Faculty and Staff Notes

William Brouillard (Faculty Emeritus) received the Ohio Designer Craftsmen’s Outstanding Achievement Award for his own work and for his dedication to educating young artists in the state.

Michael C. Butz (Institutional Advancement) is co-hosting Aliza: Her Story at 10 Years, a Cleveland Jewish News podcast series about Aliza Sherman’s life, loss and legacy. He covered the story of Sherman, who was murdered 10 years ago in downtown Cleveland, while a reporter and editor for the CJN.

Colby Chamberlain (Liberal Arts) published the cover article for the April issue of Artforum, a profile of the artist Josh Kline, whose midretrospective opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that month.

Gretchen Goss (Craft + Design) had a piece, “Roadside, Riverside, Lakeside Panels” (2020) accepted into the Cleveland Museum of Art’s permanent collection through a donation by the Enamel Arts Foundation.

Scott Goss ’06 (Foundation) exhibited “Rise & Fall,” a project that explored the impacts of urban development on our landscape and on those who are most affected by this growth, in May at Cleveland Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Branch.

Ambreen Hasan (Academic Affairs) presented at the Association of Institutional Research (AIR) conference on May 31 in Cleveland. The topic of the session was “‘Is This Really a Survey Question?’ How to Approach a Survey Request.”

Benjamin Johnson (Craft + Design) received the Labino Award for Excellence in Glass for his work currently in Ohio Designer Craftsman’s Best of 2023 at the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus. He also currently has work in Risk + Discovery: Glass Innovation at CIA. He will have work in the following upcoming exhibitions: Cluster: Spring Group Show at James Gallery in Pittsburgh; Horbowy International Glass Competition at the Giant Mountains Museum in Jelenia Góra, Poland, which will travel to the Geppart Gallery of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Arts and Design in Wroclaw, Poland; and Connections 2023: Glass from Every Angle, a Glass Art Society Member Exhibition in Detroit.

Jimmy Kuehnle (Sculpture + Expanded Media) was interviewed by Spectrum News 1 regarding the future of artificial intelligence in the art world.

Scott Lax (Liberal Arts) created an eight-week course, “Storytelling for Business,” for the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. The course blends creative writing principles, ethicsbased approaches to professional storytelling, and the fostering of collegiality and community in professional settings.

Violet Maimbourg ’21 (Fabrication Studio) won the award for sculpture in the juried 13th Annual May Show at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio. She also has work in several shows that opened in May: the 2023 Prague International Art Exhibition at Čapek Hall, Anenská 5, Prague 1, Czech Republic; The Absurd II, an online exhibition at The Chateau Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky; Anything but a Canvas at Ground Floor Artists in Surprise, Arizona; and the National Juried Exhibition at The Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, Maryland.

Pete Maric ’00 (Interior Architecture) completed various design, visualization and animation projects over the past several months for clients including Tampa International Airport, Sherwin-

Williams, Travis Mathew, Ninja Clip, Joseph Myers Architects, Kearney’s Public House and Secure Recycling.

Chen Peng ’16 (Foundation) has a digitally printed mural “There, There” on view through July on the Art Wall, LAND studio’s rotating art space on Public Square located on the back side of REBOL on the quadrant in front of the Terminal Tower.

Zach Savich (Liberal Arts) received a fellowship to take part in the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Rust Belt Humanities Lab. He has also been selected to serve as a writer-inresidence at Artpark in Lewiston, New York.

Vivian R. Scott (Human Resources) earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Employment Law and HR Compliance from Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee.

Meagan Smith (Foundation) and Chen Peng ’16 (Foundation) have a two-person show, Meandering North, in Hopkins Hall Gallery in August at The Ohio State University in Columbus.