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Brandon Gibbs, B.Arch. ’08, had his animated film, Peace, Be Still, screened at the Quickflic London in June 2009. The film was a runner-up. It was also screened at the California International Animation Festival in September 2009 and the Indie Memphis Film Festival in October. Julia Green, M.I.D ’08, and Kandice Levero, M.I.D. ’09, were grand prize winners in the Jell-O Mold competition in June 2009. Kegan Fisher and Elizabeth Kinnmark, both B.I.D ’07, were runners up for creativity in the same competition. An exhibition of the winning designs was held at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, N.Y. Laura Meli, M.F.A. ’08, joined the ArtTable staff as their new development and special events director in October 2009. She will be focusing on national events and development efforts, particularly as they pertain to ArtTable’s upcoming 30th anniversary, including the annual luncheon and gala celebrations. Deirdre Sargent, B.F.A. Sculpture ’08, created the world's longest picnic table, which was exhibited in late October as part of the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans, La. The project was developed for the Life is Art Foundation/KKProjects. The final measurement was 248 feet, 2 1/4 inches, smashing the last world record by 122 feet, 1/4 inches.
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Taylor Cook, B.F.A. Digital Arts ’09, was featured in both the movies and stills categories of the 2009 Movies & Stills international competition for his senior capstone project, a
digitally animated short film, titled Employee of the Month. Taylor's film also appeared in the 2009 SIGGRAPH SpaceTime Competition in New Orleans, La., and at 2009 MetroCAF, the Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival in New York City. Talitha James, B.I.D. ’09, won a complimentary space for her Sola desk at the 2009 ICFF exhibition, courtesy of Bernhardt's ICFF Studio, and she was featured on the CBS Early Show in August 2009. Paraskevas (Paris) Mavroidis, M.F.A. ’09, animated a short film, Divers, which was featured in “Introductions 5” at Irvine Contemporary Gallery, Washington, D.C. in August 2009 and was included last December in the Electronic Theater at the 2009 SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama, Japan. Naotaka Minami, M.F.A. Digital Arts ’09, was awarded second prize for his thesis film in the movies category of the 2009 Movies and Stills international competition. The digitally animated short film was titled Reminiscence, the Place to Return. Minami was invited to receive his prize at an awards ceremony in November 2009 in Rödermark, Germany. The film was screened last October in New York City at 2009 MetroCAF, the Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival.
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Festival in Los Angeles. Without Arms was also selected for screening at the Canadian Film Centre's SHORTSNONSTOP Festival, the 11th Puchon International Student Animation Festival (PISAF2009) in South Korea, and the 4th Animarte 09 International Animation Festival, which will tour South America. Without Arms won First Place in the animation
category of the 2009 SIGGRAPH SpaceTime Competition in New Orleans, and was recently screened at the 2009 Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival (MetroCAF) in New York City. Oliver Vranesh, B.I.D. ’09, became junior footwear designer for Fila in Korea in January 2010. Photo Ren rox
glove design concepts to reduce the effort needed to perform tasks during spacewalks.
John Renaud, B.F.A. Fashion Design ’09, created the costumes for a music video for the song, “I Feel Cream,” by the band Peaches. Alek Vacura, M.F.A. ’09, won Best Student Animated Short for his thesis animation, Without Arms, at the 2009 AniMazing Spotlight
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B.Arch. ’05, (2nd from left) was married to Kabir Kochhar (not pictured) in New Delhi, India, in February 2010. The Hindu wedding ceremony was attended by Pratt friends Ashley Berger, B.F.A. Art Direction ’06, (far right) from New York, Amro Z. Ghazzawi, B. Arch. ’06 of Saudi Arabia (2nd from right), who came from London, and Jacob Keampf, B.F.A., Art Direction ’06 (far left), who came from Hawaii. The couple, who spent their honeymoon traveling in Japan and Vietnam, will live in a modern two-level house in Chattarpur (New Delhi), designed by the bride to accommodate the groom’s family on one level and themselves on the other. The bride received her master’s degree in architecture in the DRL (Design Research Lab) program at the Architecture Association in London in December 2009 and was one of the few people to receive a distinction that year. Her new husband is working as a documentary filmmaker in New Delhi.
