Sylvan Adams MAE 91 As an art teacher at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, CA, Sylvan works with Ben Schumaker and the team at The Memory Project to bring hope into the lives of vulnerable children around the world. “Every year The Memory Project sends us photographs of children from the country we’re paired with (so far, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Ukraine and the Philippines). They share insight into their tragedy, losses or abject poverty. My students and I discuss the culture and challenges faced by these children.” The CA-based students then paint a portrait of one of the kids and send a personal message and photo of themselves. To see a moving video of children receiving their completed portraits — or to get involved — visit memoryproject.org.
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Marsha Trattner MFA SC (She-Weld.com), who hand-forges beautiful pans, bowls and lighting fixtures in Brooklyn, took part in a Martin Luther King, Jr., remembrance celebration at The Riverside Church of NY. For her project Torpedoes into Plowshares, she transformed a 100kg high-explosive torpedo into shovels that were then used to plant seeds as part of the church’s community outreach. The project took place in spring and summer 2017.
Shipwreck aficionados and other visitors to Horseneck Point Lifesaving Station in Westport, MA were delighted with the displays Chris Clarendon MFA GD (Tiverton, RI) created for a summer exhibition. His panels for Notorious Shipwrecks off Westport! featured artifacts, narratives and nautical charts detailing three major wrecks that happened nearby.
between art object and active living environment” was presented in a two-part exhibition at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. New Art Centre in Salisbury, UK, hosted The Flat Field Works, her recent series encompassing sculpture, painting and textiles. Andrea also showed with Tom Burr in concrete realities, a summer show at Bortolami gallery, NYC.
1991 Philadelphia-based photographer Judy Gelles MFA PH earned a travel grant from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists to spend a week in Yakima, WA, where she
Mary Kokol MFA 87 PH In The Garden Ephemeral, a fall show at Boston’s Gallery NAGA, Mary exhibited a new photographic series of frozen flowers, including Yellow Garden, Melting Lake. She collects blossoms from her own gardens and those of friends and family, then freezes them before photographing them in sunlight to create permanent evidence of two temporary states.
continued her Fourth Grade Project. Photographs from that series were exhibited last summer at the Center for
Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, and in the fall at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PA.
New work by Andrea Zittel MFA SC (Joshua Tree, CA) investigating the “symbiosis
1989 Last winter and spring fine artist Janine Antoni MFA SC and choreographer Stephen Petronio presented Entangle, a three-part multidisciplinary series at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY. Created through their ongoing collaboration, the works combined action, video and installation, exploring the boundaries between artist, dancer and audience.
Linda Leslie Brown 87 MAE Salted Pink (10 x 8 x 9") is among Linda’s recent mixedmedia sculptures charged with allusions to the body and “biased toward growth, change and falling apart.” The work was exhibited last fall in Parts and Holes, a solo show at Wheelock College’s Towne Art Gallery in Boston. She’s a professor of fine arts at nearby Suffolk University.
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