Edge - Fall 2012

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edge

the magazine of

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

FROM THE PRESIDENT

JASON CHEN

Today, education, and arts education in particular, face challenges that are unprecedented. Given these challenges, it may not be enough for a private arts university in the United States to be very good, or even excellent. It may need to be a leader, an institution that is exploring and defining the edges of the creative fields and providing its students with an educational experience that is both unparalleled and distinctive.

The University of the Arts has a long heritage of innovation and leadership in arts education. Our institution, for example, was among the first to offer instruction in museum studies more than a century ago. And we created one of the first jazz-focused music schools just within the last 20 years.

We believe that the University has an opportunity to lead the response to the new challenges that arts education faces and to do something that no other institution has done; we believe that the University of the Arts can invent the future of arts education.

We are in the process of inventing that future now. The University is creating a model that exemplifies rigor and experimentalism, tradition and innovation, discipline and boundary crossing.

This model is a unique one, one that speaks to this institution’s history, to the challenges faced by education and the creative fields, and to the creative and professional aspirations of the next generation of students.

You can read more about the challenges facing arts education and about the opportunities for innovative institutions like this one in this issue of Edge.

And you can learn about the newest additions to our leadership team who will work closely with our faculty to explore these opportunities. K Williams and Catherine Kodat join recently appointed Dean of Art, Media and Design Christopher Sharrock and Provost Kirk Pillow and complete the academic leadership of the University.

Williams, dean of the College of Performing Arts, brings to the University extensive artistic and administrative experience in each of the disciplines encompassed in that College: music, theater, and dance. Dean of Liberal Arts Kodat served most recently as director of the program in American Studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y, and has an arts background as a pianist and a former dance critic for The Baltimore Sun. As always, I hope you enjoy the latest issue of Edge. Your thoughts and suggestions are welcomed.

Warm regards,

Sean T. Buffington President, The University of the Arts

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NO GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET Arts education in a digital age

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DEVELOPING THE MASTER PLAN New vision for campus

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LEGACY

K Williams and

Recent grad creates iPad app

Berenstain Bears

Catherine Kodat

to educate Cambodian youth

children’s books

UARTS WELCOMES NEW DEANS

Co-creator of beloved

20 COMMENCEMENT ADVICE GOES VIRAL Neil Gaiman’s address is Internet sensation

NEWS 20

IN MEMORIAM 52

NEWS BRIEFS 28

DONOR REPORT 54

FACULTY NOTES 34

FROM THE ARCHIVES 70

ALUMNI NOTES 36

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Sean T. Buffington PRESIDENT Lucille Hughes EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT

Paul F. Healy EDITOR ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS

Mac Branscom ART DIRECTOR

Jessica Frye BFA ’02, MAT ’03 DESIGNER

James Maurer PRODUCTION MANAGER

Dana Rodriguez CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Gabriela Barrantes ’13 Steve Belkowitz Jason Chen BFA ’08 Meridith De Avila Khan Dave Jackson Michele Kishita BFA ’97, MFA ’10 Shawn May Robert Millard Greg Mooney Christy Pessagno

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Paul F. Healy Sara MacDonald Dana Rodriguez Juliana Rosati Kristen Scatton Joanna Sung Lauren Villanueva Mira Zergani

COVER IMAGE Felicia Puff BFA ’12 Shine, 2011 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Edge c/o University Communications, The University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102

EDGE, VOLUME 1, NUMBER 8 Edge is the magazine of the University of the Arts. Readers are encouraged to submit ideas for original articles about University students, faculty and alumni; advancements in arts and arts education; and visual, performing and media arts. The submission of artwork for reproduction is also encouraged. Please include contact information when submitting art.

Unless requested, artwork will not be returned.

Please send all comments, kudos and criticisms to Edge c/o The Office of University Communications, Letters to the Editor, 320 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102; or e-mail news@uarts.edu.

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Woodblock relief print production

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NO GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET: ARTS EDUCATION IN A DIGITAL AGE

BY PRESIDENT SEAN T. BUFFINGTON Powerful forces both inside and outside of academe are compelling institutions of higher education to rethink the ways they train their students, and how that educational experience is delivered. The University of the Arts is implementing an innovative new approach to arts and design education. In this feature article that originally appeared in the May 2012 edition of Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal, President Sean T. Buffington delves into the factors influencing these changes, and envisions the future they may bring about.

In arts education, something profound is happening. We who seek to educate and train the next generation of artists, designers, performers and media-makers – as my colleagues do at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia – are living through momentous changes that will force us to re-think what and how we teach.

The old metaphor for change of this sort is the tectonic shift: the change is massive and transformative, but its meaning becomes apparent only after new terrain has been created and fully inhabited and by then is seen as natural and inevitable. The changes we’re experiencing now may be more akin to volcanic activity, in which firm ground is made liquid and there’s nowhere to stand any longer. The terrain is remaking itself under our feet; the idea of terrain itself is rendered obsolete.

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Those in the field of arts education can probably rehearse many of the changes and developments in artistic practice in recent years almost by rote. Artists and makers of all kinds have become increasingly interested in crossing disciplinary boundaries and making use of media that might once have seemed foreign to them; new technologies have begun to enable new kinds of work that defy traditional categorization; cross-field and cross-national collaboration have become de rigueur; art and design and the principles of art and design have become pervasive; policymakers and business people have embraced, in name and occasionally in practice, the precepts and possibilities of the so-called creative economy.

ARTISTS AND MAKERS OF ALL KINDS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY INTERESTED IN CROSSING DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES.

Diehard conceptualists might even go further, arguing that it’s the idea even more (or in place of) its crafted form that makes art meaningful and sets it apart from mere expression or observation. And neither conceptual rigor nor craft are at risk from the technological changes we are witnessing. The ease of expression and communication enabled by new technologies will not entail the rapid or even ultimate obsolescence of art, of skilled making or of the educational system that prepares makers.

These changes, though – what I have called the radical democratization of the means of creative expression – are changing in turn what we mean by making and what counts as meaningful, crafted expression. To say so is not to judge the quality of expression. This is no lament about the rise of vulgarity and the lowering of standards brought about by the rise of, say, the Internet. The democratization of the means of expression is a consequence of the technological revolution we’re living through, and it will, inevitably, fundamentally alter how students – aspiring artists – think about craft, about art, and about making meaning by making things.

Rather, I’m pointing to a shift that is occurring that is more subtle and, ultimately, more fundamentally destabilizing to institutions like mine – requiring a significantly different approach to education and training. The shift that interests, worries and perplexes me is what I might call the broad dissemination, the “massification” of the means of artistic production – or meaningful making – which has, in turn, resulted in a radical democratization of artistic expression.

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These developments have already affected and will continue to affect how the arts are taught. But in referencing transformational changes in our field, I’m not referring to the multi/ inter/trans-disciplinary revolution. Nor to the globalization of artistic discourse. Nor even to the impact of technology on artistic practice – though this hits closer to the mark.

It is possible now, at very low cost, to acquire extremely sophisticated creative tools and to utilize them without much training. Indeed, the tools themselves can provide significant guidance to the novice user and even make creative decisions for him or her. And, of course, it goes almost without saying today that work produced in this way can be disseminated almost instantly to potentially enormous audiences – as free content, or packaged and sold as consumer products.

Now, one might question whether such cultural production ought properly to be called artistic. Artistry or design intelligence is manifested not in the fact of visual or aural or narrative production but in the judgment exercised in the use of new tools to produce work. Cheap paper and writing implements didn’t make everyone an artist – though it surely did facilitate the emergence of sketching as a hobby. In the same way, the Polaroid and the instamatic might have made us all vacation photographers, but most of us never became Garry Winogrand or Lee Friedlander.

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These phenomena will also alter in basic ways the professions for which institutions like mine seek to prepare students. After all, if technological tools become smart enough to make design decisions, then designers could increasingly become technicians, operators of machines instead of creative professionals. But the more profound – and less visible – impact will be on how students think about making.

Today, it is nearly impossible to say with any precision or certainty what this impact will be. After all, the first generation of so-called digital natives is only reaching college now; the environment they grew up in, the one that seemed so radical and new to many of us just a decade and a half ago, is already a punch-line and is soon to be an antiquated joke that doesn’t even make sense anymore. Remember AOL? Remember plugging in to access the ‘net? Today’s students don’t.

The present generation of collegians is arriving at our doors having shot and edited video, manipulated photographs, recorded music or at least sampled and remixed someone else’s music, designed their own animated avatars and even virtual environments, “painted” an image on their iPhone. The next generation will have designed and printed three-dimensional images, customized consumer products, perhaps rapid prototyped new products – I can’t imagine what else.

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They are not simply bombarded by images, consuming them in great gulps; they are making images, they are making the environments they inhabit, they are making meaningful connections among images, stories and mythologies and value systems. They are creative and creating.

REMEMBER AOL? REMEMBER PLUGGING IN TO ACCESS THE ‘NET? TODAY’S STUDENTS DON’T. But their notion of what it means to create may be much different. It’s something one does to communicate with others, to participate in a social network, to entertain oneself. Making is mundane, not sacred. It’s a component of everyday experience, woven tightly into the fabric of the daily. If this is so, then what is the task of arts educators? Is it to disabuse them of their misconceptions? Is it to inculcate in them an understanding of the “proper” way to make or the “proper” way to think about making? Is it to sort out the truly artistic from the great mass of creative chatterers – and to initiate them into the sacred tradition?

Maybe. Yes. Maybe not.

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We do it now, though, in the context of a curriculum and institutional histories oriented toward specific professional training and preparation. We seek to develop in students the critical faculties needed to thrive in clearly defined professions. But in the future, if indeed these changes come to pass, then we may have to re-think our purpose and objectives.

We may have to re-imagine our curricula, recast the BFA as foundational – not professional – preparation.

In a media-saturated culture in which everyone is both maker and consumer of images, products and meaningful media experiences, and in which professional opportunities must be invented by the alert as much as pursued by the welland deeply trained – in such an environment, isn’t the BFA the most appropriate general educational experience? If the MFA is the new MBA, then perhaps the BFA is the new BA. Which in turn poses significant challenges for those of us who offer art and design instruction. We are very good at equipping students – students, that is, who come to us with a reasonably firm commitment to pursuing a career in art or design – with the skills and judgment necessary to succeed in artistic fields and creative professions that are still reasonably well-defined.

We are perhaps less good at educating them broadly, at equipping them to put their visual acuity and design sensibility and experience as makers in the service of a wide range of problems, challenges and opportunities. That would require a different curricular structure, derived from a very different sense of mission and aspiration. Indeed, it might require a very different conception of what it means to teach in an institution of higher education.

Teaching in such an institution might look a lot more like what we call now mentorship or advising. Rather than assume young people know what they want and that we know how to prepare them to do that thing they want, we would have to help them interrogate their interests and aspirations, to enable them to explore, and to work with them to create an educational experience that meets their needs.

Curricula would not be configured as linear, progressive pathways but as component structures. Components would not necessarily be defined as traditional, semester-long courses but might include short workshops, online courses, intensive tutorials, etc. Students would pick and choose among components, arranging and rearranging them, according to what

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Or maybe the task of the educator is to help them to develop judgment, to help them to see that making, which they do natively, almost unconsciously, is a way of learning, of knowing, of making arguments and observations, of affecting and transforming their environment. And perhaps that’s not so very different from what we do now in arts education.

they need at a particular moment. Have a problem that requires that you use a particular software program? Go learn it in order to solve that problem or complete that project.

Want to pursue a traditional illustration training program?

Take multiple drawing and painting studios.

Linking all of this together would be not a traditional liberal arts curriculum but what one of our faculty members at the University of the Arts has called a liberal art curriculum – a curriculum focused on making as thinking, on design as problem-solving, on artistic expression as articulation and interrogation of ideas.

This begins to veer into utopianism – and vague utopianism at that! The brief and glib sketch above of an alternate future for arts education is fantastical in that it would be virtually impossible to administer and to offer to students in a costeffective way. Moreover, at the present moment, most of our students would find it more perplexing than liberating.

But in sketching this alternative even as blithely and broadly as this, I am groping toward a different approach, trying to point to what is an urgent need for new models – models that speak to the changing and changed conditions affecting higher education. And more than that, models that are adapted to conditions that are in constant flux, or at least rapidly changing, and to what is an emerging intelligence among young people that is more entrepreneurial, adaptable and alert than our curricula are designed to accommodate.

I am pointing us toward an educational structure that takes instability and unpredictability as its starting point, its fundamental assumption. If a university is not made up of stable, enduring structures arranged linearly or hierarchically – schools, departments, majors, minors – but is rather made up of components that can be used or deployed according to demand and need, then invention instead of convention becomes the governing institutional dynamic.

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UARTS DEVELOPS NEW MASTER PLAN VISION FOR CAMPUS SUPPORTS INNOVATIVE NEW ACADEMIC PLAN > This is part of an ongoing series of stories on the University’s ambitious new academic plan and its implementation.

As the University remakes its curricula and academic structure – changing fundamentally how young artists and creative professionals are educated – it has also been visualizing a dynamic, new campus that supports those changes and will stimulate further innovation.

“The University’s new master plan envisions an urban campus uniquely suited to the education of artists in the 21st century,” said President Sean T. Buffington. “The plan speaks to the University’s most pressing space needs and at the same time integrates the campus into a cohesive whole.”

ANALYZING THE NEEDS Following the completion of the academic plan, the need for a master plan for UArts’ facilities quickly became apparent. UArts began the master planning process by engaging Sasaki Associates, a respected Boston-based planning and design firm.

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The firm also surveyed the University’s existing buildings, the utilization of discrete spaces within those buildings, adjacencies between programs and offices, and the suitability of existing facilities for their present purposes as well as for the purposes envisioned in the academic plan.

The result of the nine-month process is a thorough, wide-ranging and dynamic plan to create a campus that supports the implementation of the University’s new academic vision, optimizes the use of existing University spaces and addresses longstanding facilities needs.

A PLAN FOR THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE In the academic areas, the plan creates identities for the six Schools within the College of Performing Arts (CPA) and the College of Art, Media and Design (CAMD), provides more and higher-quality

“THE PLAN ARTICULATES CLEARLY OUR PRIORITIES AS A COMMUNITY TODAY, AND IS FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO RESPOND TO CHANGES IN THE FUTURE.”

space to meet program needs, and addresses the need for practice, performance and dedicated studio space. It also creates opportunities for greater collaboration among programs, a key element of the new academic plan, and combines and expands the libraries to create a learning commons.

“Current facilities and uses of space support our existing programs as they stand,” said Provost Kirk E. Pillow, “but with ambitious plans for innovation and the start of new programs, the campus must evolve. The new master plan provides the right environment for realizing our academic goals.”

Some of the most exciting new design strategies focus on Gershman Hall, creating an integrated home for the performing arts programs. These changes not only reinvent the performing arts environment, they address the critical space needs of the School of Music. The plan creatively transforms the existing Levitt Auditorium stage and the space above it into a series of dance studios, repurposes the gym for flexible dance performance and practice venues, reimagines the basement swimming pool as a recording studio, and introduces a new rooftop deck that would overlook Broad Street.

Furness and Hamilton halls would also see dramatic changes. Outside Furness, the current power plant area would be transformed into sculpture gardens and exhibition pavilions, showcasing student work and enhancing the University’s presence along Pine

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Sasaki started the project by assessing the institution’s needs. To develop its analysis, the firm held a series of discussions with a broad range of key groups and individuals, including the Board of Trustees; senior administrators; members of UArts’ academic planning committees; School and program directors, and other faculty members from both Colleges; students; and the City of Philadelphia’s planning department.

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Street. Inside, the plan calls for consolidating Crafts and Sculpture studios, along with Theater’s scene shop, in a manner that celebrates the art of craft and the University’s hands-on approach to learning.

The plan also addresses the need to enhance the sense of community on the UArts campus, a longstanding challenge for an institution located in the heart of a large city with facilities that are spread across several city blocks, and one that has faced physical and curricular barriers to more extensive student integration and interaction. Student life is a key focus of any successful university master plan, and Sasaki’s recommendations take that component into account, providing strategies for enhancing student housing and dining. The planners also introduce steps to create more engagement, including expanding gallery and social spaces.

Finally, the plan calls for measures to enhance the University’s presence on Broad Street, helping to visually tie its physically separated buildings together more effectively, adding to the sense of community and the University’s overall public visibility.

IMPLEMENTING THE VISION Sasaki projects that the highest-priority projects could be accomplished in the next five to seven years, with the potential to realize the entire plan within 10 years. As with all master plans, the actual sequencing and timing would depend on the availability of financing.

And, like the University itself, master plans are continually evolving: they are typically updated every five years, with the updates helping to establish priorities that can evolve over time to meet new and future needs as they arise or are projected.

“This master plan is a living document and a platform for decision-making as we move forward,” says Buffington. “It’s a process that is never ‘finished,’ but continually evolving. The plan articulates clearly our priorities as a community today, and is flexible enough to respond to changes in the future.”

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Kate Perkins BFA ’12 (Painting/Drawing) Holly

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Robert Logan Maakestad ’14 (Crafts: Glass) The Peaches

COURTESY OF SARAH BOLT

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HOLY HILARITY SARAH BOLT BFA ’03

Divinity and disco may not be an obvious combination, but putting them together is no problem for Sister Mary Patrick in “Sister Act.” As the Broadway originator of the joyful, uninhibited character, Sarah Bolt BFA ’03 (Musical Theater) has tapped into her own jovial side to bring the beloved nun from screen to stage.

“She’s sort of like my excited side times 12,” says Bolt. “She’s exhausting but so fun to play eight times a week.”

Based upon the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, the show brings 1970s-inspired glitzy musical numbers to the tale of Deloris Van Cartier, a nightclub singer who hides in a convent after witnessing a crime. Though her unorthodox antics earn frowns from the Mother Superior, Deloris inspires the other nuns to embrace change. She soon leads their choir to unprecedented success, with the help of Mary Patrick’s contagious enthusiasm.

Bolt’s own success winning the principal role of Mary Patrick followed more than two years in the Broadway ensemble of “Wicked.” Earlier, she toured Europe as Jan in “Grease,” a part she lined up prior to her UArts graduation.

It wasn’t easy to contemplate leaving a blockbuster like “Wicked,” but Bolt knew what would prompt her to take the next step. “I had always said, the way to leave here is if you’re still happy, and then you’re offered a new Broadway show and a chance to originate something onstage that hasn’t been done before,” Bolt recalls.

“And that was offered – I can’t believe it, but it was offered.”

Bolt admits it was both exciting and a little scary to land the part played by Kathy Najimy in the “Sister Act” movie. “Bringing a movie character to life onstage without doing an imitation is sort of tricky,” says Bolt, who has been told since middle school that

she reminds people of Najimy. “Hopefully I’ve succeeded in doing that and still staying true to the character that she’s so famous for creating.”

Bolt notes that real-world training at UArts propelled her on her path to the feel-good musical. “My teachers were people that actually were working in the community,” she says. Through Senior Lecturer Jen Childs BFA ’90 (Theater), co-founder of the Philadelphia theater company 1812 Productions, Bolt was able to appear in a professional musical while still a student. “I think she really helped me hone those comedic chops that I have to use all the time,” Bolt says.

Received to much critical acclaim and nominated for five Tony Awards, “Sister Act” was featured through performances by Bolt and her fellow cast members on “Good Morning America,” “The View” and “Dancing with the Stars,” as well as at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the 2011 Tony Awards ceremony. The cast met President Obama backstage when the show was chosen to host the first major Broadway fundraiser of his re-election campaign.

As “Sister Act” prepares to conclude its Broadway run, Bolt is looking ahead to her wedding later this year and predicts that she’ll change gears for a time. Scheduled to appear as the voice of Jemima Puddleduck in the upcoming Nickelodeon cartoon “Peter Rabbit,” Bolt plans to explore further voice and television work, as well as comedic and dramatic roles onstage.

While Mary Patrick may exhibit an energy level beyond Bolt’s norm, it’s clear that Bolt shares her character’s commitment to staying positive. “What has helped me keep going in this career is just surrounding myself with people that really support me and make me happy,” she says.

BROADWAY ACTOR TONY-NOMINATED MUSICAL “SISTER ACT”

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NEW DEANS TAKE THEIR POSTS UNIVERSITY WELCOMES K WILLIAMS AND CATHERINE KODAT As the University of the Arts continues to implement its innovative academic plan – launching new schools, programs and curricula – two new deans are bringing their extensive experience and broad backgrounds to the process.

K Williams and Catherine (Katie) Gunther Kodat, Ph.D., arrived on campus in July as dean of the University’s College of Performing Arts (CPA) and Division of Liberal Arts, respectively.

“K brings energy, enthusiasm and a depth and breadth of experience,” says Provost Kirk E. Pillow.

“Katie has a deep understanding of the values of a liberal education and of the interrelation of the visual, the performing and the liberal arts. I am excited about the key roles each will play, working with Christopher Sharrock, dean of the College of Art, Media and Design, in the continuing transformation of the University.”

Williams comes to UArts from Washington, D.C., where she operated SiG Productions, LLC, an arts consulting and production company. She leads the three performing arts schools in CPA – Dance, Music and the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts – and is uniquely qualified for the job, having extensive artistic and administrative experience in each of those disciplines. As a producer, designer, company manager and stage manager, she has worked with Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning artists, musicians from Oscar Peterson and Yo Yo Ma to Bruce Springsteen, and dance companies from the Washington Ballet to the Trey McIntyre Project.

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An architectural consultant specializing in the creation of performing arts spaces, Williams has also been a lecturer and adjunct professor at George Mason University, Indiana/Purdue University and Butler University.

She holds an MA in Lighting Design from Indiana University and a BFA from the University of Florida in Theater Design and Technology with a minor in Painting, and was selected as an intern at the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University.

“The vision of the future embodied in the University’s academic plan is what drove me to toss my hat in the ring,” says Williams. “It’s a game-changer and what I’ve believed for a very long time about how we change the way we train artists and designers. It envisions exciting new ways that we can collaborate and integrate.

“My uncle told me when I was 17 that what he did for a living didn’t even exist when he was 17; for many current UArts students, the jobs they will have in their futures don’t yet exist, either,” she says.

“What UArts is building is what the world needs: a new way to teach and train the creative mind to see lots of little pieces and envision a different whole.

Kodat, who will also hold the title of Professor of Humanities, comes to the University from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where she served most recently as director of its program in American Studies. She has been a member of the Hamilton College faculty since 1995. Kodat brings an arts background as a musician and a former dance critic for The Baltimore Sun.

“I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE KEY ROLES EACH WILL PLAY IN THE CONTINUING TRANSFORMATION OF THE UNIVERSITY.”

From 2005 to 2010, she was chair of the Hamilton College department of English and Creative Writing. Her essays on 20th century literature and culture have appeared in numerous journals. She has also been a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and a Fulbright lecturer in American studies at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) in Budapest.

She earned her master’s degree and her Ph.D. in English at Boston University.

Her undergraduate education began in 1975 at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (now the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University), where she studied piano. Five years later, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Baltimore. She wrote for the Baltimore City Paper from 1979 to 1981, then joined The Baltimore Sun as a metro desk reporter. She became the paper’s chief dance critic in 1985.

Kodat says UArts’ academic plan and the new BFA in Creative Writing played major roles in her decision to come to the University.

“The academic plan is simply thrilling – a fresh, dynamic approach to arts education that truly engages the amazing transformations we’ve seen in the arts and in higher education over the past 10 or 15 years. The liberal arts classroom is the place where students get to work with artists outside of their own métier to master a shared intellectual challenge,” she says. “It’s where they discover together the world’s myriad systems of religion, gender, money, race, science, politics, language, sex. Those discoveries in turn prompt even more discovery: about the nature of their art, what they want to say as artists and how best to get that message across.”

And she adds, “Almost always, though we tend not to see it or to minimize its importance, getting that message across involves collaboration. Collaborations are connections. And art, whether it’s performing art, visual art or liberal arts, is about making connections – in the best art, unexpected or surprising connections. To paraphrase John Donne: No artist is an island, entire of itself. True in the 17th century, and even more true today.”

— Kirk E. Pillow, Provost

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MULTIMEDIA WITH A MISSION RECENT GRAD CREATES iPAD APP TO EDUCATE CAMBODIAN YOUTH

For Putra Roeung BFA ’12 (Multimedia), undertaking a senior project at UArts meant even more than building upon her previous three years of study to create an original product. It also meant revisiting her family’s past to educate Cambodians of her own generation about the darkest chapter in their native country’s history.

It is estimated that the brutal Khmer Rouge regime killed nearly two million Cambodians through overwork, starvation, disease and execution during its rule from 1975 to 1979. Today, a tribunal run jointly by the United Nations and the Cambodian government is attempting to prosecute surviving Khmer Rouge leaders on charges including war crimes and genocide.

Through her senior project, Roeung used the tribunal as an opportunity to educate Cambodian youth about the devastating period, creating a series of iPad applications, the first of which is currently available in the Apple App Store.

“As a child growing up in Cambodia, I had little or no understanding about what had transpired over the last 30 years before I was born,” says Roeung. It was only after her family moved to the United States when she was 10 years old that Roeung began to understand the enormity of the Khmer Rouge’s impact on Cambodia and her own family.

“I became really interested in the subject, and I tried asking my parents about it, but they seemed to be a little bit hesitant,” Roeung recalls.

Over time, Roeung’s parents told her that they and their families were among those evacuated to the countryside to work as slaves in rice fields. The radical Communist leadership sent whole city populations to such rural labor camps. Attempting to transform the country into a primitive, agrarian society without culture or tradition – a vision

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they described as “Year Zero” – the Khmer Rouge abolished money, markets and private property, and closed schools, hospitals, shops, offices and monasteries. People considered unfit for the ideal of a classless society – including intellectuals, businesspeople, Buddhists, ethnic minorities and others – were executed.

Siblings and relatives of both Roeung’s parents died at the hands of the regime. Her parents escaped with other remaining family members to Thailand, and later met and married. They returned to Cambodia in 1993, when Roeung was 3 years old.

