InSight 2013 by Cornish College of the Arts

INSIGHT THE CORNISH MAGAZINE

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

NEW PARADIGMS, GRAND POSSIBILITIES the liberal arts and with it an increased emphasis on student research. Writing and self-expression have become increasingly valued at Cornish. In short, we work to provide disciplined ways of connecting students to their futures, and we hope to send our students out into the world to change it. Our mission is a declaration of our hopes for each of our students: Artist, Citizen, Innovator. Cornish is well positioned to contribute to the art world, which is in the constant throes of redefinition. From its founding in 1914, the College has stressed collaboration and work across disciplines. As a result, we don’t have to alter our approach as we conform to the new realities of the 21st century. From the start we were designed to be responsive to them. Our small size, our dedication to under graduate education and the close, personal attention we pay to each and every student also allow us to respond quickly to changing times. Cornish teaches its students to PHOTO by Winifred Westergard

be confident, optimistic, open to the world and alive to its possibilities. Each artist is respected for a particular kind of creative resonance, and we do everything we can to allow

A Cornish College of the Arts education leads artists in

this individuality to come to fruition.

directions that constantly surprise and delight. Who could have predicted that Jerick Hoffer, Joshua Kohl, Scott

We as an institution and as individuals stand ready to listen

Garner, Haruko Nishimura, Reilly Sinanan and Mary

and respond to the voices that reach us from the world at

Lambert—all seen in this issue of InSight—would come

large. Beyond the walls of our campus, beyond the contours

out of Cornish? They weren’t educated specifically for

of our home city of Seattle and beyond even the borders

what they’re now making a name for themselves doing,

of our nation lie a myriad of educational opportunities. Out

and perhaps they couldn’t have been. Each of them

there are minds hungry to grapple with the issues of our

was set free by their work here to identify currents, adapt

age, the issues that schools are created to illuminate, that

to them and master them.

provide inspiration for new thought communities in which our students will make their lives.

Cornish helps artists develop their own ways of knowing the world by making sure they have access to the widest

It has been said that Cornish is one of a small number of

possible influences on their thinking. We insist that

long-established conservatories on the West Coast.

students be educated broadly. Project-based, collaborative

“Conservatory” can be a descriptor we go by, certainly.

education is one of our strengths. With each passing

But the term conservatory also conjures images of a

year, Cornish has placed more and more importance on

fragile, glass-enclosed space shut off from nature, built for

COVER Scott Garner (DE ’10), BeetBox, interactive mixed media, 2012, disassembled view. For full description, see page 31.

IN THIS ISSUE the nurturing of rare and delicate flowers. In this limiting

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sense, a “conservatory” is the last thing we are and

THE CORNISH MAGAZINE

the last thing we hope to be. We don’t intend to raise rare

02 Monsoon Season

orchids that can only bloom under glass, but rather we

04 No Boundaries

mean to plant hardy perennials, strong-rooted to with

06 Commencement 2013

stand all seasons and all weathers—resilience is, simply

07 A Toast to the Provost

put, a defining part of the Cornish DNA.

08 Mary Lambert 09 Jonathan Lindsay

Some conservatories do grow artists in very specialized

10 The Year in Photos

ways. There is a call for artists “finished” in this way

12 The Anti-social Medium is the Message

from some quarters and good reasons for it. But that

14 Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center

is not what we’re aiming for at Cornish. We want our students, whether in the performing arts connected to

IMPACT 2012/13

the conservatory model or any of the other disciplines

REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

we teach, to be engaged in the world, to make a way

for themselves, to innovate, to be entrepreneurial. Every

III Launching the President’s Circle

year the boundaries of arts disciplines come under

IV The Campaign for Cornish

increasing and healthy stress: change has become the

VI Parent’s Making a Difference

guiding light. We are charged with educating artists

VII Cornish Financials 2012/2013

who are brimming full of good and original ideas, who

IX Annual Operating

Grand gifts

can be nimble and absolutely ready to move when opportunities present themselves.

INSIGHT CONTINUED 15 Summer at Cornish

We couldn’t be more proud or excited about the direction

21 Dr. Gwendolyn Freed

our graduating actors, designers, technicians, musi

22 Alumni Newswire

cians, dancers and visual artists have taken: when our

26 Faculty & Staff Newswire

artists leave Cornish, they are not “finished,” rather,

28 In Memoriam

they are begun.

