Liz Jaff 89 PT This fall Liz showed her beautifully detailed paper sculptures and drawings on paper (about paper) in Brooklyn Bridge, a show at the Rochester [NY] Contemporary Art Center featuring work by five emerging artists based in NYC/Brooklyn.
flies (as it did at LACMA through late June) using a replica of a 1903 De Dion gasoline motor that he built over the course of seven years. Chris Burden: Ode to Santos Dumont was an homage to Burden’s inspiration, Brazilian aviator Alberto SantosDumont, who flew an airship around the Eiffel Tower in 1901. John’s careful operation of the piece was his own homage to Burden, who died in May. With a background in special effects and animatronics work for films as well as a foray into aeronautics, he maintains a studio practice at his home in LA, which he shares with Samantha Grisdale Biggs PT (samanthagrisdale.com). In July Matthew Bird ID participated in a month-long institute on the history of design at Drexel University that allowed him to return to his position as an assistant professor at RISD “full of ideas about how to make better use of history in… teaching [and]
introduce design history in broader, more inclusive ways.” A new program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the institute drew on expertise from six international scholars who conducted seminars on a range of subjects with 25 visiting faculty from across the country. In January Sara Kellner PT moved from managing the arts in transit program for METRO’s Houston Light Rail Expansion to overseeing Houston’s Municipal Art Collection as the agency’s director of Civic Art + Design. In that capacity, she now manages commissions, acquisitions and conservation.
James T. Williamson 89 IL The new children’s book Welcome to the Symphony, which presents an interactive musical exploration of the orchestra based on Beethoven’s Symphony #5, is the second book James has illustrated. He works as a special projects designer at Workman Publishing in NYC, which released the book in October.
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Last spring work by So Yoon Lym PT (North Haledon, NJ) was included in Weaving Time, the third installment in an exhibition of work by Korean artists practicing in America, at the Korean Cultural Service’s Gallery Korea in NYC. Last spring Kate Register PT showed two paintings in Water Works II, a group show at Porch Gallery Ojai [CA] and the Ojai Art Center. Kate lives in Santa Monica.
1990 Currently pursuing an MFA at Heartwood College of Art in Biddeford, ME, Kimberly Becker TX incorporates hand stitching into traditional mediums such as oils or watercolors. In February she did a residency at Brush Creek in Saratoga, WY, where she worked on developing stitched and French-knotted paintings and over the summer one of her fiber art pieces was on view in
the National Juried MFA Exhibition at First Street Gallery in NYC. During a July residency at Bascom Lodge on Mount Greylock—the highest point in Massachusetts—MA-based
artist Franklin Einspruch IL painted extensively and experimented with making his own gouaches. He also continues to write about art for publications including The Federalist and The Arts Fuse.
Clifton Jaeger 86 PT After first visiting San Miguel de Allende, Mexico as a RISD student, Clifton now owns a home there and designs residential property for a local and international clientele. For one of his latest projects, a 10,000-sf villa with a central courtyard and Moorish features, he also designed the furniture, lighting, doors and windows, working with local artists to create custom work and traveling to the Middle East to do research and source hardware. Now, the home graces the cover and fills a chapter of the new book Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House (Rizzoli, 2015).
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