Roeung decided to channel her astonishment at these horrors into her UArts senior project, the Year Zero brand of iPad applications. Through this work, she aims to educate, inform and inspire young Cambodians like herself who did not experience the atrocities and now live outside of their ancestral country. “Most of them seem to be somewhat unaware of the experiences of their own ancestors,” she says.

The first installment, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal app, keeps users up to date on trial proceedings through stories, videos, editorials and opinions from a variety of news sources. For its design, Roeung drew inspiration from the daily content updates and user-friendly interfaces of news and reference apps such as Flipboard, CNN and ABC News.

Due to Roeung’s successful submission of the app to the Apple App Store, the tool is now in the hands of her audience.

“IT’S NOT ABOUT JUST MAKING THINGS PRETTY, IT’S ABOUT BEING ABLE TO INSPIRE THOSE WHO LOOK AT YOUR WORK AND ALSO EDUCATE THEM.”

“The response that I’ve received from the Cambodian community is overwhelming,” she reports.

“Many older Cambodians as well as the youth expressed interest as well as a sense of pride.”

A second app, the Aksar Khmer, is named for the traditional alphabet of Cambodia’s indigenous Khmer people. Users learn to write Khmer letters, tracing over each character onscreen with digital paint in the color of their choice. Because Khmer writing and literature were banned during the Khmer Rouge regime, Roeung wants to encourage Cambodian youth to preserve the language of their heritage.

“For almost four years the nation was at a standstill regarding education,” explains Roeung. “The long-range effect is that when Cambodians fled the country, most of the children knew little or nothing about the Khmer language of literary heritage.”

Roeung plans to add a third and final element, the Khmer Rouge app, to the Year Zero series. Through an interactive map, a timeline and images, the app will give an overview of the entire rise and fall of the regime.

According to UArts Multimedia department director De Angela Duff, the “Year Zero” apps illustrate not only the international potential of multimedia projects, but also the strengths Roeung brought to her UArts career.

“She’s just a really fantastic student,” says Duff.

“She’s not only a really good visual designer; she’s also a very good programmer, and it’s really rare to find both in one person, and she is both – equally as well. So she’s a bit of a powerhouse.”

Having developed those talents since the age of 12 when the Internet first captured her interest, Roeung worked as a freelance web designer and developer throughout her years at UArts. Now a creative developer at interactive design studio Bluecadet in Philadelphia, Roeung hopes her work will continue to bring attention to important issues.

“It’s not about just making things pretty,” she says.

“It’s about being able to inspire those who look at your work and also educate them.”

— Putra Roeung BFA ’12 (opposite) Putra Roeung BFA ’12 and her Khmer Rouge Tribunal iPad app

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“WHAT MAKES THE BERENSTAIN BEARS SO VITAL IS THAT THEY PLAYED A PART IN THE MORAL UPBRINGING OF GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN.” — Mark Tocchet, Chair, Associate Professor, Illustration

(above, top to bottom) Stan ’45 and Jan ’45, the early years Jan Berenstain in her studio

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JAN BERENSTAIN ’45 1923-2012 | CO-CREATOR OF BELOVED BERENSTAIN BEARS CHILDREN’S BOOKS Jan Berenstain ’45 (Illustration) had a favorite saying: “Kids are a lot smarter than parents think they are.”

That deep respect for children and understanding of what makes them tick permeated each of the beloved Berenstain Bears books written and illustrated for over 50 years by Jan and her late husband, Stan ’45 (Illustration). Jan Berenstain died on February 23, 2012, at the age of 88 after suffering a severe stroke. Just two days earlier, she had been working in her studio, illustrating two books to be published in December.

Jan and Stan’s gentle tales of Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear were inspired by the Berenstain children, and later their grandchildren. The stories address children’s common concerns and aim to offer guidance on subjects like dentist visits, peer pressure, a new sibling or summer camp.

The first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Hunt, was published in 1962. According to The New York Times, the couple credited their first editor at Random House, Theodor Geisel – better known as Dr. Seuss – with helping them achieve their trademark simplicity in language and illustrations. That style made their books popular as reading primers, by helping toddlers see connections between stories and words on a page.

“He wanted very simple, schematic illustrations with nothing in the background,” Stan Berenstain told The Chicago Tribune. “Because the purpose of the books was to help kids tie the pictures in with the words.”

Stan and Jan Berenstain created more than 300 books until Stan’s death in 2005 at the age of 82. The books have been released in 23 languages, with more than 200 million copies sold, and have been a rite of passage for generations of young readers.

“Who doesn’t remember as a child standing in front of those spinning carousel displays of Berenstain Bear books at a store and picking one out to take home?” says Mark Tocchet, associate professor and chair of the University’s Illustration program.

“What makes the Berenstain Bears so vital is that they played a part in the moral upbringing of generations of children.”

“They say jokes don’t travel well, but family humor does,” Jan Berenstain told The Associated Press in 2011. “Family values is what we’re all about.”

There have been Berenstain Bears TV specials and a PBS series, software, clothes, toys, an Off-Broadway musical, e-books, apps, a video game and an interactive website.

The Bears even became theme-park characters.

Stan and Jan, both Philadelphia natives, were 18 when they met on their first day at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in 1941.

Both were Illustration majors.

They married in 1946 after Stan Berenstain returned home from serving as a medical illustrator at a stateside Army hospital during World War II. During that time, Jan Berenstain worked as a draftsman for the Army Corps of Engineers and as a riveter building Navy seaplanes.

Before their family of bear books was born, the young couple had already built a successful career in periodicals. A cartoon series they produced called “All in the Family” ran in McCall’s and Good Housekeeping magazines for 35 years, and their art appeared in magazines including Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post.

“I fondly remember the score of Berenstain Bears books that crammed my shelves, dispensing warm, old-fashioned wisdom over the course of a few brightly illustrated pages,” wrote The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri. “Jan’s penstrokes brought to life Mama Bear, in her blue polka-dotted dress and cap; Papa Bear, in his overalls and hat; Brother Bear, in his red shirt; Sister Bear, whose predilection for pink polka dots continues – unfortunately, some might say – to inform my fashion sense…. And they hold up well – never so in style that they went out of fashion. Timeless, timely, and kind-hearted, like all the best literature. Thank you, Jan Berenstain.”

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BY NEIL GAIMAN BECOMES INTERNET SENSATION ADDRESS BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND GRAPHIC NOVELIST CALLED ONE OF THE BEST COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES OF 2012 With more than half a million views and counting, the video of the 2012 UArts Commencement address by award-winning author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman urging graduates to “make good art” has become an international Internet sensation, striking a chord with creative people around the world.

Gaiman received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts at the University’s 134th Commencement ceremony, held May 17, 2012, at the Academy of Music on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. The Sandman and Coraline author gave heartfelt and funny advice to the 546 graduates of the College of Art, Media and Design and the College of Performing Arts.

“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you,” he told them. “Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”

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Since Gaiman’s first-ever commencement address was delivered, it has been tweeted thousands of times on Twitter, watched by viewers in 150 countries, translated into 12 languages, interpreted in illustration and in cartoon quotes, and has been called one of the best commencement speeches of 2012 by The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post and NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.”

In thousands of tweets and Facebook posts, the portion of Gaiman’s address that resonates most deeply with viewers from across the globe is when he advises graduates to respond to life’s difficulties by doing what they do best: making good art.

“AND WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH, THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO: MAKE GOOD ART.”

“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art.

“I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before?

Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

“And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules.

Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.” > View Neil Gaiman’s 2012 UArts Commencement address at uarts.edu/gaiman.

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PUBLIC ART MEETS ‘SUPER CREATURE OF ENERGY AND POWER’ GROUNDBREAKING COMMOTION PUBLIC ART PROJECT CONNECTS UARTS STUDENTS, FACULTY, ALUMNI WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES It was like a scene from a Philadelphia version of “Godzilla”: a 20-foot tall, Frankenstein-like sculpture called the “Super Creature of Energy and Power” rising over the Point Breeze section of the city. But in this case, the “monster” was part of the groundbreaking Commotion public art festival and was helped into existence by University of the Arts Sculpture students Olivia Diehl BFA ’12, Trey Dunlap BFA ’12 and Aimee Goldsmith BFA ’12, as well as school children from the community. The sculpture raising was one of several featured events at the two-week-long festival held June 16 – 30.

“Getting people involved in this process, they realize it’s not just being plopped down in their neighborhood. They had some relationship to it,” Phillips told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Led by Fine Arts faculty member John JH Phillips, Commotion was developed as a partnership with energy company PECO and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA). The $250,000 project, funded

by PECO through the PRA’s 53-year-old “Percent for Art” program, included the development of a new curriculum for UArts students focused on exploring the history and impact of art in local communities.

While creating his sound and video installation “Night Ferry” – another featured Commotion event – Phillips hosted free video-making workshops for the community. Collaborators on this large-scale, interactive art project included Dejha Ti BFA ’08 (Multimedia), Derek Scull ’13 (Communications) and Andrew Zahn BFA ’11 (Multimedia).

Commotion began in January 2012 with a series of innovative, hands-on community art workshops focused on book arts, sculpture, dance, drama, video and sound art. The project included a diverse group of professional and student art makers who worked with aspiring artists and community members in Philly’s Grays Ferry, Point Breeze and South of South Street neighborhoods. It was the first such project in the country to go beyond just sculptural installation and focus on community-based art projects.

Students Diehl, Dunlap and Goldsmith participated in workshops with schools in the project area like Audenried High School, where they taught electrical engineering students to build parts for the Super Creature, and Stephen Girard Elementary School, where students were taught to nurture plants that were incorporated into the temporary sculpture.

Visual artist and Liberal Arts Senior Lecturer Tim Fitts also held workshops in which local residents could share stories. Those tales inspired the creation of a 70-page book of his photography titled 46-45 Verandering, which was created in collaboration with Zahn, Scull, Goldsmith, Tyler Bailey BFA ’12 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts) and Maxwell VanHook BFA ’12 (Multimedia). The graphic art book was handed out at all Commotion events.

ALL PHOTOS BY DAVE JACKSON

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SUMMER FELLOWS PROGRAM CONNECTS UARTS STUDENTS WITH ALUMNI INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY PROVIDES TOP STUDENTS WITH JOB SHADOWING, MENTORING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FROM DISTINGUISHED GRADS The summer internship has long been an integral component of a college education, but with the Summer Fellows program, University of the Arts students get the added bonus of working alongside UArts alumni for an even more insightful, hands-on learning experience.

“It’s a unique experience in that it develops relationships between students and alumni,” said Julie Woodard, internship and career advisor in the Office of Career Services. “The UArts connection is important because students and their hosts have this shared experience at the University.”

The program grew out of discussions about ways to connect alumni with current students. So far, 13 students, who undergo a selection process including an application and interview, have been matched with alumni working at places like CBS Broadcasting, Inc., the Painted Bride Art Center, theater and dance companies, and various personal art studios.

“For current students, it’s a view into the possibilities of the future,” said Woodard. “They can see that these alumni came from the same beginnings and how successful they are. It gives students the opportunity to identify what they enjoy and what they don’t, and what skills they have and what they need to learn.”

For Diane Meck ’13 (Dance), her fellowship with Endstation Theatre Company and its co-founder and Artistic Director Geoffrey Kershner BFA ’00 (Acting) allowed her to stretch her acting muscles by performing in two of the company’s Shakespeare productions and taking acting master classes.

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“As an actor, I’ve learned so much by being here, like how important it is to make strong acting choices with everything you do and how important it is for each actor to bring their own choices and work to each rehearsal,” she said. But it was working with a UArts alum that made the experience truly special.

“Geoff and I connected with the fact that we both love Philadelphia and its art/theater scene, and also found out that we have been positively influenced by the same Acting professor, Johnnie Hobbs, Jr.,” she added. “I also feel a connection to him because we’re both from Virginia. It’s been neat to see how he has reconnected with his hometown.”

When Kershner was first approached about hosting a student in the Summer Fellows program’s inaugural year, he didn’t hesitate to say yes.

“Spending four years at UArts had a profound impact on me, so having an opportunity to give back is important,” he said. “This is a great opportunity to reconnect with UArts in a meaningful way. It’s beneficial to the students because it provides them practical, hands-on experience. It’s a neat opportunity for them to extend beyond the classroom and Philadelphia.”

“The alumni perspective is different because they know what it’s like to come out of the school and find the different pathways of a career in the arts,” said Lauren Villanueva, director of Parent and Alumni Relations.

“The most valuable thing alumni can offer is the chance to show current students what they can do with their degrees and what is out there after graduation.”

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That insight was crucial to Kaylyn Gray ’13 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts), who worked as a studio assistant to painter Michele Kishita BFA ’97 (Painting), MFA ’10 (Painting).

“I was getting nervous about going into my senior year, but I feel more confident after working with Michele,” Gray said. “This fellowship puts you with someone who can put your future in perspective. They have connections and a lot more knowledge about how to make it as an artist. Michele is always suggesting different ways to get my name out there and how to improve my work.”

Kishita, who is also an academic counselor and adjunct assistant professor at UArts, knows the value of handson experience.

“It’s one thing to sit in a classroom and have someone explain this is why you do this or that,” she said. “But in the context of the reality of a job, you can see why you’re doing what you’re doing. It adds a dimension to your knowledge base.”

Adds Kershner, “College is a self-contained situation in which you’re focused on your craft. I want to supplement that experience by showing students what it means to take those skills and apply them, how to self-facilitate and utilize the resources they have.”

He’ll likely have the opportunity to continue sharing that knowledge. Woodard and Villanueva are looking at ways to expand the program, including reaching out to more alumni and adding fellowship opportunities during winter break and the academic year.

The institution supports the program’s growth, as do the students. “It’s important to have a program like this because it allows students to use everything they are learning at UArts and apply it in a professional setting,” said Meck. “Because we have so many talented alumni, it would be a shame not to use the connection we have to them. They can teach us so many things about our crafts and help us transition into professionals.”

If you are interested in hosting a student through the Summer Fellows program or other internship experience, please contact Lauren Villanueva at 215-717-6139 or lvillanueva@uarts.edu.

(below, left to right) Work by Michele Kishita BFA ’97, MFA ’10 being prepped by her studio assistant, Kaylyn Gray ’13 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts)

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Diane Meck ’13 (Dance), performing in The Comedy of Errors at Endstation Theatre Company in Amherst, Va.

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UARTS ALUMNI WELCOME CLASS OF 2016 AT SEND-OFF EVENTS FOR NEW STUDENTS The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations welcomed new students in the Class of 2016 and their families to UArts with events around the country throughout July and August. These events provided an opportunity for students and parents to meet each other, as well as alumni from their hometowns.

In addition to new connections, parents and students came away from the events with plenty of advice for making the most of their time at UArts. Alumni shared their advice on everything from navigating public transportation, to surviving all-nighters in the studios to building lifelong relationships with faculty members. In addition, graduates shared stories of their career paths since graduation to help students realize everything that is possible as a result of the UArts experience.

Special thanks to our alumni hosts, many of whom opened their homes and businesses to the newest members of the UArts family: Southern California: Mary Dembo BFA’85 (Graphic Design) | Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Nicholas Whittaker BM’10 (Double Bass) and Keandra Cordero BM ’10 (Voice) | New York City: Ken Carbone BFA’73 (Graphic Design) | Lehigh Valley, Pa.: Robin BFA’86 (Dance) and Glen Gerchman | Chester County, Pa.: Susan Quinn BFA ’87 (Theater) | South Jersey: Fabian Brown BFA’01 (Music Performance) | Baltimore: Anna Fine Foer BFA’80 (Fibers) | Washington D.C.: Timothy Worrell BFA’87 (Illustration) | Philadelphia: Tom Miles ’75 (Sculpture) | Montgomery County, Pa.: Janine BFA’86 (Modern Dance) and David Bryant BFA ’84 (Piano)

(above) From left to right: Joshua Feigenbaum ’16 (Acting), Monique Myers ’16 (Directing, Playwriting and Production), and alumni hosts Nicholas Whittaker BM’10 and Keandra Cordero BM’10 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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MASTER CLASS SPOTLIGHT

STEVE BELKOWITZ

World-renowned master drummer Chester Thompson conducts a master class for Music students

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ALUMNUS, NOTED ILLUSTRATOR NAMED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Award-winning illustrator and 1992 Silver Star Alumni Award recipient Jerry Pinkney DIPL ’60 (Advertising Design) has been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. The induction ceremony will take place October 6, 2012, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

A native of Philadelphia, Pinkney has been illustrating beloved children’s books since 1964 and is the recipient of the 2010 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished illustrated children’s book for The Lion & the Mouse. Other accolades include five Caldecott honors, five “Best Illustrated Books” awards from The New York Times and five Coretta Scott King Awards for outstanding children’s books on the African-American experience.

CRAFTS STUDENTS TAKE FIRST PRIZE IN CARPET DESIGN COMPETITION Teresa Percontino ’13 (Crafts) and Olivia Jones ’13 (Crafts) took first prize for their textile designs in the Langhorne Carpet Company’s inaugural Morrow Student Design Competition. Twenty teams of students representing six Philadelphia-area colleges and art schools submitted original designs of plant and wildlife patterns for the company’s Conservation Collection. Proceeds from the sale of the collection will benefit nonprofits, including the Philadelphia Zoo and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

The students’ research included site visits to the Langhorne carpet mill in Bucks County, Pa., where they had to demonstrate that their proposed carpet designs could be woven on the mill’s historic Jacquard Wilton looms, which are programmed using hand-cut punch cards, a process that dates back to 18th-century England.

UARTS WEBSITE WINS WEBBY ‘PEOPLE’S VOICE’ AWARD The UArts website, designed by alumnus-led firm Siegel+Gale, won a Webby People’s Voice Award in the School/University category. Established in 1996 and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. People’s Voice Award winners are selected by an online vote of the general public within each category. UArts.edu was chosen by voters across the globe, topping nominees from UCLA, Bennington College, Towson State and the Chicago Portfolio School.

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(above, top to bottom) Self-Portrait as Cowboy

by Jerry Pinkney DIPL ’60 Teresa Percontino ’13 (Crafts) poses with her recent work (opposite) Meg Clifton Mitchell BM ’01, MM ’02, Chair of Alumni Council

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ALUMNI COUNCIL ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERS AND LEADERSHIP The UArts Alumni Council congratulates its newest members, who began their terms of service on July 1: Wesley Bogan BFA ’09 (Painting/Drawing), Fabian Antonio Brown BFA ’01 (Music Performance), Amanda Collett BFA ’02 (Acting), Janet K. Grace BS ’83 (Architectural Design), Nat Hamilton BFA ’07 (Photography), Josh Levitas BFA ’00 (Illustration) and Marc Williams ’77 (Metals).

The Council is also pleased to announce the election of Meg Clifton Mitchell BM ’01 (Voice) MM ’02 (Jazz Studies) as the chair of the Alumni Council and Michele Kishita BFA ’01 (Painting), MFA ’10 (Painting) as chair-elect. Mitchell and Kishita have been active members of the Council, serving for the last year as chairs of the Engagement and Mentoring committees, respectively. Mitchell succeeds Adam Dotson MFA ’07 (Museum Exhibition Planning and Design).

The Alumni Council partners with the Office of Alumni Relations to engage, advance and support UArts, its alumni and students through a variety of programs, services and volunteer opportunities.

Members of the Alumni Council are elected based upon a variety of factors, including their demonstrated leadership and service in their professions and their communities as well as with the UArts community.

Biographies of new members can be found on the Alumni Association website at uarts.edu/alumni.

CORZO CENTER WINS $120,000 KNIGHT ARTS CHALLENGE GRANT The University of the Arts has been selected from more than 1,200 applicants as the winner of a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in support of the University’s Corzo Center for the Creative Economy. The prestigious $120,000 grant will enable the University to extend entrepreneurship support to Philadelphia’s emerging creative-sector businesses.

“Creative businesses – arts-, culture- and design-focused – are a major driver of the economy of greater Philadelphia in these challenging times,” says University President Sean T. Buffington. “It’s very exciting to be able to help new artistic and cultural businesses emerge, expand and contribute to the region. Thanks to this Knight Foundation grant, we will be able to extend our support even further.”

Using grant funding, the Corzo Center will offer support to emerging creative businesses through pre-seed funding, mentorship programs and workshops, expanding its programming to accommodate the rapidly growing number of creative businesses in Philadelphia. It will provide classes and other assistance to help new companies develop business plans, and offer free expert advice on strategies, marketing and legal issues, as well as providing business critiques.

An initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Knight Arts Challenge in Philadelphia is a three-year, $9 million undertaking that seeks to transform the community through the arts.

“The University is grateful to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for making this exciting opportunity a reality,” says UArts’ Vice President for Advancement Lucie Hughes. “And we’re gratified that they have recognized both Philadelphia’s and the University’s cultural and artistic vitality in such a generous and meaningful way.”

The Corzo Center has established a number of partnerships and collaborations and co-sponsors a variety of events and programs with groups throughout the region. The Knight Foundation grant will enable it to expand opportunities for members of the University of the Arts community to work directly with entrepreneurs, as well as to assist them in taking advantage of other available programs.

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STUDIO ART GRAD STUDENTS ARE ARTISTSIN-RESIDENCE IN DUBAI Two MFA in Studio Art students at the University of the Arts were selected for a two-month-long residency at the Dubai Community Theater and Arts Centre’s Gallery of Light in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Corrina Celeste Mehiel ’13 (Studio Art) and Lujin Yoon MFA ’12 (Studio Art) spent February and March in Dubai recording their impressions of the city and its way of life, the results of which were included in the experimental art exhibition “MinD (Made in Dubai) - Dubai Contemporary.” Work

by MFA in Studio Art Director Joe Girandola was also included in the exhibit, which was curated by acclaimed Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem, a 2010 UArts artist-in-residence and a current graduate student in the University’s Studio Art program.

ALUMNUS-LED DRAW-A-THON RAISES MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S CHARITY The first Philly Draw-A-Thon, a 24-hour sketching marathon held in June, raised money for the children’s charity Child’s Play to benefit the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The brainchild of University of the Arts alumnus Tom Panico BFA ’11 (Illustration), with the help of friends Caroline Scavuzzo BFA ’11 (Graphic Design), Heather Vaughan ’13 (Illustration) and Caroline Boyd BFA ’11 (Film), this unique event featured some 35 local artists sketching comic book, cartoon, movie and video game characters for pledging sponsors for a straight 24 hours in the University’s Solmssen Court. “I had always wished there was a way to use my art to help people, and thanks to Child’s Play, I’ve finally found a way,” said Panico.

More than 200 sketches were created during the Draw-A-Thon, including some fast-selling pieces by Illustration professor and UArts alum Christian “Patch” Patchell BFA ’95 (Illustration), who was on hand for most of the first day to lend his drawing skills to a good cause.

‘UNDERGROUND POOL’ LITERARY JOURNAL SHOWCASES STUDENT CREATIVITY The second issue of Underground Pool, UArts’ student literary journal, launched in April 2012.

Designed and edited by Joe Granato ’13 (Graphic Design), the journal is created and produced by students with the guidance of Liberal Arts faculty member Elisa Juska, who will head up the new Creative Writing major launching in the fall of 2013. The journal showcases fiction, poetry and artwork by current UArts students in all disciplines.

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TWO UARTS’ INITIATIVES AWARDED COVETED GRANTS Two UArts initiatives – DesignPhiladelphia’s “Something from Nothing: Eco-Ventions for Urban Landscapes” and the School of Film series “At the Helm: Women Filmmakers” – received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, respectively. The grants will fund innovative new projects.

“Something from Nothing” will sponsor a national design/build competition that will kick off the annual DesignPhiladelphia celebration in 2013 and model the ways in which designers can revitalize and reimagine underutilized public spaces. The competition will be open to emerging designers no more than five years out of school.

“At the Helm” will support a special topics course in the University’s School of Film in the spring of 2013. Open to students from all disciplines and led by Academy Award-nominated faculty member Wendy Weinberg, the course will be accompanied by an evening film screening series open to the public.

A visiting lecture series will bring prominent female filmmakers to campus for master classes, screenings and forums.

PRAISE FROM ‘ALL ABOUT JAZZ’ FOR UARTS BIG BAND AND TRANSFUSION ENSEMBLE AllAboutJazz.com praised the “exuberant virtuosity” and “intricate musical ambiances” of releases from two celebrated ensembles from the School of Music: the UArts Big Band and Transfusion Ensemble.

Trumpeter and faculty member Matt Gallagher MM ’01 (Jazz) directed the “Z” Big Band in covers of eight Count Basie tunes on the CD titled “University of the Arts Big Band,” while professor and saxophonist Ron Kerber BM ’80 (Saxophone) led the Transfusion Ensemble through nine compositions by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea on its self-titled disc. The review concludes by saying, “...with educational institutions like the University of the Arts School of Music and its gifted students and faculty, the future of jazz is quite bright.”

ALUMNI, FACULTY SELECTED FOR WEST COLLECTION Two UArts alumni and two UArts faculty members were among 30 artists selected from an international field to be acquired for the West Collection of Contemporary Art through the 2012 West Collects initiative. Work from Kay Healy MFA ’08 (Book Arts/ Printmaking); Tyler Held BFA ’11 (Sculpture); Assistant Professor, Painting Coordinator and MFA in Studio Art Program Director Joe Girandola; and Book Arts/Printmaking Senior Lecturer Astrid Bowlby will be included in the West Collects exhibition this fall.

Healy, Girandola and Bowlby will exhibit at Philadelphia’s City Hall in a show celebrating Philly-based artists, while Held’s work will be included with the national and international finalists at the Collection’s corporate headquarters and new warehouse space in Oaks, Pa.

(opposite, top) Layla Juma and Joe Girandola with his recent work

The West Collection was established by Alfred P. West, founder and CEO of SEI Investments, and his daughter, Paige, with the goal of meeting young artists who are creating challenging and inventive work and presenting an experience of this new art to the public.

