2006 Melissa Breitenfeldt, Minneapolis, had her “Blind Justice” design for the custom 2013 Victory Judge motorcycle unveiled at the Australian Motorcycle Expo. All of the artwork on the bike, depicting six scenes of justice and victory, were hand drawn with Sharpie markers. Steven Gurewitz and Britni West ’08 showed their feature-length film Marvin Seth & Stanley in the 2012 MSP International Film Festival. The film was recently reviewed on The New Yorker’s movie blog. Monica Haller, MFA, Minneapolis, was awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board grant for $55,000 to create the second half of the Veterans Book Project, a library authored by people experiencing the current American wars, by expanding participation to those not yet represented in the library, and by training the next generation of workshop leaders. Patrick Kelley, Minneapolis, was recently the grand prize winner in the 2012 National Geographic Montana Photography Contest. His work was also featured in a group show at the Two Tigers Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis titled The View From Earth.
Shane McCallister ’09 Iowa, recently sold four photographs from his Charlie’s World series to the photo collection at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. These four pieces are currently in an exhibition titled Lure of the Local: Collecting the Corridor, 2006–2011 at the CRMA.
Katie Maren and Mike P. Nelson ’05 directed and edited the “Mine for the Time” music video for the band Still Pacific. Melodee Strong had work featured in Fade 2 Blaq, an exhibition showcasing sixteen Minneapolis artists of color from all backgrounds. The show also included work from Jennifer GarzaStork ’95, Christopher Aaron-Deanes ’96, Kelly Brown ’05, and Nadia Pereira ’12.
2007 Mong Vang, Minneapolis, co-directed Journey to the Fallen Skies, the film that took the Best Minnesota Feature Length Film Award, given for directorial vision and compelling narrative experience, at the 2012 MSP International Film Festival.
Allison Pegoraro ’10 Little Canada, Minnesota, had work featured in a solo exhibition titled ECOTONOSTOS at Gallery One in the Tractorworks building in Minneapolis. The show was made possible by a 2011– 2012 Artist Initiative Grant and created while Pegoraro was Artist in Residence at the Tractorworks building.
Nikki Will, San Francisco, along with the Read it Later team, launched Pocket, an app that saves things online,
such as videos, articles, and blogs, that you want to view later.
2008 Seamus Burke, Minneapolis, released the second print anthology of his web comic Oh Goodie!. Working Man premiered at the third annual Chicago Comic Entertainment Expo (C2E2). He is currently working on some short comics with Amber Whitney ’09. Kate Casanova, Minneapolis, an editor for InDigest magazine, interviewed fellow alum Melissa Loop ’05 about her paintings for inclusion in the March issue. InDigest recently successfully
funded a project through Kickstarter to complete some digital upgrades for their website. Gregory Euclide, MFA, Minneapolis, had a solo show at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Lyndsey Lesh, Los Angeles, had workfeatured in a solo show at Synchronicity Space in Los Angeles. The show was compiled of the illustrations created to fully illustrate the second issue of The Rattling Wall, a new literary journal based in L.A. The issue was launched with a one-night show held at Synchronicity Space featuring art from the issue. The exhibition was featured in Beautiful/Decay magazine. Mike Sgier, MFA, Philadelphia, had a comic featured in City Paper’s annual comics issue. Guest editor Art Baxter chose the comic as best in show.
2009 Bethany Knowles-Thompson has accepted the position of service bureau coordinator at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Liz Plahn was promoted to senior designer at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) after working as junior designer since 2009. Lyz Wendland, MFA, had work featured in a solo exhibition at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
2010 Aimee Hagerty Johnson, Northfield, Minnesota, designed the record cover for a limited-edition re-release of The Cure's single “Friday I'm in Love.” The 7" debuted in a pop-up exhibition on Chance Street in London.
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