1988 The New York Times T Magazine (9.28.14) featured the eponymous Mia table— designed by Mia Celano SC for Holly Hunt—in a piece on contemporary tray tables. Mia is based in Chicago. Matthew Kressy ID, a long-
time faculty member at RISD, has been named director of the MIT System Design and Management program’s new Integrated Design and Management (IDM) master’s degree track. IDM is the first MIT graduate program to offer a master’s degree combining industrial design, engineering design and other design disciplines with management. Allison Massari IL
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Colleen Kiely 84 PT Three drawings of Colleen’s dog Beau are included in 1,000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them (Rockport Publishers). The book by Robynne Raye includes a full-page reproduction of one of her 11 x 14" graphite on polypropylene renderings. Colleen is based in Roslindale, MA.
In June John Fazzino CR was one of seven artists to exhibit work in Aqueous—an (un) Watercolor Show, held at Crowell’s Fine Art Gallery in New Bedford, MA. Though he usually works in ceramics, John says he finds the “same sense of freedom of expression and movement” in watercolor painting as he does in glazing ceramics. The Spring 2014 issue of Drawing magazine featured the work of Fred Lynch IL, a longtime RISD faculty member. The piece examines the drawings he makes each summer in the ancient town of Viterbo, Italy, where he leads a travel study course for college students eager to draw on site.
1987 The curators of Portraits: Reflections by Iranian Artists, which ran in September at Rogue Space in NYC, invited young artists who were raised in Iran to submit portraits in the hope that the works would bring viewers closer to a world that feels very distant to most Americans. Farsad Labbauf
BID (labbauf.com) contributed
several paintings to the show, and spoke at the gallery on September 28. In late summer Katie Pell PT of San Antonio, TX, Peter Zelle GL of Saint Paul, MN and Zoya Tommy 94 PT of Houston were among the artists exhibiting in Show Up: A Colorful Group Show at Zoya Tommy Gallery in Houston. Katie contributed thought-provoking mixed-media sculptures and Peter showed glass sculptures that he compares to musical compositions. “Every teenager in the world is grappling” with issues of identity, says Hilary Younglove IL, an art teacher at Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, CA who is working with Shabana Basij-Rasikh, founder of SOLA school for girls in Kabul, Afghanistan. Their art exchange program Switchboard (switchboardart.blogspot.com) asks teens from schools in the US, Afghanistan, China and Japan to work on the same art project about personal identity and then share their work with each other.
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Robin Roraback IL (Salisbury, CT) created the illustrations for The Kingdom of Ning, a fairy tale about a “tough-guy” calico cat written by B.L. Walker and published last June by Balboa Press. Young readers are encouraged to add to the book by coloring the drawings.
1989 Combining sewn linen shapes in geometric compositions, Karen Gelardi PT explored Bauhaus principles in Standard: New Banners, a summer solo show at Perimeter Gallery in Belfast, ME, up the coast from her home in South Portland.
Hashim Sarkis BArch 87 A practicing architect and prominent scholar of architecture and urbanism, Hashim will become the new dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning in January. For the last dozen years, he has served as the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he also directs the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, a joint venture between Harvard and MIT.
Evocative watercolors by Kate Register PT were included in a traveling show called Water Works that opened at The Porch Gallery in Ojai, CA in July and moved on to various California coastal galleries from there. Kate is based in Santa Monica.
1990 SoHyun Bae PT (sohyunbae.
com) was selected to participate in Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean-American Artists,
a three-part event organized by the AHL Foundation to celebrate Korean artists living in the US. Her work was shown last spring at the Korean Cultural Service New York. The Moth and the Sun, a new book in French, English and Spanish by Philadelphiabased author/illustrator Gary Bernard IL, presents the magical tale of a Parisian lepidopteron through exquisite black-and-white illustrations.
So Yoon Lym PT (soyoonlym.
com) of North Haledon, NJ helped the Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn celebrate its one-year anniversary last April and May by participating in the group show Ground Floor Gala.
Michael Oatman 86 PT Tontine, the artists’ group Michael continues to participate in with Todd Bartel PT, Bo Joseph 92 PT and James Scott 94 AR*, is dedicated to “ethical survival,” among other things. For an experiment they call Drawn and Quartered: An Exquisite Corpse Re Memberment each artist contributes one quarter of a work that is then digitally stitched together. Tontine was profiled in Kolaj Magazine, Issue 7.
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