(above, top to bottom) “Z” Big Band rehearsal I Drop Bombs ... help is on the way

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Lauren Simonutti BFA ’90 (Photography) Narrative

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PUTTING THE FUN IN FUNCTION SHARIF PENDLETON BFA ’06

Inspiration is personal for Sharif Pendleton BFA ’06 (Multimedia).

A phrase coined in conversation with a friend triggers an edgy collection of stationery and jewelry. The contents of his own closet, seen anew, suggest preppy patterning for hipster tabletops.

As the founder of Masters of None, Pendleton stays true to his tagline: making “the provocative, the funny and the cool” in the form of housewares and accessories. His creations range from notecards engraved with a warning (“Emotions can be dangerous”) to argyle-patterned bamboo coasters inspired by the sweaters in his own wardrobe.

“I’m well aware of the fact that I didn’t invent coasters, but I do think I make them a little bit cooler,” quips Pendleton, whose current products also include mirrors, cuff links, pendants, ornaments and table tiles.

With its tongue-in-cheek name, Masters of None puts Pendleton’s commitment to creative freedom front and center, referencing the age-old saying “Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one.” The moniker allows Pendleton to go where his inspiration takes him. “I’m just uncomfortable sticking with one type of media,” he says.

Pendleton established Masters of None after the economic downturn changed his plans in 2008. Laid off from a position as a multimedia specialist at a law firm, he sought to maintain the flexibility he enjoyed in that role by starting his own business.

Now, Pendleton’s bold move is paying off. His creations have created a buzz in Good Housekeeping, Philadelphia Magazine, DailyCandy, Thrillist, Netherlands-based Linda magazine and other media outlets, and they appeared in the gift shop of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

While his approach lets his imagination roam, it also requires precision and discipline. “It takes a lot of science to make it look like a lot of art,” says Pendleton, who works with an industrial laser cutter at West Philadelphia’s NextFab studio. New to laser cutting when he launched Masters of None nearly three years ago, Pendleton now uses it to produce most of his products.

He credits the UArts Multimedia department with preparing him for the challenges of new creative horizons. While it offers a vast array of options, he says, the program also pushes students to make sure their core ideas are sound. “Your concepts have to be very, very strong,” he notes.

At the heart of Pendleton’s aesthetic is the principle “form follows function,” which he first learned in the classroom of former UArts Assistant Multimedia Professor K. Lynne Koval-Bauer. “I remember it sort of being a mind bender at the time,” Pendleton says.

Today he points to its impact across his work and particularly in his line of felt table tiles.

Pendleton chose the shape of the tiles – houndstooth – to provide multiple functions. Users can assemble the tiles into trivets, placemats and table runners. “I also like the idea of giving people who are not designers the opportunity to bring art and design to their everyday life,” he says.

For Pendleton, the most rewarding part of his work is knowing that other people have a use for his creations. “When you make products, it really starts to feel like they belong in other people’s homes,” he says. “When they accept that and they accept you, it’s a really great feeling.”

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Crafts Assistant Professor Alex Rosenberg’s work was featured in the 2012 International Glass Prize exhibition at GlazenHuis: Flemish Center for Contemporary Glass Art in Lommel, Belgium. He also exhibited in “Glass: A Juried Show” at the Minnetrista Gallery of Ball State University from May 12 to August 12, 2012.

In the fall of 2012, his work was exhibited in “Reinterpreting the Decorative Arts” at Mary Washington University’s Ridderhof Martin Gallery.

by digital communities. “Transmissions” featured four installations, each representing the presence of a person, memory or activity.

Oscar-nominated Film Professor Wendy Weinberg’s short “Never Too Late” was screened at the Redcat Theater in Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on April 22. “Never Too Late” was one of four films selected for the “Honoring History” program, part of the ONE Queer Film Fest organized by ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. This screening marked the 40th film festival for Weinberg’s eight-minute comedy, which redubs images from vintage films and classic TV to tell a contemporary story about gay marriage. After the screening, the film was entered into the archives, which are the world’s largest research library on LGBT heritage and concerns.

Photography faculty member Jordan Rockford BFA ’00 (Photography) curated the 13th Annual Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibit “Equator” by celebrated Israeli photographer David Adika. The exhibition, on display from April 30 to May 10, was a collaboration between the University of the Arts and Equality Forum, the largest annual national and international LGBT civil rights summit. Rockford also gave a talk titled “Through a Lens, Queerly: Queer Visions in Contemporary Photography” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia on June 3.

Faculty member and Industrial Design Program Director Michael McAllister MID ’02 (Industrial Design) will present a paper at the 2012 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National Conference education symposium. The paper titled “Empowering People with Disabilities – A Participatory Design Exploration Using the Arduino Micro-Controller” presents McAllister’s work in using design collaborations to engage and improve the lives of people with disabilities.

“Transmissions” by Multimedia Assistant Professor Katherine Bennett opened at the Collar Works Art Space in Troy, N.Y., on March 30. Widening notions of habitable spaces and creating a presence across the trajectory of time, Bennett uses sound and light as visceral material to foster relationships across the intangible spaces within the mind and the spaces created 34

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Erin Boyle MFA ’05 (Studio Art), a senior lecturer in the MFA in Studio Art program, exhibited her work in the President’s office at the University of the Arts in a solo show called “Two Moms, Three Boys and Two Dogs.”

Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, a new book by University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies Camille Paglia, will be released on October 16, 2012. Glittering Images explores more than two dozen images of paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces and digital art that have defined and transformed our visual world. Paglia was also a featured speaker at Fordham University’s “Taking Offense: When Art and the Sacred Collide” public forum held April 25.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Andrea Clearfield MM ’84 (Piano) presented the world premiere of her work “Tse Go La” with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia at Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square in April of 2012. “Tse Go La” celebrates traditional Tibetan songs and is the result of years of research in the Tibetan provincial capital of Lo Monthang, accessible only by foot or horseback.

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that threatens to die with Tashi Tsering, the last remaining royal court singer in the Buddhist monastery there, townspeople of Lo Monthang offered to have their own “common songs” recorded, several of which are included in “Tse Go La.” The work was also performed in New York City and New Jersey.

CIRCA ‘66, a digital book designed for the Apple iPad, is a collection of 91 photographs by Electronic Media Professor Tom Porett, who turned his lens on the turbulent 1960s in Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. In addition to the images, which detail both street life and anti-war demonstrations, the book includes a video stream of half-frame street portraits taken in Philadelphia accompanied by a soundtrack of news reports and interviews in sound collage modified by a Moog synthesizer. This soundtrack was originally part of “Made in USA,” a six-screen, multi-image projection work that also incorporated three film projectors and four-channel sound and traveled to numerous venues in the late 1960s. CIRCA ‘66 is now available in Apple’s iBookstore.

Fine Arts Professor and Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Coordinator Mara Adamitz Scrupe will release her first collection of poems titled Sky Pilot from Finishing Line Press in August 2012.

Liberal Arts Senior Lecturer Justyna Badach BFA ’94 (Photography) was awarded the Adjunct Faculty Scholarship by the board of the Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region for her photography series “Bachelor Portraits.”

Harris Fogel, associate professor of Photography and curator of the University’s Sol Mednick Gallery, visited Łódz, Poland, to participate in the 11th Annual Fotofestiwal as one of the festival’s visiting experts. His trip was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Fogel met students and faculty of the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw to talk about the newest American photography and curator/artist relations.

Video artist and Core Studies Assistant Professor Kristine Marx exhibited in the show “Floating Rooms at Quiet Cue” in Berlin, Germany. The exhibit featured individual artists who separately developed works in different media that were brought together and related to each other, following a common idea – given physical spaces being transformed into spaces of memory, association, imagination and fiction.

Writing for Film and Television Adjunct Professor Larry Loebell’s short play based on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was performed by F. Murray Abraham at the Resonance Ensemble Benefit in NYC on June 1. It imagines the post-election right-wing imposition of a “code” on the American theater, similar to the Motion Picture Production Code of the 1930s, and features a phone call between Shakespeare’s agent and the bard himself in which the agent describes what has to be cut from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in order to get it produced.

Work by Illustration Adjunct Associate Professor Paul King ’78 (Illustration) was exhibited in July 2012 at the Martin Art Gallery in the Baker Center of the Arts at Muhlenberg College. The show included about 30 of his most contemporary paintings, all semi-abstract. (opposite, top to bottom) Alex Rosenberg Work by: Erin Boyle MFA ’05 (above, top to bottom) “Tse Go La” by Andrea Clearfield MM ’84 Circa ‘66 by Tom Porett Work by: Kristine Marx

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Ed Letven CERT ’54 (Advertising Design) was interviewed by The Reporter in Pennsylvania about his artwork in UArts’ ArtUnleashed scholarship fundraiser. Letven said, “The art background and knowledge of the disciples I got from UArts fueled my exciting creative career.” He is best known for his watercolor, oil and acrylic landscape paintings of Bucks and Montgomery counties, Florida and Maine. In addition to his work as a professional artist, Letven also devotes his time to teaching art at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, Pa. Berny Brownstein DIPL ’57 (Advertising Design) was honored at the 5th Annual Movers and Shakers Luncheon of the Philly Ad Club. The honorees are outstanding achievers in the Philadelphia communications industry who have had significant impact on the professional community.

Charles Roth BFA ’59 (Advertising Design) writes, “I’ve been living in Pasadena, Calif., for the past two years with my partner Lisette Brodey, who is a writer/novelist. I still do some design work, but when I moved out to California, I started to do my own art work, which involves hand-drawing/painting, photography and/or computer art, often in an integrated form. Previous to moving west, we lived outside Philadelphia for 25 years, where I worked as a freelance designer and art director. Before that, I worked in advertising in Paris for 14 years and London for two years. Before my stint in Europe, I got my start in advertising in NYC, working there for four and a half years. I turned 76 on July 31 of this year.”

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Frank Nave BS ’64 (Industrial Design) writes, “It’s been a great ride since Industrial Design at PCA. I am vice president of Museums &

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Environments at Lynch Exhibits in Burlington, N.J., my second time around. I was their design director in the late 60s to mid 70s, began Nave Fortson Nicholson Design Associates in 1974 for 12 years and have since launched two museum divisions for major exhibit firms before returning to Lynch. Our award-winning interactive exhibits and projects are featured around the world. I am also an independent exhibit consultant for sports venues, corporate EBCs and museums.”

Harry Naar BFA ’68 (Painting) received his master’s degree from Indiana University after graduating from UArts. Since 1980, he has been a professor of Fine Art at Rider University, director of the Rider University Art Gallery and curator of the collection for Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts. He has exhibited in one-person and group shows throughout the country in such venues as the Corcoran Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and even the USSR Artists Union Gallery in Moscow. His work is included in numerous public and private collections. In 2009, he was one of 30 artists selected by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York for inclusion in its Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. The Academy also awarded him the Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Fund Purchase Award.

as on HGTV’s “Simply Quilts” and on the Discovery Channel’s “Home Matters” show. She also authored the book No-Sew Special Effects – Quilts, Crafts, Clothing, Home Decor.

Donna Albert BFA ’69 (Fibers) had a solo exhibit titled “The Seeds of Inspiration” at the Ware Center in Lancaster, Pa., in April 2012. She has been hailed as Pennsylvania’s foremost internationally recognized and awarded quilter and textile artist. Her work includes a permanent piece at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City and quilt commissions for Southwest General Hospital in Chicago and Takashimaya Co., Ltd. in Japan.

Albert has been featured in numerous books and magazines, as well

Robert Capanna BM ’73 (Composition), Diane Monroe BM ’75 (Violin) and Michal Schmidt MM ’92 performed in “The Sonata Today” in the Field Hall of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia on June 1. The concert featured sonatas for piano and violin and included three world premieres.

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Jeffrey Natkin BFA ’71 (Graphic Design) is the art manager/creative director for the Medicare division of WellPoint, Inc., where he has worked for five years. He manages a group of five to nine designers, depending on the time of year and business needs.

He spends a lot of time on strategic problem solving and trying to be as creative as possible.

Michael Biello BFA ’73 (Crafts) penned the lyrics of a new musical titled “Marry Harry” that ran at the Amas Musical Theatre in New York in April 2012.

Bob Cohn BS ’73 (Industrial Design) wrote, “My time at UArts, then PCA, was a real high point in my professional and personal life. I remember it fondly.”

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Rich Bomze BFA ’74 (Graphic Design) had a solo exhibition of photographs titled “The American Landscape: Nature’s Eye Candy” that ran April 15 - May 31 at ART @ 2601 in Philadelphia. Bomze, a native Philadelphian, photographs landscapes on his extensive world travels with his wife, Ilene. He has exhibited his collections at various venues in Bucks County, Pa., and is now showing his fine art photography in his hometown. “The American Landscape” focused primarily on the vast canyons of the American Southwest.

Bomze wrote, “I was awestruck by this majestic imagery, which evokes a sense of the divine and natural aesthetic, and the interdependence of nature and humankind. These landscapes of Utah, Arizona and New

Maureen Drdak BFA ’75 (Painting) was an artist-in-residence at the University of Chicago in May 2012 and her collaborative work “LungTa” with international composer Dr. Andrea Clearfield MM ’84 (Piano) had its Midwest premiere at the Rockefeller Chapel. “LungTa” had its East Coast premiere in Philadelphia in 2009 at UArts. Her 2012 Fulbright work “The Prakriti Project,” which established the first synthesis of repousse and contemporary painting, was completed in Nepal, after which she presented at the Fulbright South Central Asian Regional Conference in Kochin.

Drdak presented in March on her Fulbright work at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and recently judged the Annual Student Exhibition at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.

phia. Over the years, she has made prints in her in Old City studio with notable Philadelphia artists. Ettinger was interviewed by artblog.org, where she talked about collaborative process when an artist comes to her studio to make a print with her.

Jeffrey Stern BFA ’75 (Film) presented “Legerdemain,” a solo photography exhibition at the Wynwood Project Space in Miami.

Kay Wood BFA ’75 (Illustration) is in the process of creating a graphic novel titled The Big Belch. More info at thebigbelch.wordpress.com.

(opposite) Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona by Rich Bomze BFA ’74 (above left) Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo’s chief scientist, as illustrated

by Rick Tuma BFA ’76 for the Chicago Tribune (above right) Roxanne by Debra Goodyear BFA ’78

Mexico were long-ago habitats of Native Americans. We are merely visitors to these cultural homelands – and fortunate to behold them. My hope is that viewers will enjoy this beauty and be inspired to see these places firsthand.”

Rick Tuma BFA ’76 (Illustration) is a graphics producer for the Chicago Tribune. He recently won a Peter Lisagor Award for outstanding journalism for his executive profile illustrations in the Tribune’s business section. His winning portraits depicted Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo’s chief scientist and CEO of its Chicago-based Global Nutrition Group; Sheli Rosenberg, counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Tuyet Le, executive director of the Asian American Institute.

Debra Goodyear BFA ’78 (Painting) writes, “I was awarded the Florence Martin Memorial Award, chosen by her family out of 188 pieces for my watercolor ‘Roxanne’ at the Philadelphia Plastic Club. Also in that show, I received an honorable mention for my photograph ‘Renaissance Boy.’ I continue my painting, competing in shows, along with my full-time job as a floral designer.”

Howard Belk BFA ’81 (Graphic Design) was inducted into the Springfield High School Hall of Fame in Delaware County, Pa. He was one of 12 inductees, and the ceremony coincided with the school’s annual

Cindi Ettinger BFA ’78 (Printmaking) created C.R. Ettinger Studio in 1982 after working for a print studio in New York and deciding to open her own studio in Philadel-

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Celebration of the Arts. The program was presented by the Springfield Area Educational Foundation, an organization that recognizes achievement in academics, arts and athletics of influential Springfield High alumni and helps to provide funding for a variety of activities and improvements.

Belk is the co-president and CEO of Siegel+Gale, where he leads teams of designers, writers and strategists to create brand strategies and design systems for global organizations.

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Harry Lang BFA ’81 (Painting) has been named a 2012 winner of the “Writers of the Future” contest.

Lang was honored at a black-tie event with over 1,000 people in attendance, including some of the premiere names in the fields of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy. The ceremony was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Hollywood.

Mara (Feigelson) Szalajda BFA ’82 (Painting) has a major exhibition and retrospective of her work in gouache on paper at the Graphic Eye Gallery in Port Washington, N.Y., in October 2012.

(above) Harry Lang BFA ’81 receives “Writers of the Future” honor (right) Work by: C. Thomas Lewis BFA ’88

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Dorothy McMonagle Kulisek BFA ’83 (Fine Arts) is currently the creator/publisher/editor of The Sun by the Sea, a bi-monthly publication.

Each issue is creatively and inspirationally designed, reflective of her homage to sweet, bygone shore days.

She centers her editorial on Wildwood, N.J.’s rich history, as well as homegrown stories and photographs about the people who live there. She also incorporates her watercolor paintings into the graphic design layout of the paper.

Paula DeSandes Minacci BFA ’83 (Dance), Tiffany Staley Delio BFA ’00 (Dance), Christina Pastras Patchell BFA ’01 (Dance) and Daniela Galdi BFA ’08 (Dance) reunited on April 1, 2012, for a special performance at the Elysian Dance Company in Philadelphia. The concert was a fundraiser for the Elizabeth Ann Pulaski Memorial Scholarship Fund, which is awarded to a UArts Dance junior with financial need.

Jerrica Blankenship BFA ’12 (Jazz Dance), the 2011 scholarship recipient, also performed.

Nickie Boston BFA ’85 (Illustration) is the founder of My Life Q (mylifeq. net), where she and her twin sister curate the best products on QVC and arrange them on the website.

For nearly 20 years, they co-owned the nationally recognized Manayunk fashion emporium, Ma Jolie. My Life Q was featured in the Main Line Media News.

my Award-winning composer behind such Broadway hits as “Wicked” and films including “Prince of Egypt.”

Mishawn Reynolds BFA ’87 (Photography), MAT ’94 (Art Education) is the author of The Complete Guide to Teaching Art to Those with Autism - Utilizing the Elements and Principles of Design and Life Skills.

She has been an art educator for more than 20 years and has written and implemented multiple curriculums in the School District of Philadelphia, across Pennsylvania and in other states. Reynolds continues to be a practicing artist in photography, graphic design and gourd art.

Her work has been shown in both juried and group exhibitions in galleries, including the Centennial at the Barnes Foundation.

Lynn Hoffman BFA ’85 (Illustration) is teaching and creating ceramics in the Philadelphia area and doing freelance graphic design work.

Haley Ryane Meushaw BS ’86 (Industrial Design) was part of a show titled “Neon Art: Folk, Found, Fine” at the Center for Architecture in Philadelphia from June 4 through July 27, 2012.

Kate Flannery BFA ’87 (Theater) joined the cast for “When You Believe: A Conversation With and Tribute to Stephen Schwartz” at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum on May 19, 2012. Flannery is best known as Meredith on NBC’s The Office. She’s been seen on the New York stage in Nora Ephron’s “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” “Valley of the Dolls” and “The Real Live Brady Bunch.” She is a former member of Chicago’s Second City National Tour Co. and the Annoyance Theater. Her original comedy act, the Lampshades, plays Hollywood regularly. Stephen Schwartz is the Acade-

C. Thomas Lewis BFA ’88 (Photography) exhibited at UArts in March 2012. His evocative images, released from the archive of Arcanum Research, present investigations of often-overlooked inexplicable occurrences. In the large color photographs, researchers attempt to analyze and understand the mysterious phenomena confronting them.

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EXHIBITING THIS FALL Isa Barnett DIPL ’43 (Illustration) and Ivan Barnett BFA ’69 (Illustration) “Generation to Generation” President’s Office, Hamilton Hall October 15 - November 26

An exhibition in tribute to the distinguished Philadelphia/Santa Fe artist and illustrator Isa Barnett, presented by his son, artist Ivan.

Isa is remembered as an esteemed and influential teacher at UArts.

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Joanne O’Brien BM ’88 (Opera) appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, Reprise!, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Performance Riverside, Victory Theatre Center and Court Theatre. Her theatrical credits include “My Fair Lady,” “Assassins,” “On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd,” “The Sound Of Music,” “Oklahoma” and “Judy’s Scary Little Christmas” in which she debuted the role of Joan Crawford.

O’Brien has toured over 300 cities with a show she co-produced and conceived titled “An Enchanted Evening: The Music of Broadway.”

As a solo artist, her recordings can be found on the LML Music Label and iTunes.

Trevor Dixon BFA ’89 (Photography) was featured in the magazine Communication Arts. Dixon is based in Philadelphia where he shoots for advertising and editorial clients such as Anthropologie, Grey Goose and Campbell’s Soup. The 2011 Communication Arts Photo Annual winner lives with his wife, Issa, and son, Emmett, in a modern 1950s-style house just outside Philadelphia.

Jonathan Mandell ’89 (Foundation) had his artwork featured on note cards and posters in the museum shop of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

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Rebekah Schmidt Rocha BFA ’92 (Graphic Design) exhibited at UArts in March 2012. Her work features saturated color photographs of backyards that explore a veiled world, the banal and the fantastic, nature and artifice. Beyond the promised

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privacy and security from fences and hedges lies a curious place of fantasy, where gardens, work sheds and secret paths reflect the desires of their owners and exist in a state seemingly isolated from the outside world.

Paul Kim BS ’93 (Architectural Design) writes, “I have just acquired a project management position at Samsung SDSA, Intelligent Building Systems division. Prior to that, I worked in Santa Barbara, Calif., on private residences. I have two daughters, 5 and 2, who take the rest of my time up!”

Ted Lawson BFA ’93 (Sculpture) had a solo exhibition at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York titled “Entropy” from April 26 to May 19, 2012.

Justyna Badach BFA ’94 (Photography) is a recipient of the Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region’s Adjunct Faculty Scholarship. Badach teaches at UArts and was awarded the scholarship for her work “Bachelor Portraits.” More info at justynabadach.com.

Christine Mase BFA ’94 (Photography) is a photography and art teacher at Sparta High School in New Jersey. She writes, “We have a large and beautiful photography facility, all digital, with over 400 students in our program. Our students have won numerous awards this year, including the National Geographic Student Showcase. We also got a grant for purchasing a large-format printer that advanced and competitive students can use for competitions, galleries and portfolio development.”

Bill Buddendorf BFA ’95 (Musical Theater) directed “How Glory Goes” as part of the Blurring Edges cabaret series at UArts. The evening featured many UArts seniors and was produced by Jarrod Ian Markman BFA ’12 (Musical Theater).

Kyle Margiotta BFA ’95 (Illustration), Paul Palcko BFA ’98 (Illustration) and Anthony Pedro BFA ’07 (Illustration) exhibited their work in “The New Traditionalists” during May 2012 at the Nicholas Berg Gallery in Philadelphia.

Eric Nagy BS ’95 (Industrial Design) is currently working for Unique Industries’ corporate headquarters in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Unique Industries is one of the largest party supply wholesalers with locations in Canada, the U.K., Hong Kong and the U.S. Nagy works in advertising doing everything from graphic design in industry magazine ads and trade show posters, to catalogs and print production.

Adam Wallacavage BFA ’95 (Photography) was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer with his exhibition of one-of-a-kind octopus chandeliers titled “Shiny Monsters,” which ran May – July 2012 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Kevin Jacoby BM ’96 (Electric Bass) is a songwriter, professional bass player and co-founder and CEO of Rain Computers, Inc., a group dedicated to empowering the creativity of musicians, composers, filmmakers and designers through digital technology. In 2011, he released his debut album “Truth” on the record label of Rain’s growing media collective, Rain Music Group.

Hannah Tsapatoris MacLeod BFA ’96 (Musical Theater) collaborated with internationally acclaimed Greek actress, poet and writer Lili Bita on her triumphant work “Women of Fire and Blood,” a collection of 11 poem/monologues of classic characters such as Medea, Jocasta and Helen of Troy. Bita wrote these monologues with a unique and modern feminist sensibility, allowing these classic characters to tell their own tale. MacLeod performed the entire book of 11 as a one-woman

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Peter John Rios BFA ’96 (Musical Theater) joined the faculty at UArts last fall as a tap instructor for the Musical Theater program. This April, he choreographed “Hootenanny Hoedown,” an Americana musical dinner revue, for a short run in Wallingford, Pa.

Paul Colombo MM ’98 (Jazz Studies) joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in May 2012 to perform “The Beat Goes On! Music of the Baby Boomers,” the sixth in a series of BSO SuperPops concerts being offered by the orchestra. Colombo, who has appeared in concerts with orchestras in Philadelphia, Reading, Pa., Lancaster, Pa., and York, Pa., played the guitar, banjo and mandolin for “The Beat Goes On!” In an interview, Colombo said of the show, “It features a lot of medleys, including music from the Fifth Dimension, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, and some movie and TV themes like ‘Bewitched’ and ‘Get Smart.’

It’s all great music from the 60s and 70s.”

Tiffany Weigel Bartok BFA ’97 (Musical Theater) was thrilled to be featured in The New York Times with her current film project “Tiny Dancer,” starring Daphne RubinVega and Katherine Crockett. show under the direction of Bita herself. Produced by Naked Feet Productions with B. Someday, “Women of Fire and Blood” ran April 25 - 29, 2012, at Walking Fish Theatre in Philadelphia.

Ben Ridgway BFA ’96 (Animation) is now an assistant professor of Animation at San Francisco State University. Ridgway has 13 years of

Marianne Bascelli BFA ’97 (Illustration) writes, “I am a recently certified holistic health coach, AADP from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN). I specialize in supporting individuals and groups with issues concerning nutrition/ fitness, thyroid health, anxiety, lifestyle and career coaching. I am also an ambassador for IIN and am available to discuss the health coaching training program with interested parties. I pursue art and writing as a personal journey.”

John Conahan MAT ’98 (Music Education) is the director of choral and musical theater activities at Wissahickon High School.

Conahan was a recipient of the 2011-2012 Teacher as Hero Award, presented by the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia.

The honor is bestowed on teachers who “help make the world a better place for their students, going far beyond what is asked of them to share their time, talents and resources with our next generation of leaders.” Conahan has created musical tributes to 9/11 heroes and takes his singing groups into the community to perform. He is also a professional composer, performer and conductor, and over the past year, his choral and orchestral works have been premiered by a number of internationally acclaimed ensembles and performers.

