Kristina (Bell) DiTullo 96 IL Ellen Godena 97 PT Johanna Burns Maxey 98 PT Last spring Kristina (Cambridge, MA), Ellen (Boston) and Johanna (Northampton, MA) presented 6.7.8, a weeklong series of installation and performance works at Mobius arts space in Boston. In September Kristina’s work was included in the four-person exhibition Pattern and Repetition at Simmons College.
KRELwear, the clothing line by Karelle Levy TX (Miami), made its international debut in Stockholm over the summer. The line has been extremely popular in the US and has been featured in Harpers Bazaar and Elle. Karelle is very excited to start selling her line in Europe. Ari Benjamin Soltysiak was born on July 19, 2010 to Mark Soltysiak BArch (Boston) and his wife Randi.
1998 Alison Evans CR has opened
a gallery in Yarmouth, ME called Alison Evans Ceramics. She features her own work as well as pieces by other artists including Rebecca Saundres 98 GL*.
In addition to completing a recent site-specific commission at UMass Amherst (see page 10), Anna Schuleit PT (Dublin, NH)
delivered the keynote address at the Alliance of Artists Communities Conference in Providence in October. She also did the set design for the Ivy Baldwin Dance production of Here Rests Peggy at the Chocolate Factory in NYC and will be talking with students at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome when she visits in late November.
1999 Val Britton PR (San Francisco)
Kati London PT (NYC) was
recently named one of “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT’s Technology Review magazine. She is a vice president and senior producer at the NYC game company Area/Code. ColorQuarry, the design studio run by Amanda McCorkle GD (Central Falls, RI), has launched a new website, colorquarry.com, which highlights work she has done for 826 Boston, Mass MoCA and other nonprofits. Amanda is also happy to announce the birth of her first child, Ada Grey Katter.
completed a fellowship at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA in July; her fellowship exhibition was on view through August. She is showing Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art at the Katonah [NY] Museum of Art through January 2011. Suzi Cozzens GD (Oak Park, IL)
received a fellowship from the University of Iowa to study papermaking in September with the Macarthur Foundation award winner Timothy Barrett. Rachel Doriss TX and her husband Joel Hamilton welcomed
Stephanie Diamond PR (NYC)
participated in the summer show Day-to-day at NYC’s Martos Gallery. The exhibition showcased artists who incorporate the notion of time in their work.
Maria Virginia (Marivi) Gonzalez 94 GD Maria’s project Interior Landscapes earned an honorable mention in the photo competition sponsored by Duke University’s Daylight Magazine/Center for Documentary Studies. She lives in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Eric Sabee 97 IL Eric (American Canyon, CA) illustrated the new fast-paced fantasy card game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer (Gary Games). It features multiple factions, demons, heroes and constructs from different planes in a battle to determine which player will ascend to godhood.
their first child, Coco Doriss Hamilton, on December 23, 2009. They live in Brooklyn, NY.
Museum of Craft and Design. Each artist used either paper, wire, wood or fiber to transform a section of the museum.
Jason Fernald ID and
Gwendolyn Fernald (Portsmouth, NH) welcomed a daughter, Kaia Lizabeth, on May 26, 2010. Kaia joins her big sister Chloe. Alicia Goodwin GD (Kittery,
ME) opened Drift Contemporary Art Gallery in Kittery, ME last spring, with the goal of attracting top-notch emerging and established visual artists from all over the country. She has featured work by alumni Frank Poor MFA 92 SC (Cranston, RI), Caroline Rufo 88 GD (Needham, MA), Lorraine Nam 10 IL (Brooklyn, NY), Tyson Jacques 10 PR (Providence), Joe Delaney BArch 85 (Portland, ME), Christian Berman BLA 10 (Westport, CT), Adam Doyle 98 IL (Long Island City, NY) and Jane Hesser 02 PH (Providence) in various exhibitions throughout the summer and fall. Alicia will be participating in the Takt Kunstprojektraum artistin-residence program in Berlin, Germany during November and December 2010.
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (2009, Knopf Books for Young Readers), the first book in the Lunch Lady graphic novel series by Jarrett Krosoczka IL, won the Children’s Choice Award for 3rd to 4th Grade Book of the Year. It was also nominated for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for Kids at Comic Con in July.
Amanda DumasHernandez 97 GD Amanda’s Chicken Purse appeared as the cover image on the July 2010 issue of the French news publication Courier International. She lives in Atlanta.
Paul Hayes IL (San Francisco) has been making large-scale installation art from paper and participated in FourSuite: 4 Artists | 4 Materials | 4 Sites, a summer show at the San Francisco To submit updates for class notes, email risdxyz@risd.edu.
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