Morgan Selin 13 AP After backpacking solo for eight months around South and Central America, Morgan (Shelburne, VT) stumbled onto Uxibal (“sister” in the Mayan language Qu’iche’), a handcrafted shoe and accessories company based in Antigua, Guatemala. She is now the designer for the company (uxibal.com), which seeks to improve the status of women in male-dominated Guatemalan society. The company incorporates the traditional textile work of women of Mayan descent into its products, hoping to help these women rise out of poverty.
2012 Upfor gallery in Portland, OR is kicking off its new movingimage art program AprèsUpfor with a video made by Rose Dickson PH. In Becoming Is a Secret Process, a figure stands behind a backlit canvas and methodically applies 10 coats of paint to it; as three minutes elapse, the painter obscures herself in the process of creating something else. The Portland-based artist is traveling to Asia for two separate residencies supported by an Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant.
From November to January she’s in Chongqing, China for a residency with Organhaus, and in March and April she’ll do a Studio Kura residency in Fukuoka, Japan. Toni has something to say, a drawing by Ted DiLucia FAV (Johnston, RI), was on view in the early fall juried show Strange Figurations at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY. As a contestant in the Miss Rhode Island USA Jacqueline Siefert AP (jacquelinesiefert. com) put the competition to shame by designing her
Myles Dunigan 10 PR After winning a Graduate Arts Award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Myles has just started a three-year master’s program in printmaking at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The grant provides $50,000 a year for tuition, living expenses and supplies.
own swimsuit, gowns and jewelry for the event. In August Lizzy Storm IL (lizzystorm.com) wrapped up a six-month residency at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. She was also one of 40 New Jersey artists selected for Ready or Not, the 2014 edition of the NJ Arts Annual in Fine Art. The summer show at the Newark Museum included a site-specific installation of her Space Mapping, in which she uses yarn, acrylic and staples to create a 3D grid-like form.
Jopson ID launched Increment
(incrementstudios.com), a Providence-based product design company that specializes in making inventive toys for all children, regardless of ability. Winners of several competitions and grants including Social Enterprise Bootcamp, they have attracted lots of media attention. Cynthia was one of 20 finalists in the second annual Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change.
When Georgia Read BArch and her friends cleaned up an abandoned auto body shop in Long Island’s picturesque Bellport Village, they earned the right to use the space as a gallery, presenting a wellreceived series of summer exhibitions. Georgia’s parents are fellow alums and gallery owners Katia Ramsey Read 76 SC and Howard Read 76 PH (of Cheim + Read gallery in NYC).
2013 Haley Davis SC (see page 18) Julia Min JM (see page 19)
Following an internship at the “research-driven design” studio Metahaven in Amsterdam, Tessa Modi GD (t-m-m.net) accepted a position as an interactive designer at Hi-ReS. She’s based in Mountainside, NJ. Shortly after graduating, Cynthia Poon ID and Maeve
Ryan Jude Novelline 12 IL Maisie Williams, known for her role as Arya Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones, wore ZAM! when she judged the Bookbarn International Out of Print fashion competition in Bath, England last spring. In July she wore the dress Ryan made for her from recycled comic books at Comic-Con in San Diego, prompting the Huffington Post to call it “the coolest thing at Comic-Con.” Based in Lexington, MA, Ryan also did the cover, formatting and art direction for the fanciful kids’ book Piccadilly and the Fairy Polka, by his mother, Lisa Ann Novelline.
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