Geoff DiMasi BFA ’97 (Multimedia) is the co-founder of Indy Hall, a co-working space and community, and was awarded the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia’s Creative Economy Award for Distinction in a For-Profit Creative Field in May 2012.

Michele Kishita BFA ’97 (Painting), MFA ’10 (Painting) exhibited her work at an open studio at the 215 Gallery in Philadelphia during April 2012. (opposite) Boiling by Rebekah Schmidt Rocha BFA’92 (this page, top to bottom) Ben Ridgway BFA’96 Paul Columbo MM’98

professional experience as both a 3-D artist in the video game industry and as a professor. While in the games industry, he helped to create games for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft console systems. Ridgway has been making experimental animations since 1992. His films have been showcased in film festivals worldwide and have received numerous awards.

Danielle Maisey BFA ’97 (Animation) writes, “I’ve been an animation instructor at the Art Institute of Philadelphia for the past 14 years.

I also taught as a guest lecturer at UArts in the Animation department from 1999 to 2001.”

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Andrew D. Venable BFA ’98 (Animation) has been named chef de cuisine of the Ocean Room in the Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina. He has been with the restaurant since 2008.

Jason Marquette BFA ’98 (Musical Theater) recently returned from his second visit teaching dance in Guatemala. He has also incorporated two businesses. Marquette Productions is a music editing business geared toward providing dance teachers and choreographers with professional quality music for dance recitals, competitions and other professional performance venues. MPower Dance Workshops is a company that provides in-studio dance conventions that are geared toward the empowerment of young dancers in their training and their lives. Their goal is to help dancers find real-life application for the lessons they learn in the studio so that they can define and create their own success, regardless of career path.

Matthew Urban ’98 (Glass) writes, “I have my own glass studio, make my own designs, and I make work for other artists. I am teaching a workshop this summer at the Corning Museum of Glass with Master Gianni Toso, a ninth-generation Venetian glass master.”

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Gilberto Gonzalez BFA ’99 (Graphic Design) writes, “My current project is a film called ‘Cuentos / Mi Barrio (The History of the Spring Garden Barrio).’ It had its first showing at the Occupy NYC event on April 6 and was sent to the East Harlem Film Festival for consideration. The Cuentos Project is an effort to provide a rich and more complete history of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia. Previous efforts to document this history have been incomplete because of a failure to truly capture the experiences of residents from the Spring Garden section of the city. Cuentos seeks to fill in those gaps by collecting original source material from interviews from elders in the community to former members of the 20G Gang.”

Garrett Lee Hendricks BFA ’99 (Acting) and his wife, Nikoa EvansHendricks, welcomed their first child, Zuri Alija Evans-Hendricks, on March 10, 2012. She is the joy of his life and has also brought him a bit of luck. Hendricks recently booked two projects, a Verizon online commercial and a supporting actor role in a feature film where he plays the role of Ronnie Walker, a neurosurgeon whose best friend develops superpowers.

Cornelius Jones, Jr. BFA ’99 (Musical Theater) just wrapped a costarring role on the “Law & Order: SVU” episode titled “Street Revenge.” His debut poetic memoir Shadows & Lights is available at corneliusjonesjr.com.

Kate Bidlingmaier Lindeen ’99 (Illustration) is an associate creative director at TrueAction, an eBayowned agency in the Philadelphia area, and is working with clients in the U.S. and Europe.

Alex Mitnick BM ’99 (Guitar) is the lead singer in the award-winning children’s group Alex & the Kaleidoscope Band, who performed a CD release concert at the Sellersville (Pa.) Theater in April 2012. Mitnick released his first album of music for children in 2004 and since then has released four albums for children and a DVD that blends an energetic mix of original music with insightful and inspiring lyrics. Through Kickstarter, the band successfully raised funds for the filming of a series of interactive music videos for children to be released later this year. Mitnik’s albums have received more than 15 national awards. He tours with his group and directs the music program for children 18 months through eighth grade at the Princeton (N.J.) Montessori School since 2000. He is also a faculty member of the Princeton Center for Teacher Education, where he directs workshops for nonmusicians who wish to incorporate music into their classrooms, and at UArts, where he teaches creative classroom musicianship to Music and Music Education majors.

Clifton Walker III BFA ’99 (Musical Theater) was last seen in the Washington, D.C., Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Rock Musical,” starring Broadway veteran Ken Page. He also recently conducted a series of workshops for early childhood teachers that gave them the tools to incorporate the creative arts into their curriculum. Clifton continues work on his solo show, tentatively titled “Thanks for the Words.”

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Heather Mae Erickson BFA ’00 (Crafts) had a solo exhibition titled “Rituals of the Maker” that ran from March 22 to May 14, 2012, at the Cohen Center for the Arts of Alfred University in New York.

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Justin Guarini BM ’01 (Musical Theater) starred in the Stephen King musical “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre in May 2012 and was interviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer about his role.

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Katherine McNamee BFA ’01 (Musical Theater) is now in her third year as assistant company manager

Kartika,” a web series that combines motion comics with live footage set to funk/soul/hip-hop music.

more during May 2012. Singewald has also launched a Tumblr blog for the “Baltimore: A History, Block by Block” project. The site is a way to log his progress and get more exposure for the project.

Siobhan Vivian BFA ’01 (Writing for Film and Television) wrote a young adult novel called The List. She has also received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly.

Rex Kalehoff BFA ’02 (Sculpture), Alex Gartelmann BFA ’07 (Sculpture), Nathaniel Butler BFA ’08 (Sculpture) and Samantha Reis BFA ’08 (Sculpture) showcased their work in the show titled “The Hinged” at the Medialia Gallery in New York City from May 5 to June 2, 2012.

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Jordan Rockford BFA ’00 (Photography) curated “The Sleep of Reason,” a new performance installation by Ryan Wilson Kelly developed specifically for Napoleon Gallery (Philadelphia) in May 2012. Inspired by the life and death of noted Philadelphian paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, the work explores themes of solitude, intellectual endeavor, and the tension between achievement and failure inherent in the creative process.

Chip Klose BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) returned to the Philly area to set two world-premiere ballets during the summer of 2012. Earlier this year, Klose had the pleasure of serving an observership with director Jeff Calhoun and choreographer Christopher Gattelli on the Broadway production of “Newsies!”

Vanessa Sonon BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) is currently in “Anything Goes” on Broadway. She was recently honored with a Best Actress Award in a Musical for her portrayal of Polly in “Crazy for You” from the Florida Broadway World awards.

Steve Messenger BFA ’02 (Painting/Drawing) had a solo exhibition titled “Visions of Bar-cadia” at Bucks County Gallery of Fine Art in New Hope, Pa. The exhibition is a painted tour of Philadelphia and Bucks County bars, pubs, taverns and dives. Messenger is a Philadelphia Museum of Art employee, and “Visions of Bar-cadia” opened June 1, the same month that PMA’s “Visions of Arcadia” opened.

(opposite) Alex Mitnick BM ’99 with Alex & the Kaleidoscope Band (above left to right) Justin Guarini BM ’01 in “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” Stephen Costello BM ’03 on stage

of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway. Past credits include “Legally Blonde” (Broadway and national tour), “Wicked” (Chicago Company) and “The Wiz” (City Center). She is also an original member of the Broadway Green Alliance, striving to make the Great White Way a greener place.

Wi-Moto Nyoka BFA ’01 (Musical Theater) is in Budapest performing and working on a staged production of her project “The Last Days of

Christine Coppa BS ’03 (Communications) is the author of Rattled!

(Broadway Books), a 2009 Target Breakout Book and an in-store best seller. Rattled! debuted on audible. com and iTunes in May. Stephen Costello BM ’03 (Voice) was the lead role in three major opera productions across the world this summer: Puccini’s “La Bohème” at Los Angeles Opera May - June 2012, Verdi’s “La Traviata” at Cincinnati Opera in July 2012 and Mascagni’s “L’amico Fritzat” at the Moscow State Philharmonic Society.

In these lead roles, Costello stars opposite his wife, Ailyn Pérez. They are known as “America’s fastest-rising husband-and-wife opera stars” since they are both recent winners of the Richard Tucker Award, a prestigious prize conferred annually on an American opera singer at the threshold of a major international career.

Kacie Sheik BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) is currently appearing offBroadway at the Public in “February House.” On June 4, she performed her first solo concert in five years at Joe’s Pub in New York.

James Singewald BFA ’02 (Photography) was a participating artist at the Art Star Craft Bazaar at Penn’s Landing and the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival, both in Philadelphia, and the Sowebo Festival in Balti-

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Billy Bustamante BFA ’04 (Musical Theater) spent March and April directing “Guys and Dolls” in Shanghai. It was a co-production between the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Peking Opera School. He was in Philly this summer to play a role in the Arden’s new musical “Tulipomania” by Michael Ogborn. He continues to maintain a successful photography studio in NYC, directs a bunch of benefits and teaches master classes to all in artistic need.

Amanda Fink BFA ’04 (Acting) is currently producing original music for commercials with Mophonics Music & Sound in NYC. In addition, she is heavily involved with finding new talented artists to collaborate with on full-length tracks for film and TV. Also a new member of the group the Untitled Theatre Project, she is excited to get back to her roots on the New York City stage.

Justin Jain BFA ’04 (Acting) was in the cast of “Cyrano” at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia in April 2012. His more collaborative projects include working with his theater company the Berserker Residents and other original works he creates. Jain is also a Live Arts Brewery (LAB) fellow, where his work allows him to pose questions and use studio time to explore various areas of an artist’s interest. His projects include exploring how the identity of the gay American male is represented in society and art; developing sketch videos and cabaret sketches to showcase group talent; and working with Phila-

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delphia Young Playwrights to mentor student writers and to set up monthly professional development workshops for others working with the youth. With the Berserkers, he is remounting two pieces, one in California and one in the Philadelphia area. Jain will also be Aladdin in an upcoming panto at People’s Light and Theatre Company.

Samantha McEwen ’04 (Voice) was awarded first prize in the Howard County Arts Council’s Rising Star competition at the 15th annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County, Md. Audience members voted for McEwen’s compelling rendition of the technically challenging song “Your Daddy’s Son” from “Ragtime.” She also starred in a production of “Ragtime” at the Laurel Mill Playhouse in May. McEwen mentioned she would put the cash prize toward production costs for her self-produced first album “Bitter Rains,” which she plans to release by the end of 2012.

at the American Literary Association conference in San Francisco. In August, she will be presenting again at the ATHE conference in Washington, D.C., this time on the effect of Generation Y and the übermarionette on the new Muppet movie.

Kati and her husband, Rory Donovan BFA ’11 (Musical Theater), are moving to NYC soon because this fall she begins her studies in the PhD in Theater program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Kati was accepted with an Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, which will pay her tuition and fund her research, teaching and writing for five years.

Taryn Cagnina BFA ’05 (Musical Theater) is entering her second semester in the Expressive Therapies master’s program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. She appeared as Kate in “The Wild Party” at the Footlight Club through April 2012, a dream come true!

Sheryl Dermawan BFA ’05 (Graphic Design) is currently employed by The Wall Street Journal as a graphic editor/graphic designer.

Richard Dieter, III BFA ’05 (Jazz Dance) writes, “I paid off my student loans in the fall of November 2011 performing in musicals, casinos and cruise ship production shows.”

Kati Lyles Donovan BFA ’06 (Musical Theater) graduated from San Diego State University in May with her MFA in Musical Theater.

She presented a paper on Eugene O’Neill’s new/old play “Exorcism”

Tetsugo Hyakutake BFA ’06 (Photography) had a solo exhibition titled “Silent Existence” at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center from March 8 to June 11, 2012. His exhibition marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. Over the years, Hyakutake has worked with Japan as the theme of his art,

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investigating pathos in relation to historical, social and economic issues involving industrialization and urban and social development.

Caitlin Reilly Loafmann BFA ’06 (Musical Theater) was in “Ruthless” at Pittburgh Civic Light Opera. She went blonde and this summer played Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde” at the Beck Center in Ohio.

James Moore MM ’06 (Jazz Studies) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in March 2012 and is now Dr. James Moore, director of Bands and Jazz Ensembles at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He sends his love, gratitude and respect to everyone at UArts in the MM Jazz Studies program and the entire School of Music!

Vanessa Nebenfuhr MA ’06 (Museum Communication) writes, “I received my master’s in Museum Communication in 2006 and focused my thesis on marketing for small museum stores. My love for museums and museum shops has lead me to my current position as an assistant store director in the Philadelphia area with a wonderful cultural attraction retail company called Event Network, which is based out of San Diego. I currently work at Longwood Gardens but frequently travel to other local stores in the Mid-Atlantic region, including the Philadelphia Zoo and the Gettysburg and Baltimore aquariums. I love my job and loved going to the University of the Arts!”

Work by: Tetsugo Hyakutake BFA’06

Faith Patane BFA ’06 (Writing for Film and Television) writes, “I have been very active in the local film community. I wrote a feature film, “Calendar Girl,” which has won awards in many independent film festivals. Most recently, I won 1st Place in the Writing for New Media category at the 64th Annual Philadelphia Writers’ Conference.”

(right) Molly Marie Walsh BFA’06, pictured left

Leran Schwartz BFA ’06 (Theater Arts) is currently working at Noveda Technologies on real-time web-based

(opposite left to right) Justin Jain BFA’04

energy consumption monitoring and renewable energy metering dashboards. Noveda provides real-time data solutions that empower people, organizations and communities to take action and save energy and money.

speaking the truth to kids. That’s why his work has had such visceral impact for so many years.”

Matthew Cusack BM ’07 (Bass) created the popular Philadelphia-area band William Gruff. He has completed two Broadway tours and was a part of the international jazz project called the New Capitols in London.

Molly Marie Walsh BFA ’06 (Musical Theater) has had an exciting year. She has been a member of the female trio the Manhattan Dolls and has traveled all over the U.S. as well as overseas to the U.K. and France performing for WWII events and airshows, with small combos and even the Royal Air Force Swing Band. While in England performing with the RAF Swing Wing, Walsh met and fell in love with their lead vocalist/drummer and is now planning her move to London this July! Walsh hopes to explore the West End theater scene, as well as get involved as a possible teacher with the developing musical theater schools.

Wish her luck!

Andrew Dahlgren MID ’07 (Industrial Design) is the recipient of the University of Pennsylvania’s 2012 G. Holmes Perkins Undergraduate Teaching Award. Dahlgren, who describes himself as a designer, organizer, maker and teacher, teaches

Kelli Barrett ’07 (Musical Theater) was recently seen as Jane on the MTV series “I Just Want My Pants Back.”

She also just filmed one of the leading roles in a new independent feature titled “Zarra’s Law” with Tony Sorico and Sharon Angela from “The Sopranos.” She is in final callbacks for Diane Paulus’s production of “Pippin” at A.R.T. for the role of Catherine and for the role of Gloria in the upcoming Broadway production of “Flashdance.”

studio in undergraduate architecture. He has worked as a woodworker and metal fabricator, and has produced architectural specialties, artwork and custom furniture for his own home furnishings product line. Dahlgren has been involved with organizing several projects and events: Philly Works, Made in Philly and Urban Studio. These projects focus on helping independent designers and makers gain exposure for their work and expanding the audiences who have access to design.

Jonathan Bartlett BFA ’07 (Illustration) was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the legacy of children’s author Maurice Sendak after his passing. Bartlett, a freelance illustrator in Brooklyn, said, “What matters to me most as an illustrator is that he was incredibly honest in his books. He had no qualms about

Chanée Davis BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) released her debut music video “Focus” from her new album “Just The Beginning,” which is

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available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio, LastFM and Zune. She was also featured in a Dove print ad on a billboard in Times Square with a commercial to follow soon. Her music video will air on TV and is available on YouTube.

Mara Jill Herman BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) just completed a website overhaul and her new site is now live at MaraJillHerman.com. Marketing plans are now underway for her first book So You Wanna Be A Superstar?, due for release in September 2012 by Running Press Kids. This summer, Herman worked for Great Plains Theatre in Abilene, Kan. She appeared in “Oklahoma!,” was featured as Miss Sandra in “All Shook Up” and received her Equity Card for Miss Adelaide in “Guys & Dolls.”

Oliver Lidert BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) continues to live in the U.K. and after a three-year run in “The Lion King” on the West End (as a Swing Mufasa/Banzai cover), decided to hang up his mask and leave the savannah behind. He is currently finishing his first year of a PhD at the Central School of Speech and Drama. With still another three years to go, it looks like a long road ahead.

Over the summer, Lidert headed to France to work on a new opera based on “Romeo and Juliet” with Opéra de Baugé in the heart of the wine-producing Loire Valley.

Matthew Mastronardi BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) is currently teaching at the Walnut Street Theatre School, as well as Arden Theatre Company Drama School. This summer, Mastronardi served as music director for Camp Walnut. He also understudied “A Grand Night for Singing” at the Walnut Street Theatre and appeared as Sir Hugh Evans in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” with Shakespeare in Clark Park. He recently performed as Sir Harry in a one-night-only concert reading of

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“Once Upon a Mattress,” the inaugural production for Jeremiah Downes’s BFA ’04 (Musical Theater) new company MiCOPhilly.

Lauren LeBlanc BFA ’07 (Crafts) writes, “I am currently in the costume jewelry industry. I design jewelry for a variety of large and small department stores. My job consists of trend forecasting and designing full presentations of jewelry collections that represent our clients each season. I both render and manipulate physical product. I love it!”

Andre Myers BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) is gearing up for his sixmonth run of “Hairspray” and “Aladdin” at the Tuacahn Theater in Utah. In early April, he booked and shot two commercials for Skype and Slip N’ Slide. Myers is working hard on his music and fashion while away from L.A. and many things are in the works.

Kerri Rose BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) just did a national commercial for Kiss EZ lashes. She started her own dance company and continues to dance for various venues all over. Recent performances include the Super Bowl, Avicii and with Beyonce in concert. This fall, she returns to the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia to appear in “The Music Man.” Damian Shembel BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) finished a run of “All I Ask of You” at the Shubin Theatre in February, and the show was picked up for more performances in April, June and August. He has also just been asked to do a second reading for “Waiting for Love” in NYC. Most recently, he had the opportunity to meet the talented UArts Musical Theater class of 2012 in Philadelphia.

Artie Sievers BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) recently published one of his novellas, The Tea-Biscuits of Nordella Thrimb on Amazon.com as

an e-book, which can be purchased for 99 cents.

Brett Stoelker BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) was cast in three of the readings at NYU for its MFA Music Theater Writing program in April 2012. He also sang at the Paul Newman benefit at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in a choir directed by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The event featured Josh Groban, Paul Simon, Trisha Yearwood and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Heather Woodward BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) is living in L.A. and is training in the Advanced Study Program at the Uprights Citizens Brigade.

Woodward has been working for Archipelago Learning’s “Study Island” in Dallas, as the face of their web content and returned to Dallas in July 2012 to continue production.

Alex Bechtel BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) appeared as an actor/singer with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Ocean City Pops.

Kyra Bromberg BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) performed as the soprano in three revues at New Huntington Supper Club in Huntington, Ind. Bromberg also participated in the first play of the NewTACTics festival with TACT/The Actors’ Company Theater by reading stage directions, thanks to co-producer Lauren Miller BFA ’08 (Musical Theater). Bromberg is a member of Village Playback Theatre

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in NYC and is actively seeking organizations that would benefit from a collaboration with the company, which specializes in playback improvisation that serves underserved and socially underrepresented audiences.

Duplex. He also officially became licensed to teach theater in both Massachusetts and New York.

my art making in the meanwhile. I’m expected to complete my studies at Kutztown in spring 2013.”

Emily (Kirkwood) Hopkins BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) recently did stunts on the short film “Musement,” which included doing her first car hit! She came out with minimal bruising and also continues to work for Universal Studios Hollywood as both the acting lead and stunt lead in the “Terminator 2” live stunt show. She also recently became one of only three women to be invited to join an elite group of riggers and stunt performers at the Stunt Lab in L.A. The Stunt Lab is where industry professionals go to make big-budget stunts better, more realistic, less costly and safer.

Mat Burrow BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) and Alex Bechtel BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) reunited as the band the Rickety Stares after a two-year hiatus. They had a reunion tour in the late spring/early summer of 2012. Follow them on Twitter at @RicketyStares for details.

Richard Cerato BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) booked the role of Spitz in “Band Geeks!” playing at the Loft Theatre in Ohio through June.

Michelle Dauberman MFA ’08 (Book Arts/Printmaking) is the manager of Digital Imaging at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) in Philadelphia. CCAHA is the nation’s largest conservation lab that specializes in the treatment of works of art and artifacts on paper, such as drawings, prints, maps, posters, historic wallpaper, photographs, rare books, scrapbooks and manuscripts, along with related materials like parchment and papyrus.

CCAHA also offers digital imaging services, on-site consultations, educational programs and seminars, internships, and emergency conservation services.

Dan Delaney BFA ’08 (Multimedia) was featured in a New York Times article titled “Eat, Talk, Tweet: In New York Dining, the Appeal of Exclusive and Artisanal.” Delaney is the producer of a video podcast about street food called VendrTV.

(opposite) Cover shot of FDR Skatepark, by Phil Jackson BFA’08 (above) Book by: Nicole Krom MA’08

Sean Elias BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) was recently promoted at Apple and now works as a human resources administrator for onboarding, training and development for the West 14th Street store in New York City.

He has been doing a lot of cabarets recently at Don’t Tell Mama and the

Phil Jackson BFA ’08 (Photography) completed his work as the photo editor of a 170-page visual history of FDR Skatepark in Philadelphia that can be ordered on Amazon.com. It is composed of submissions from over 25 photographers and spans the park’s 15-year-plus history.

Erin Filson BFA ’08 (Animation) finished working on the art for a startup creating a social media weight loss game in March 2012 and is freelancing and working on her own personal web comic “The Adventures of Ranger Elf,” which can be found at rangerelf.com.

Nicole Krom MA ’08 (Museum Education) and Joseph J. Gonzales, PhD, director of the UArts Museum Communication program, are contributors to the book A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career.

Yis Goodwin BFA ’08 (Film), better known as NoseGo, had a show at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia this summer, “Next Week’s Adventure II.” He was featured in Philadelphia Weekly for this latest exhibition and the whimsical and fun nature of his work.

Jenna McAndrew BFA ’08 (Graphic Design) is currently working for Nail Systems International, a nail enhancement manufacturing company in the beauty industry located in West Conshohocken (Pa.) that distributes its products worldwide. McAndrew is NSI’s in-house graphic designer and responsible for packaging, advertising and all marketing materials. She has seen her work end up in magazines in Costa Rica and trade shows in Belgium and Germany.

Michael Hiscox BFA ’08 (Illustration) wrote, “Currently, I’m at Kutztown University pursuing certification and a master’s degree in Art Education. I’ve been the art teacher at the Noble School for the past year while in Kutztown and just had a recent art show and sale at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Kutztown as well. I have taken on an illustration job with the documentary ‘Bell Rung,’ which debuted in July.

I taught art courses at Sue Hand’s Imagery this summer and continuing

Joe Pillari BFA ’08 (Crafts) designed the Philadelphia Horticultural Society’s 2012 Binney Award, given to the premier sponsor of the Philadelphia International Flower Show.

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Kristen Solecki BFA ’08 (Illustration) writes, “I am currently working as the creative director of Sips Card, an independent writing publication that brings poetry, fiction and local coffee shops together. We designed a business card with a QR code that when scanned will give customers of the local coffee shops that carry our cards a short story or group of poems meant to be read and last as long as their cup of coffee. The Academy of American Poetry and The Writer magazine worked with Sips Card on the July 2012 issue to further promote the venture. I also work as a freelance artist out of my studio in Charleston, S.C., selling my illustrations to clients and companies around the country.”

Joey Contreras BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) was recently joined by a host of Broadway talent to perform a sold-out set of his music at NYTB in the D-Lounge in New York City. He was featured in the upcoming New Voices Collective concert in April, hosted

by Danny Burstein. A reading of his new musical “All the Kids Are Doing It” was presented in May. Contreras graduated from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing program in May 2012.

Jenna Paige Gagliardo BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) is still touring with “Girls Night: The Musical,” a thankfully steady job for the past two years! Gagliardo finished two weeks on the show off-Broadway at the Midtown Theatre and went on to a month-long run of the show in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center.

Lindsay Gilbert BFA ’09 (Sculpture) works as a glassblowing assistant in Hellertown, Pa. Gilbert

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has studied at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina; Pilchuck Glass School, Washington; Corning’s Studio, New York; Wheaton Arts, New Jersey; and Sydney College of the Arts, Australia. Her medallic sculptures were exhibited at the Tampere Museum of Art in Tampere, Finland, and the Hunterian Museum of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. Her sculptures have been shown at the Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery in New York City and at 2424 Studios and Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia.

Brad Greer BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) recently traveled to South Carolina and Colorado with the Broadway Boys and performed with them at the Lucille Lortel Awards on May 6, 2012. He has started rehearsals for the Kerrigan and Lowdermilk revue “Party Worth Crashing” at White Plains Performing Arts Center. He recently started a serving job at a sexy new restaurant in NoHo called Saxon + Parole. Look it up and come visit!

Jessica Hnatko BFA ’09 (Film) writes, “I am currently living and working in Tokyo as a part-time ESL teacher and part-time model. I am also working on a horror screenplay in my spare time and doing character design for a British novelist. I would love to come back to get a master’s degree in Philadelphia. I love the city very much and I miss it a lot!”

Ryan Touhey BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) music directed “The Marvelous Wonderettes” for 11th Hour Theatre Company, featuring Brind School alumnae Laura Catlaw BFA ’06 (Musical Theater), Colleen Hazlett BFA ’04 (Musical Theater), Janet Rowley BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) and Kat Borrelli BFA ’11 (Musical Theater), directed

by Megan Nicole O’Brien BFA ’05 (Applied Theater Arts), and choreographed by Sammy Reyes BFA ’01

(Acting). Touhey also assistant music directed “Tulipomania” at Arden Theatre Company, featuring Alex Keiper BFA ’07 (Musical Theater).

