graduate class notes
Dale Chihuly MFA 68 CR Torchlight Chandelier, a piece Dale created to celebrate the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in London, has been installed in London’s Park Lane. In recognition of his distinguished career creating art all over the world, the Institute of International Education (IIE) presented him with the Fritz Redlich Alumni Award at IIE’s gala dinner in New York City last fall. Dale is based in Seattle, where his studio is proud to announce that he has held 97 exhibitions in seven countries over the last 10 years that have been viewed by more than 10 million people.
1963 In November Martha (Collins) Armstrong MA
(Hatfield, MA) exhibited recent paintings in Landscapes, a solo show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
1973 Every Picture Tells a Story, a solo show of work by Alan Metnick MFA PH (Providence), is on view through May at the
Galeria Klatka in Warsaw, Poland. The exhibition features serigraphs, pastel drawings and black and white pen-andink drawings. Work by Ben Ryterband MFA CR (Lexington, MA) and Paul Eshelman MFA 81 CR
(Elizabeth, IL) was included in The Theater of Repetition: Slipcast Ceramics, a six-person exhibition that ran from
January through March at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston.
1975 Last fall Christine Vaillancourt MAE (Boston) exhibited
new paintings and works on paper at the Accidental Gallery in South Boston.
1978 Last fall Bruce Wall MFA PT, an associate professor of Fine Arts at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA, exhibited in a two-person show called The Art of Indian KOLAM at the college’s Communications Hall Gallery. His photography, paintings and mixed-media installations helped illuminate the ancient folk art practice, in which rice powder, crushed stones and spices are used to make images on the floors of Hindu temples.
Brad Buckley MFA 82 SC Last fall Brad (bradbuckley. com) showed the site-specific neon installation Manifest Destiny? as part of the Plato’s Cave series at EIDIA House Studio in Brooklyn. He lives in Potts Point, Australia.
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1980 Stephen Petegorsky MFA PH
(Florence, MA) is a volunteer with The Polus Center for Social and Economic Development, a group that assists people with disabilities in developing countries. Last fall he worked on the annual benefit gala held in Northampton, MA.
1982 In February Anne Sherwood Pundyk MFA PT (NYC) was the solera, or lead artist, in the installation Rapunzel in the Library (in perpetuum/forever II) at the Queens College Art Center, part of the Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The piece began as a site-specific solo installation that included Anne’s paintings, artist’s books and paintingbased video artworks. Other artists responded to the installation through a collaborative
Arlene Shechet
MFA 78 CR Arlene’s work was featured on the cover of the January 2012 issue of Art in America in conjunction with a feature article about her called Buckle and Flow. She’s showing this summer at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, and from September 12 to November 12 at Nature Morte in Berlin. A survey of Arlene’s work in paper was on view earlier this spring at Dieu Donné in NYC (see also pages 60 – 61).
Ken Druse MFA 74 FAV Ken’s 18th book, Natural Companions: The Garden Lover’s Guide to Plant Combinations, was released in March and Stewart, Tabori & Chang also reissued one of his popular earlier titles in soft cover, Making More Plants: The Science, Art, and Joy of Propagation. The New York Times calls Ken’s books “bibles for serious gardeners.”
group residency. This collective work—also on the theme of Rapunzel—culminated in its own exhibition and performance in April. Last fall Anne interviewed painter Rita Ackermann about her exhibition in Budapest for the December 2011 issue of the Brooklyn Rail.
1983 Linda DiFrenna MAE (Swansea, MA) recently had a solo exhibition of mixed-media pieces at Studio 67 in Warren, RI. She teaches at the Community College of Rhode Island.
1985 In May Darby Roach MFA GD (Seattle) is embarking on a round-the-world cycling trip. You can follow his progress on his blog: bikearoundtheworld. typepad.com.
1989 In addition to the major installation and exhibition now at the RISD Museum (see page 59) Spencer Finch MFA SC