of February as artists in residence at The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in St. Joseph, MN. In March The Statistics of Hope, their collaborative project with Jennifer Dalton, opened at 601Artspace in NYC, and Aligned by the Sun—their series commenting on DACA and the US travel ban—was included in Pattern Recognition at NYC’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Tim Waterman MLA co-edited two volumes published recently by Routledge: Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays (October 2017, with Ed Wall) and Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (February 2018, with Joshua Zeunert). His introductory textbook Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture has been translated into seven languages. Tim is a senior lecturer and Landscape Architecture Theory coordinator at the University of Greenwich in the UK.
2005 Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Tanya Aguiñiga MFA FD has earned the first Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. Presented in January, the $75,000 prize will support her ongoing work in communities this year—specifically on the AMBOS [Art Made Between Opposite Sides] Project bridging the US-Mexico border. Materials documenting that initiative are on display through September 23 in Tanya Aguiñiga: Craft & Care at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.
2007 Alice Engel MFA TX and Hovig Vartan were married on November 18, 2017 at St. Thomas Church in New York City, where they live. Rachel Milano MFA 06 TX and Aurora Harrington MFA 07 TX attended the festivities.
right: photo courtesy of From the Hip
2008 Jonas Criscoe MFA PT has shown print work in several recent shows around Austin, where he lives: at ICOSA Collective and Dimension Gallery last fall and in two winter exhibitions held in conjunction with PrintAustin 2018.
Saba Qizilbash MA 04 As one of the artists selected for the exhibition Ishara at Concrete Gallery Dubai, Saba created 100 graphite drawings of desolate places that she has come across during her travels. On view in March, the exhibition was organized in partnership with UAE Unlimited and patronized by HH Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan, who is adding her work to his collection. Saba teaches at the American University in Dubai.
Jewelry work by Kevin Hughes MFA JM is featured in La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, a traveling exhibition that’s on view through September 23 at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. He works at RISD and maintains a studio in Providence. Design, Culture & Global Security—a course Assistant Professor Tom Weis MID taught last fall in RISD’s ID department—is featured in a podcast made by Inkstick Media. Check out the episode “What happens when the military thinks outside the box?” on Things Go Boom (available on pri.org).
2009 The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has selected sculptural jewelry by Cheryl Eve Acosta MFA JM to represent its Greater Kansas City Area Committee in the exhibition Heavy Metal— Women to Watch 2018. The show will be on view from June 28 to September 16 at the museum in Washington, DC.
at Smack Mellon in NYC. The Brooklyn-based artist was one of 50 in the fall 2017 show who “use their work to critique power in a multitude of ways.”
2010 Last fall Colleen Clines MLA and her sister Maggie, partners in the fair-trade nonprofit Anchal, designed a shipping box for CAUSEBOX. The likeminded company, which sends a box of socially conscious goods to 15,000 subscribers quarterly, went with a design inspired by the geometric pattern and kantha stitching of Anchal’s Naari Throw Quilt.
Goebel & Co. Furniture exhibited new designs from its residential collection at the March 2018 Architectural Digest Design Show in NYC. Martin Goebel MFA FD runs the company, which is based in St. Louis, MO. For Women’s History Month in March, Amanda E. Gross MAT showed a series of “fearless women” charcoal and pastel drawings at Howling at the Edge of Chaos in Beacon, NY, where she lives. In May she showed recent paintings at the Hudson River Center as part of the Beacon International Artist Residency.
After years of vacancy and neglect, the former Pilgrim Congregational Church in Providence’s West End has been restored and converted into residences, thanks to the sibling team of developer Federico and designer Antonio Manaigo MFA FD. The Pilgrim Lofts development preserves many of the original details of the 1874 structure—including eyebrow windows, ornamental stonework and heavy timber framing—in 15 loft-style apartments.
2011 Jordan Baumgarten MFA PH (see pages 8–9)
Recitations not from memory, a video by Sunita Prasad MFA PH about gender discrimination, was featured in UPROOT
Diego RodriguezWarner MFA 13 PR Western Painting (acrylic, spray paint, latex paint and wood stain on carved panel) is among the work from the past five years (including four new paintings) that was on view from February – May in Honestly Lying, a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver (his home city). Diego’s layered, complex compositions are informed by collage, woodblock printing, trompe l’oeil and art historical references.
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