He spent his summer at Forestburgh Playhouse music directing “Legally Blonde” and “West Side Story” and returned to Philly in the fall to music direct “Spring Awakening” for Temple University.

Milosz Wachowiak BFA ’09 (Graphic Design) is currently living in Warsaw, Poland, where he was born, but moved to the U.S. shortly after his birth. He works in the Polish capital at Cheil Worldwide as a graphic designer for Samsung.

Brittany Walker BM ’09 (Trombone) writes, “I recently started my new job as the assistant fitness services manager at Town Sports International.”

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Laura Ahrens BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) received her 200-hour Yoga Alliance certification in May 2011 and has been teaching regularly both at studios and privately in Manhattan, the Hamptons and in western Long Island. She is Reiki trained in levels I and II and practices privately, in hospice and on her yoga students.

Ahrens is currently in Atlanta recording tracks for a demo of original songs.

Laurie Berenhaus BFA ’10 (Sculpture) has been working as an educator and freelancing in New York City building props, costumes, masks and puppets for studios including Izquierdo Studio, Frankenstudio and Basil Twist. She was recently accepted into the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School in Orlando, Fla., where she will expand into digital modeling.

Allison Caw BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) performed in New Paradise Laboratories’ Live Arts Festival show titled “27.” She also performed at the Solow Festival in June 2012

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Kyle Crichton BFA ’10 (Animation) writes, “As of right now, I have been working for a small production company called Jupiter Entertainment in Knoxville, Tenn., as their lead technical specialist and graphic editor. What I do is a mixed bag. I assist in everything technical, whether that is computer issues or camera issues, as well as assisting in day-today creative operations on their TV shows “Sons of Guns” (Discovery) and “Sins & Secrets” (Investigation Discovery) as their graphic artist and occasionally create graphical animations. I am also in charge of their social media and website. Although I’ve only been here since February 2012, it feels as though I’ve been here forever and hope to be at Jupiter for a long time.”

Michael Doherty BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) is a co-founder and co-producer of Round Table Theatre Co. with Dan O’Neil BFA ’10 (Musical Theater). Doherty will also produce “Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It)” for the Fringe Festival in Philadelphia.

Jamison Foreman BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) played the role of Konstantin in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” with the Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia. In a review, his performance was noted as a “…forceful presence, conveying all of Konstantin’s frustration, selfdoubt and intelligence.”

(opposite) Earth by Lindsay Gilbert BFA’09 (right Jamison Foreman BFA’10, pictured left in “The Seagull”

Victoria Jones MFA ’10 (Museum Exhibition Planning and Design) is a producer at Bluecadet Interactive, an interactive agency that makes everything from museum installations and kiosks, to large-scale projections, mobile applications and websites.

The company focuses on museums and not-for-profits. As a producer,

Jones guides projects from their beginnings through to completion, moving them through each step of the process from initial discovery through design and development and then on to final quality assurance and launch or installation.

Michael Linden BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) finished playing Seymour in “Little Shop of Horrors” in Coral Springs, Fla., at the Broward Stage Door Theater.

Greg Nix BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) just opened “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” at the Walnut Street Theatre. He is in the midst of planning and fundraising for “Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die,” a show he is co-creating with fellow alumni.

They have recently launched a fundraising effort on Kickstarter, where you can find more information on the show and a nifty promo video.

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in Bright Light Theatre Company’s original piece that takes place in an elevator. She was recently seen in the chorus of Center City Opera Theater’s “La Bohème.”

Chris Pappas BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) graduated from Improv 301 at UCB Theatre and participated in his first official New York comedy show “Whatever Happened to the Nerds” at the Magnet Comedy Theater.

Pappas’s story “Reindeer Games” was selected by the Moth, a live storytelling event and radio broadcast, the same week that the Moth won the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. In May 2012, Pappas played Reverend Tooker in Columbia University‘s production of “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof.” The production was a project of Columbia MFA director Katie Naka and was overseen by Anne Bogart.

Daniel O’Neil BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) recently produced “24 Hours: A Festival of New Work” with Michael Doherty BFA ’10 (Musical Theater), in which four plays and three dance pieces were created, rehearsed and performed in less than 24 hours. The festival showcased the work of director Megan O’Brien BFA ’04 (Acting); choreographer Kat Borrelli BFA ’11 (Musical Theater); writers Greg Nix BFA ’10 (Musical Theater), Bob Stineman BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) and Elizabeth Green BFA ’07 (Musical Theater); and actors Nancie Sanderson BFA ’03 (Musical Theater), Laura Catlaw BFA ’06 (Musical Theater), Michelle Vezilj BFA ’11 (Musical Theater), Paul Felder BFA ’08 (Musical Theater), Brian Cowden BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) and Carl Clemons-Hopkins BFA ’09 (Musical Theater), as well as alumni and current students from the School of Dance. The festival was produced as a fundraiser for Round Table Theatre Company’s 2012 Philly Fringe production “Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It)” by Itamar Moses.

Serena Pomerantz BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) was in the cast of “Jersey Shore: The Musical,” which ran through May 26 in Chicago. She has been rehearsing for “Pirates of Penzance,” which opens in September. She also performed in a solo cabaret in June and July. She also ran a week-long musical theater intensive this summer for kids and is now in level two at Second City Training Center.

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Tim Cheneval BFA ’11 (Graphic Design) is currently working as a designer in NYC at a studio called Ideas on Purpose, which is partially owned and founded by UArts faculty member John Connolly of the Graphic Design department.

Rory Donovan BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) finished his run as the Monster in the national touring company of “Young Frankenstein” and is moving to NYC with his wife, Kati Lyles Donovan BFA ’06 (Musical Theater).

Natalie Rzucidlo BFA ’10 (Printmaking) and Tulissa Parsons BFA ’11 (Crafts) had their work in a show at the Lotus Root Gallery in Philadelphia titled “Hydrobending” through May 2012.

Jeffrey Sousa BFA ’10 (Ballet) performed the role of Bolo and understudied the lead role of Bernardo in “West Side Story,” which ran at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia from March 27 to April 8, 2012.

Samantha Stoltzfus BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) is overwhelmingly honored and excited to be cast in the part of Kira/Clio in “Xanadu: The Musical” at Diamond Head Theater in Hawaii. Stoltzfus is thrilled to work under the direction of acclaimed guest director Tammy Colucci. She will also be playing the part of Winky in the production of “The Fatal Fifties Affair,” an audience participation murder-mystery.

Vinny Celeiro BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) is sinking his feet into the world of stand-up. He just finished emceeing “Girls Night: The Musical” off-Broadway, which starred Jenna Paige Gagliardo BFA ’09 (Graphic Design). Along with working on a stand-up act, he also made his professional drag debut as offBroadway gypsy Nomi SaS.

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Marshall Harris MFA ’11 (Sculpture) writes, “After graduation I moved back to my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and have been actively pursuing my professional art and teaching practice. I’m showing my work (oversized photorealistic works of graphite on Mylar) both locally and nationally. My work has been shown at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, and the International Drawing Annuals in 2010 and 2012. The entries came from around the world and out of approximately 3,600 entries yearly, I was honored to get three works in the INDA6 and four works in INDA7. I’m showing in Dallas, Houston and Cincinnati, and my goal is to show in Europe and Asia. I will begin teaching at my undergraduate alma mater Texas Christian University this fall in graphic design and advanced portfolio preparations.”

of the off-Broadway musical “Incredibly Deaf Musical” this June and “Altar Boyz” at the Tri-Arts Sharon Playhouse as Juan, the Latin lover, for the remainder of the summer.

Caitlin Leary BFA ’11 (Modern Dance) was a swing performer in the national tour of “Beauty and the Beast.” She was hired for the role three weeks after graduating last spring. Leary was interviewed by the Connecticut Post and said of her experience, “I learned the whole show in two weeks…within the first month and a half, I had performed for all eight women.” Leary was also assistant dance captain. Leary now has plans to move to New York for auditions and dance classes. Her last tour stop was in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music.

Shadou Mintrone BFA ’11 (Jazz Dance) and DJ Smart BFA ’11 (Ballet) performed in Spectrum Dance Company’s “Oklahoma!” In March 2012, Mintrone became a permanent member of the company, and Smart stepped in for an injured dancer.

Smart also went to Cape Town, South Africa, in March 2012 to perform and teach at Western Province Dance Teachers’ Association.

Jihan Latimer BS ’11 (Communications) writes, “I am currently working on the marketing aspect for my young-adult novel called ‘The Tale of Miss Berta London,’ a book about hope, redemption and learning what really matters in life.”

Greg Laucella BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) recently completed the national tour of the musical “Virtually Me!” He was also in the premiere

Taylor Paige BFA ’12 (Ballet) is on the cover of GoddessGirl magazine, a motivational magazine for young girls in the Chicago area.

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Lukas Poost BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) just finished up his first national tour of “Shrek: The Musical.” However, his greenness does not end here.

After a much-needed vacation, he will be joining back up with his fairy tale friends and heading east – Far East, that is. “Shrek: The Musical” has stops in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.

After that, he intends to finally get around to moving to New York and pounding the pavement.

(opposite left to right) Rings by Tulissa Parsons BFA’11 Shadou Mintrone BFA’11, pictured left (right) Quiaunna Powell BFA’11, pictured left

Quiaunna Powell BFA ’11 (Ballet) performed the lead role of Elizabeth Swann in Delaware Dance Alliance’s “Pirates of the Caribbean Ballet” at the Schwartz Center for the Arts in Dover, Del., in May 2012. The show combined classical, traditional and contemporary movements, acting, stage combat and sword fighting.

Shannon Rasmussen BS ’11 (Communications) writes, “I am currently the marketing coordinator at a computerized maintenance management software company in Marlton, N.J., called eMaint Enterprises.”

Krystyn Rinnier MAT ’11 (Visual Arts) worked at the Wissahickon School District in Pennsylvania as a long-term substitute and taught classes at the Abington Art Center.

Ashlyn Stoner BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) is the newest member of Audacity A Cappella, a Los Angeles-based vocal group. Stoner just had the pleasure of shooting a music video for a Christian band located in San Dimas, Calif. The video premiered on Easter Sunday at Azusa Pacific University. In addition, Stoner has been busy developing a

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musical web series that was shot in late April. She is now also happily engaged to Jacob Kindberg, a film editor. The wedding will take place in Los Angeles in November 2012.

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS INVITES FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ALUMNI TO FAMILY AND ALUMNI WEEKEND!

OCTOBER 19 - 21, 2012 SPONSORED BY THE DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS AND THE UARTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION This year’s program will showcase the many talents of the UArts community and will provide plenty of opportunities for alumni, families and guests to connect with faculty, current students and their parents, and other alumni.

Highlights include: • President’s Reception • Theater production of “Spoon River” • Student dance and musical performances • The “Making It” exhibition, showcasing works by recent alumni • Young Alumni and Golden Arts reunions • Interactive workshops with faculty

For more information and to register, please visit uarts.edu/familyweekend • We look forward to seeing you on campus this fall!

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IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM Elizabeth Godshalk Burger DIPL ’40 (Illustration), whose paintings found an audience late in her life, passed away at the age of 94. The most recent appearance of her work was in the spring 2011 group show “Pennsylvania Impressionism and Landscape” at the Woodmere Art Museum. In recent years, she took classes at the Main Line Art Center.

Burger’s subjects were still lifes and landscapes, which she rendered in oils on canvas. After graduating from UArts, she went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1970s, Burger worked for a Berkeley landscape architecture firm. She is survived by her daughter, a sister, two granddaughters and her former husband.

Marvin N. Demchick BFA ’42 (Advertising Design), a founder of the Academy in Manayunk, passed away on April 13, 2012. The Academy provides a curriculum for children with learning differences. Demchick was the first chairman of the Academy’s board of trustees in 2006 and became its chairman emeritus in 2009. After graduation, Demchick served in the Army during World War II as an anti-aircraft artillery officer in Europe. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in 1949 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 1950s, his career included aspects of insurance and financial consulting, estate planning, and helping start-up businesses with advice and financing. In the 1960s, Demchick was president of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, the synagogue where his family has held membership for more than a century. He was general chairman of the Federation Allied Jewish Appeal in Philadelphia in the 1980s and a life member of its board of trustees. A member of the board of trustees of Ben Gurion University in Israel, he held that office for the Abramson Center for Jewish Life in North Wales, a provider of services to seniors. He was a member of the board of directors at Sutton Terrace, a Bala Cynwyd condominium where he lived before moving two years ago to the Hill at Whitemarsh, where he was president of its residents’ council. Demchick is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mildred, three daughters, a brother and five grandchildren.

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Charles L. Madden BFA ’56 (Illustration) of Maple Glen, Pa., passed away on May 7, 2012. He won a prestigious scholarship award, which he used to earn his BA in Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts). After graduation and completing duty with the Naval Reserve, he began a long career as a professional artist. He co-founded Madden Barron & Barron, a graphics design and advertising firm whose accounts included Ford Motor Co., Atlantic Richfield, Honeywell and Rohm & Haas. His artistic reach evolved across a diversity of media, including stained glass, sculpture and mosaics.

In the mid-1960s, he founded the Contemporary Stained Glass Corporation, producing religious designs and large stained-glass windows for Gwynedd Mercy Chapel, the Sons of Israel Synagogue, Holy Redeemer Chapel, the Norbertine Monastery, St. Margaret’s Catholic Church, the Passionist Nuns and other religious sites throughout the country. He later founded Urban Arts as an outlet for creating public and corporate art for diverse installations. He routinely traveled the world in search of the finest materials for his works of art. Projects included commissions for Sun Oil Corporate Headquarters, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and the Gallery at Center City. In 1972, he created a monumental bronze, aluminum and glass enamel sculpture of Mary’s ascension to heaven for the Basilica of Nazareth, Israel. He was also commissioned to design the papal vestments worn by Pope Paul XXIII and bishops for the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia. In the 1990s, he formed Architectural Features, LLC, creating large works commissioned by the U. S. Department of State for the embassies in Cairo, Egypt and Chengdu, China. For the turn of the millennium, he was commissioned by the Franciscan Order custodians of sacred sites of the Holy Land to create a monumental 12-foot bronze sculpture of St. Peter at the site of Peter’s home on the Sea of Galilee in Capernaum, Israel, which was blessed and dedicated by Pope John Paul II at a papal visit in March 2000. Madden was a parishioner of St. Alphonsus Church in Maple Glen, where he was president of the Men’s Club and helped establish the church that he would attend for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, past president of the Artist Guild of Philadelphia, a member of the board of trustees of the Carson Valley School for Disadvantaged Children and a long-standing member of the board of trustees of the Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land. Madden is survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren.

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Michael F. Moreken AA ’56 (Interior Design), 76, of Drexel Hill, Pa., passed away on May 25, 2012. A longtime resident of Drexel Hill, he was the son of the late Michael and Mary Helen Moreken and the brother of the late Mary Baessler, Margaret Mehas and Theresa Dodd. Moreken attended the University of the Arts on a scholarship where he majored in Design. He then worked as a designer for Cuneen Co. and later for ARAMARK, where he was manager of the design department. He retired in 1991 and later did consulting work for ARAMARK. A member of St. Andrew the Apostle Church, Moreken was an avid gardener who enjoyed playing the organ and piano and listening to classical music. He is survived by his niece, Christina Baessler; nephew, Steven; his wife, Marilyn Mehas; and grand-niece, Michelle Hawk. He was also pre-deceased by a niece, Margaret Mehas.

Raymond McHenry MM ’58 (Composition) of Lebanon, Pa., passed away on July 2, 2012. McHenry received his BA in Music Education at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., in 1950. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, he was honorably discharged and earned his Masters of Arts and Sciences in Music from the Philadelphia Music Conservatory (now UArts) in 1958. He studied composition, arranging and conducting under the tutorage of Vincent Persichetti. McHenry enjoyed playing his trombone on recordings and especially “gigging” evenings and weekends with his trombone. He enjoyed teaching and sharing his love of music with his students. He played for well-known musical acts and bands during his career and he enjoyed playing at home and in church after his retirement. After he became ill, he still enjoyed arranging and composition and listening to his favorite CDs. He loved all things musical, from classical and sacred to jazz and Dixieland as a player, arranger, composer and as a consumer. McHenry is survived by his wife of 25 years, Deborah, and their beloved companion, Vanna.

George Gregory Gasper BFA ’60 (Industrial Design) passed away on July 21, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. After graduation, Gasper served in the U.S. Army during the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises. Upon his return, he worked as an architectural interior designer, breaking ground in office layouts and model floors. His accomplishments included the interior spaces of the Bank of S.F., U.S. Steel building in Pittsburgh, N.C. National Bank, First Church of Christ

Scientist in Boston, Brown Brothers Harriman, the World Trade Center, Bank of New York and the AXA Equitable’s interior spaces. When Gasper was not working, spending time with his family was his favorite pastime. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Mary Gasper; his children, Maggie McIntyre, Catherine Bowidowicz, George M. Gaspar, Mary Gaspar-Hillenbrand, Andrew Gaspar and Teresa Gaspar; and 12 grandchildren.

Sharon Dobie-Lewis BFA ’78 (Painting) passed away in June 2012. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. In high school, Dobie-Lewis realized she was a gifted artist. She attended PCA, majoring in painting. After graduation, she taught at Prints in Progress in Philadelphia. At St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Va., she became the first African-American residential faculty supervisor for 150 girls. She married, had a daughter and moved back to New York to teach at the Trey Whitfield Academy, St. Lucy’s School and Blessed Sacrament. She also worked for the Board of Education and the Parks and Recreation department. She moved to Baltimore, Md., where she worked with troubled boys at the Juvenile Justice Center. There she created, designed and implemented the first-ever art curriculum and visual studies program. She is survived by her husband, Leroy, her daughter, Jamie, and her mother, sister and brother.

Debbie Campbell Goodyear BFA ’78 (Painting) wrote, “Sharon Dobie-Lewis was my roommate at PCA as well as for our year after graduating. She was my best friend then and a great friend now. It is with great sadness that I share with the University of the Arts family of her passing.”

Lauren Simonutti BFA ’90 (Photography) passed away in April 2012. A representative of the Edelman Gallery in Chicago, which represented her work, wrote, “Lauren’s work is the most honest photography I have ever seen. She gained my respect instantly as she welcomed me into her home, where she created small, intricate tableaus that invited the viewer into her imaginary world, laying bare her fears, hopes and pain. Through her photography, Lauren gave a voice to those that suffer in isolation. Her life mattered and her legacy has yet to be written. She will forever be in my heart, and while she may have felt alone, she always believed that her photographs would be her lasting memory – the one gift she would leave.”

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DONOR REPORT

DEVELOPMENT

STATE OF THE ARTS This past year has been an exciting one at the University of the Arts, and the future is even brighter, as we continue to implement our innovative new approach to educating art and design students. While moving forward with the transformation of the University, we remain committed to doing so with both vision and fiscal responsibility.

We have maintained a balanced budget as we continue investing in the future of the institution.

In these challenging times, the support of the University’s friends is crucial to accomplishing our mission – more than ever before, our global community needs creative individuals to solve the daunting problems facing us.

This past year, we have seen significant demonstrations of support for and confidence in our current work and our vision for the future of the arts. Sincere thanks go to the many individuals and sponsors who supported the University’s 2012 ArtUnleashed exhibition and sale, making it our most successful such event ever.

More than 500 art lovers attended the opening night preview party; presenting sponsors trustee Harriet Weiss and Larry Weiss and lead corporate sponsor Blick Art Materials provided generous support; and hundreds of pieces by our talented students, alumni and faculty were purchased, raising more than $390,000 for the Sam S. McKeel Promising Young Artists Scholarship Fund.

University of the Arts Trustee Emeritus Irvin J. Borowsky and his wife, Laurie Wagman, made a $500,000 gift to establish the Irvin Borowsky Center for Glass Arts at the University, which will result in the expansion of the University’s glass facilities and will allow us to further

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promote the study of glass art. The gift also created the Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts – to be given to an outstanding artist who is advancing the field through his or her practice. And through the University’s Legacy Society, Trustee Emerita Mary Louise Beitzel ’51 made a significant planned gift.

Our alumni and friends demonstrated their confidence in the University by increasing giving to the Annual Fund by more than 10 percent over the previous year.

We were awarded a $120,000 challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide Philadelphia’s artists and creative professionals with business and entrepreneurship training through the University’s Corzo Center for the Creative Economy. The University’s partnership with DesignPhiladelphia was recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts grant. And our Professional Institute for Educators received a $300,000 grant from the United States Library of Congress to create a professional development curriculum to help teachers to incorporate art into non-art subjects.

It was indeed an exciting year, and we are looking forward to an even more dynamic and rewarding one to come. I am deeply grateful for your support, and for your commitment to the University and its mission of educating the next generation of artists and creative leaders.

Sincerely,

Lucille Hughes Vice President for Advancement

DEVELOPMENT DONOR REPORT

The University of the Arts is grateful to the following donors who made contributions and pledges during the 2012 fiscal year: June 1, 2011 June 30, 2012.

$100,000+ Mary L. ’51 & George B. Beitzel Irvin J. Borowsky & Laurie Wagman Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Library of Congress PECO Energy

$50,000 - $99,999 Herb Alpert Foundation Ira Brind & Stacey Spector Harvey Eisenberg Surdna Foundation The Richard C. von Hess Foundation W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Harriet & Larry Weiss

$25,000 - $49,999 Austin Lamont Residuary Trust Joseph Cairns, Jr. & Ernestine Bacon Cairns Trust Estate of Ruth Colten Marguerite & Gerry Lenfest Elizabeth Moran Pew Center for Arts & Heritage TD Bank

$10,000 - $24,999 Blick Art Materials Sean T. Buffington Ron & Ellen Caplan Joseph & Dawn Coradino The Richard & Jean Coyne Family Foundation Eleanor & Hal Davis E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company Michael C. Forman & Jennifer Rice Anne F. & S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr. Dorrance Hamilton Esther Gowen Hood Foundation Johanna S. Jordan ’41 Brook J. Lenfest Foundation Elaine Levitt Sueyun & Gene Locks Jeffrey & Meredith Lutsky

Seymour & Miriam Mandell Ron & Suzanne Naples Henry Nias Foundation The Lillian & Albert Noren Foundation Adolf & Geraldine Paier Philadelphia Arts In Education Partnership Kal & Lucille Rudman Howard A. Wolf & Martha R. Wolf Fund Ted & Stevie Wolf

$5,000 - $9,999 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Philip C. Burton BFA ’68 Deanna BFA ’66 & Alan DeCherney Mark BFA ’85 & Blythe Donnolo Sherry & Brian Effron Jill & Neal Colton Katherine Flannery BFA ’87 William BFA ’68 & Vivian Wagner BA ’63 Gast The Glenmede Trust Company Melissa Heller Independence Blue Cross Julie & Richard Jaffe Yardly & Scott Jenkins Gail Kass & Roy Friedman Virginia & Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Al Paul & Amarilice Lefton, Jr. Lima Company Margarett & Sam McKeel Leigh & John Middleton Thomas M. Miles BFA ’75 Marianna & Frank Mirabello PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Quaker Chemical Corporation Norma & Larry Reichlin Alan Rubin Isabelle & Jim Vesey WP Realty

$2,500 - $4,999 Allied Barton Security Services Archer & Greiner The Barra Foundation Jasem M. S. Behbehani BFA ’75 Edward & Patricia Berry Bresslergroup Calvert School of Dance Ronald L. Cantor Digitas Health Anne & Robert Elder

Keith B. Fred BFA ’77 David D. Gibson BFA ’91 Florence Gurland ’45 Lynne & Harold Honickman Robert Alan Leffers & Michael Longo Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation Mill Spring Foundation Presser Foundation William & Anna Marie Pulaski P’91 Spring Garden Construction Rosemary A. Stevens & Jack D. Barchas Turner Construction Company Willis

$1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (1) Marta & Robert Adelson Barbara & Todd Albert Michelle A. Alford & Neil J. Hamburg Linda Lee Alter BFA ’61 Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Ash Family Foundation Bath Fitter George A. ’58 & Mary H. Beach Peter A. Benoliel & Willo Carey Laura T. & William C. Buck Charles G. Bush BFA ’66 Kenneth D. Carbone BFA ’73 Thomas & Bebe Carnwath Louis N. Cassett Foundation Jennifer L. Channell Nathan M. Clark Foundation CNI Sales, Inc. Cozen O’Connor Anthony Creamer Jason Cullen Danielle Dimston BFA ’79 Inge H. Druckrey Robert & Margaret Duprey James & Cynthia Eiseman, Jr. Erin Elman MA ’97 MFA ’08 & Stephen Gibson Bernard Evans Jaimie & David Field Marie & Joseph Field Lesley & James Fitzgerald Penny & Bob Fox James G. Fulton, Jr. ’72 & Eric Rymshaw Girard Square Partners LP Susan B. Glazer Linda & David Glickstein Jane & Joe Goldblum Janet K. Grace BS ’83

Joel Greenberg & Marcy Gringlas Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., Inc. Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman Lucie Hughes Julie Jensen & Robert Bryan Susan CE ’92 & Leonard Klehr Josephine Klein D. Christopher & Victoria Le Vine Barbara J. Lorry MGA Partners Gregory Murphy & Michael Boyle Sondra & Morey Myers Palmer Waterproofing, Inc. Parkhurst Dining Services Pearl Properties, LLC Patricia BFA ’65 & John Pegram Philadelphia Mortgage Advisors Marcia & Ron Rubin Gregory Segall & Rebecca Cook Carole & Joseph Shanis Leslie R. Smolan BFA ’75 Michael E. Susten BFA ’10 Joan F. & John M. Thalheimer Mary Jane & Phil VanCleave Janine & Jeff Yass Zeldin Family Foundation

