1958 Writing from his home in Florida, Frank Lukasik MD reports that he’s busy writing his autobiography, caring for his wife and teaching everyone how to fold the Stealth Origami paper airplanes he designed (stealthorigami.com).
1948 The huge body of work produced by Miriam Beerman PT forms the focus of Jonathan Gruber’s film Miriam Beerman, Expressing the Chaos (2015), which was screened as part of last April’s Roving Eye International Film Festival at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. The 53-minute documentary has played at festivals throughout the US, including the St. Louis International Film Festival in 2015 and the Washington [DC] Jewish Film Festival. Winner of RISD’s 2015 Alumni Award for Artistic Achievement, Miriam lives in Washington, DC.
Rita Derjue 56 GD The Best Roads Lead Uphill, a solo exhibition of Rita’s watercolors and acrylic paintings from the past decade, is on view through February 26 at the Littleton Museum in the city by the same name in Colorado, where she lives.
1954 J. Norman Stark IA , who practices law in Cleveland, OH, recently offered a webinar on the legal concept of good and workmanlike construction for the online education firm Lorman.
A work-on-paper installation by Merle Temkin TX* is now part of the permanent collection at the David Owsley Museum of Art in Muncie, IN. The NYC-based artist’s contribution to the museum was also featured in New Acquisitions 2016, an exhibition that ran from mid May through early September.
1959 During the month of October, Robert Cronin PT showed work in Now ’n Then, a solo exhibition at David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, CT, where he lives. As the icing on the cake of his 80th birthday celebration earlier in 2016, the show spanned his entire career, including work that he made at RISD in the mid-1950s.
1960 In early fall RI-based artist Wendy Ingram SC/MAE 77 exhibited pastel landscapes and handmade paper collages in a small group show at the Providence Art Club.
where he oversees all exhibitions, publications and projects related to the artist. When Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads and Related Works opened last spring at The Glass House—the gorgeous mid-20th-century modern home designed by Philip Johnson—David gave a gallery talk that opened with his memories of RISD and the story of how he first met the famous architect and came to work for Rauschenberg. Both stem from when he met and made lifelong friends with the wonderfully flamboyant David Whitney 63 IA , the late curator, collector and art lover perhaps best known as Johnson’s partner of 45 years.
Patricia White 64 IL Pat’s monoprint Nancy Becomes Her Art is included in the 5th Biennial FootPrint Exhibition, on view from January 22 to March 19 at the Julio Valdez Studio in NYC. Juried by RISD Professor of Printmaking Andrew Raftery, the biennial was also shown last summer at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. Pat is based in Cambridge, MA.
Dale (Peraner) Osterle 60 AP Dale exhibited hand-painted etchings like this one in A Sense of Place, a solo show in September at the National Association of Women Artists in NYC. She lives in Dekalb, IL.
1963 Dinah Maxwell Smith PT showed three dioramic works in Private Viewing: For Your Eyes Only, a group exhibition at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY from mid June through mid September. The artist lives in Southampton, NY.
1964 Last fall Nancy Crasco AE (Boston) showed work in a solo show at the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church in Arlington, MA. She also participated in Patterns: the 2016 National Juried Exhibition, which ran last summer at the Attleboro [MA] Arts Museum, and in Fiber in the Present Tense, a fall juried exhibition of the MA/RI chapter of the Surface Design Association (SDA) at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA.
1962 After working with Robert Rauschenberg for 28 years, David White IA is now a senior curator at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation,
Jackie Melissas 58 PT left: Last summer Jackie showed wood-fired ceramic work in a popup solo exhibition at Midcoast Conservancy in Wicasset, ME and in Inspirations, a group show at Stable Gallery in Damariscotta, ME. She lives in Brunswick, ME. Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
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