Dr. Nancy J. Uscher President, Cornish College of the Arts

FEATURE ARTICLE

MONSOON SEASON CORNISH THEATER ALUM JERICK HOFFER—AKA JINKX MONSOON— TAKES THE WORLD BY STORM BY CHRISTINE SUMPTION

BACKSTAGE BETWEEN SHOWS at the 5th Avenue

Ranger Came Calling at Book-It Repertory. “This carrot-

Theatre, Jerick Hoffer sits demurely in his dressing room

topped actor epitomizes the fractious kid we’ve all

armchair, sipping tea and chatting amiably as he relaxes

encountered,” wrote Misha Berson in her Seattle Times

in a light dressing gown. Moments ago, he bestrode the

review. “Every gesture, expression, whine, snarl and

stage as Velma Von Tussle, the titanic stage mother in

look of wonder works to create a brilliant performance.”

Hairspray, but now the only remaining signs of the outsized character are yard-long eyelashes, nails like buttah and a colossal blonde wig teetering vertiginously atop his head. It just works better for him to stay in all that makeup until the next performance than to wash it off and start all over again. And over the past few years, Hoffer has learned a

An actor does not live by good reviews—or nonprofit theater paychecks—alone. To keep a roof over his head, food on the table and creativity flowing freely, Hoffer returned to what he’s been doing since the age of 15: drag.

thing or two about what works. In his drag persona, Jinkx Monsoon, Hoffer was recently crowned the winner of

Soon after, Balagan Theatre tapped Hoffer to take on the

RuPaul’s Drag Race, and he is currently wowing New York

troubled young Moritz in Spring Awakening in what Seattle

audiences as Kitty Witless in a sold-out off-Broadway run

Gay Scene called “a cast of ridiculously talented young

of The Vaudevillians.

actors.” When the 5th Avenue Theatre announced that they were producing Rent, Hoffer was quickly snapped up to

When Hoffer graduated from the Cornish theater program

play the drag queen, Angel, and was praised in the Seattle

in 2010, he rapidly rose from the ranks of notable new

Times for his “class and piquant grace in the plum part.”

comers to become a sought-after pro. He played Mistress

He topped it off with an acclaimed run in the title role of

Quickly in Henry V at Seattle Shakespeare Company and

Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Moore.

turned heads with his portrayal of a nine year-old boy in Red 2

But an actor does not live by good reviews—or nonprofit theater paychecks—alone. To keep a roof over his head, food on the table and creativity flowing freely, Hoffer returned to what he’s been doing since the age of 15: drag. Hoffer began appearing as Jinkx Monsoon in Le Faux at Julia’s on Broadway, where he sang, danced and wisecracked his way into the hearts of fans and into a gig as the show’s host. Wrote Adrian Ryan in The Stranger, “Hoffer sings, he belts, he croons, and he sells a song with the confidence of two Ethel Mermans in a bar brawl.” “My grandma was the first person I ever showed my drag to,” says Hoffer, who grew up in Portland. “I would tell my mom I was going to spend the weekend with Nana, but what I was really doing was going to my grandma’s house, getting into drag, and then going out to dance clubs.”

I got up to the mic and I just did an impression of my mom. “I always knew that I wanted to be a performer,” he continues.

“I started taking dance classes—ballet and tap—at age eight, and I was studying to be a ballet dancer. My first time doing drag in a club, I dressed up like a wind-up doll and did the whole thing as the Vivandière doll from the Russian Nutcracker,” remembers Hoffer with a chuckle. “I had some kind of ballet music in a techno-remix, and I would come out and do my thing in pointe shoes. Then someone asked me to host the show. But I had never spoken in drag before. So I got up to the mic and I just did an impression of my mom. And that’s where Jinkx came from. I made this big flip from being a wind-up doll, nonhuman character to being a middle-aged, single-mother character. And Jinkx became a bottle blonde dressed in leopard-print stretch fabric.” When he applied to study theater at Cornish College of the Arts, Hoffer thought he was done with drag. His family had

cautioned him that he probably shouldn’t expect to play female roles in plays. “They told me, ‘You don’t want to put yourself in a situation where you get your feelings hurt,’” he says. “So that’s the way I thought of it. ‘If I do drag, that has to be there, and theater has to be here, and the two shall never meet.” continued on page 16