$500 - $999 Katie Adams B.W. Bastian Foundation Lori & Michael Banks Sheryl & Allen Bar Becker & Frondorf Pam & David Berkman Mary & James Brown Susan & Robert Burch Joyce & Ron Burd Susan & Kent Cadwalader Robert Capanna BM ’73 & Cathryn Coate Cecil Baker & Partners Larry Ceisler & Lina Hartocollis Scott Conking & Tom Wall Christos Coutifaris & Deborah Driscoll CRW Graphics Matthew J. Cunniff BFA ’65 William P. & Catherine Daley Maude de Schauensee Andrea & Alexander Ehrlich Ruth E. Fine BFA ’62 Alida Fish G.T. of Calvert LLC Barry J. Hallenbeck ’83 Shepard BFA ’83 & Melissa Harris * Deceased

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Iris Henry-Aiken Clara & Bentley Hollander Industrial Energy Total Management & Supply Jacobs Music Company Susan Jaffe Kate & Adam Kauffman Ric J. Kidney BFA ’75 Margelle & Sheldon Liss Liz Ink, Inc. Marcello A. Luzi Alexis & Joel Marmar Laurie & Samuel Marshall Noel Mayo BS ’60 Charlotte Maxton Moore ’57 Frank & Sandra Morabito Karyn & Charles Murray Joyce Sherman & James Pepe P’06 Jane G. Pepper Kirk Pillow Caroline C. & Peter A. Piven Lisa Popowich & Jonathan Stein Franz Rabauer & Brian Daggett Diane A. & James A. Robinson Nadia & Roberto Rodriguez Theresa & John Rollins Catherine A. Ruff CE ’90 Jeffrey C. Ryder Elizabeth Saccardi Gregory Samples Sasaki Associates, Inc. Mara Adamitz Scrupe Linda & Kurt Soukup Peter Stambler Stockton Real Estate Advisors Strohecker, Inc. Karen & Scott Tarte Jane & Robert Till P’15 Helene B. van Beuren Vera’s White Sands Beach Club LLC Laurence B. Wiener Jeffrey Zarnoch BS ’84 Karen Rosner & Martin Zeldin Mira Zergani

$250 - $499 Harriet S. Ackerman MAT ’84 Sharon & Craig Altman Leanne M. Avellino-Blair BFA ’89 Joshua A. Bach ’84 Bai Brands LLC Sue & Bob Barroway Rosemary & Gerry Barth Farhud Batmanglich MAT ’74 Christine & Wade Berrettini Seema Singh Bhan * Deceased 56 EDGE

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Marilyn & Alfred Blatter Suzy & Lawrence Borow Elizabeth Werthan & Robert Brand Stephanie & Kirk Brandow Kevin P. Brennan Merrill & Lloyd Brotman Joseph W. & Krista J. Card Jeff Carpenter Susan & Cummins Catherwood David & Lisa Channell Sharon Church Colliers Lanard & Axilbund-Global Real Estate Services John & Bunny Cullen Dave’s Cleaning Service Mary S. Dembo BFA ’85 John F. Dietel BFA ’84 Helen Drutt English Liz & Ed Ellers Ronald S. Elowitz BFA ’86 & Cherilynn Whitehouse Lewis Epstein BFA ’76 Katharine & Bill Eyre Herman Fala Richard Farnum Sylvia Beck & Jay Federman Jodi L. Forlizzi BFA ’84 Diane T. Foxman ’53 Beth E. Frederick Sally & Steven Gendler Robert N. Gillis BS ’59 Aurora Vanelli Gold BFA ’52 Donna & Henry Gonzalez Johnnie Hobbs Hollie & Jamie Holt Nancy BFA ’75 & Stephen Hovnanian Michelle & Michael Kichline Gay & Don Kimelman Virginia & Harvey Kimmel Michele C. Kishita BFA ’87 MFA ’10 Myra Klarman BFA ’87 James & Nina Korsh Karin Krochmal ’84 Joyce & Roger W. Lacy P’13 Malcolm L. Lazin Kathryn G. Lee BM ’74 Mi-Kyoung Lee MFA ’96 Gary L. Lehman BFA ’70 Joye & Bruce Lesser Elisa & Howard Lewis Michele Lockwood Josephine C. Mandeville Catherine & Gregory Marich P’15 Lynne & Scott Mason

Rosalie Matzkin Nancy & Michael Mennuti Roberta Gausas & Alan J. Model Kathy & Robert Moore P’05 Shannon D. Moore BFA ’05 Bee & Bob Muzerall P’06 Sara Nerken Charles Pennacchio Sonja Pettingill & Steve Silber Gina Michaels & John N. Phillips Laurie Phillips BFA ’77 Susan & Brett Pinto Thomas & Jane Porett John J. Radomile Rita & Stanley Reichlin Phoebe & Myron Resnick Katie & Jeff Rhodes Caro & Robert Rock Rod & Reel Colleen A. Roscher BM ’06 Barbara B. & John S. Ruttenberg Jane Scaccetti Ronnie & Gerry Schwam Rita & Bob Siegle Howard Silverman Alice & Andrew Simon Emma & Paul Simpson SaraKay & Stan Smullens Cathy Weiss & Edward Solomon Richard & Barbara Spark Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz Morton & René Stein Jean S. Stephenson ’47 Thomas Szwech BFA ’84 Barrie Trimingham & David Pierson Jeffrey Vernam Bob W. Wescott BFA ’53 Camilla & William Whetzel Judith A. Wicks Deborah R. Willig & Kathryn Casey Li-Chiu Yeh Gina T. Zegel

$100 - $249 Anonymous (2) Carol O. Allen MAT ’92 Nancy S. Allen BFA ’81 William BS ’52 & Yvonne Allenson Jane Allsopp Jerry Alten BFA ’55 Nicolle L. Anastsi Dan Anders Gary L. Anderson BM ’67 Patricia A. & Donald Applekamp Sally & Devin Aronstam Lydia T. Artymiw BM ’73

Theodora Ashmead Carol R. Ashton-Hergenhan BS ’71 Joanne O. Baker Ellyn G. Bandy Dianna F. Banks BFA ’69 Michael Berenbaum Lee M. Berg Barbara Fish Berger ’56 Norma E. Berke ’48 Perry & Ellen Berman Harriet Berneman Nissan Gallant Bernstien ’55 Big jobs. Little jobs. Inc Carol & Horace Barsh Jane D. Bonelli BFA ’50 Jennifer L. Borish Gwen Borowsky Brenntag Specialties June M.C. Brown BFA ’49 Janine Cappello-Bryant BFA ’86 & David Bryant BM ’84 Donna Faye Burchfield David S. ’54 & Shirley Burnside Karma & Joseph Camp Leigh Card Terry K. Carkner Betty Carlson-Jameson P’02 Monique Carroll P’12 Barry R. Castle BS ’65 Kathleen F. Chapman BFA ’72 R. Theresa Cherry ’48 Kathleen & Frank Chester P’03 Evelyn M. ’56 & Bernie Cleff ’50 Linda & Michael Clement Richard B. Cliff BFA ’61 Stephen Z. Cohen BFA ’64 Edward Colker ’49 & Elaine G. Galen ’50 David Colman Commercial Utility Consultants Community First Abstract Angelia M. & Charles W. Cook Cindi M. Cooper BFA ’77 Mark S. Cooperstein BFA ’79 Mary & Constantin Cope Ida BFA ’62 & Bernard BFA ’60 Corona Patricia & William J. Council Theresa Cuisick Deborah Curtiss MAT ’83 Dorothy A. Daub-Grossman ’75 Simone Lyles Davis Elizabeth G. Davison BFA ’63 Osceola Davis-Smith BM ’70 Marcia & Richard DeJesus-Rueff P’05 Diane & Thomas C. Demusis P’13

DEVELOPMENT DONOR REPORT

Nathan MFA ’05 & Laura Distefano DeAngela Duff John A. Dulik ’65 Timothy J. & Lorraine B. Dunigan Jerrold Elkins BFA ’67 Doris Ellington UArts Design & Technology Program Beth & Wesley Emmons, III Michele A. & John P. Emory Debbie & Jerry Epstein Harriet K. Feinstein ’62 Barbara BFA ’64 & Ernest Feldgus Novelda H. Ferguson BFA ’52 Lynn Fernandez P’14 Marion L. Fetterolf ’42 Phyllis Fischer Karen A. & John M. Fisco P’15 Phyllis B. Fleming BFA ’84 Shaina L. Flynn Ann P. Forbush BFA ’81 Jonathan Foster Ronna & Stanley Foster Geraldine Dietz Fox Renee & Robert L. Frank Mieke & Alexander Gelley Elizabeth H. Gemmill Paige Gesualdo Paula A. Gimblette ’70 Go Welsh, Inc. Alfred E. & Adele Goldman Fund Diana B. & James S. Goldstein Eileen M. Grabosky Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Kathleen BS ’79 & Nick Greco Melissa Greenberg Greta & Alan Greenberger Kathryn H. Greenwood John C. Gregory, Jr. ’53 Amy F. Griffith BFA ’02 Norma A. Griffith BFA ’67 Kimberly A. & Paul M. Gryskewicz Crystal Gurin Sam Hamilton Barbara J. Harberger BFA ’76 Daniel & Maureen Harwitz Kelly E. & Brian J. Hayden Paul Healy Rosanne Heflin-Gorny Elizabeth Helling BFA ’76 Milton B. BFA ’59 & Caroline Helmuth Ellen & Burton Hersh Marcia & Howard Hirsch P’15 Pamela & Andrew Horowitz John R. Hrevnack P’05 Elaine B. Hudson BFA ’66

Angela & Fred Hudson Donald R. Hulmes ’54 Lydia S. Hunn BFA ’69 & Charles Derr Robert C. Hunsicker BFA ’63 Judith Hyman Robert Ignarri Bernard Jacobson Karen Jacobson Philip D. Jamison ’50 Brad M. Jamula BFA ’06 Jenkintown Building Services, Inc. Daniel H. BFA ’66 & Katherine Jocz Joan & Victor Johnson Debra Kahn Anne Kaplan Dorothy D. Kaplan & Robert M. Poore Alex A. Kasraie Lynn C. & Dennis E. Kelly P’08 Karen L. & Garry R. Kelly P’11 Ronald P. BM ’80 & Haidy Kerber Richard & Sylvia Koppel Karl G. Koslowski BS ’63 Gwen S. Kovach Sharon & Kenneth Kraus John G. BFA’79 & Karen Kruppa Cynthia M. Krysiak ’96 Susan J. Kwasnick BFA ’74 Jon Landau Rick Landesberg BFA ’73 Emilie S. Lapham BFA ’72 Pearl Lee BFA ’74 Kim & Chris Letourneau P’10 Edward ’54 & Sheila Letven Vincent J. Leusner P’15 Craig L. Lewis BM ’96 & Dianne Semingson Maxine & Howard Lewis Sissie & Herb Lipton William A. Loeb Stephanie & Joseph Maguire Lynn K. & Joseph M. Manko Maria M. Marfuggi P’13 Bonnie & Bruce Marks Eileen Marolla & Charles Sterne Mary & Charles Mather Elizabeth F. & Larry E. McCandlish P’08 Brigid McCarthy BFA ’71 & James A. Crawford Louise McDonnel BFA ’64 Regina C. Meck & Robert J. Meck P’13 Henri P. Meillier ’53 Joan & Michael Melega Leonard Mellman

Susan & Jim Meyer C. Samuel BS ’66 & Carole Micklus Eileen E. Miller BFA ’77 Eunice A. & Melvin N. Miller Miriam Miller Meg Clifton Mitchell BM ’01, MM ’02 Nancy & Michael Mooslin Robert J. Morrison Don ’70 & Karen Moyer Richard Mulford Karen A. & Kevin B. Murphy P’09 Nancy Nahrgang BFA ’84 Gregory Nayor Barbara & R. Barrett Noone Lisa & Martin Novelli Lizabeth S. & Andrew F. O’Mahoney Peter & Terry Osborne P’02 Winifred R. Owens-Hart BFA ’71 Thomas J. Palmer MM ’05 & Ellen Lebowitz Philadelphia Water Color Society The Pincus Family Foundation Marcella Plaum Jean M. Plough BFA ’70 Judy Pote John S. Price Jonathan M. Propper Maria Rapetskaya BFA ’98 Caroline Wischmann Hollis H. Reed BFA ’47 Anna K. Reimann Elliot I. Rhodeside BS ’66 Brad Richards Emily C. Riley Antoinette Robbins Carolyn Robinson Julie E. Rogers Karen & Neal Rosenberg Gail & Michael Rosenberg Bari K. Rosenthal BFA ’65 RP Supply Co. Daniel P. Sacks Carol Saindon Patricia A. Salamone James W. Sari P’05 Chris L. & David P. Schrumpf Bryna S. Scott Eric Settle Donald J. Shanosky ’59 Michael J. Sheridan Rosalie M. Sherman BFA ’68 Barbara & Scott Sherman Beth & Michael Shor Joan & Leonard Shore Judith Skoogfors-Prip ’55 Penny P. Smith BFA ’79 William BS ’73 & Judith Smith

Diana T. Soorikian BFA ’50 Debra Spark Robert & Marilyn Steiner Tammy R. & Joseph R. Steiss Mary Ann G. Stengel BM ’66 Michelle A. & David W. Stover James B. Strohecker Mary Jo Suchter Patricia D. Suchter Susan Tedeschi P’11 Jonas Theiler Today’s Graphics John BS ’71 & Bonita Troxell Andrew Vellrath BS ’66 Midge S. Vinson ’70 Claire Van Vliet Audrey D. Walters ’51 Carla & Allen Weinberg Morris, Sylvia & Ginia D. Wexler Fund William G. BFA ’67 & Linda White Marc A. Williams Robin & Gerry Williams Melvyn A. & Elaine Wolf P’98 Rachel A. Wood Sylvia L. & Seymour ’49 Woodnick Suzanne Woodroffe BFA ’66 Diane Dalto & Richard Woosman Mira Wright Roger Youman Joan Ruggles Young BFA ’68 Nanette M. Zakian

Under $100 Lynda F. Abraham-Braff BFA ’79 Granville Ackermann BFA ’54 Howard Alber ’33 Marvin Albert P’77 Dolores A. Altamuro BFA ’53 Richard & Joan Angelicola P’08, P’10 Sarah M. Annibali MA ’02 Janet Jaffe Arnold ’48 Frances L. Baca BFA ’05 Mary C. Bangs ’70 Daniel K. Bare P’97 Maurice Bartikofsky ’72 Sandra & Jim BS ’66 Bateman Joanne Bauwens P’15 Margaret & Donald Beatty P’99 Sean Becker Anne Beeman Marcy Belfer Vicki & Larry Bell Angela & Louis Bellizzi P’15

* Deceased

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Carol Schilling & Lee A. Bender P’03 Carl & Myra Berenbaum Cynthia Berenbaum Leonard Berenbaum Audrey Bookspan-Berg & Alan Berg Peter & Eileen Bergeris P’10 Adeline C. BM ’57 & Gordon Bethany Sally & Vincent Biank P’06 Ellen D. Birckner BFA ’85 Amanda T. Black Mary E. Bode ’51 Louis F. Borda, Jr. BFA ’72 Carolyn J. BM ’78 & James Boxmeyer Page Bradford Michele & Carl Brown P’15 Fabian A. Brown BM ’01 M. Linda Burke Dana A. Burns-Pizer BFA ’73 Joan O. Cahan Commander Hugh D. Campbell BFA ’68 Joan T. Campbell Kristina M. Card Mariann Cardonick Eleanor & James Carr P’02 Myrl M. & Joseph F. Catelli Rosemary M. Cellini BFA ’71 Lisa Misook Chae BMC ’87 Edward P. Challenger BS ’58 Lynette Y. Chatanow ’61 Janet & Arthur Cherry P’96 Elaine G. Chu BFA ’85 Holly J. Ciccoricco BS ’60 Lori & Anthony Clark Ryan D. Cobourn BFA ’99 Debra J. & Donald B. Cohen P’05 Amanda L. Collett BFA ’02 Kelly & Jamison Combs Jacqueline C. BFA ’57 & James Connolly Anthony D. Corcetto ’54 Donna & John Costanza Norma W. Coupe BFA ’75 Edward P. Coxey BFA ’63 Jennifer L. Craig MFA ’05 Renee L. & Gary M. Crampton Judith Dean & James Crawford Kenneth G. Daley BFA ’63 Ronald F. D’Alonzo ’64 Samuel Davenport Christina P. Day BFA ’99 Charles H. ’50 & Diane DeMirjian Stephen M. DePino BFA ’00 Carmine W. DeVivi BFA ’60 * Deceased 58 EDGE

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Philip N. Devries BS ’66 Joanne F. DeWald BFA ’87 Rita M. Di Renzo Olivia A. Diehl BFA ’12 Steven R. Dienstman Geoffrey DiMasi MFA ’97 Samuel Dion ’53 Adam M. Dotson MFA ’07 Victoria A. Duclos Barrett BM ’84 William J. ’49 & Margaret B. ’49 Dugan Frances A. & Walter B. Dulak P’03 Barbara H. & William B. Egan P’15 Sandra Eichorn Karin L. Eisen BFA ’80 Burton & Janet Eisenberg Nancy C. Elliott ’75 Lynda & Cedric BME ’66 Elmer Andrea S. Emmons BFA ’80 Hoyt Emmons Robert E. Enders BFA ’61 Jeffrey S. Ensslen BS ’89 Donna L. & Raymond D. Ermel P’13 Lossie Evans P’15 Helen & Leonard Evelev Family Planning Council John P. Fantine, Jr. ’74 Brad Fenton & Marie Savard James B. Flynn MAT ’10 Rani G. & Scott S. Flynn Carol A. & Frank A. Forster P’13 Patricia L. France BFA ’78 Alyson N. & Jeffrey E. Frank Cynthia D. Friedman BFA ’78 Josephine Troth Friedman BFA ’51 Robin M. Gale & David I. Gale P. Fredric & Lorraine Gastrock P’01 Roseann M. Gatto BFA ’82 Christopher A. Gee BFA ’89 Carl J. Genna, Jr. ’60 Linda L. George BFA ’64 Suzanne K. Gerber Robin M. Gerchman BFA ’86 Paul & Maria Giganti P’13 Linda BFA ’64 & John G. Gist ’61 Debbie L. Gittleman BFA ’62 Cynthia M. Glass BFA ’79 Donna J. Globus MFA ’10 Howard A. Goldberg BFA ’71 Julia Stein & John W. Goldsborough Tonya Tidd & Todd Goldsmith June A. & James K. Goodwin P’12

Apryl M. Grasty BFA ’00 Thomas G. Greco BFA ’86 Sis & Ray Grenald John T. Griffin Carolyn J. Griffiths BFA ’81 J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr. ’65 Richard J. Groller BM/BMED ’75 Robert E. BFA ’64 & Linda Grossman Angelina Guevara Brita & Richard Gwinn Brian Hainstock Amy Hale Thomas E. Halpin BM ’89 Edward J. Hartmann ’49 Ruth Hartz Rebecca C. Harvey BFA ’91 Mark W. BFA ’81 & Elisa Hastings Wesley M. Heilman, III BFA ’58 Sandra Held BFA ’72 Mark E. BFA ’79 & Kimberley Henion Ruth Herd Grayce A. Hess Carol V. Hill Arthur S. Hillman BFA ’66 Curt D. & Becky L. Hilpipre Shani D. Hilsheimer BFA ’91 Joyce M. ’78 & Dan Hofstetter Megan Hohman Curvin H. Hollimon Constance E. & James C. Hollowell Laura A. Rundell & Anthony B. Holtz Walter & Patricia Horzepa P’05 Pamela E. & John J. Hulka P’06 John C. Jackson BFA ’73 Harriett M. Johnson ’68 James BS ’62 & Christie Jordan Sun Young Kang MFA ’07 Scott ’85 & Nancy Kasselmann Miriam Kellogg-Fredenthal Anita R. Kenny BFA ’05 Carol Ann & Mark Kimak P’15 Irene M. Klemas BFA ’80 Sharon B. Kling Amber Knight Ida & Michael Konderwicz P’10 Judith ’69 & Sheldon Koven Brittany Eskew & Claude Kreuter

Sheldon BFA ’77 & Louise Krevit Neal M. Kruger BM/BMED ’74 Aaron & Anita Kuptsow Gail K. Kushner BFA ’75 Hedi Kyle Liane K. Gross Lebednik BFA ’66 Andrew B. Levine BS ’72 Marie Cirotti Levine BFA ’85 Linda S. & Matthew H. Liddle BFA ’91 Robin & Jordan Lieberman Eileen A. Lippl BME ’65 Katherine M. D. Lobo BFA ’83 Elizabeth & David Lorry Robert P. Lovett, Jr. BS ’72 Anita Lovitt BFA ’70 Claudia M. Luongo MFA ’97 Glenn W. Malsbury BFA ’74 Herbert Mandel BFA ’48 Betty Lou Marchant CE ’92 Lillian L. Markley BFA ’66 Loren Marquardt MFA ’99 Adelaide Lake Martin ’55 Holly & Kenneth Mascaro P’14 Lawrence & Barbara Mathis Barbara J. Matybell BFA ’57 Christopher G. ’55 & Ruth BFA ’55 Mavronikolas Susan P. Maxfield BFA ’67 Shirley A. & Robert B. Maxwell Frances McGinty Morgan M. McKenty BFA ’95 Lauren K. McLucas BFA ’08 Christine McMahon Michael S. McQueney Pat Patterson Meitzler ’58 Susan BFA ’92 & Vladimir Melnik Rita Merkin & Morris A. Chomitz Wayne F. Michaud BFA ’71 Beverly M. & Alan J. Miller Justin A. Mitchell BFA ’01 Philip & Lynn Momberger Robert K. Momyer BFA ’63 Perry Monastero Carol L. Moore & Philip Schulman BFA’59 Michael F. Moreken AA ’56 S. Ronald Morley ’50 Thomas & Lori BS ’81 Morrissey Doris & Donald Motter Edith Munro Mark J. Murphy BFA ’79 Henrietta M. Mustokoff BM/BMED ’68 Cay L. Neimeth BFA ’86 Stephen V. & Lauren K. Neitz Phyllis H. Newman BFA ’62 The Honorable Peter H. Ney BS ’53

DEVELOPMENT DONOR REPORT

Josephine V. Norden BFA ’49 Francesca & Bruce Northrup Phyllis E. & James E. Nutt Charles J. Ober ’49 Patricia M. & Gerald J. Olexa Valerie C. Olson P’07 Janice J. & James J. O’Neill P’09 Atsuko Onozato Biars BS ’02 Judith B. BFA ’74 & Fred Osborne Irene & Theodore Oslick Lisa P.Oster BFA ’99 & Andrew J. Oster BFA ’00 Robert Paige BFA ’63 Paul J. Palcko BFA ’98 Sidney & Harriet Parmet Faith Maria Brody Patane BFA ’06 Mark Paul Pat Pealer BFA ’54 Victoria Pendragon BFA ’68 Amanda Pendry Paul & Carole Petersen P’96 Veronica M. & Gregory T. Phelps Philadelphia Fight Maureen M. & Paul A. Pieringer Lester & Beverly Potteiger Simon D. Prioleau ’57 Gail B. & Dudley L. Prisel Linda A. Procaccino BFA’80 Abdul Qayyum P’14 Bushra Qayyum P’14 Bonnie C. Randall ’67 Minna Chester Resnick BFA ’68 Louis M. BS ’61 & Linda Riccio Teri A. & Daniel P. Rice Lisa D. Richman Grace H. Richter ’61 Nancy G. Ring MFA ’10 Patricia Ringers Cecelia Roberts Lee & Mary Robeson P’03 Maurice & Patricia Robinson, Jr. P’08 Franklyn & Cintra Rodgers Kimberly A. & Guy A. Rolley Barbara S. Rosenberg BFA ’72 Arnold ’50 & Caroline Roth Toby M. Rotman BM ’61 Thelma W. Rubin BFA ’51 David E. Rue BS ’62 Sara Sablosky ’63 Sylvia G. Salvat MAT ’83 Eugene R. BFA ’61 & Judith Samuelson Anthony Sansotta BFA ’69 Shirlee S. Schachtel BM ’49 Jeanette M. & Jeffrey M. Schell P’08 Marie Schilling ’49

Joan P. Schooley BFA ’81 Joanne & F. Michael Schwab Ronald D. BFA ’60 & Joanne Schwartz Adele & Stephen J. Schwartz P ’00 Kristie M. & John J. Scott Alice J. Sennett BFA ’59 Patricia A. & Bruce F. Serena Wanda S. & David J. Shade P’11 Natalie P. Share ’51 Alvin I. Sher BFA ’64 Chloe Sherman-Pepe BFA ’09 Patricia L. Shoemaker, M.D. BM ’70 Gail J. Sidewater BFA ’66 Elizabeth C. Johnsen & Perry Silver Susan M. Slavinski BFA ’78 Jerry R. Smith BFA ’58 Paul D. Snyder BS ’66 Lesia A. Sochor BFA ’74 Ellen M. Soffer BFA ’81 Suzanne Wertman Spector BFA ’58 Ronald E. BFA ’57 & Jean D. BFA ’57 Spicer Paula G. Spielberg Anita & Herman Stein Harold & Carol Stevens James A. Stewart BFA ’62 Robert B. Stewart BFA ’55 Deirdre M. & Robert R. Stimpson P’10 Judy Strauss Marie Stuart Jennifer & Ian BS ’97 Swope Pamela Szell BM ’09 Philip V. Tascone ’61 Carole W. & Fredric A. BFA ’70 Tator Alice Taylor Sidney L. Taylor BFA ’57 Teachers Association of BH Sunshine Catherine ’13 & Nancy Tella Gail & James E. BS ’63 Thomas Eleanore W. Thompson ’33 Laura L. & David A. Thorne Susan & Gene Todd P’11 Christine & Edward Tokarski Norman Tomases BFA ’52 Karyn Tufarolo Danne M. & Robert A. Twinam Judy L. Van Heyst BFA ’57 Beth Van Why MID ’06 John & Gloria Vernam Lauren Villanueva Miriam C. Wagner BFA ’48

