David Hodge 81 ID Husband-and-wife team David and Hi-Jin Hodge (hodgearts.com) are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Alea Elle Hodge, who was born in August 2012. They also recently released Niagara Falling, a new pictorial essay about the city of Niagara Falls, NY. The family lives in Half Moon Bay, CA.
1981 Last summer Trine Bumiller PR participated in two exhibitions in Denver, CO, where she lives: Total Abstraction at the Republic Plaza and Imagined Realities at Sustainability Park. In September she showed new paintings in Denali, a solo exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC. Last spring Brooklyn-based photographer Steven Rosen IL (stevenrosenphotography.com), who has been photographing fellow alums and RISD parents during RISD by Design weekend in recent years [see pages 60-61], won first prize in the “getting ready” section of Top Knots, a fiercely competitive international contest for wedding photographers
sponsored by Photo District News Magazine. Last spring luminous encaustic paintings, sculptures and prints by Marybeth Rothman IL (Tenafly, NJ) were featured in Swept Away, a group exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA.
1982 Paintings by Madeleine Pydych Hopkins IL
(mphopkinsstudio.com) were included in Pleased to Meet You II, a group exhibition held last summer at George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME, near where she lives in Moody. New paintings and design projects by New Yorker Eric Wolf PH can be found at ericwolf-ny.com.
Stephen Burt 87 IL Stephen has been granted tenure as an associate professor and chair of the Department of Arts and Communications at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME. His work—including this 3-foot-long piece, A Record of Glacial Landscape as Inscribed by William A. Burt in 1642 on the Northern Maine Coast—was on view from mid-May through mid-October at the LC Bates Museum in Hinckley, ME. One of his drawings was also included in An Illustrated Popul Vuh, a juried group show this fall at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA.
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1983 Eric Pike GD (NYC) has been
promoted to editor-in-chief at Martha Stewart Living, where he has worked as a creative director since 1992 and has been largely responsible for creating the look and feel of the magazine. Under his direction, the circulation of MSL and related books has risen to more than 2 million and the magazine has won three national awards for photography and design from the American Society of Magazine Editors. “Eric has… been instrumental in the development of the Martha Stewart brand,” Stewart said in the announcement about his new role. Thanks to funding from the RI State Council on the Arts, a translucent sculptural frieze by Vermont artists Elizabeth Billings and Andrea Wasserman TX has been installed in the new Heber W. Youngken, Jr. Medicinal Plant Garden at URI’s College of Pharmacy in Kingston, RI.
1984 30th Reunion October 10 – 11, 2014
CR Studio, an architecture and design firm in New York City founded by Lea Cloud BArch and Victoria Rospond BArch, recently renamed itself CDR Studio to acknowledge the contributions of partner Jonathan Dreyfous. In May Providence’s AS220 hosted Ruminations, a solo exhibition of works by RI artist Claudia Flynn SC that evolved from her studies of indigenous cultures and the ancient healing practices used by tribal shamans. Last spring Colleen Kiely PT (Roslindale, MA) showed new paintings, drawings and photographs during Somerville Open Studios and donated
20% of her sales to The One Fund to support victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Two of her paintings were included in What Goes Around, a summer juried exhibition at the Attleboro [MA] Arts Museum, and in September she showed drawings (of her dog, among other things) at the Trustman Art Gallery in Boston. A nine-foot steel, paint, copper and cast resin sculpture by Fotini Vurgaropulou SC was on display last summer in a public garden space in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, where she lives.
1985 David Andreozzi BArch
(andreozzi.com) has been
Douglas Morris 85 GD Poulin + Morris, the NYC firm where Doug is a principal, recently completed two high-profile projects for NPR’s new headquarters in Washington, DC: a wayfinding system and a permanent, interactive lobby exhibition that includes a two-story media mosaic and a 70-foot reader rail that tells the NPR story via text, images, video monitors and listening devices. The firm also won an award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design for its signage and wayfinding work for the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City.