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Delhi-Price Hill Press
January 12, 2011
Community
Three win Sisters of Charity’s highest honors The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati awarded the Congregation’s highest honor, the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award, to Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, retired Air Force Master Sgt. John J. DeJonckheere, and David Scharfenberger. The awards were bestowed Jan. 2 in the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the Mount St. Joseph Motherhouse, Delhi Township, during the celebration of Mass. Barkley, professor and chairwoman of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Mount St. Joseph, was recognized for developing interdisciplinary courses at the Mount related to spirituality in the Sisters of Charity tradition. Barkley has written a variety of arti-
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The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati awarded the Congregation’s highest honor, the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award, Jan. 2 to Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, Master Sgt. John J. DeJonckheere, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), and David Scharfenberger. From left are: Scharfenberger, Barkley, S. Barbara Hagedorn, president of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, and Don DeJonckheere, brother of Master Sgt. John J. DeJonckheere. cles and books based on the Charity charisma and mission, several in collaboration with Sister Judith Metz,
S.C. In addition, she is faculty coordinator for the Cooperative Education Program at the Mount for stu-
dents who work at the SC Ministry Foundation, in the Communications Office of the Sisters of Charity of
Cincinnati, at Seton High School and at Bayley Place. DeJonckheere was honored for providing funds for students and families in need of assistance at Holy Family School in Price Hill where his sister, Sister Mary Marcel, ministers. He has challenged students to collaborate with him to bring happiness into other people’s lives. DeJonckheere has funded 15 Sisters of Charity ministries. He has contributed to Zafen, a Vincentian micro-loan program in Haiti, and he has supported an entire school in Haiti with tuition funding. His brother, Don DeJonckheere, accepted the award. Scharfenberger was recognized for being one of the founders of WIN (Working in Neighborhoods – Cincin-
nati) using his talents to develop grassroots leadership by mentoring many young organizers around ground breaking issues such as utility reform, energy conservation and access to prescriptions for the elderly. Scharfenberger is involved with the Service Learning Program at the College of Mount St. Joseph where he was an adjunct instructor and the first director of the program. The Service Learning Program links students with organizations that attend to the needs of the poor and oppressed. He also is involved in initiating leadership around foreclosure prevention with the Social Action Parish Collaborative of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Alumni back on exhibit at Mount St. Joe studio The Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph presents “Encore: Alumni Excellence Exhibition” through Feb. 5. This exhibition of alumni artists showcases art works by selected Mount art and design graduates from each decade of the 1960s to the 20000s. Invited back by
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1967) has maintained a studio at the Pendleton Center in Over-the-Rhine since 1999, and continues to paint abstractly with expressive use of paint, color and brush stroke on a large and small scale. “Painting is an evolutionary search. It is at once intuitive, emotional and spontaneous,” she said. “It is a mysterious, psychological process to which I am drawn, always striving to unravel the enigmatic characteristics of the paint. The solution will never be found, but the search is necessary, enjoyable and fulfilling.” For more info, go to www.jackiefrey.com/indexM.htm. 1970s – M. Katherine Hurley (BFA – art 1974) maintains a studio at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati. Hurley has studied at The Art Academy of Cincinnati and worked with renowned colorist and landscape painter, Wolf Kahn. Her work has been internationally exhibited and collected. She has been featured in numerous art magazine articles, and has won various awards. She also has three teaching videos published by F&W publications. For more information, go to www.mkatherinehurley.com. 1970s – Christina Baitz Brandewie (BFA – jewelry/metal craft 1979) is an accomplished metals artist and jeweler. Most recently included in Celebrating Beads, the Journey of … international juried jewelry design competition, Bead Museum, Washington, D.C., 2008 and B E A D International, Athens, Ohio, 2008. ODC’s Best of Exhibition, 2010. Also included in “The Best of 2008,” annual juried exhibition sponsored by the Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus. For more information, go to
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This necklace was designed by Christina Baitz Brandewie who will be exhibited in “Encore: Alumni Excellence Exhibition” in the Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph.
