costumes and model for artists in Southern California. Just visited CalArts alumna Susan Kornfeld in Vancouver and created the #vancouverfashiongay photography series on Instagram. Working on a series of music videos using the music of Connie Converse, the folk singer who mysteriously disappeared. Appears in the HBO series Westworld as a naked cowboy robot. D Carey Bennett ’94 writes in: “I am currently designing costumes for the TV show Superior Donuts on CBS, as well as continuing to consult on groundbreaking apps, SyncOnSet, NELO, and the WYMSEE website to help better the process and awareness of costume designers work. I teach costume design off-and-on at FIDM in L.A. My seven-year-old daughter is still the greatest work of art I have ever created!” Michael Gump ’94 writes, “During the day, I create things for a crazy kids TV show, and by night, I am the master of disguise. @bobbugs.” E Jon Gustafsson ’94 writes, “In the summer of 2017, I had my first two photography exhibits: the first one in Gallery Anarkia and the second one in Gallery MOKKA in Reykjavik. I do aerial abstract landscape photography in Iceland. I only shoot from helicopters, and I concentrate on patterns that are only visible from above. My prints are being sold through the website, IcelandGoneWild.com.” Matt Hauser ’94 checks in: “Hello! I live in New Jersey with my wife and two sons, who are already 18 and 20! I play drums in local bands, and I’ve worked for 21 years in the commercial music and sound design industry in New York. Recently, I started my new company Twelve Eight Sound, specializing in music, sound design, and mixing for commercials and films, with a new focus on audio for VR/AR/360°! Check out ‘twelveeightsound.com’ and drop me a line!” F Mary Beth Heffernan ’94 exhibited a new series of large-scale photograms in a D
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In March, Dan Joseph ’94 released a double-CD of electronic and mixed-media works titled Electroacoustic Works through the venerable New York City-based label XI Records. The release collects three major pieces from the past 15 years that have roots in early minimalism, ambient music, and acoustic ecology. The CD release was last March, with a performance and party at Experimental Intermedia in lower Manhattan. In May, Dan completed the fifth season of his monthly series, Musical Ecologies, which he hosts and curates in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he lives. The fifth season featured many notable artists, including full programs by CalArts faculty members Vicki Ray and Michael Pisaro. Dan also contributed numerous music reviews, interviews, and articles over the past year to The Brooklyn Rail and Musicworks Magazine. All of these and more writings can be found on his blog at danjoseph.org/blog. Robin McDonald ’94 writes in: “I am about to start graphics/props for some untitled pilot I worked on earlier in the year. I worked on NBC’s Trial and Error in December 2016. Biggest recent project was probably Hateful 8.”
Jeudi Cornejo Brealey ’95 tells us, “Fellow DTVC alumni, Paul Hemstreet ’92 and I have been married for 23 years. (To encourage Paul to write his own thing, I’ll just say he’s a SVP at Warner Bros. in charge of Creative Content. He’s been there for 20 years.) Together, we have twin sons entering their senior year in high school. So, I guess you could say they’re our CalArts legacy kids. Both boys have grown up in and around the arts. And as we moved back to SCV after they were born, and as we’ve been strongly involved with CalArts alumni boards and chapters ever since, our sons grew up running around the sub-level and going to events, and even taking a few CAP classes on campus. One son even has his sights set on CalArts for college. That’s a trip because it seems like we were just there ourselves! Today, Paul and I are co-leaders of CalArts’ SCV alumni chapter. We love reconnecting with alumni wherever we go and have even sponsored a mini-reunion with alumni in Paris, during a vacation, officially presenting Harry’s Bar with a CalArts pennant for its walls. So, you may run into us and Winston, our corgi, who has become an unofficial CalArts mascot.” Ranardo-Domeico Grays ’95 is the founder and artistic director of VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, which performed Ranardo’s latest piece, Roots, at the Harlem Arts Festival 2017, including the premier of the new final movement, “Confirmation.” G
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Richard Shanks ’95 is President of UpShift Creative Group in Chicago, Illinois, and is expanding its second office in Santa Barbara, California, to serve a growing roster of branding and design clients across the nation. “We’re currently seeking
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