1. Society of Illustrators & Illustration House Tour

    Thursday, July 3, 10am - 3pm
    $45 per person | 12 person minimum - Limited to 40
    Join ICON5 tour guides Stephanie Plunkett, assistant director of The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge; Eric Fowler, chair of the Permanent Collection Committee at the Society of Illustrators of NY; and Terry Brown, SI’s Director Emeritus for a two-part romp through the most important collections of original, vintage illustration in NY. The tour begins at the Society of Illustrators’ 1875 carriage house. Terry Brown will reveal the building’s secrets of celebrity, fame and dark past. Stephanie Plunkett and Eric Fowler will unearth gems by Norman Rockwell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, JC Leyendecker, and many more. Stop for lunch-on-your-own at 11:30 at nearby Burger Heaven (Lexington & 62nd St). Then at 1pm, continue over to Illustration House, the eminent gallery for the original works by American illustrators, to meet proprietors Walt and Roger Reed, authors of the book The Illustrator in America: 1860-2000. Our guides are rich with anecdotes on illustrators past and present.

    Meet at the Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street.

  2. Children’s Book Tour
    Donnell Library & Bemelmans Bar

    Thursday, July 3, 10am - 1pm
    $45 per person | 12 person minimum – Limited to 30
    From the Hotel, take a 10 minute walk on 5th Avenue to the Donnell library, where Chief Librarian John Peters will personally lead you through a non-circulating collection of 18th and 19th century children’s books, original manuscripts, Mary Poppins ephemera, original Winnie-the-Pooh toys, N.C. Wyeth’s paintings and much more. Following the one-hour tour, take a short bus ride up to the Carlyle Hotel’s Bemelmans Bar. The hotel features Ludwig Bemelmans’ only surviving commission open to the public. Bemelmans painted the large-scale mural, whimsical scenes of nearby Central Park, in exchange for a year and a half of accommodations in the hotel. Best remembered as the creator of the classic Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans once said he’d like his tombstone to read “Tell them it was wonderful.” Wonderful it will be as you toast Bemelmans magic in this 75-seat bar.

    Meet your tour guide at 10 am sharp in the Roosevelt Hotel lobby.

  3. NYC Studio & Art Department Tours

    Thursday, July 3  |  $30 per person
    10am-11:30am Tours
    Choose one of the following morning tours.
    Complex, Sean Bungarner
    Conde Nast Portfolio, Robert Priest
    Curious Pictures, Richard Winkler & Dominie Mahl
    Izak, illustrator
    Luba Lukova, illustrator
    The New York Times Magazine, Janet Froelich & Arem Duplessis
    Pushpin, Seymour Chwast
    TIME, Cynthia Hoffman & DW Pine
    2pm - 3:30pm Tours
    Choose one of the following afternoon tours
    Jessie Hartland, illustrator
    Frances Jetter, illustrator
    Matt Mahurin, illustrator, photographer, filmmaker
    The New York Times Book Review, Nicholas Blechman
    Pentagram, Kurt Koepfle
    Sam Weber & Christopher Silas Neal, illustrators
    Remember the AI-AP Graphic Arts Weekend studio tours? Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to visit the studios of seasoned illustrators living in NYC and/or a creative director of one of today’s top magazines, agencies and design firms. Your two tours are scheduled at 10am and 2pm and each will last for one to one-and-a-half hours, leaving plenty of time for travel, lunch on your own and time to get back for the ICON5 opening ceremonies. Chaperones leave from the Roosevelt Hotel lobby one hour before each tour begins or you may travel on your own.

    Complete the Studio Tour registration form and return by fax or mail. Tour reservations are limited and made on a first-come-first-served basis. Please indicate a first and second choice for each time slot. Alternate studios will be assigned if your first choice is full. Tickets with studio addresses and free MetroCards will be provided at registration. Tickets are required for entry to each studio and late-comers will not be permitted. Reservations and exchanges will be taken on the day of, only as available. All tours are limited and subject to change. Sign up early for this inside view of New York City’s creative world.

    Meet your tour guide at 9am and 1pm sharp in the Roosevelt Hotel lobby.