FACULTY BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Turk Nico Grabski was born on September 19, 2015 to Head of US Lisa Culbertson and Eric Grabski.
Cooper Sheridan was born on May 5, 2016 to LS teacher Jaime Sheridan and her husband, Terrance. Cooper joins Brady, age 6; and Logan, age 9.
Jack Harrison was born on August 30, 2016 to Associate Head of School Patrick McHonett; his wife, Jessica; and sister Charlotte, age 3.
Van was born on October 8, 2016 to MS Innovation and Technology teacher Brett Girod and his wife, E.V. Van joins siblings Guy, age 5, and Ruby, age 3.
Hattie Louise Hill was born on November 11, 2016 to US Faculty and Speech & Debate Coach Nick Klemp and his wife, US Assistant Speech & Debate Coach Michelle Hill.
UCLA FEATURES ART TEACHER LAUREN STROHACKER’S ANIMAL LAND The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability invited Upper School Art teacher Lauren Strohacker to display her collaborative project Animal Land on campus. She also participated in the panel discussion “Public Art and Visual Narrative” during the 3-day symposium “Earth Now: Earth 2050.” Animal Land is a visual metaphor for wildlife in the Anthropocene era, an unfolding narrative that wavers between displacement, reintroduction and loss. Lauren Strohacker and fellow artist Kendra Sollars reimagine traditional wildlife encounters in a contemporary format— through technology in an urban space with human inhabitants. Indoor and outdoor video projections generate synthetic animals, native to each geographical location, that are completely decontextualized. Void of natural environment, sound, and color, they are activated and influenced by the built environment and human interaction. Strohacker and Sollars are responding to the current and rapid loss of biodiversity and investigating a future where genuine interactions between humans and non-human animals may not exist. “ Strohacker and Sollars’s collaboration is meant to confront in any number of registers, be they aesthetic, socio-political, environmental, etc. The Animal Land project makes Strohacker and Sollars two of our best pictorial historians of animal presence, as well as the present contradictions of our mutually shared life-world.” — Grant Vetter, The Arts Beacon
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