own ancestral, present and future paths onto the surface of a world map tapestry.” Rocks, Slopes and Paper, a two-person exhibition on view last summer at Maryalice Huggins Gallery in Newport, RI, featured paintings by Gillian Stoneburner PT.
2005 Last April Jamie Allen IL devoted her month at Chalk Hill Artist Residency in Sonoma, CA to “reading, exploring, drawing in my sketchbook and painting in the barn.” Before returning to her home base in Honolulu, HI, she showcased the gorgeous mixed media work she created using natural dyes on watercolor paper.
Chellis Baird 05 TX For the painting technique she calls the “hypnotic twist,” Chellis dips fabric in handmade waxed pigments and sculpts it into a “textural landscape of abstract color.” Hot Wired (detail, 7 x 5') — “inspired by the tech landscape we currently weave through to build our own colorful worlds” — was on display last fall at (appropriately) the Google offices in Chelsea, augmented by lights projected by Alida Camp 05 ID. Watch for Chellis’ work in Canvas, an upcoming art app.
2004 continued A panel of judges selected an oil painting of Common Eiders created by Rebekah Lowell IL for the 2017 Maine Duck Stamp— the third year the Maine-based artist has won first place in the competition. And it runs in the family: both of her daughters won first place in their age
groups in the 2017 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program. For the World Culture Festival: Journeys held in November at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Natalia Nakazawa PT (NYC) presented Our Stories of Migration, a collaborative tapestry project in which “participants embroidered their
Saewon Min 05 ID + Ranhee (Joo) Butler 05 ID On a mission to make kids’ birthday parties a snap for busy parents, Saewon and Ranhee — who have five kids between the two of them — launched Merrilulu (merrilulu.com) in January 2017. The online boutique specializes in quality party decorations with kid-favorite themes like Once Upon a Time and Trip to the Moon. The two designers, who both worked “in the baby industry” prior to launching Merrilulu, are based in NYC and NJ, respectively.
In 2017 Mark Guarraia ID became creative director of products and user experience at Teva Pharmaceuticals, where he and his team work to improve patient outcomes through connected tech. He also continues to teach at RISD and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In An Island Is Just An Island, a series of works in gouache, pastels and charcoal on paper, Regina Mamou PH “explores the construct of physical boundaries and the physicality of space.” She showed the work last fall in On Going Home, a group exhibition at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, where she lives. Last July Emily B. Snedden Yates CR became the new special projects manager at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, which is famous for its collection of medical oddities and antique devices. She curated Connective Tissue, a show of stunning paper
Margarita Alvarez 08 AP Fans of the hit series Project Runway got to see Margarita compete alongside 15 other designers in season 16, which aired in the fall on Lifetime. After working as a designer in Los Angeles for 10 years, the native of Puerto Rico managed to stay in the competition — which this year included a focus on plus-size couture — until the very last episode.
quilling work by Lisa Nilsson 85 IL that was on view through January 4; in the past year Emily also exhibited her personal glove collection in All Gems, a solo show at Practice Gallery in Philadelphia. For a peek into her fascination with the darker side of medicine, check out Welcome To The Morbid Girls Club in Nylon (9.23.16).
2006 Vajramantrabhiru, a towering (21 x 21 x 108") geometric spire Matthew Mosher FD made of weathered steel, is installed at the Amtrak station in Fredericksburg, VA through September. Imperfect Square, a sitespecific project by Alexander Rosenberg GL, was on view in Philadelphia (where he lives) in mid September as part of Monument Lab, a multi-artist project. He’s also working collaboratively with Caroline Woolard MFA 06 GL, Helen Lee MFA 06 GL and Lika Volkova on an ongoing project called Carried on Both Sides; the team spoke at the Met last summer, and Art 21 made a short film about the project. Leah Wolff PT and Guy Ben-Ari, who run the arts organization Meta Meta Meta LLC (metametameta.org), curated Pattern Interrupt at Agency, their newly opened
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project space in Brooklyn. Karen Lederer MFA 12 PR was one of the three artists exhibiting in the summer show, which examined “the narrative potential of abstraction through the use of pattern.” A number of alumni contributed work to a fall fundraising exhibition in support of programming at Agency.
2007 Sarah (Laskow) AP and Thomas Sheridan BArch 08 welcomed their son Ronan Sheridan in April 2017. The family is “over the moon and happily living in Brooklyn.”
2008 10th Reunion October 5 – 7 Julia Bland PT (see page 17) In recognition of his design for the Kwik Set leather crafting press, which enables leather crafters to cut leather, imprint/ emboss designs and set hardware with 20-plus customized dies and adapters, Erik DeMelo ID earned a 2016–17 Silver A’ Design Award in the category of prosumer products, tools and machinery design. Hao-Wen (Fanny) Chen ID, a vital member of the concept and development team and Erik’s spouse, traveled with him to Como, Italy in June to accept the award. The two live in Little Neck, NY.