outright indignation in the media, with The Huffington Post summing it all up with: “Fox’s new sitcom Dads has been slammed for being offensive, racist, sexist, ageist and one of the worst new comedies of the season.” Last summer the New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (nmegw.org), a fabulous organization headed by Stacey Neff GL, moved to Spur Ranch in Santa Fe. Program participants now have access to multiple shop facilities, a twobedroom bunkhouse and 300 beautiful acres on which to explore and expand the application of hot glass as a contemporary art media by making it accessible to non-glass artists.
When Massachusetts-based photographer and musician David Niles PH (davidniles. com) tuned in to the imaginary worlds in which kids like his nine-year-old son travel, he was inspired to create a series of sepia-toned images focused on his son Nate in surrealistic situations. Last summer the series was featured on Yahoo! Shine and included in the 2013 Lenscratch Summer Fun Exhibition. Duke Riley PT (see page 16)
1996 Illustrator and musician Marc Cavello FAV (marccavello art.com) recently released Bloodbotty, a nine-song collection of alternative music, on iTunes.
Helping Boston SHAKEN BY THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING LAST SPRING,
illustrator Joe McKendry 94 IL needed to do something to help. The longtime resident of Brookline, MA and parent of three young children felt the violent attack on April 15 deeply, especially given the death of an eightyear-old boy at the finish line. “In the days following the event, I knew something had shifted in the air, and in me,” McKendry explains. Wanting to take positive action, he originally
Brooklyn-based Freecell Architecture (frcll.com), whose principal is Lauren Crahan BArch, was involved in two cool shows last summer: the award-winning Spontaneous Interventions at the Chicago Cultural Center, which Freecell originally designed for the 2012 Venice Biennale, and The Cat Show at White Columns Gallery in NYC. Jae Kim BLA has been
promoted to a principal at the Seattle office of Callison, a global architecture and design firm. In the eight years he has worked for Callison, he has participated in the US, Middle East and China markets. In addition, he has worked on architectural issues of urban density in India, along with the
role of high-rise structures in residential development there. Last spring painter Lee Lee PT (formerly Lee Leonard) showed work in two exhibitions in Colorado: Our Global Village at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder and Urban Earth at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts. He lives in Denver.
1997 Illustrator Eric Gordon IL is curating a new space at the Ratner Museum in Bethesda, MD (where he lives) dedicated to the work of artists living with disabilities. Eric’s own work was on view this fall in Comics Making Studio with Members of the DC Conspiracy at Artisphere in Rosslyn, VA.
Fesseha Demessae 96 ID Rise of the African Renaissance (bronze) is on view through January 23, 2014 at BWI Airport’s international terminal in Baltimore, MD. Fesseha lives in nearby Randallstown, MD.
Joe McKendry 94 IL thought of donating to relief efforts by auctioning off a few of the paintings he’d made to illustrate Beneath the Streets of Boston, his first children’s book. But when he spoke to his friends and colleagues about the idea, he discovered that most of them were also looking for a tangible way to help. That’s when the idea for We Art Boston began to take shape. Working with his wife Susan, McKendry invited more than 50 children’s book illustrators to contribute artwork to a fall fundraising event and online auction to benefit the Emergency and Trauma Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital, which had helped many of the injured last spring. “We wanted to focus specifically on kids and on the healing power of art,” The sale of original artwork like these pieces by Jarrett Krosoczska he says. For most 99 IL (top left), Anna Alter 97 IL (bottom left) and Joe McKendry 94 IL children’s book helped raise funds for Boston Children’s Hospital. illustrators, drawing pictures is how Jarrett Krosoczska 99 IL, Grace Lin 96 IL, David we share ideas Macaulay BArch 69, Aaron Meshon 95 IL, Paolo Rivera and stories—and 03 IL, Katherine Roy 04 IL, Jared Williams 95 IL and convey excitement RISD faculty members Mary Jane Begin 85 IL, R. Kikuo and hope.” Johnson 03 IL, Kelly Murphy 99 IL and Marc Rosenthal. Among the In addition to the auction, which brought in almost illustrators Mc$43,000, McKendry and his wife organized a family Kendry enlisted event at the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway to help families to donate original feel safe in their city once again. “The trauma of the works were bombing impacted the lives of so many children in Anna Alter 97 IL, ways that went beyond physical injuries,” says McKendry. Christopher “It was important to find a way to contribute to the Denise 90 IL, healing of the entire community.”
For more information about this effort, see weartboston.org.
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