In July and August Daniel Bruce SC (Long Island City, NY) exhibited Make A Wish, an interactive sculptural installation, at WAVE HILL Sunroom Project Space in Bronx, NY. Katie Herzog PT (Los Angeles)
Andrew Kuo 99 GD Andrew’s illustration/commentary piece Wheel of Worry ran in the New York Times Magazine’s May 16, 2010 issue focusing on worth.
2000 Last summer Dan Abdo FAV and Jason Patterson 99 FAV (both Brooklyn, NY) created the dance project Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving’ with Art Spiegelman and Pilobolus at Joyce Theater in NYC. In May Carey Ascenzo SC (Brooklyn, NY) was part of a 64-artist exhibition called WORKS ON PAPER at Big&Small/ Casual Gallery at her studio building in Long Island City. Olivia (Olive) Moffett Scappaticci was born to Rachel Moffet ID and Nick Scappaticci ID on July 28, 2010. The family lives in Cranston, RI. Jack Ryan BArch (see page 11)
2001 10th reunion October 7– 9, 2011 Adrianna Bamber IL (San
Francisco) exhibited in PONY UP, BOT last summer at Design Guild SF. (See also page 7.)
had a solo painting show called Informel at LA’s Actual Size Gallery in August.
Jen White PH and Sharon
Matt Lamothe FAV, Julia
Katy Horan IL and Daniel
Noh PR got together in Los
Rothman IL, Jenny Volvovski
Angeles last year to launch a web design, branding and graphic design studio; in 2010 they renamed it Drawing from Memory. The new name is a toast to Jen and Sharon’s long history together as friends as well as a metaphor for the concrete realization of abstract ideas.
GD (see page 6)
Bloomfield FAV were married on April 3, 2010 in Austin, TX, where they now live.
2002
Ryan Kundrat ID was married
on October 3, 2009 to Amy Grabowski in Eastford, CT. The couple lives in Bethel, CT and both work at ARK Projects, a public relations and design firm. Ryan has also started Ryan Kundrat Jewelry. Jesse Ragan GD (Brooklyn, NY)
has been helping to plan and coordinate a new certificate program in typeface design at Cooper Union. Jesse is teaching the core hands-on typeface design class in the program, which debuted this fall.
Uhuru, the Brooklyn-based furniture design company headed up by Bill Hilgendorf ID and Jason Horvath ID, launched its second “local materials” line for New York Design Week in May. Uhuru’s Coney Island Line is crafted from reclaimed wood taken from the demolished iconic boardwalk. Tana Martin Llinas GD was
2003 Amy (Exner) Bloom BArch
and Jeremy Bloom ID welcomed new baby Max Paul Bloom on Sunday, June 27 at 1:15pm in Winchester, MA. Michele (Glick) Erez PT/MFA 04 AE is living in Israel, where she teaches English for Berlitz and makes jewelry and cards. She got married in May 2010; she and her husband are raising a guide dog puppy.
Brian Martin 98 IL Arrival (oil on canvas, 23.5x32") is among Brian’s painting featured in BroadstreetStudio Exhibition (thebroadstreetstudio.com), a three-person show held in October at Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA. Brian lives with his wife Amy in Seekonk, MA.
Sonjie Feliciano Solomon 02 ID
Joel Savitzky (NYC) married
Sharon Mary Martin on June 4 at Auberge de Soleil, a hotel in Rutherford, CA. Joel is a senior art director for Rosetta, an advertising and marketing agency headquartered in Hamilton, NJ. He works in the NYC office.
Sonjie had a summer solo show at Causey Contemporary in Brooklyn, where she lives, and also worked on a recent installation by SOFTlab architecture at Bridge Gallery in NYC.
In August Sarah Small PH (Brooklyn, NY) showed work in a photography exhibition at Bleicher/Golightly in Santa Monica, CA. The show featured seven artists whose work explores intriguing narratives.
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had a solo show in May at the Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco entitled These Are the Days of Miracle and Wonder. Forty of his latest works were on view, including one that was also featured in the March 2010 issue of Dwell magazine.
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