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Lane Press Burlington, VT Paper: 70# Opus Satin (R) FSC text and 80# Sterling Dull (R) FSC cover F ONTS
Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and text face, Quiosco, designed by Cyrus Highsmith 97 GD COVE R
Your Grass is Greener (2016, oil, acrylic and plaster on canvas, 68 x 60")
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Shara Hughes 04 PT
Even before being selected for inclusion in this year’s Whitney Biennial, Shara’s playful paintings had begun gaining traction. The critical success of her 2016 spring solo show at Marlborough Chelsea has led to six solo and eight group shows in just over a year since. While the Brooklyn-based artist is happy to be on a roll, her real joy comes from talking shop with her painter boyfriend and holing up in her tiny Greenpoint studio making new breakthroughs.
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Katie Salen Tekinbas MFA 92 GD With a lifelong belief in the transformational power of play, Katie is a game design professor at UC Irvine and a cofounder of the online learning platform Connected Camps. She is also the founding executive director of Institute of Play, a nonprofit educational organization focused on games and learning. Katie co-wrote Rules of Play and The Game Design Reader, among other books, and is also the mother of twins Baris and Sevda, born in October 2015.
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Ted Stearn 83 PT + David Mazzucchelli 82 PT Friends since they first met at RISD, Ted and David both make comic books but have followed different paths professionally. Based in Hollywood, Ted works as a storyboard artist for an ever-changing range of animated shows. David is best known for his comic book collaborations with Frank Miller on the Batman and Daredevil series and for his graphic novel Asterios Polyp. R I S D XYZ
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Haejin Park 15 IL
As both her sketchbook doodles and commissioned illustrations indicate, Haejin seems to have a preternatural predisposition to sunniness. Could it stem from her abiding love of eggs?
+ special contributions from: Andy Ristaino 97 FAV // 16 –17 + 38 Jonathan Kaplan 73 CR // 65 Laurie Rosenwald 77 PT // 67 Peter Barrett 90 PT // 72 Grace Rivera 15 PH // 86 Yong Joo Kim MFA 09 JM // 92 Annie Evelyn 99 FD/MFA 07 // back cover
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