Richard T. Walter BS ’55 Geraldine Watson Janet B. BFA ’62 & Milton Weisman Margaret C. Welsh BFA ’50 Linda & C. Robert Wheeler P’01 Paula Wilder Zola N. Williams BFA ’08 Edward C. Wismer ’51 Meg & Jim Wolf Bruce N. Wolff BFA ’67 Ivan R. Wolfson Betty J. Woodley ’66 C. Robert & Judith Ann Wyss P’98 Pauline ’57 & Thomas Yarnall Violet R. Youse BFA ’65 Michael Zuckerman

1950 Jane D. Bonelli H. Bernard Cleff Charles H. DeMirjian Elaine G. Galen Philip D. Jamison Gwen Kovach* S. Ronald Morley Arnold Roth Diana T. Soorikian Margaret C. Welsh

ALUMNI GIVING

BY CLASS YEAR

1952 William Allenson Novelda H. Ferguson Aurora M. Gold Caroline Roth Norman Tomases

1933 Howard Alber Eleanore W. Thompson 1941 Johanna S. Jordan

1951 Mary L. Beitzel Mary E. Bode Josephine T. Friedman Thelma W. Rubin Natalie P. Share Audrey D. Walters Edward C. Wismer

1953 Dolores A. Altamuro Samuel Dion Diane T. Foxman John C. Gregory Henri P. Meillier Peter H. Ney Robert W. Wescott

1942 Marion L. Fetterolf 1945 Florence Gurland 1947 Hollis H. Reed Jean S. Stephenson

1954 Granville Ackermann David S. Burnside Anthony D. Corcetto Donald R. Hulmes Edward M. Letven Patricia A. Pealer

1948 Janet J. Arnold Norma E. Berke R. Theresa Cherry Herbert Mandel Miriam C. Wagner

1955 Jerry Alten Nissan Bernstien Adelaide M. Martin Christopher G. Mavronikolas Ruth Mavronikolas Judith Skoogfors-Prip Robert B. Stewart Richard T. Walter

1949 June M. Brown Edward Colker Margaret Dugan William J. Dugan Edward J. Hartmann Josephine V. Norden Charles J. Ober Shirlee S. Schachtel Marie Schilling Seymour Woodnick

1956 Barbara F. Berger Evelyn M. Cleff Michael F. Moreken * Deceased

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1957 Adeline C. Bethany Jacqueline C. Connolly Barbara J. Matybell Charlotte M. Moore Simon D. Prioleau Ronald E. Spicer Sidney L. Taylor Judy L. Van Heyst Pauline Yarnall 1958 George A. Beach Edward P. Challenger Wesley M. Heilman Helen P. Meitzler Jerry R. Smith Suzanne M. Spector 1959 Warren Bakley Robert N. Gillis Milton B. Helmuth Philip Schulman Alice J. Sennett Donald J. Shanosky 1960 Holly J. Ciccoricco Bernard M. Corona Carmine W. DeVivi Carl J. Genna Noel Mayo Ronald D. Schwartz Judith Wexler 1961 Linda L. Alter Joan S. Beyer Barbara H. Brown Lynette Y. Chatanow Richard B. Cliff Robert E. Enders John G. Gist William J. Hubbard Rose M. Mangano Goldberg Nancy McGee Louis M. Riccio Grace H. Richter Toby M. Rotman Eugene R. Samuelson Andrew Snyder Philip V. Tascone Allen R. Wexler Uldis Zemitis 1962 Ida M. Corona Harriet K. Feinstein * Deceased 60 EDGE

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Ruth E. Fine Debbie L. Gittleman James B. Jordan Phyllis H. Newman David E. Rue James A. Stewart Janet B. Weisman 1963 Edward P. Coxey Kenneth G. Daley Elizabeth G. Davison Robert C. Hunsicker Karl G. Koslowski Robert K. Momyer Robert Paige Sara Sablosky James E. Thomas 1964 Stephen Z. Cohen Ronald F. D’Alonzo Barbara H. Feldgus Linda L. George Linda E. Gist Robert E. Grossman Louise M. McDonnel Alvin I. Sher 1965 Barry R. Castle Matthew J. Cunniff John A. Dulik J. Eugene Grigsby Eileen A. Lippl Patricia N. Pegram Bari K. Rosenthal Robert K. Yagura Violet R. Youse 1966 James H. Bateman Charles G. Bush Deanna S. DeCherney Philip N. Devries Cedric N. Elmer Arthur S. Hillman Elaine B. Hudson Daniel H. Jocz Liane K. Lebednik Lillian L. Markley C. Samuel Micklus Elliot I. Rhodeside Gail J. Sidewater Paul D. Snyder Mary Ann G. Stengel Andrew Vellrath Betty J. Woodley Suzanne Woodroffe

1967 Gary L. Anderson Jerrold Elkins Norma A. Griffith Susan P. Maxfield Bonnie C. Randall William G. White Bruce N. Wolff

1973 Lydia T. Artymiw Dana A. Burns-Pizer Robert Capanna Kenneth D. Carbone John C. Jackson Eric R. Landesberg William T. Smith

1968 Philip C. Burton Hugh D. Campbell William Gast Harriett M. Johnson Henrietta M. Mustokoff Victoria Pendragon Minna Resnick Rosalie M. Sherman Joan R. Young

1974 Farhud Batmanglich John P. Fantine Neal M. Kruger Susan J. Kwasnick Kathryn G. Lee Pearl Lee Glenn W. Malsbury Judith B. Osborne Lesia A. Sochor

1969 Dianna F. Banks Lydia S. Hunn Judith Koven Anthony Sansotta

1975 Jasem M. Behbehani Norma W. Coupe Dorothy A. Daub-Grossman Marc J. Dicciani Nancy C. Elliott Richard J. Groller Nancy Hovnanian Richard J. Kidney Gail K. Kushner Thomas M. Miles Leslie R. Smolan

1970 Mary C. Bangs Osceola Davis-Smith Jean T. de Saint Phalle Paula A. Gimblette Susan M. Gordon Gary L. Lehman Anita Lovitt Donald C. Moyer Jean M. Plough Patricia L. Shoemaker Fredric A. Tator Midge S. Vinson 1971 Carol R. Ashton-Hergenhan Rosemary M. Cellini Howard A. Goldberg Brigid McCarthy Wayne F. Michaud Winifred R. Owens-Hart Barbara L. Sosson John F. Troxell 1972 Maurice Bartikofsky Louis F. Borda Kathleen F. Chapman James G. Fulton Sandra Held Emilie S. Lapham Andrew B. Levine Robert P. Lovett Barbara S. Rosenberg

1976 Lewis M. Epstein Barbara J. Harberger Elizabeth Helling 1977 Cindi M. Cooper Keith B. Fred Sheldon H. Krevit Eileen E. Miller Laurie Phillips Marc A. Williams 1978 Carolyn J. Boxmeyer Patricia L. France Cynthia D. Friedman Joyce M. Hofstetter Susan M. Slavinski Penelope L. Smith 1979 Lynda F. Abraham-Braff Mark S. Cooperstein Danielle Dimston Cynthia M. Glass Kathleen Greco

DEVELOPMENT DONOR REPORT

Mark E. Henion John G. Kruppa Mark J. Murphy 1980 Karin L. Eisen Andrea S. Emmons Ronald P. Kerber Irene M. Klemas Patricia A. Landes Linda A. Procaccino 1981 Nancy S. Allen Ann P. Forbush Carolyn J. Griffiths Mark W. Hastings Lori O. Morrissey Joan P. Schooley Ellen M. Soffer 1982 Nancy H. Aaron Roseann M. Gatto 1983 Deborah Curtiss Janet K. Grace Barry J. Hallenbeck Shepard Harris Katherine M. Lobo Sylvia G. Salvat 1984 Harriet S. Ackerman Joshua A. Bach David H. Capello John F. Dietel Victoria A. Duclos Barrett Phyllis B. Fleming Jodi L. Forlizzi Karin Krochmal Nancy Nahrgang Thomas Szwech Jeffrey Zarnoch 1985 Ellen D. Birckner Elaine G. Chu Mary S. Dembo Mark A. Donnolo Scott A. Kasselmann Marie C. Levine 1986 Janine Cappello-Bryant Ronald S. Elowitz Robin M. Gerchman Thomas G. Greco Cay L. Neimeth

1987 Lisa M. Chae Joanne F. DeWald Katherine Flannery Peter R. Gascoyne Myra Klarman 1989 Leanne M. Avellino-Blair Regina K. Barthmaier Jeffrey S. Ensslen Christopher A. Gee Thomas E. Halpin 1990 Catherine A. Ruff Lori B. Spencer 1991 David D. Gibson Rebecca C. Harvey Shani D. Hilsheimer Matthew H. Liddle 1992 Carol O. Allen Susan K. Klehr Betty L. Marchant Susan J. Melnik 1995 Morgan M. McKenty 1996 Cynthia M. Krysiak Mi-Kyoung Lee Craig L. Lewis Roger A. Petersen 1997 Geoffrey DiMasi Erin L. Elman Claudia M. Luongo Ian Swope 1998 Paul J. Palcko Maria Rapetskaya 1999 Ryan D. Cobourn Christina P. Day Loren Marquardt Lisa M. Oster 2000 Stephen M. DePino Apryl M. Grasty Andrew J. Oster

2001 Fabian A. Brown Meghan J. Carter Michael L. Courtney Wendell A. Howlett Colleen E. McCarthy Meredith A. McGovern-Cooper Justin A. Mitchell Meg C. Mitchell David D. Oldham Rhea D. Patterson Jaime Salm

2009 Chloe Sherman-Pepe Pamela Szell 2010 James B. Flynn Donna J. Globus Michele C. Kishita Celic N. Melendez Nancy G. Ring Michael E. Susten 2011 Nicholas L. Maimone

2002 Sarah M. Annibali Lauren Blanchard Nicholas Cardillo Amanda L. Collett Ryan M. Dunleavy Amy F. Griffith Katie A. Jackson Leslie A. Maietta Atsuko Onozato Biars

2012 Olivia A. Diehl

PARENTS Marvin Albert P’77 Richard & Joan Angelicola P’08, P’10 Leanne M. Avellino-Blair BFA ’89, P’14 Daniel K. Bare P’97 Joanne Bauwens P’15 Margaret & Donald Beatty P’99 Angela & Louis Bellizzi P’15 Carol Schilling & Lee A. Bender P’03 Peter & Eileen Bergeris P’10 Sally & Vincent Biank P’06 Michele & Carl Brown P’15 Joan T. Campbell Betty Carlson-Jameson P’02 Eleanor & James Carr P’02 Monique Carroll P’12 Janet & Arthur Cherry P’96 Kathleen & Frank Chester P’03 Debra J. & Donald B. Cohen P’05 Marcia & Richard DeJesus-Rueff P’05 Diane & Thomas C. Demusis P’13 Frances A. & Walter B. Dulak P’03 Barbara H. & William B. Egan P’15 Robert E. Enders BFA ’61, P’01 Donna L. and Raymond D. Ermel P’13 Lossie Evans P’15 Lynn Fernandez P’14 Jane & Robert Till P’15 Karen A. & John M. Fisco P’15 Carol A. & Frank A. Forster P’13

2004 Maxine Montilus Sarah D. Zakaria 2005 Frances L. Baca Jennifer L. Craig Nathan P. DiStefano Michael T. Jackson A. Rosalie Kenny Christina N. May Shannon D. Moore Thomas J. Palmer Craig T. Parrillo Michael J. Ward 2006 Brad M. Jamula Faith M. Patane Colleen A. Roscher Jamie L. Simons Beth I. Van Why 2007 Adam M. Dotson Nathaniel P. Hamilton Sun Y. Kang Michelle L. McCarty 2008 Sandra C. Davis Lauren K. McLucas Nicole G. Tranquillo Zola N. Williams

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P. Fredric & Lorraine Gastrock P’01 Paul & Maria Giganti P’13 June A. & James K. Goodwin P’12 Marcia & Howard Hirsch P’15 Johnnie Hobbs P’04 Walter & Patricia Horzepa P’05 John R. Hrevnack P’05 Pamela E. & John J. Hulka P’06 Lynn C. & Dennis E. Kelly P’08 Karen L. & Garry R. Kelly P’11 Ronald P. BM ’80 & Haidy Kerber P’10 Carol Ann & Mark Kimak P’15 Ida & Michael Konderwicz P’10 Joyce and Roger W. Lacy P’13 Kim & Chris Letourneau P’10 Vincent J. Leusner P’15 Maria M. Marfuggi P’13 Catherine & Gregory Marich P’15 Holly & Kenneth Mascaro P’14 Elizabeth F. & Larry E. McCandlish P’08 Brigid McCarthy BFA ’71 & James A. Crawford P’03 Regina C. Meck & Robert J. Meck P’13 Kathy & Robert Moore P’05 Frank & Sandra Morabito P’09 Karen A. & Kevin B. Murphy P’09 Bee & Bob Muzerall P’06 Valerie C. Olson P’07 Janice J. & James J. O’Neill P’09 Peter & Terry Osborne P’02 Joyce Sherman & James Pepe P’06 Paul & Carole Petersen P’96 John S. Price William & Anna Marie Pulaski P’91 Abdul Qayyum P’14 Bushra Qayyum P’14 Lee & Mary Robeson P’03 Maurice and Patricia Robinson, Jr. P’08 Linda & Michael Romero P’15 James W. Sari P’05 Jeanette M. & Jeffrey M. Schell P’08 Adele & Stephen J. Schwartz P ’00 Wanda S. & David J. Shade P’11 Harold & Carol Stevens P’09 Deirdre M. & Robert R. Stimpson P’10 Susan Tedeschi P’11

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Catherine ’13 & Nancy Tella P’13 Jane & Robert Till P’15 Susan & Gene Todd P’11 Andrew Vellrath BS ’66, P’05 Geraldine Watson Linda & C. Robert Wheeler P’01 Melvyn A. & Elaine Wolf P’98 C. Robert & Judith Ann Wyss P’98

CORPORATIONS A. R. Wolfson Associates Allied Barton Security Services Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Archer & Greiner Athenianrazak LLC Bai Brands LLC Bank of America Bath Fitter Becker & Frondorf Big jobs. Little jobs. Inc Blick Art Materials Boeing Company Gift Matching Program Brandow Clinic Brenntag Specialties Bresslergroup Calvert School of Dance Carbone Smolan Associates Cecil Baker & Partners Chez Dance Studio CNI Sales, Inc. Colliers Lanard & Axilbund-Global Real Estate Services Commercial Utility Consultants Community First Abstract Corel Corporation Cozen O’Connor CRW Graphics Dave’s Cleaning Service Digitas Health DLS International Inc. E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company Ed Hoy’s International FB Capital Partners LP G.T. of Calvert LLC Girard Square Partners LP GlaxoSmithKline The Glenmede Trust Company Go Welsh, Inc. Granville Ackermann Design Inc. Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., Inc. Independence Blue Cross

Industrial Energy Total Management and Supply Jacobs Music Company Jenkintown Building Services, Inc. LAB Graphics Liberty Mutual Lima Company Liz Ink, Inc. Mafco Litigation Trust Mangos Mercer Meyer and Associates MGA Partners Michael Baker Corporation MissionStaff, LLC Nik Multimedia, Inc. Noel Mayo Associates, Inc. Palmer Waterproofing, Inc. Parkhurst Dining Services Pearl Properties, LLC PECO Energy The Philadelphia Contributionship Philadelphia Management Corporation Philadelphia Mortgage Advisors Philadelphia Water Color Society PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. PressXpress PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP P’unk Avenue LLC Quaker Chemical Corporation Rod and Reel RP Supply Co. SalesGlobe Sasaki Associates, Inc. Schwab Charitable Fund R. Jane Schwam Interior Design Spicer Inc. Spring Garden Construction Standard Ceramic Supply Company Stockton Real Estate Advisors Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP Strohecker, Inc. TAC Graphics TD Bank Today’s Graphics Turner Construction Company Undefined Creative Inc. Vera’s White Sands Beach Club LLC Visionaire Wexler Peterson Luzi Willis WP Realty

FOUNDATIONS, GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Alliance Bernstein Foundation Herb Alpert Foundation AMJ Foundation Ash Family Foundation B.W. Bastian Foundation The Barra Foundation The Brind Foundation Joseph Cairns, Jr. & Ernestine Bacon Cairns Trust Louis N. Cassett Foundation Nathan M. Clark Foundation Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Connelly Foundation The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundation The Charlotte Cushman Foundation Family Planning Council Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Gelb Foundation The Joel and Elaine Gershman Foundation Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Hamilton Family Foundation Hazy Hill Foundation The Hompe Foundation The Honickman Foundation Esther Gowen Hood Foundation IFDA Philadelphia Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia The John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Brook J. Lenfest Foundation Library of Congress Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation Locks Family Foundation Locks Gallery Samuel P. Mandell Foundation Milbank Memorial Fund Mill Spring Foundation Henry Nias Foundation The Lillian & Albert Noren Foundation Pew Center for Arts and Heritage The Pew Charitable Trusts Philadelphia Arts In Education Partnership

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Philadelphia Fight The Philadelphia Foundation The Pincus Family Foundation Portland Art Museum Presser Foundation Frederick J. Rosenau Foundation Kal & Lucille Rudman Foundation The Saramar Charitable Fund Seed The Dream Foundation Segall Family Foundation Sienna Gallery Surdna Foundation Lenore G. Tawney Foundation Teachers Association of BH Sunshine University of Connecticut Vanguard Charitable Endowment Vanguard Group Foundation Victory Foundation The Richard C. von Hess Foundation W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Howard A. Wolf and Martha R. Wolf Fund Woodmere Art Museum Zeldin Family Foundation

GIFTS IN KIND The University of the Arts is grateful to the following individuals and businesses who have made contributions of in-kind products, goods and services to the University in 2012.

12th Street Catering 1681 Vodka Ruven Afanador Mitali Bandhu Robert Baren Blick Art Materials Bucks Life Andrew BFA’81 & Elyse Cantor Chariot Valet Sharon Church Elaine G. Galen ’50 & Edward Colker ’49 Joan P. Connors BFA ’82 Charles Conwell Chutzpah Corel Corporation CRW Graphics Susan D’Alessio Mary S. Dembo BFA ’85 Ed Hoy’s International

Zenon Faifer & K. Barzarnik Stuart Fink William BFA ’68 & Vivian Wagner BA ’63 Gast Charlie L Gilbert P’06 Donna J. Globus MFA ’10 David M. Graham BFA ’76 Randy W. Granger BFA ’70 & Irene McHenry Nancy Heller Bin Huang Lucas Kappler Jonathan Kremer Pearl Lee BFA ’74 Locks Gallery Thomas S. Lovelund BFA ’07 Palma Lucas Jennifer C. MacMillan BFA ’06 Main Line Mangos Christopher Maute CMJ ’93 Faye Miller Casey L. Murphy BFA ’09 Michal J. Niemeyer Nik Multimedia, Inc. Lisa & Martin Novelli Camille Paglia Ruth Perlmutter Philadelphia Distillery/ Bluecoat Gin Portland Art Museum Barbara Proud Jeffrey Ray Steve Reeder Josh Roberts Shannon Robinson Amalie Rothschild Shannon E. Ryan BFA ’07 Sid Sachs Sabâ Saraagazade George Segal Gallery Miriam Seidel Select Event Rentals Mike Sgier Sienna Gallery Peter Stambler Standard Ceramic Supply Company Patricia Stewart Ivo Stork Lynn Sures Lenore G. Tawney Foundation Francis Tucker University of Connecticut Valley Forge Florists Victory Beer Susan T. Viguers P’04 Visionaire Josephine G. Viviani

Edward Waisnis Carla & Allen Weinberg William G. BFA ’67 & Linda White Anni Wilson

ARTUNLEASHED 2012 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS PRESENTING SPONSORS Harriet & Larry Weiss PARTNERS ($10,000+) Ira Brind & Stacey Spector Anne F. & S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr. Elizabeth Moran INVESTORS ($5,000 - $9,999) Sean T. Buffington Joseph & Dawn Coradino Eleanor & Hal Davis Michael Forman & Jennifer Rice Dorrance Hamilton Jeffrey & Meredith Lutsky SPONSORS ($2,500 - $4,999) Ron & Ellen Caplan Brian & Sherry Effron Sam & Margarett McKeel Leigh & John Middleton Ron & Suzanne Naples PATRONS ($1,000 - $2,499) Marta & Robert Adelson Barbara & Todd Albert Michelle A. Alford & Neil J. Hamburg Anthony Creamer Mark BFA ’85 & Blythe Donnolo Jaimie & David Field Marie & Joseph Field Lesley & James Fitzgerald Penny & Bob Fox James G. Fulton, Jr. ’72 & Eric Rymshaw Jane & Joe Goldblum Marcy Gringlas & Joel Greenberg Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman Elaine Levitt Sueyun & Gene Locks Thomas M. Miles BFA ’75 Gregory Murphy & Michael Boyle Norma & Larry Reichlin Alan Rubin

Marcia & Ron Rubin Gregory Segall & Rebecca Cook Joan F. & John M. Thalheimer Janine & Jeff Yass COLLECTORS ($500 - $999) Lori & Michael Banks Sheryl & Allen Bar Pam & David Berkman Mary & James Brown Susan & Robert Burch Joyce & Ron Burd Susan & Kent Cadwalader Robert Capanna BM ’73 & Cathryn Coate Larry Ceisler & Lina Hartocollis Scott Conking & Tom Wall Christos Coutifaris & Deborah Driscoll Maude de Schauensee Deanna BFA ’66 & Alan DeCherney Andrea & Alexander Ehrlich Alida Fish Janet K. Grace BS ’83 Clara & Bentley Hollander Lynne & Harold Honickman Lucie Hughes Richard & Julie Jaffe Scott & Yardly Jenkins Julie Jensen & Robert Bryan Gail Kass & Roy Friedman Kate & Adam Kauffman Susan CE ’92 & Leonard Klehr Margelle & Sheldon Liss Alexis & Joel Marmar Laurie & Samuel Marshall Frank & Marianna Mirabello Karyn & Charles Murray Joyce Sherman & James Pepe P’06 Lisa Popowich & Jonathan Stein Franz Rabauer & Brian Daggett Nadia & Roberto Rodriguez Theresa & John Rollins Karen Rosner & Martin Zeldin Linda & Kurt Soukup Karen & Scott Tarte Helene B. van Beuren Mary Jane & Phil VanCleave Jim & Isabelle Vesey Laurence B. Wiener CONNOISSEURS ($150 - $499) Jane Allsopp Sharon & Craig Altman Dan Anders Sally & Devin Aronstam * Deceased

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Theodora Ashmead Ellyn G. Bandy Rosemary & Gerry Barth Lee M. Berg Harriet Berneman Christine & Wade Berrettini Seema Singh Bhan Suzy & Lawrence Borow Gwen Borowsky Stephanie & Kirk Brandow Merrill & Lloyd Brotman Ronald L. Cantor David Colman Helen Drutt English Liz & Ed Ellers Katharine & Bill Eyre Helen & Herman Fala Sylvia Beck & Jay Federman Jill & Neal Colton Phyllis Fischer Geraldine Dietz Fox Beth E. Frederick William BFA ’68 & Vivian Wagner BA ’63 Gast Elizabeth H. Gemmill Sally & Steven Gendler Harlan Glebe Donna & Henry Gonzalez Eileen M. Grabosky Kathleen BS ’79 & Nick Greco Melissa Greenberg Crystal Gurin Melissa Heller Hollie & Jamie Holt Nancy BFA ’75 & Stephen Hovnanian Angela & Fred Hudson Lydia S. Hunn BFA ’69 & Charles Derr Judith Hyman Karen Jacobson Debra Kahn Michelle & Michael Kichline Gay & Don Kimelman Virginia & Harvey Kimmel James & Nina Korsh Jon Landau Joye & Bruce Lesser Craig L. Lewis BM ’96 & Dianne Semingson Elisa & Howard Lewis Michele Lockwood Josephine Mandeville Bonnie & Bruce Marks Lynne & Scott Mason Nancy & Michael Mennuti Roberta Gausas & Alan J. Model Robert J. Morrison Adolf & Geraldine Paier * Deceased 64 EDGE

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Sonja Pettingill & Steve Silber Laurie Phillips BFA ’77 Susan & Brett Pinto Judy Pote Jonathan M. Propper Phoebe & Myron Resnick Katie & Jeff Rhodes Brad Richards Emily C. Riley Caro & Robert Rock Barbara B. & John S. Ruttenberg Ronnie & Gerry Schwam Bryna S. Scott Eric Settle Rita & Bob Siegle Howard Silverman Alice & Andrew Simon Emma & Paul Simpson SaraKay & Stan Smullens Cathy Weiss & Edward Solomon Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz Barrie Trimingham & David Pierson Elizabeth Werthan & Robert Brand Camilla & William Whetzel Judith A. Wicks Marc & Tanya Williams Robin & Gerry Williams Caroline Wischmann Diane Dalto & Richard Woosman Roger Youman Nanette M. Zakian Jeffrey Zarnoch BS ’84 Gina T. Zegel SUPPORTERS Harriet S. Ackerman MAT ’84 Carol O. Allen MAT ’92 Linda Lee Alter BFA ’61 George A. ’58 & Mary H. Beach Norma E. Berke ’48 Perry & Ellen Berman Evelyn M. ’56 & Bernie Cleff ’50 Linda & Michael Clement Ryan D. Cobourn BFA ’99 Nathan MFA ’05 & Laura Distefano Harriet K. Feinstein ’62 Shaina L. Flynn Alyson N. & Jeffrey E. Frank Suzanne K. Gerber Paige Gesualdo Brita & Richard Gwinn Barbara J. Harberger BFA ’76 Dorothy D. Kaplan & Robert M. Poore Karen L. & Garry R. Kelly P’11

Josephine Klein Sissie & Herb Lipton Mary & Charles Mather Henri P. Meillier ’53 Leonard Mellman Susan & Jim Meyer Meg Clifton Mitchell BM ’01 Bee & Bob Muzerall P’06 Paul J. Palcko BFA ’98 Gail & Michael Rosenberg Beth & Michael Shor Joan & Leonard Shore Marie Stuart Jonas Theiler Audrey D. Walters ’51 Meg & Jim Wolf YOUNG FRIENDS Donna & John Costanza Sam Hamilton & Chelsea Irwin Chloe Sherman-Pepe BFA ’09

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS LEAD CORPORATE PARTNER Blick Art Materials PRODUCER ($25,000+) Mangos PARTNERS ($10,000 - $24,999) 12th Street Catering Bucks Life Chutzpah CRW Graphics Main Line Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP TD Bank INVESTORS ($5,000 - $9,999) PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. FB Capital Partners LP The Glenmede Trust Company Independence Blue Cross Lima Company PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Quaker Chemical Corporation Select Event Rentals WP Realty SPONSORS ($2,500 - $4,999) Allied Barton Security Services Archer & Greiner Chariot Valet PECO Energy Philadelphia Management Corporation

Spring Garden Construction Turner Construction Company Valley Forge Florists Willis PATRONS ($1,000 - $2,499) 1681 Vodka Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Bath Fitter CNI Sales, Inc. Cozen O’Connor Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., Inc. MGA Partners Palmer Waterproofing, Inc. Parkhurst Dining Services Pearl Properties, LLC Philadelphia Distillery/ Bluecoat Gin SalesGlobe Victory Beer SUPPORTERS ($100 - $999) Athenianrazak LLC Becker & Frondorf Big jobs. Little jobs. Inc Brandow Clinic Cecil Baker & Partners Colliers Lanard & Axilbund-Global Real Estate Services Dave’s Cleaning Service DLS International Inc. Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Industrial Energy Total Management and Supply Jenkintown Building Services, Inc. MissionStaff, LLC RP Supply Co. Sasaki Associates, Inc. R. Jane Schwam Interior Design Stockton Real Estate Advisors

ESTATES The University of the Arts is grateful to have received support from the following estates during fiscal year 2012.