1 Jinkx Monsoon, photo by Jose’ Guzman Colon. 2 Jerick Hoffer in Much Ado About Nothing, Cornish College of the Arts 2010, photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

3 Jerick Hoffer (Moritz) and Brian Earp (Melchoir) in Spring Awakening at Balagan Theatre. Photo: Ashley Bagwell.

3 3

FEATURE ARTICLE

NO BOUNDARIES

THE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE TAKES AUDIENCES ON OTHERWORLDLY JOURNEYS BY CHRISTINE SUMPTION

A larval creature struggles to emerge from a translucent cocoon. (Or is it an egg?) A strange figure struggles to support herself on platform shoes and awkward canes as music rains down from possessed musicians in nests high above. Is it dance? An art exhibit? Theater? Multimedia? Opera? Who cares! Enter the space and be transported. HARUKO NISHIMURA, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE Photo: Steven Miller,stevenmillerphotography.com.

OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, the Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE)—a partnership between Joshua Kohl (MU ’96) and Haruko Nishimura (MU ’92–96) with a close circle of collaborators—has generated an impressive array of contemporary works that refuse to acknowledge boundaries between the visual and performing arts. Described by the Seattle Times as

COLLABORATIONS & INTERACTIONS Performance groups of artists collaborating across traditional lines are on the upswing at Cornish.

“dream imagery free-floating on a sea of surreality,” DAE works such as Sonic Tales, Cuckoo Crow, and

Picture Cornish as a glacier. Over the course of four years,

Red Shoes invite audiences to immerse themselves in

students move slowly from the head to the terminus, finally

arresting worlds of sound, image and movement.

calving into the open water of a career. Mostly, smaller

“Degenerate Art Ensemble treats contemporary perfor

columns of ice are dropping off the face of the glacier, but

mance like a rubber band,” writes a critic in the

increasingly, columns are sticking together as they slide

Downtown News (Los Angeles), “always expanding,

away from Cornish, forming great chunks of ice that are

contracting, snapping, always helping us to listen

moving off as massive bergs. The icebergs in this metaphor

and look at life with curious dynamics.”

are collaborative groups of students and alumni.

Joshua Kohl, co-founder, conductor, composer and co-

Collaboration is smiled on at Cornish. It always has been.

artistic director of DAE, traces the beginnings of his

Certainly there have been any number of dance troupes,

work as a collaborative artist to his studies at Cornish

theater companies, bands, orchestras and design partner

College of the Arts in the 1990s. “While I was at

ships that have come out of the College. Of particular

Cornish, there was a short-lived wonderful class taught

note, though, are collaborations in which the members come

by Jarrad Powell and Pat Graney that paired up dancer/

from a number of different disciplines, for interdisciplinary

choreographers with composer/musicians,” he recalls.

work has also been encouraged at Cornish. Lately, a number

“The class happened to be a great mix musically of jazz and classical musicians, some studying composition,

of interdisciplinary collaborations have been instituted which is, perhaps, a sign of the times.

others just people who were writing music. The really brilliant part of this class was that we were required to

The work of the Degenerate Theater Ensemble is covered

create an entirely new piece with a choreographer every

in the accompanying article. Saint Genet has also forged

week for the entire semester. So there was this rhythm

a reputation for itself, recently invited to Donaufest in

established: the meeting with the dancer, talking over

Switzerland to perform Paradisical Rites. Wood recently per

ideas, and then very quickly we would have to commit

formed Mortar & Pestle at On the Boards. Pendleton

to one idea and make something. The composers

House just opened its first work at Velocity, A Beginning,

were ‘the band’ and the choreographers were ‘the dance

and The Sho will open its first in October, Filthy/Mockingbird.

company’ for each of our pieces. It was this rhythm that got started in me at that time that has basically continued in my life since 1995. I haven’t gone a year without composing new work for dance and theater since then. It was really this amazing kick-start.”

Students gravitate naturally toward this ‘postdisciplinary’ space.

“Cornish’s roots lie in ground that supports the inter mingling of the disciplines,” says Dean of the College Jenifer K. Ward, citing the collaboration between Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the 1930s and continued on page 16

1 Wood. 2 Pendleton House.

3 Saint Genet. 4 The Sho.

COMMENCEMENT 2013

ALL PHOTOS Michelle Smith-Lewis

1 Student speaker, Miles Toland, AR ’13. 2 New graduates celebrate.

3 Interim Provost (2012–13) Jenifer Ward, President Nancy J. Uscher and honorary degree recipients Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem; and Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt, David Harrington,John Sherba, Jeffrey Zeigler.

