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pratt people CLASS notes
Kimberlee Piper, C.C.P.S. ’07, exhibited her photo series on NYC’s robust country and bluegrass music scene at the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies’ gallery at Pratt Manhattan. Elizabeth (Ellie) Clayman, B.F.A. Graphic Design ’08, was noted in the Sept.-Oct. issue of I.D. magazine as a winner of its Student Design Review 2008 competition for a book she designed while a student at Pratt.
Melissa Woolford, M. Arch. ’06, joined Zaha Hadid Architects in London in 2006. She has helped design the extension for Home House, a private members’ club in Mayfair, which opened in October 2008.
Cheryl Paswater, M.F.A. Painting and Drawing ’07, was in a group show at Chashama Manhattan Open Studios last fall.
San Heon (Sam) Lee, B.F.A. ’08, Isaiah Palmer, B.F.A. ’08, Maya
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R. David Gibbs, B.I.D. ’07, conceived the notion of making furniture from wood recycled from deconstructed water towers. His concept, NYC Water Tower Furniture, was featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Planet Green” in October 2008.
Kyoung Kay Park, M.F.A. ’07, has worked recently as technical director with So!Animation. Her thesis project, “Manny,” 3D animation based on 1920s silent films, has been screened at numerous U.S. and international film festivals.
Yulia Freynk, M.S. Facilities Management ’08, has achieved professional designations from the Project Management Institute and the International Facility Management Association, respectively. She is pursuing the U.S. Green Building Council’s leadership in energy and environmental design accredited professional (LEED-AP) designation. She was also invited to participate on the advisory committee for Pratt’s facility management program.
Segal, M.F.A. ’08, Seun Shogunro, B.F.A. ’08, and Yuliya Vinokur, B.F.A. ’08, all computer graphics alumni, presented their digitally animated short films at the SpaceTime Student Exhibition at the SIGGRAPH 2008 Conference in Los Angeles. April Odell, B.F.A., Painting ’08, exhibited her series of paintings of Pratt’s engine room at David’s Tavern in Newburyport, Mass., last summer. Thomas (Tommy) Ralph Pace, B.F.A. Drawing ’08, screened his film, Getting Capital Hurts Like Bullets, in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Optic Nerve X festival of short films, in North Miami, Fla., last August. Darlene Pinkerton, M.F.A. Computer Graphics ’08, screened her thesis film, Rise Sally Rise, at the Reel Sisters Film Festival and Lecture Series on the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University last September. The film examines the connection between African American women and the games they played as young girls.
THELMA KAPLAN STEVENS
Art Education ’54, credits her career as an artist, educator, author, and entrepreneur to her training at Pratt, which encouraged her to be innovative in her approach to teaching. With 25 years of experience in the field, she was named “Art Teacher of the Year” for New York State in 1983. After earning a Ph.D., publishing numerous articles, and Super Sculpture: Using Science, Technology, and Natural Phenomena in Sculpture (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974), co-authored with her Pratt roommate Diane Bassi Chichura, Art Education ’54—Stevens was ready for new challenges, so she and Chichura opened Isis Gallery Ltd. in Port Washington, N.Y. in 1982. For 14 years, the partners presented inspired exhibitions of the work of many artists in a beautiful space on Long Island Sound. “Retirement brought new horizons and opportunities for involvement,” says Stevens, who has since found time for community park planning, garden design, and healthy cooking. She is also busy doing volunteer work for her other alma mater, James Madison High School, and developing her new business venture, Reunions to Remember, also with Chichura. “I do take time to smell the flowers,” asserts Stevens, whose passion is horticulture. With her husband, Jay, she hired Pratt architect Tuck Harvey, B. Arch ’60, to build their dream house on two wooded acres in Sands Point, N.Y. Surrounding their new home, Stevens created a lush garden that she views as a painting. In 2006, the Great Neck Park District invited her to advise them on a new kind of recreational facility, The Sensory PlayGarden, which will enhance children’s motor and language skills as well as develop their appreciation for nature.
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