Art Students Explore Artistic Practice During New York City Semester Art students in New York City this spring created and exhibited their work, met leading artists and curators, and took on internships during the bachelor of fine arts semester at AAP NYC. The 14 students took studio and seminar classes, an interdisciplinary art history class, and a professional practice class with an internship component. Class discussions, readings, writing assignments, and studio projects were augmented by access to the city’s artistic and cultural bounty. “The really salient feature of the program is the art and the resources the city has to offer,” said curator and writer Linda Norden, visiting critic in AAP. Visiting Lecturer Masha Panteleyeva’s art history class, titled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Metropolitan Studies, covered contemporary art and urbanism, architecture, and city planning, including the work of Robert Moses. Visiting Lecturer Jane Benson and
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Visiting Critic Beverly Semmes, both artists, also arranged several artist studio visits. Firsthand experiences and encounters around the city also included visits to major exhibitions, galleries, and art fairs. Guest lecturers at AAP NYC included artists Katie Holten, Damien Davis, Nayland Blake, and Ryan Trecartin. Internships at artist studios, galleries, museums, and nonprofits were an option about half the students took this year. Among them, Kelsey Burgers (B.F.A. ’19) and Ashley Mbogoni (B.F.A. ’19) both worked for artist Ann Craven. Jada Haynes (B.F.A. ’19) interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s concerts and lectures department. Le-Tone Wei (B.F.A. ’19) worked with Time In Children’s Arts Initiative, a nonprofit enriching the lives of children from underserved schools.AAP
Give a Scoop, Get a Scoop From left, Karen Wang (M.Arch. ’17), Mingyue Yang (M.Arch.II ’17), and Dan Kuhlmann (M.R.P. ’14, Ph.D. CRP ’22) enjoy an ice cream treat during Give a Scoop, Get a Scoop, an event hosted by AAP’s career service office, AAP Connect, in May. Using laptops that were set up in the Green Dragon café, students completed a survey asking about their plans for the summer and the following year. More than 190 responses were received, and some of the summer internship and career destinations included Gensler, SOM, and Cornell, among many others, in cities ranging from L.A. to Oxford, England.AAP
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HPP Work Weekend During the 2017 Historic Preservation Planning (HPP) Work Weekend in April, graduate students in the Department of City and Regional Planning worked on projects associated with the historic Colebrookdale Railroad Station in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. The group was made up of students in the spring semester Planning and Preservation Practice class taught by Associate Professor Jeffrey Chusid, who led the excursion, joined by several alumni, as well as CRP faculty members Nathaniel C. Guest ’98 (M.A. HPP ’12), visiting lecturer; and Thomas J. Campanella, associate professor. The tourist railroad operates in Berks and Montgomery counties, northwest of Philadelphia, overseen by the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust. Guest, who is the trust’s founder, said the Work Weekend accomplishments help the community and propel the economic revitalization efforts that the trust promotes. The students pitched in on numerous projects, including cleaning and sorting thousands of brick pavers and demolishing the nonhistoric interiors of two train cars.AAP
Rome, entered a design competition for Concentrico, an annual architecture festival in the small, historic town of Logroño, in northern Spain. Their proposal for an elevated viewing platform above the central plaza, titled The Tower of Memory, took second prize in the competition. Joyelle Gilbert (B.A./B.F.A. ’19), an undergraduate pursuing a concurrent degree in the Department of Art and College of Arts and Sciences, was commissioned by Entrepreneurship@Cornell to paint a mural on a 40-foot wall in the new eHub in Kennedy Hall. The mural took approximately 90 hours to complete, and features motifs of pathways, inspiration, and clouds to convey the theme of entrepreneurship. The mural was finalized in January. Mitch Gillam (B.S. URS ’17) completed the coursework for his URS degree while playing on the Cornell men’s hockey team as a goaltender. In his final season, Gillam was awarded the
