WHERE WE ARE
undergraduate class notes
Barry Beach 95 SC Last fall Barry (San Rafael, CA) showed work like this, Basin and Range (2009, wood & metal), in two exhibitions in San Francisco: Wonderland, a large multi-sited arts project downtown and Raw, an exhibition of new sculpture and installations by Bay-area artists held at Root Division.
Kristin Varner 95 IL Kristin (www.kristinvarner.com) is excited to have published her first picture book, Big Feelings (Parenting Counts Press, 2010), written to help kids better understand their own emotions. The freelance illustrator lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Daniele Boglivi Fiori IL
Marc Cavello FAV (Locust Valley, NY) would love some feedback on his newly updated website: www.marccavello.com.
15th reunion | October 8–10
(Weehawken, NJ) and Tamara Bodor Dilworth PH (South Salem, NY) each won a 2009 Daytime Emmy for their set design and art direction of The Martha Stewart Show. Peter Conlon FAV and his NYC-based studio WUT IT IS designed the new main television title screens for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
Work by Josh Pulver BArch, principal of A+C (apluscny.com) in NYC, was featured in the October 2009 issue of dwell magazine and in a December 2009 episode of HGTV’s Top Ten. He is currently developing a series of prefab homes expected to hit the market this summer. In March the meet the greens kitchen products designed by Chris Raia ID were featured on NBC’s Today Show in a segment about hot new household items. He and Andrea Zatarain 96 JM also have a new son, Stefan Thomas Raia, who will be a year old on July 23. Stefan’s older brother Mateo is three and the family lives in Newton, MA.
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Scott Clark IL (see page 8) Kimberly (Nolen) Getker IL and her husband Karl Getker 95 IL welcomed their first child, Madeline Domey Getker, on December 23, 2009. The family lives in Attleboro, MA.
In April a multimedia installation by Catherine Grisez JM was featured at Traver Gallery in Seattle, where she lives. Called LICK, the show of sculpture, photography and writing focused on wounds and the beauty of the healing process. Grace (Mercer) Lin IL (see
page 10) Anna (Kessler) Rulnick AP
and her husband Jason welcomed their second child, Hailey Mira Rulnick, on November 7, 2009. Hailey’s older brother, Maxim, will be three in June. The family lives in NYC.
1997 Eric Gordon IL (Bethesda, MD) is the co-creator and co-facilitator of Studio In-Sight, a group that serves artists living with disabilities at St. Luke’s House in Maryland.
Spring 2010
This spring he mounted the first show of work by the group, which runs through the end of May at the University of Maryland’s Graduate School of Social Work. Patrick Hwang BArch and Belinda Law were married on January 3, 2010 in Los Angeles. Patrick has been appointed an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Tucson. Karelle Levy TX (Miami), who
runs KREL, has been promoting the fall line of KREL Black Label at shows in NYC. Just before the December holidays, Caleb Siemon GL (Santa Ana, CA) was thrilled to receive a call from Washington, DC—from the office of Michelle Obama, who commissioned Caleb to make glass vessels for the Obamas to give to heads of state during their first official tour to Europe. He also produced special-edition jars to hold honey produced by White House bees.
1998 Kyla Coburn IL recently bought and renovated the 9,000-sf Arnold Mill in Central Falls, RI as the new headquarters for her company Kyla Coburn Designs LLC. The building now houses a design studio, office and wood shop, as well as five live/work lofts occupied by local artists. In addition to all this, Kyla recently gave birth to her second child, Alya.
In December Stephanie Diamond PR (NYC) presented Snap Sharing/Photo Reader: Intuitive Readings on Your Photographs at the SCOPE Art Fair in Miami.
Addie Langford AR (Detroit,
MI) earned her MFA in Ceramics in 2006 from Cranbrook and won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Madrid the following year, where she focused on Renaissance tapestry as a harbinger of contemporary collage. Since 2007 Addie has headed the Art School at
Flint [MI] Institute of Arts and has taught as a lecturer at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor School of Art + Design. Clara Lieu IL (Newton, MA), a Foundation Studies faculty member at RISD and director of Wellesley’s Jewett Art Gallery, curated a spring exhibition at the gallery featuring the work of fellow RISD professors Ken Horii, Tony Janello and Thomas Mills.
Pattie Lee Becker 97 PH Based in Boulder, Pattie Lee exhibited sculpture and pencil drawings like these (11 x 14") in a spring show called Ropes, which ran through May 23 at the Boulder [CO] Museum of Contemporary Art. The show explored the beauty and complexity of this seemingly mundane object.