Cara (Shaw) Erinle 92 GD Cara, a designer in Burtonsville, MD who runs a business called Salient Solutions (salient-solutions.com), recently wrote and illustrated So I Am Called, a novel targeted towards teenage boys; she published the book through her new publishing company, Inscription Press (inscription press.com), where you can read a sample chapter.
based works at Z Space. The San Francisco-based artist co-taught an animation workshop in conjunction with the exhibition and screening of Stop & Go, an international animation collection. Mel also showed work in A Romance of Many Dimensions, a group show on view last November at Brooklyn Artists Gym; over the winter she participated in Island of order in a sea of chaos, a group show at de Vishal gallery in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Shine Design, the titles studio where Michael Riley GD (Los Angeles) is creative director, created the main title reveals for the FOX TV program Terranova and for The Secret Circle, a new show on The CW Television Network.
Ed Shems IL (edfredned.com) wrote in with the good news that he and his wife Bree Bernat Shems and their son Leo welcomed Cora Bailey Shems to the family on September 19, 2011. “A day after my daughter was born,” he adds, “my business partner Justin Perricone and I launched Creative Relay (creativerelay.com), a source of information, webinars and events for creative professionals. We worked together previously as president and vice-president of the Boston Chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild and are continuing our goal of sharing knowledge and experiences among creatives in a quickly changing landscape. Our motto is ‘Resources for the Evolving Creative Professional.’”
New York-based artist Kiwon Wang JM (kiwonwang.net)
Kirsten Fischler 88 IL Last fall and winter, Kirsten showed works from her Knotty Thoughts series in Interior Design: the Brain and Spine in Art. The group show was on view at the ArtTimesTwo Gallery housed in the Princeton Brain and Spine Care Institute in Princeton Township, NJ. Kirsten lives in West Chester, PA.
served as curator for Open Mind, an international contemporary jewelry exhibition held last fall at Sungkok Art Musem in Seoul, Korea. The show featured work in new nonprecious materials by 63 artists from 18 countries.
1992 20th Reunion October 5 – 7, 2012 Richard Barlow PT (rbarlow.
net) was one of five artists awarded a 2011 – 12 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists. Last fall he exhibited his works in the show A Crow’s Nest, a group show at Macalester College’s art gallery in St. Paul, MN. The Minneapolis-based artist showed pieces ranging from silver-leaf drawings based on landscape imagery from LP Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
covers to watercolor postcards based on a single 19th-century photograph. Arnor Bieltvedt PT (Pasadena,
CA) had three paintings in Visions of Los Angeles, a fall 2011 show at UCLA’s Kerckhoff Art Gallery. In the last year, Shepard Fairey IL has seen the inside of a Boston courtroom, the campsites of Occupy LA and the cover of TIME (he designed the magazine’s 2011 Person of the Year cover). Now the designer of the Obey street art campaign and the iconic 2008 Obama poster has collaborated with Incase Design to create a capsule collection of sleeves and covers for Apple devices that combine global symbols of
Bo Joseph 92 PT Where Fear and Fantasy Converge (2011, oil pastel, tempera and acrylic on patchworked paper, 79 3/8 x 56 1/2") is among the seven large works on paper on view in Fragments of a Worldview, a show that ran earlier this spring at Sears-Peyton Gallery in NYC, where he lives. Bo is known for referencing a wide range of culturally and historically resonant artifacts in his work and is represented by both Sears-Peyton and McClain Gallery in Houston.
peace with elements of his own street art. (See also page 88.) Last summer Veronica Frenning CR showed a clay, rubber and metal installation piece in Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, a group show for artists selected to participate in the Artist in the Marketplace program. The 13-week seminar series offers practicing artists opportunities
to meet with established artists, collectors, critics, curators, dealers and lawyers, and learn about exhibition opportunities, galleries, grant writing, copyright law and tax issues. The Brooklyn-based artist also received a Studio Immersion Project fellowship through Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and spent the month of November as a resident artist at Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei. spring/summer 2012
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