Stephen Dynia BArch 83 Last September the Wyoming chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) presented Stephen with a silver medal — its highest honor — in recognition of his contributions to the practice and the organization. His firm Dynia Architects (Jackson, WY and Denver, CO) earned an award of excellence for the Diagonal House in Teton Village, WY, a merit for The Grove in Jackson, WY and citations for Boardwalk Cabin Compound in Teton County, WY and Freight Residences in Denver (shown here).
Jewish Community Center in Beachwood, OH.
1984 John Colwell FAV creates one-of-a-kind pairs of Cosmic Kicks sneakers as special freebies to generate buzz for his studio, John Colwell Graphic Design, in Iowa City. “I enjoy giving them away with the promise that their owners will show them off and promote my business,” he notes. Peter Diepenbrock BID 84 (Jamestown, RI) conceptualized The Foundry Clock Man, a 12-foot-tall sculpture of a historic industrial worker pushing a large vintage clock. Commissioned as a tribute to the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.—a RI company that
initially manufactured clocks—the sculpture weighs 9,000 pounds and has been permanently installed on top of a Foundry complex building overlooking the highway in Providence. A Greenwich Village apartment with stately interior design by Glenn Gissler BArch (and his team at Glenn Gissler Design) was featured in LUXE magazine (9.17). Among the striking elements in the family home: a set of limited-edition prints by Walton Ford 82 FAV and a chandelier by Lindsey Adelman 96 ID.
in Touchstones, Totems, Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art at the Brattleboro [VT] Museum. The exhibition— also featuring work by Walton Ford 82 FAV and Stephen Petegorsky MFA 80 PH—continues through February 11.
1985 Allison Druin GD is now working at Pratt as the founding Associate Provost for Research & Strategic Partnerships. “In this newly created position, I work with each of the deans to support
emerging research activities,” she explains, “and with each of the centers and institutes to expand their research outreach and resources.” For almost 20 years, Allison had worked at the University of Maryland as a professor, lab director and associate dean and also held the title of “chief futurist.” Her research has focused on the development of technology for children, resulting in collaborations with organizations ranging from Google and Nickelodeon to the White
John Beerman 82 PT Lightning Bolt Corona (2015, oil on linen, 24 x 26") is among the 34 luminous landscapes and still lifes exhibited in a spring 2017 solo exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, SC. Born in Greensboro, John recently returned to Durham, NC (“You bloom where you’re planted, I guess,” he notes in a recent article in Walter magazine) and is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC.
House and the US Library of Congress.
Michael Gabellini BArch 81 + Kim Sheppard BArch 86 Combining historic preservation and adaptive reuse, Gabellini Sheppard Associates recently restored the neoclassical office lobby of the former AT&T Building in Lower Manhattan to house new retail spaces and a public galleria. The firm earned the NYCxDESIGN Award for its graceful, non-intrusive renovation of the space, now known as 195 Broadway.
A felt hat created by Juliane Gorman TX (felt-happiness. com) was selected for Blue, a juried exhibition of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh [PA]. The show was held last summer and fall at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Art for Arts’ Sake, a solo show of paintings by Steven Kenny IL, was on view last fall at Angela King Gallery in New Orleans. Two of his paintings, The Arrival and The Carriage, were recently acquired by the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, FL, near where he lives in St. Petersburg. Colleen Kiely PT (Medford, MA) is exhibiting paintings of Beau, her beloved basset hound,
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