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David Cote and composer Stefan Weisman report that their opera The Scarlet Ibis is being produced by HERE Arts Center and Beth Morrison Projects, in association with American Opera Projects, and will have its world premiere at the Prototype Festival in January 2014. Mallory Catlett will direct the production; Joseph Silovsky ’91 will design the set. | Brian Stefans is an assistant professor in UCLA’s English department, teaching new media studies, postmodern and contemporary poetry, and film studies. His new book of poems was published in 2012. Among his research projects are a critical/historical anthology of Los Angeles poetry from the Spanish era to 1975 and online anthology of Los Angeles post-punk called Scavenged Luxury.
Elizabeth Cornell Goldwitz is a predoctoral fellow in the English department at Fordham University in the Bronx.
’91 Paul Bissex lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, Kathleen, and their twin baby boys, Jasper and Nico. Having worked in publishing, technology, and education, he is now a full-time software developer with Cox Media Group of Atlanta. | Tim Clifford is coauthor with Jack Flam and Katy Rogers of Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, published in 2012 by Yale University Press. This monumental three-volume catalogue documents 2,700 artworks by Motherwell, one of the preeminent abstract expressionist painters and the leading American spokesman for modernism in the second half of the 20th century. | Kim Lennen planned on spending six months in London, and has now lived there for 10 years. He is the executive director and European recruiter for JPMorgan Chase, and would be happy to meet other Bardians in London. | Ross Shain was awarded a Scientific and Engineering Plaque in February by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation in Beverly Hills, California. Ross shared the award with three others for Imagineer Systems Ltd.’s creation of mocha planar tracking and rotoscoping software. He is the chief marketing officer of Imagineer. He lives with his wife, Jenn Labelle ’92, and daughter in New York’s Hudson Valley. He returned to Bard in October 2012 as a panelist during Alumni/ae Day.
’88 25th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join the reunion committee of Sibel AlparslanGolden, Brett Fialkoff, Cormac Flynn, Amy Kupferburg, Jennifer Lupo, Carolyn Mayo, Allison (Villone) Radzin, and Al Varady at your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details. Dena Seidel is director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking. She recently returned from Antarctica, where she directed a feature documentary for the National Science Foundation about an interdisciplinary research team studying climate change. Twelve film students are collaborating with Dena to shape the hourlong film for broadcast. Antarctica: Beyond the Ice is one of three long-form documentaries that Dena is producing with her students.
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’79 Alexander McKnight is the author of Never Seen, Only Heard, published in November 2012, and the children’s book, Waiting for Ding.
’78 Constance (Targonski) Clemmons and Thomas Clemmons have three daughters from China, Madeleine (18), Elisabeth (14), and Julia (9). Constance was a founding member of the nonprofit organization Children from China. The orphanage assistance program has raised more than $2 million for children without families in China. | Hugh Crawford put on an art installation at the Brooklyn Public Library during 2012. The project addressed memory, books, libraries, Coney Island, Brooklyn, severe weather, the old and the new, the old future,
Andrew Bauer has been appointed director of music and coordinator of performing arts for Manhattan College.
the new future, Apollo, and Laoco. | David Segarnick was appointed adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School. He is teaching a course, Pharmacology and Drug Marketing, during this spring semester at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences–Newark.
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Harold “Buddy” Enright produced a New Media television series, Dirty Work, which won the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media, Original Interactive Television Programming, at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 15 in Los Angeles.
Russell Shane is employed as a real estate representative for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He has been married to Delaine for 19 years, and they have a daughter, whom they adopted from China.
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’76 ’83 30th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join your classmates Jesse Browner and Jim Hart for your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details. Tim Long produced a half-hour documentary, Stories from the Overseas Highway, for Florida PBS. | Sharon Spector is the new director of sales for the Frontline Medical Communications publications Current Psychiatry, Clinical Psychiatry News, and Neurology Reviews.
Grant Harper Reid received the Honorary Doctorate of Courage degree from the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, in recognition of the courage and fortitude he has demonstrated amid life’s challenges and many obstacles. | Catherine Hazard has donated 75 paintings to various institutions that help those most at risk in the community. Her work is also in the permanent collection at the Bronx Museum. | Iris Levy is a psychoanalyst in a private practice in New York City.
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’90 Thalia “Debra” Feilen has a successful law practice serving professionals, artists, and other New York City residents. She provides valuable advice and support to facilitate her clients’ achievement of commercial and personal goals.
mother” of Bard’s Drama/Dance Program for more than 30 years.
’82 Catherine Grillo and Lisa Vasey ’84 organized a celebration at the remodeled Rhinecliff Hotel to honor Natalie Lunn on the occasion of her 75th birthday. More than 100 alumni/ae, faculty, and friends came from all over the country to celebrate a woman who was the technical director and “den
Christine Wade’s novel, Seven Locks, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books in January. Christine credits Bard for giving her cross-disciplinary courage: “I was a painting major and have a master’s in epidemiology from Columbia and a long list of peer-reviewed science publications.”