4 Cricket, Deborah Ann Corrales, DA ’13. Choreography by Anna Lizette Connor, DA ’09, Music by Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata, Sempre Libera Degg’io. Sung by Maria Callas.

A TOAST TO THE PROVOST A FEW MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CORNISH’S NEW PROVOST, MOIRA SCOTT PAYNE Moira Scott Payne brings a resume with some real heft to her new position as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Cornish College of the Arts. As provost, she is in charge of all things academic, overseeing the College’s curricula, faculty and research. It’s a complicated business: enter her office at the wrong time and you’ll be confronted with graphs of mind-boggling precision set out in eye-watering, 4-point type charting what one must suppose is the entire academic endeavor at the College from now to the crack of doom. Kepler did not chart the heavens with such assiduity. 5

Anything a business-minded person would want to know about Mrs. Payne is answered at length in her official bio on Cornish’s website. But everyone knows that such biographies gloss over all the fun stuff. As an arts college with a responsibility to being creative, it behooves us to rather concentrate on it. It should be added that an explo ration of the fun stuff allows us to further gauge Moira’s qualifications for the job. Starting with proper forms of address, it’s “Moira” or “Mrs. Payne” but for her official title, we’re to use “Provost Scott Payne” not “Provost Payne.” This turns out to make

perfect sense. “’Provost Payne’ just sounds bad,” Provost Scott Payne says, “not the sort of name to be known for.” True, Provost Payne sounds like a character from Dickens, 5 Tango, Melissa Sue Achten, MU ’12. Composed by Carlos Salzedo.

6 President Uscher and Interim Provost (2012–13) Ward with Teaching Excellence Award recipients Kate Myre and Tina Aufiero. Not pictured, recipients Bonnie Biggs and Roberta Russel.

and she is likely to be the sort to refuse a hungry under graduate another bowl of gruel. Cornish’s new provost intends to foster warm relations with faculty and students continued on page 20

FEATURE ARTICLE

MARY LAMBERT: SHE KEEPS US WARM BY MAXIMILIAN BOCEK

The Macklemore song Same Love, featuring Mary Lambert, arose as the anthem of those supporting same-sex marriage; with the release of She Keeps Me Warm, Lambert reminds us what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fighting for. MARY LAMBERT Photo: Debora Spencer, hair by Jeremy Novak.

REFERENDUM 74, the legalization of same-sex marriage, was put before the people of the State of Washington in 2012. Lost in the chilly legalese of the referendum process and the horse-race language of the political campaign were the simple human desires that gave the referendum its deepest meaning: the desire for fairness, equality, acceptance and, most of all, love. A new single by Mary Lambert, a 2011 Cornish graduate in musical composition, brings it all home. The song is called She Keeps Me Warm. In the middle of the movement to get the referendum passed, a kind of anthem arose, a tune by rapper Macklemore called Same Love. A Seattle native, Macklemore was just beginning to break on the hip-hop scene, and he put this on the line to speak out on gay marriage. In the song, he spoke from the outside, as a

JONATHAN LINDSAY As Cornish approaches its centennial year, it has big plans

sympathizer to the dilemma of gay couples who want

for its second century. Key to these is enrollment: how

to marry. The lyrics were a meditation on hatred in the hip-

many students will come to Cornish? How will they fit in?

hop community and his response as a boy to sexual

How will Cornish, reciprocally, fit into their hopes and

stereotypes with an acknowledgment of his gay uncle

dreams? The person in charge of understanding these deep

and his partner. The lyrics culminate with the lines “I

questions and for matching the right students with a

might not be the same, but that’s not important/No

Cornish education is the vice president of enrollment man

freedom ’til we’re equal, damn right I support it.” In a

agement. As of September 3, there is a new one of these

stroke of genius, Macklemore asked a young, gay

to head Cornish’s recruitment and retention efforts:

musician from Seattle, Mary Lambert, to add a voice from

Jonathan Lindsay.

the inside in the form of chorus to be heard between rap verses. What she wrote for Same Love was a simple

Cornish President Dr. Nancy J. Uscher is unreserved in

love poem to her partner with the hook line “she keeps

her enthusiasm for Lindsay’s arrival. “Cornish College of the

me warm.”

