WHERE WE ARE
undergraduate class notes
1984
Alex O’Neal 79 IL As a resident Fellow at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France from January through May 2009, Alex (Brooklyn) created drawings and paintings like this one, Delta Jail Scene with Lightning (2009–10, oil pastel on paper, 32 x 42").
Last fall Claudia Flynn SC (Wakefield, RI) had a solo exhibition, MYTHOS + PATHOS, at the Knight Campus Art Gallery in Warwick, RI. Charles Mueller BArch (Chester,
CT), a principal at Centerbrook Architects & Planners, has been commissioned to design a major expansion to the Mary Cheney Library in Manchester, CT. A house on the Connecticut River designed by Charles has garnered an award from AIA Connecticut and a Builder’s Choice award. The project has also been featured in Connecticut Magazine, The New Old House Journal and Builder Magazine.
1980
30th reunion | October 8–10
Kirsten Andreason AP (Safety Harbor, FL) won 3rd place for a watercolor she showed in the recent Paint-Out in Paradise invitational held at the Venice [FL] Art Center.
In January new work by T. Barny SC (Healdsburg, CA) was featured at DISTRICT Gallery in Park City, UT. Madeline Sorel IL (Brooklyn) curated Looking Out, Looking In: Portraits By Twenty-Five Women Artists at Kingsborough Community College, where she teaches illustration. Held in March, the show included work by fellow RISD grads Anna Rich 78 IL and Ann Lundquist 81 CR/ MFA 85 PT.
1981 Earlier this spring work by Trine Bumiller PR (Denver, CO) was on view in Liminal: New Paintings, a solo show at Zg Gallery in Chicago. T, the New York Times style magazine (10.4.09), featured the new design Michael Gabellini BArch (Brooklyn) did for the Jil Sander headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
1982 Andrea Bisordi-McLaughlin
AP (Wilton, CT) currently owns Tahiti Street, a women’s swim and resort-wear store in Greenwich, CT, where she has been in business for 20 years. She’s also married and has three sons. 46
Bestiarium At Hamburger Bahnhof, a solo show of work by Walton Ford FAV (Southfield, MA), continues through May 24 at Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYC.
Last Winter Fotini Vurgaropulou SC participated in a group show at The Loading Dock in Brooklyn, where she lives.
1983 Geoff Adams FAV (Newton, MA) has created live action segments for the PBS children’s show Martha Speaks. His Who’s That Dog videos are portraits of working dogs. Geoff shoots, edits, and creates all the graphics and music for these segments. This year he is also delivering more live action segments for continuing seasons of Arthur, Curious George and Peep and the Big Wide World. Stephen Dynia BArch (Jackson, WY) runs the architectural firm that built the Jackson Hole Performing Arts Pavilion spotlighted in the online publication of Architype Review in winter 2009. Erminio Pinque IL and his Providence-based Big Nazo Puppet Studio took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics, leading a boisterous street parade every night to kick off festivities in Place de la Francophonie, a French quarter and arts district in Vancouver.
Fred Lisaius 81 IL Fred’s Tropical North (2009, acrylic on wood panel, 30 x 30") is among the work featured in two solo shows last winter, Flourish at Bellevue [WA] College and Terra Incognita at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle. He lives in Bellevue.
Spring 2010
Karla Knight 80 PT Right: Earlier this spring, Karla’s work was on view in Life In Space: Charcoal Drawings, a solo exhibition at Artspace New Haven [CT]. She lives in Redding, CT.
1985
25th reunion | October 8–10
Meg (Kelleher) Aubrey IL (Alpharetta, GA) recently completed her MFA in Painting at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA. She is now teaching in SCAD’s foundation studies department. Lisa Baechtle IL moved to northwestern Tennessee in October 2008, where she has been winning awards in shows around the area and is teaching afterschool art to kids in McKenzie, TN. Huma Bhabha PR (see pages
26–29)
Tracy Farricker Kopp IL (Cos Cob, CT) is currently teaching English as a Second Language to elementary school students in Stamford, CT. She also just earned her second master’s degree and is now a reading specialist. Elizabeth Giordano Kiely IL (Mansfield, MA) is a freelance muralist and faux-finisher/painter as well as an assistant librarian. She and her husband, Brian, have four children.
Last summer Kristina (MacKay) Lavoie PH (Cranston, RI) received her Master of Social Work degree and is now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working for Gateway Healthcare in Providence.