled, but still in shock,\u201d says Marcille. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of surreal. Who knows what this will lead to?\u201d<\/p>\n

Worldwide recognition, for one. 溏心vlog免费B站 500,000 copies will be printed in the United States and Canada, and some of those copies will probably end up on coffee tables in Europe and elsewhere overseas.<\/p>\n

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Narya Marcille holding her Women\u2019s March on Washington poster at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Narya Marcille.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marcille welcomes the attention and any opportunities the exposure could bring: \u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve felt like I can just be an artist. I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always easy. After graduating from 溏心vlog免费B站 with a bachelor of fine arts in 2005, she worked as a bartender, advertising coordinator and jewelry store clerk to pay bills. Art was something she did in her spare time.<\/p>\n

After marrying Tom Gruczka, a 2004 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate, she decided to stay home in North Smithfield<\/strong> with her children, Micah, now 4, and Jack, now 1, while Gruczka worked as a physical education teacher in nearby Smithfield<\/strong>. When she could, she freelanced as a graphic designer.<\/p>\n

Last January, she reluctantly passed on an opportunity to join the women\u2019s demonstration Jan. 20 in the nation\u2019s capital, where thousands of women turned out to advocate for women\u2019s rights, immigration reform, racial equality and LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n

Deciding that the trip would be too difficult with a newborn and toddler, Marcille channeled her political energy into a poster, which, on a whim, she posted on the Hillary Clinton-inspired Pantsuit Nation Facebook page. The response was overwhelming. The poster received 90,000 hits and more than 3,000 comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was blown away,\u201d says Marcille. \u201cHappily blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcille set up an Etsy page https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/BloomingAnchor?ref=s2-header-shopname<\/a>) with digital downloads of the poster, and also put the design on her Facebook page (https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/narya.marcille.art). Art editors and curators took notice, as well as a Supreme Court Justice.<\/p>\n

First, there was the call last April from Katherine Blood, curator of fine prints at the Library of Congress, who asked Marcille to donate a print to the library\u2019s poster and fine art print collection. You bet, said Marcille, who made a trip to Washington to view the collection and relish her place in history.<\/p>\n

Then, Marcille sent her poster to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who is depicted in the poster, along with Clinton, an African-American woman wearing a gay pride pin, an Asian woman, and a Muslim woman wearing a hijab.<\/p>\n

Justice Ginsberg\u2019s April 14, 2017 thank-you note on Supreme Court of the United States stationery was hand-written: \u201cDear Narya, A thousand thanks for the poster you created. It will be framed and displayed in chambers for all who visit me to see. With appreciation for your artistry, and every good wish, J. R. Bader Ginsberg.\u201d<\/p>\n

As if that weren\u2019t thrilling enough, a few days before Christmas Marcille received a comment on her Facebook page from a man praising her work, with an unexpected offer: \u201cWe\u2019d love to commission some cover art.\u201d His name was Steven Charny, art director for Topix Media, which publishes Newsweek\u2019s special editions.<\/p>\n

Marcille thought it was a hoax, what with all the fake social media postings out there. She did some research, and discovered that, yes, an internationally-renowned magazine was wooing her after all. Editor and artist soon settled on an idea, and Marcille got to work, sketching, designing and re-designing for a walloping 90 hours, including an 18-hour all-nighter that started at 1 p.m. Christmas day and ended the next morning at 7. \u201cIt was intense,\u201d she says, \u201cthen I took a nice nap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcille is mum on the Adobe Illustrator design for Newsweek, except to say that it consists of her tempestuous pink sky (\u201ca feminist color\u201d) and illustrations of five women, \u201cwho I am not at liberty to reveal.\u201d Her fans will have to wait a few more weeks to find out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to be an artist since I was a little girl,\u201d says Marcille. \u201cYou grow up with people telling you to be practical, get a real job, something not in art. So it\u2019s wonderful to be doing what I\u2019ve always wanted to do, and make a living. Pinch me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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