www.cabbochon.com. 1980s – Lisa Sanger (BA – graphic design 1883). For more than two decades, the downtown-based interactive design and development firm of Sanger and Eby has been providing resultsfocused design solutions for a wide range of clients, including Macy’s, Fifth Third Bank, Lenscrafters Foundation, and Children’s Hospital. With a depth of background in strategy, user experience, design, and application development, Sanger and Eby has grown its business by growing the bottom lines of its clients and partners. The firm was founded in 1988 by Lisa Sanger and Donna Eby, both Mount St. Joseph graduates, and has grown to be one of the largest women-owned businesses in Cincinnati. The company is an active community supporter, with multiple pro bono projects and a strong focus in education. Contributions include a long-standing co-op work program for technology students, as well as website and application design and development for multiple educational institutions, including Crayons to Computers, Seton High School, and Guardian Angels School. Go to www.sangereby.com for more information. 1990s – Anne Schlomer (BFA – painting 1994) and (MFA – painting 1997, New York Academy of Art, New York City.) Most recently included in a series of 2008 exhibitions called Exposure hosted by Ceres Gallery, in New York City, of emerging New York artists. Schlomer is a representational painter and draftsperson. She was attracted to the academy’s extensive education of anatomy, the human figure and perspective, and its training in the techniques of the Old Masters, all of which remain key elements and influences in her work. Recent work includes a series of paintings and drawings of street scenes of the recently gentrified meatpacking district of lower Manhattan. For more, go to www.anneschlomer.com. 1990s – Michelle Disbennett Jeffreys (BFA – painting 1998) and (MFA – painting 2001, University of Cincinnati) is an accomplished professional painter whose works have been nationally exhibited in places such as the Limner Gallery and STAGE Gallery in New York. Disbennett has exhibited extensively in galleries around the Tristate area,
most recently at Global Lead Art Gallery, and Gallery Salveo. Her work has been represented by The Chapman Friedman Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky from 2002-2009. “I am intrigued with how paint can glide across the canvas, how shapes can slide around, interlock, explode, or calmly rest beside one another, how to create various textures by building up the layers of paint, and how visually powerful a color can be,” she said. “I believe every stroke applied to the canvas must have meaning and every stroke must be full of life.” 2000s – Noelle Wedig (BFA – fabric design 2005) and (MFA – fibers 2007, Savannah College of Art and Design, Ga.). “As an artist I am interested in ‘living’ art,” she said. “Art that is ‘living’ can be interacted with, changeable, transformable, and is not stagnant. To produce a work of ‘living’ art I make what I call body sculptures. Exhibition record includes a solo show at the Starland Gallery, Savannah, featuring experimental costumes in 2006 and a performance, installation and video in the Vernasage exhibition in Lacoste, France, in 2007. She currently maintains all show and atmosphere costumes and assists performers at King’s Island Amusement Park, serves as liaison with production staff, and has served as main costumer for several productions. 2000s – Melanie Cannon (BA - graphic design 2002) and (MS – marketing 2009, University of Cincinnati) is currently the marketing and promotions coordinator at McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at UC. There she oversees communication efforts internally for faculty, staff and more than 7,000 students, and externally for more than 40,000 alumni. Cannon has an impressive resume of both large- and small-scale design projects in
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This poster by Melanie Cannon, a 2000 Mount graduate, will be part of the Encore: Alumni Excellence Exhibition at The Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph. the Greater Cincinnati area. She is a freelance designer and marketing consultant that has worked with nonprofit organizations such as City Gospel Mission, Athletes Joined Against Spondylitis and the Bacchanalian Society. “Armed with a fine-art sensibility and a marketer’s toolbox, I approach my clients’ needs as a thoughtful problem solver and strive to develop successful design solutions that effectively communicate to mass audiences,” Cannon said. “I conduct secondary research on the latest marketing and design trends, while being mindful to classic techniques, and primary research on target audiences for direction and insight.” Studio San Giuseppe is a nonprofit art gallery in the Dorothy Meyer Ziv Art Building on the campus of the College of Mount St. Joseph. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. The gallery is closed on major holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, Jan. 17. Admission is free. For more information, call Studio San Giuseppe at 513-244-4384.
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The photo titled “13th Street, Under the Highline” by Anne Schlomer, who will be exhibited in the Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery at the College of Mount St. Joseph’s “Encore: Alumni Excellence Exhibition.”