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1950s
Robert B. Fiala Master of Fine Arts, 1965
Ardis W. Hughes Pictorial Illustration, 1934
Seymour Fiance Production Supervision, 1950
William E. Farrington Master of Fine Arts, 1968
George C. Lay Architecture, 1934
John B. Makinson Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1950
Robert L. Doremus Pictorial Illustration, 1936
James Robert Byron Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, 1951
Alice Imre O’Rourk Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art and Design Education, 1969
Margaret Pitsch Krebs Costume Design, 1937
George E. Copeland Master of Library Science, 1951
Theodore A. Gough, Jr. Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1939
Nancy Akers Goss Master of Library Science, 1951
Elizabeth Manchester Dietetics, 1939
Lawrence Velkoff Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1951
Kenneth F. Henderek Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art and Design Education, 1970
Philip Stein Evening School of Science and Technology, 1939
Eugene S. Bence Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Design, 1954
Charles T. Morrongiello Master of Fine Arts, 1970
1940s
Louise Holbert Guanzini Bachelor of Science, Home Economics, 1954
Donna H. Deasey Bachelor of Architecture, 1971
Justus E. Requa Industrial Design, 1941
Martin M. Erlebacher Bachelor of Architecture, 1955
Harald Tonnessen Advertising Design, 1941
Eugene “Gene” B. Kaletsky Bachelor of Architecture, 1955
Morton Flaum Master of Science, Library and Information Science, 1971
Reynold E. Witte Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1941
David S. Brown Illustration, 1956
Charles W. Pelzer Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1942
Berthold “Bert” Huebener Advertising Design, 1956
Jack Borgos, Ph.D. Industrial Design, 1943
Bernard Ehrlich Bachelor of Architecture, 1957
William Carleton Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1943
Philip J. Kowalski Building and Construction, 1957
Ida Ames McKay Bachelor of Science, Home Economics, 1943
Henry “Hank” N. Wazan Bachelor of Architecture, 1957
Richard “Rick” Goodwin Master of Industrial Design, 1997
Michael Solenick Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1943
Anthony S. Heywood Master of Library Science, 1958
Patricia Dawson-Benson Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting/Fine Arts, 1992
Eunice DeVries Bolt Industrial Design, 1947
Janet Empie Kane Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Design, 1958
Bertha Axworthy Gerard Illustration, 1948
Constantine Raitzky Bachelor of Industrial Design, 1958
Faculty
Eleanor Carper Loecher Illustration, 1948
Samuel F. Arnone Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1959
Theodore H. Schult Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1948
Allen L. Carlsen Bachelor of Industrial Design, 1959
Murray V. Belsky Advertising Design, 1949
Carl J. Lange Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 1959
Wales S. Buell, Jr. Advertising Design, 1949
1960s
Agnes Geist Hausenbauer Bachelor of Library Science, 1949
Lester Glassner Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Arts and Illustration, 1961
Hubert E. Kreinheder Advertising Design, 1949 David W. Mills Illustration, 1949 Rudolph Wurtz Advertising Design, 1949
Leonard R. Bacich Bachelor of Industrial Design, 1963 Master of Industrial Design, 1971 Barry S. Herstein Bachelor of Industrial Design, 1964 Lowell Bodger Bachelor of Fine Arts, Advertising Design, 1965
1970s Linda Pearl Bynum Bachelor of Fine Arts, Merchandising, 1970
Agnes Karlin Mills Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fine Arts, 1972
1980s
Ardyth A. Cope Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, 1983
1990s Suzanne Fiol Master of Fine Arts, 1990
Leonard R. Bacich Industrial Design Alumnus and former Faculty Trustee David Lee Crawford Former faculty, Digital Arts Robert B. Fiala Media Arts, Alumnus Richard “Rick” Goodwin Industrial Design, Alumnus Irving Kriesberg Former faculty, Painting John T. Rice School of Architecture James S. Rossant Former faculty, Architecture
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