Nicky Bawlf Award, the team’s highest honor of most valuable player. In the spring, he signed a short-term contract that begins what he hopes will be a longer professional career in hockey. In late April, Wylie Goodman (M.R.P. ’17) was interviewed by a journalist from Agence FrancePresse about her exit project concerning controlled environmental agriculture in New York City. The story was then picked up by a number of Englishlanguage journals and websites, including Inquirer.net and the Science Times. In the Barnes Hall Auditorium in March, the Original Cornell Syncopators, a Cornell student jazz group led by cornet player Colin Hancock (B.S. URS ’19) recreated the historic, first-ever jazz recording session of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, captured in 1917 in New York City. Hancock did much of the research for the project. A Cornell Baker Program in Real
Estate team took second place in the 2017 ARGUS University Challenge. The team included Paul Heydweiller (M.P.S. RE ’18), Alejandro Santander (M.P.S. RE ’18), Yufei Wang (M.P.S. RE ’17), Yang Yang (M.P.S. RE ’17), and Julin Yong (M.P.S. RE ’18). The competition was a combined portfolio-level hold/sell and investment analysis, using three scenarios to project the risk/return and determine potential loan-to-value ratios. Jingyang (Leo) Liu (M.Arch.II ’15, M.S. ’20); Val Mack ’17, an M.P.S. candidate in information science; and engineering students Mutahir Kazmi ’17 and Khalil Hajji ’17 are the force behind Dimitri, a student start-up and member of the 2016–17 eLab business accelerator program at Cornell, who are looking to make 3D printing more accessible. Starting with developing the perfect-fitting shoe, the students learned about 3D printing, the areas where innovation is needed, and how it will be
possible for average consumers to create 3D-printed products for themselves. Tianshu Liu (M.Arch.II ’17) and Linshen Xie (M.Arch.II ’17) were awarded second place in the prestigious eVolo 2017 Skyscraper Competition. Using metropolitan Manila as an example, Liu and Xie’s entry, titled Vertical Factories in Megacities, investigates the benefits of moving factories back to urban areas, and how redesigning and relocating high-rise factories into Manila would address issues including waste management, drainage and flooding, and reuse of organic waste to create fertilizer, heat, and electricity. Patricia Nakaghala Muumba (B.Arch. ’19) was featured in a story in CURBED magazine titled “How Can Architecture Schools Increase Diversity?” In the story, Muumba recalls the cultural shock of moving from Uganda, which is largely black, to America, where architects are
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predominantly white. Kent Kleinman, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of AAP, was among several deans of prominent U.S. architecture schools interviewed for the story, which enumerates AAP’s efforts to increase the diversity among faculty as well as the student body. During the spring semester, Hanna Reichel (B.S. URS ’17) was one of the comanagers of the Farmer’s Market at Cornell, a weekly market offering local food and artisanal goods. The market had been located on the Ag Quad since its founding in 2010, but moved to the Arts Quad in the spring semester because of construction in the former location. Reichel was featured in an article in the Cornell Daily Sun, talking about the move to the Arts Quad, the new vendors being added, and future plans for the market. Andrea Restrepo-Mieth (Ph.D. CRP ’18) was awarded three grants for travel and research to continue her scholarly work in
Medellín, Colombia. RestrepoMieth received a 2017 Engaged Graduate Student Grant for research for her proposal titled Agents of Change: Institutionalizing Progressive Planning Practices in Medellín, Colombia; and two grants from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies—a 2017 Conference Grant from the Latin American Studies Program and a 2017–18 travel grant. Pauline Shongov’s (B.F.A. ’18) abstract submission titled A Visual Palimpsest: Object Memories through HybridIdentity was selected for presentation at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) from more than 4,000 submissions. The NCUR 31 conference was held at the University of Memphis in April.
Held to honor the shared history with U.S. African American soldiers in World War II, the meetings received extensive local news coverage. Ziye Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in Urban and Regional Science, presented a paper titled “An Investigation of Vertical Housing Information” at the Student Symposium 2017: Global China–Cornell, hosted by the Cornell East Asia Program Contemporary China Initiative and Cornell Institute for China Economic Research.
The CRP Rome Workshop made the Italian news as URS students, led by instructors Greg Smith and Mildred Warner, met with the mayor of Barga and with residents in Sommocolonia.
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