Estate of Ruth Colten Austin Lamont Residuary Trust

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LEGACY SOCIETY The following individuals have indicated that they have named the University in their estate plans through a will, trust or other planned gift.

Howard Alber ’33 William Allenson BS ’52 Mary L. ’51 & George B. Beitzel Marcy Belfer Norma E. Berke ’48 Ira Brind Eleanor Davis Joseph R. DiDomenico BFA ’93 Ronald S. Elowitz BFA ’86 Dorrance Hamilton Thomas M. Miles BFA ’75 Michael F. Moreken ’56* Henrietta M. Mustokoff BM/BMED ’68 Adolf A. Paier Karen Saler BFA ’64 Peter Stambler Carl L. Steele ’51 Marie D. Ulmer ’41

FACULTY AND STAFF Anonymous (1) Regina K. Barthmaier BFA ’89 MA ’03 Amanda T. Black Kevin P. Brennan Sean T. Buffington Donna Faye Burchfield Mariann Cardonick Thomas H. Carnwath Sharon Church William P. Daley DeAngela Duff Erin Elman MA ’97 MFA ’08 Richard Farnum Alida Fish Diane T. Foxman ’53 Beth E. Frederick Eileen M. Grabosky Angelina Guevara Brian Hainstock Paul Healy Johnnie Hobbs Lucie Hughes Lydia S. Hunn BFA ’69 Ronald P. Kerber BM ’80 Michele C. Kishita BFA ’97, MFA ’10

Hedi Kyle Mi-Kyoung Lee MFA ’96 Robert Alan Leffers Marie Cirotti Levine BFA ’85 Gregory Nayor Martin Novelli Jeannie Pearce Charles Pennacchio Kirk Pillow Thomas Porett Karen Rosenberg Jeffrey C. Ryder Elizabeth Saccardi Philip Schulman BFA ’59 Mara Adamitz Scrupe Peter Stambler Karyn Tufarolo UArts Design and Technology Program Beth Van Why MID ’06 Phil VanCleave Lauren Villanueva Carla Weinberg Li-Chiu Yeh Mira Zergani

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS ALBERT GLASSBERG SCHOLARSHIP IN GRAPHIC DESIGN Sue & Bob Barroway Myrl M. & Joseph F. Catelli Eleanor & Hal Davis ALBERT GOLD DRAWING PRIZE Mrs. Aurora Vanelli Gold BFA ’52 ALFRED J. IGNARRI AWARD FOR JUNIOR STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY Robert Ignarri ARNOLD ROTH SATURDAY LAB SCHOLARSHIP FUND Arnold ’50 & Caroline Roth TD Bank BERTHE VON MOSCHZISKER PRINTMAKING AWARD Anne Kaplan BRENNETAG SPECIALTIES, INC AWARD FUND Brennetag Specialties

CHRISTINA CULLEN MEMORIAL AWARD IN PHOTOGRAPHY Sean Becker Lori & Anthony Clark Jason Cullen John & Bunny Cullen Daniel P. Sacks COMMUNICATION EXCELLENCE AWARD Jeffrey C. Ryder CRW GRAPHICS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TYPOGRAPHY CRW Graphics

GUILIO AND CARINA NOVELLI MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE LIBERAL ARTS Lisa & Martin Novelli GRADUATE ALUMNI AWARD IN HONOR OF LOIS M. JOHNSON Jennifer L. Craig MFA ’05 Sun Young Kang MFA ’07 Geoffrey DiMasi MFA ’97 HENRY NIAS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Henry Nias Foundation HIEBERT SCHOLARSHIP FUND Philip C. Burton BFA ’68

DIANE TAYLOR FOXMAN SCHOLARSHIP Diane T. Foxman ’53 DR. FREDERICK P. CORNELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATION Karen & Neal Rosenberg EDDIE OLIVER ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AWARD DeAngela Duff Doris Ellington Carolyn Robinson Mira Wright EDNA ANDRADE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Jean M. Plough BFA ’70 ELIZABETH ANN PULASKI SCHOLARSHIP William & Anna Marie Pulaski ESTHER GOWEN HOOD MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP Esther Gowen Hood Foundation FELDMAN/KAPLAN AWARD Elaine G. Galen ’50 & Edward Colker ’49 FRIENDS OF CAROL MOORE AWARD Carol L. Moore & Philip Schulman BFA’59 GEORGE AND MARYLOU BEITZEL AWARD FUND Mary L. ’51 & George B. Beitzel

HOWARD A. AND MARTHA R. WOLF SCHOLARSHIP Howard A. & Martha R. Wolf Fund HUGH CHARLES AWARD IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FINE ARTS Mara Adamitz Scrupe IAN BERRY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Anonymous Nicolle L. Anastsi Patricia A. & Donald Applekamp Joanne O. Baker Vicki & Larry Bell Edward & Patricia Berry Page Bradford Donna Faye Burchfield Calvert School of Dance Karma & Joseph Camp Joseph W. & Krista J. Card Kristina M. Card Leigh Card Mariann Cardonick David & Lisa Channell Jennifer L. Channell Kelly & Jamison Combs Angelia M. & Charles W. Cook Patricia & William J. Council Renee L. & Gary M. Crampton Theresa Cuisick Samuel Davenport Simone Lyles Davis Timothy J. & Lorraine B. Dunigan Sandra Eichorn Michele A. & John P. Emory Rani G. & Scott S. Flynn G.T. of Calvert LLC Robin M. Gale & David I. Gale Tonya Tidd & Todd Goldsmith

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Kimberly A. & Paul M. Gryskewicz Amy Hale Kelly E. & Brian J. Hayden Rosanne Heflin-Gorny Curt D. & Becky L. Hilpipre Megan Hohman Constance E. & James C. Hollowell Brittany Eskew & Claude Kreuter Shirley A. & Robert B. Maxwell Christine McMahon Michael S. McQueney Stephen V. & Lauren K. Neitz Patricia M. & Gerald J. Olexa Lizabeth S. & Andrew F. O’Mahoney Amanda Pendry Veronica M. & Gregory T. Phelps Maureen M. & Paul A. Pieringer Gail B. & Dudley L. Prisel Teri A. & Daniel P. Rice Lisa D. Richman Patricia Ringers Diane A. & James A. Robinson Rod and Reel Julie E. Rogers Kimberly A. & Guy A. Rolley Patricia A. Salamone Gregory Samples Chris L. & David P. Schrumpf Kristie M. & John J. Scott Patricia A. & Bruce F. Serena Tammy R. & Joseph R. Steiss Michelle A. & David W. Stover Strohecker, Inc. James B. Strohecker Brenda Suchter Mary Jo Suchter Patricia D. Suchter Michael E. Susten BFA ’10 Catherine & Nancy Tella Laura L. & David A. Thorne Danne M. & Robert A. Twinam Vera’s White Sands Beach Club Paula Wilder Rachel A. Wood J.N. PHILLIPS CASTING PRIZE Gina Michaels & John N. Phillips JACOBS MUSIC STEINWAY AWARD Jacobs Music Company JOHN T. MATHIS, III MEMORIAL SAXOPHONE SCHOLARSHIP FUND Carol V. Hill Lawrence & Barbara Mathis Joan & Michael Melega * Deceased 66 EDGE

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Edith Munro Teachers Association of BH Sunshine Jeffrey Vernam John & Gloria Vernam

RICHARD C. VON HESS SCHOLARSHIP & TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP The Richard C. von Hess Foundation

JOSEPH CAIRNS, JR. & ERNESTINE BACON CAIRNS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Joseph Cairns, Jr. & Ernestine Bacon Cairns Trust

RICHARD C. VON HESS VISITING ARTISTS FUND The Richard C. von Hess Foundation

LARRY DAY SCHOLARSHIP Ruth E. Fine BFA ’62 Penny P. Smith BFA ’79 LARRY WEISS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS Harriet & Larry Weiss LAURIE BEECHMAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Marcy Belfer Sharon B. Kling LILLIAN & ALBERT NOREN FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Lillian & Albert Noren Foundation LINDBACK DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation LUIS LEE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND UArts Design & Technology Program MI-KYOUNG LEE KOREA INTERNSHIP AWARD Mi-Kyoung Lee MFA ’96 PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR SOCIETY AWARD Philadelphia Water Color Society PRESSER FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP Presser Foundation RICHARD C. VON HESS FACULTY PRIZE The Richard C. von Hess Foundation

ROBERTA TREATMAN EISENBERG MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Anonymous Anne Beeman Carl & Myra Berenbaum Cynthia Berenbaum Leonard Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum Mary & Constantin Cope Burton & Janet Eisenberg Jonathan Foster Ronna & Stanley Foster Mieke & Alexander Gelley Julia Stein & John W. Goldsborough Diana B. & James S. Goldstein Ruth Hartz Daniel & Maureen Harwitz Pamela & Andrew Horowitz Alex A. Kasraie Richard & Sylvia Koppel Sharon & Kenneth Kraus Aaron & Anita Kuptsow Frances McGinty Beverly M. & Alan J. Miller Eunice A. & Melvin N. Miller Miriam Miller Nancy & Michael Mooslin Marcella Plaum Carol Saindon Elizabeth C. Johnsen & Perry Silver Debra Spark Richard & Barbara Spark Anita & Herman Stein Morton & René Stein Robert & Marilyn Steiner Judy Strauss Harriet & Larry Weiss RUDMAN SCHOLARS Kal & Lucille Rudman SHANNON D. MOORE FILM AWARD Kathy & Robert Moore P’05 Shannon D. Moore BFA ’05

STEVE JAFFE AWARD IN DRAWING Susan Jaffe SYLVIA WEXLER MEMORIAL AWARD IN ART EDUCATION Ginia Wexler TED CAREY PRIZE The Richard C. von Hess Foundation THE JAFFE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Barbara J. Lorry Elizabeth & David Lorry TODAY’S GRAPHICS AWARD FOR EXCLLENCE IN DESIGN Today’s Graphics VIRGINIA G. & HARVEY KIMMEL SCHOLARSHIP IN CRAFTS Virginia G. & Harvey Kimmel W.W. SMITH SCHOLARSHIPS W.W. Smith Charitable Trust WESLEY EMMONS SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR JEWELRY AND METALWORK Steven R. Dienstman Hoyt Emmons Beth & Wesley Emmons, III John T. Griffin Mark W. BFA ’81 & Elisa Hastings Adelaide Lake Martin ’55 Lester & Beverly Potteiger WILLIAM DALEY CRAFTS & HAYSTACK AWARD William P. & Catherine Daley Thomas & Jane Porett WINIFRED FINKELSTEIN CANTOR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Ronald L. Cantor WRITING FOR FILM & TELEVISION FACULTY AWARD FUND Jeffrey C. Ryder

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TRIBUTE GIFTS The University of the Arts is pleased to acknowledge the following donors who made contributions to the University in honor of a special family member or friend.

{GIVEN IN HONOR OF} [Given by] ATHENIANRAZAK LLC Janet K. Grace BS ’83 DANIEL L. BARE BFA ’97 Daniel K. Bare P’97 JACQUELINE BAUWENS BFA ’15 Joanne Bauwens P’15 KIM BEARS-BAILEY BFA ’84 Iris Henry-Aiken IRA BRIND & STACEY SPECTOR Jane & Joe Goldblum Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman James & Nina Korsh Harriet & Larry Weiss SEAN T. BUFFINGTON Lynn K. & Joseph M. Manko ANDREW J. CARROLL BFA ’12 Monique Carroll P’12 ELEANOR DAVIS Penny & Bob Fox JOEL DEJESUS BM ’05 Marcia & Richard DeJesus-Rueff P’05 VERONICA & DENNIS DIEHL P’12 Olivia A. Diehl BFA ’12 RITA DIRENZO Thomas E. Halpin ’89 SHERRY EFFRON Alyson N. & Jeffrey E. Frank WALLACE P. EVANS BFA ’15 Lossie Evans P ’15 CONRAD & BEATRICE HILSHEIMER Shani D. Hilsheimer BFA ’91 GEORGE JOHNSON Mark BFA ’85 & Blythe Donnolo

MARIEL LETOURNEAU BFA’10 Kim & Chris Letourneau P’10 GAIL MALLOY Elizabeth Saccardi KENNETH MASCARO BS ’14 Holly & Kenneth Mascaro P’14 BONNIE MCMILLIAN Colleen A. Roscher BM ’67 CHRISTOPHER MORABITO BFA ’09 Frank & Sandra Morabito P’09

Joan Miller Lady Patricia Morrison Joan F. & John M. Thalheimer Vicki Weiner DAVID WOLF BFA ’98 Melvyn A. & Elaine Wolf P’98 MIRA ZERGANI Anita R. Kenny BFA ’05

IN MEMORIAM

ALIS HOWARD MURPHY June M.C. Brown BFA ’49

The University of the Arts is grateful to the following donors who made contributions to the University in memory of a special person in 2012.

TIMOTHY MURPHY BFA ’09 & KELLY SEXTON MURPHY BFA ’09 Karen A. & Kevin B. Murphy P’09

{GIVEN IN MEMORY OF} [Given by]

KAT MUSCIANESI Anita R. Kenny BFA ’05

MARION BARE Daniel K. Bare P’97

RON & SUZANNE NAPLES Barbara & R. Barrett Noone

MORRIS BERD ’36 Bari K. Rosenthal BFA ’65

KATHLEEN O’NEILL BFA ’09 Janice J. & James J. O’Neill P’09

IAN BERRY Nicolle L. Anastsi Anonymous Patricia A. & Donald Applekamp Joanne O. Baker Vicki & Larry Bell Edward & Patricia Berry Page Bradford Donna Faye Burchfield Calvert School of Dance Karma & Joseph Camp Joseph W. & Krista J. Card Kristina M. Card Leigh Card David & Lisa Channell Jennifer L. Channell Kelly & Jamison Combs Angelia M. & Charles W. Cook Patricia & William J. Council Renee L. & Gary M. Crampton Theresa Cuisick Samuel Davenport Simone Lyles Davis Timothy J. & Lorraine B. Dunigan Sandra Eichorn Michele A. & John P. Emory Brittany Eskew & Claude Kreuter Rani G. & Scott S. Flynn G.T. of Calvert LLC Robin M. Gale & David I. Gale Tonya Tidd & Todd Goldsmith

LARRY REICHLIN Marjorie & Jeffrey Honickman GEMMA RHODESIDE & MATT GIESZL Elliot I. BS ’66 & Deana Rhodeside WILLIAM H. ROBINSON ’08 Maurice & Patricia Robinson, Jr, JOEL RUNDELL Laura A. Rundell & Anthony B. Holtz HARRIET & LARRY WEISS Joan & James Abramson Sue & Bob Barroway Carol & Horace Barsh Lee M. Berg Talia Berjarano Eleanor & Hal Davis Lois & P. Richard Frieder Sis & Ray Grenald Brita & Richard Gwinn Janet Kardon Robin & Jordan Lieberman Sissie & Herb Lipton

Kimberly A. & Paul M. Gryskewicz Amy Hale Kelly E. & Brian J. Hayden Rosanne Heflin-Gorny Curt D. & Becky L. Hilpipre Megan Hohman Constance E. & James C. Hollowell Amber Knight Shirley A. & Robert B. Maxwell Christine McMahon Michael S. McQueney Stephen V. & Lauren K. Neitz Patricia M. & Gerald J. Olexa Lizabeth S. & Andrew F. O’Mahoney Amanda Pendry Veronica M. & Gregory T. Phelps Maureen M. & Paul A. Pieringer Gail B. & Dudley L. Prisel Teri A. & Daniel P. Rice Lisa D. Richman Patricia Ringers Diane A. & James A. Robinson Rod and Reel Julie E. Rogers Kimberly A. & Guy A. Rolley Patricia A. Salamone Gregory Samples Chris L. & David P. Schrumpf Kristie M. & John J. Scott Patricia A. & Bruce F. Serena Tammy R. & Joseph R. Steiss Michelle A. & David W. Stover Strohecker James B. Strohecker Patricia D. Suchter Mary Jo Suchter Brenda Suchter Michael E. Susten BFA ’10 Catherine BFA ’13 & Nancy Tella Laura L. & David A. Thorne Danne M. & Robert A. Twinam Vera’s White Sands Beach Club LLC Paula Wilder Rachel A. Wood HELEN CUNNIFF Matthew Cunniff SEAN DEIBLER Bernard Jacobson JAMES EISEMAN, SR. James & Cynthia Eiseman, Jr. Ellen & Burton Hersh

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ROBERTA TREATMAN EISENBERG BFA ’87 Morton & René Stein SAMSON EISENBERG Leonard Berenbaum Cynthia Berenbaum Carl & Myra Berenbaum Julia Stein & John W. Goldsborough Ruth Hartz Alex A. Kasraie Aaron & Anita Kuptsow Frances McGinty Elizabeth C. Johnsen & Perry Silver Anita & Herman Stein Judy Strauss BEN EISENSTAT Bari K. Rosenthal BFA ’65 WESLEY EMMONS BFA ’54 David S. ’54 & Shirley Burnside Steven R. Dienstman Beth & Wesley Emmons, III Hoyt Emmons John T. Griffin Mark W. ’81 & Elisa Hastings Adelaide Lake Martin ’55 Lester & Beverly Potteiger ELAINE EVANS ’44 Bernard Evans

ALFRED J. IGNARRI ’52 Robert Ignarri

ELEANOR SMITH OBER ’49 Charles J. Ober ’49

ANNE LOIS KALM Ronald S. Elowitz BFA ’86 & Cherilynn Whitehouse

EDDIE OLIVER Carolyn Robinson

JEROME KAPLAN ’47 Arthur S. Hillman BFA ’66 LUIS LEE UArts Design and Technology Program ISABEL LEWANDO Ruth BFA ’55 & Christopher G. ’55 Mavronikolas IDA LOVITT Anita Lovitt ’70 DEFORREST MARCHANT, JR. Betty Lou Marchant CE ’92 GEORGE FOX MATHIS Carol V. Hill Lawrence & Barbara Mathis Joan & Michael Melega Edith Munro Teachers Association of BH Sunshine Jeffrey Vernam John & Gloria Vernam

ELIZABETH PULASKI Cecelia Roberts ROSINA RADOMILE ’46 John J. Radomile ROBERT REICHLIN Rita & Stanley Reichlin AURELIUS RENZETTI Miriam C. Wagner BFA ’48 ALBERT SCARCELLI Philip Schulman BFA ’59 & Carol L. Moore OLAF SKOOGFORS Dorothy A. Daub-Grossman ’75 Judith Skoogfors-Prip ’55 TONY SPARACINO Michael J. Sheridan MISS SWEENEY Johanna S. Jordan ’41 DAVID WHITE BFA ’51 William G. BFA ’67 & Linda White

STEVE FEINSTEIN Marcy Belfer

WILLIAM MOOREHOUSE BMED ’68 Gary L. Anderson BM ’67

ALAN WORKMAN Ronald L. Cantor

BARBARA GLASSBERG Myrl M. & Joseph F. Catelli

WILLIAM MURPHY ’53 John C. Gregory, Jr. DIPL ’53

MARY WRIGHT Rita M. Di Renzo

RICHARD GREENWOOD BS ’55 Kathryn H. Greenwood

WALLY NEIBART BFA ’51 Josephine Troth Friedman BFA ’51

MAUREEN HREVNACK John R. Hrevnack WINIFRED HULMES Donald R. Hulmes ’54

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JOE NETTIS BFA ’53 Samuel Dion ’53

Contributors listed made gifts between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this donor roll.

If we have made an error, please accept our apology.

You may contact the Advancement Office at 215-717-6141 and we will correct our records.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2011-2012

ALUMNI COUNCIL 2011-2012

Ronald J. Naples Chairman

Doshanna Bell BFA ’08 Andrew Cantor BFA ’81 Janine Cappello-Bryant BFA ’86 Mark Cooperstein BFA ’79 Mary Norris Dembo BFA ’85 Adam Dotson MFA ’07 Harriet Feinstein BFA ’62 Chris Gee BFA ’89 Robin Gerchman BFA ’86 Apryl Grasty BFA ’00 Michele Kishita BFA ’97, MFA ’10 Justin Mitchell ’01 Meg Mitchell BM ’01, MM ’02 Lisa Oster BFA ’99 Winnie Owens-Hart BFA ’71 Jean Plough BFA ’70 Elliot Rhodeside BS ’66 Jaime Salm BS ’01 Robert Wescott BFA ’53 Jeffrey Zarnoch BS ’84

Sean T. Buffington President George A. Beach ’58 Ira Brind Ronald L. Caplan Jill R. Felix Colton Joseph F. Coradino Eleanor L. Davis Deanna DeCherney BFA ’66 Mark Donnolo BFA ’85 Brian Effron Michael C. Forman William R. Gast BFA ’68 Melissa Heller Gail Kass Dr. Russel E. Kaufman Richard P. Jaffe, Esq. Scott M. Jenkins Al Paul Lefton, Jr. Elaine C. Levitt Sueyun Locks Karen Lotman Jeffrey A. Lutsky Seymour G. Mandell Dr. Noel Mayo BS ’66 Thomas M. Miles BFA ’75 Francis J. Mirabello, Esq. Adolf A. Paier Lawrence S. Reichlin Alan I. Rubin Judith Terra James P. Vesey Harriet G. Weiss William Wilson Albert E. Wolf TRUSTEES EMERITI Mary Louise Beitzel ’51 Irvin J. Borowsky Anne F. Elder Sondra Myers

UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP Sean T. Buffington President

OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT Lucille Hughes Vice President for Advancement

Kirk E. Pillow Provost

SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS

Paul Healy Associate Vice President of Communications

Thomas H. Carnwath Vice President of Technology & Information Systems

Mira Zergani Assistant Vice President of Development

Beth Frederick Director of Institutional Research

Mac Branscom Graphic Design Consultant

Lucille Hughes Vice President for Advancement

Jim Maurer Production Manager

R. Alan Leffers Vice President for Enrollment, Retention and Student Affairs

Kat Muscianesi Special Assistant to the Vice President for Advancement

Stephen J. Lightcap Vice President for Finance & Adminstration

Dana Rodriguez Web Content Manager

SENIOR ACADEMIC OFFICERS

Chris Rooney Community Information Architect

Erin Elman MAT ’87, MFA ’08 Dean, Division of Continuing Studies

Liz Saccardi Director of the Annual Fund & Development Operations

Catherine Gunther Kodat Dean, Division of Liberal Arts

Joanna Sung Assistant Director of Alumni & Parent Relations

Christopher Sharrock Dean, College of Art, Media & Design K Williams Dean, College of the Performing Arts

Lauren Villanueva Director of Alumni & Parent Relations

LIFE TRUSTEES Dorrance H. Hamilton Sam S. McKeel

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

FROM THE ARCHIVES

BY SARA MACDONALD Public Services Librarian

THE PHILADELPHIA MUSICAL ACADEMY SNAPSHOT, 1960s The Philadelphia Musical Academy (PMA), founded in 1870 and now the UArts School of Music, is the oldest predecessor institution of UArts.

Founded by three graduates of the Leipzig (Germany) Conservatory, PMA merged in 1962 with the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, which had been founded in 1877. PMA later became Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts (PCPA), which merged with Philadelphia College of Art in 1985. It lumbered along under the name Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts until 1987, when it was granted university status from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and became the University of the Arts.

In this “From the Archives” piece, we’ll take a look at PMA in the 1960s.

The 1960s are interesting years to look at since PMA produced yearbooks in that decade. All the PMA yearbooks (1963 through 1969) in the UArts Archives have been digitized and can be freely viewed at archive.org/details/uarts.

(top to bottom) The cover of Score, the 1963 yearbook of PMA. Later yearbooks would have the title Da Capo.

This humorous page includes a group shot of the yearbook staff. UArts School of Music faculty member Evan Solot BM ‘67 (Trumpet), MM ‘75 (Composition) was art advisor for the yearbook.

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(clockwise) A 1969 photo shows Evan Solot in front of what may be his Jazz Workshop class.

A young Stanley Clarke ’71 (Bass) stands in the back with the upright bass.

Only male students played on the PMA sports teams, but this 1965 PMA yearbook photo shows that the young women found a way to participate.

The cover of the PMA 1964 yearbook Da Capo.

Please send any corrections to Sara MacDonald at smacdonald@uarts.edu.

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