each logo a jewel, a handcrafted, polished, singular gem,” Mike told the SOP. Fragile Acts, the fourth book of poetry by Allan Peterson PT of Gulf Breeze, FL, was a finalist for both the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Oregon Book Award. Last spring he also showed recent artwork at Artel Gallery in Pensacola, FL.
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Marcia Gloster Ammeen 64 IL Last summer Marcia showed paintings like Rose (oil, 14 x 14") in Clothing Optional at the NAWA Gallery in Manhattan, where she lives. This fall her work was on view at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery in NYC and at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park, NJ.
1962 Creative director and identity designer Mike Manoogian GD (michaelmanoogian.com)
of North Hollywood, CA was recently interviewed by The Student Operated Press (thesop.org). “I want to make
Last spring New Yorker Deena des Rioux IL contributed Headquakes, “robotic portraits” utilizing photography and inkjet printing, to Fluxus Time. The retrospective at the Active Space Gallery in Brooklyn focused on an influential group of conceptual artists who were especially active in the 1970s. In May award-winning marine artist/historian William H. Ewen GD of Providence spoke about the glory days of steamers and East Coast cruisers at the Marine Museum in nearby Fall River, MA.
A Life in Painting EVER EAGER TO STRETCH AND MAKE NEW DISCOVERIES, PAINTER
Bar sur Loup, France (left, 11 x 15") and Alpen Glow, Vail, Colorado (22 x 30") are among the vibrant watercolors that capture Rita Derjue’s view of the world.
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50th Reunion October 10 – 11, 2014
Rediscovered Masters (rediscoveredmasters.com), an online planning resource for museum curators, galleries and art historians, features bronze sculptures of ballerinas by Sterett-Gittings Kelsey SC (Roxbury, CT) and calls her “the undisputed master sculptor of dance.” Last spring Nancy Taplin PT* (Warren, VT ) showed works on linen and paper in a solo show at the Brooks School’s Robert Lehman Art Center in North Andover, MA. In a related interview, she noted that: “Art is about working on a piece, looking at things, making decisions, editing, adding, subtracting…. the process. It’s not really about the finished product.”
1965 In September 2012 photographer Ken Gaulin ID (Cambridge, MA) showed his signature photo collages in
Fields of Vision, a solo show at Wallwork in Rockport, ME. Digital landscape photographs by Bill Smith PT (Kalama, WA) were featured in Scenes on the Lower Columbia River, a September solo exhibition at The Broadway Gallery in Longview, WA. A sculpture by New Yorkbased artist Maggie Wells PT (formerly Peggy Wells) is on permanent exhibit at De Vera Objects in Soho. Dans, a new kinetic box art sculpture by Jerry Williams PT, is now on display in his home city of Uddevalla, Sweden. Although his work often incorporates sculpture, relief work and lighting, Jerry considers himself “a threedimensional painter.”
1966 As part of an effort to raise money for the Camp Street Community Ministry, Jill Tyler IL participated in a summer group show at Barros Gallery in Providence, where she lives.
Rita Derjue 56 GD
Rita Derjue 56 GD has traveled the world soaking up new perspectives, summited the peaks of Colorado and dealt with two broken wrists— yet she has continued to paint and push her own abilities for longer than most alumni have been alive. Now approaching 80, the lifelong painter and teacher is preparing for her latest exhibition, a solo show called Hurrah that will open in January at the Curtis Art Center in Greenwood Village, CO—the state she has called home since the early 1960s. Since heading to Europe in the late ’50s, Derjue has traveled extensively, always eager to take in new influences and techniques. In her early travels to Munich, she studied with Ernst Geitlinger, experiencing firsthand the dark energy of German Expressionism. A subsequent visit to Mexico, where she shared a studio with
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Canadian artist Toni Onley in San Miguel de Allende, had a lasting impact, especially in terms of her approach to line, form and color. In the midst of raising a son and a daughter and spending plenty of time outdoors—especially in the beloved Rocky Mountains— Derjue has always been willing to forge her own path and take risks artistically. Her painting trips and teaching interludes throughout Europe and various parts of Asia, Australia, Indonesia and South America have helped infuse her work with an energy and vibrancy that reflects her own exhilaration with life. “Not too many folks paint for 60 years,” Derjue says. “But RISD graduates do!”