Arts is very pleased to welcome Jonathan Lindsay as vice president of enrollment management,” she says. “Jonathan

The referendum did pass, and same-sex marriage became

brings a wealth of experience in the enrollment area to

legal in the State of Washington. But even though Same

Cornish and he will be an outstanding member of the senior

Love contained specific references to the campaign, its

leadership team of the college. We are thrilled to welcome

life did not end with the referendum’s passage. It has

Jonathan to the Cornish community.”

continued to get solid airplay nationally and has become the anthem for a wider legalization effort.

“Two things have become apparent,” said Lindsay, at the end of his second day on the job. “One, there is huge

“I thought the song might get big around Washington

potential here, and two, there is a lot to do.”

State,” Mary told Addicted, “because of our big vote on gay marriage approaching, but never expected it to

Lindsay comes to Cornish from the Columbus College of

have the global impact. I have to pinch myself every day.”

Art & Design, where he was vice president of enrollment management and communications. Before that, he served

With the success of Same Love has come a growing

as vice president for marketing and enrollment services at

desire by fans to hear more from Mary Lambert; they

the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

wanted a whole, stand-alone song to the “she keeps me warm” chorus. This Lambert gave them on July 22nd. “Releasing She Keeps Me Warm today is a massive and scary step,” writes Lambert on her website, as she continued on page 17

Long before all of his work in college enrollment, Jonathan Lindsay was a country boy in the county of Kent, southeast of London. His father ran a large tree nursery there, and continued on page 28

THE YEAR IN PHOTOS 2012/2013

5 1 Beth Graczyk in John Cage’s STEPS, A Composition for a Painting, 1989, Cornish Collaboratory. The 2013 performance of STEPS was a collaboration between Jarrad Powell, Beth Graczyk and Robert Campbell, with assistance from Reilly Sinanan (AR ’14), Danie Allinice (AR ’14), and Matthew Matsuda, and with movement artists Corrie Befort, Shannon Stewart, Alia Swersky, and Mary Margaret Moore. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

2 Design 123 Exhibition. Sarah Xanthakis (DE ’14). Photo: Winifred Westergard 3 EXPO 13/BFA Art Show. Deanna Wade (AR ’13). Photo: Scott Moore, bellevuefineart.org. 4 Cornish Opera Theater. Venus & Adonis. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

5 Cornish Dance Theater, Fall 2012. Concerto Grosso, choreographed by Pat Hon. Photo: Chris Bennion. 6 EXPO 13/BFA Design Show. Chelsea Xavier (DE ’13). Photo: Winifred Westergard.

EXPO ‘13/BFA ART SHOW Mat Daniluk (AR ’13). Photo: Winifred Westergard.

FEATURE ARTICLE

THE ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE BY MAXIMILIAN BOCEK

Marshal McLuhan famously said “the medium is the message.” If that’s the case, the message of Cornish grad Scott Garner’s mobile app is coming through loud and clear: enough, already.

SCOTT GARNER, PIANO GLOVES. Interactive mixed media, 2009. The Piano Gloves are wearable, sculptural, input devices that allow the user to “play piano” on any hard surface. Each finger of the gloves is tipped with a button that, when triggered, sends data to a laptop through an Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform. On the laptop, a simple “sketch,” written in a language called Processing, interprets the incoming data and triggers the appropriate piano sample.

SECRETLY, YOU HATE IT ALL: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, the endless texting, the constant hammering your head takes from the chronic over-exposure to social media. Join the quietly grumpy club whose membership roll is appar ently exploding, people who just want to be left in peace. Club members revel in empty in-boxes and believe, deep in our hearts, that “friend” is a noun, not a verb and, more over, is used to refer to someone who is actually a friend. It’s an unofficial club, of course, because no one of us wants to face public censure as a neo-Luddite standing in the way of progress. So we’ve been suffering in silence. Up to now there hasn’t been a prophet to lead us out of this wilderness. Our wait is over. Cornish grad Scott Garner (DE ’10) is emerging as the architect of the long overdue concept of “anti-social media.” His counter-revolutionary agitations against the intrusion of computer connections into our lives has gotten him notice in news outlets like ABC, Huffington Post, CBC and The Wall Street Journal, along with interview requests from Ireland to India to Australia. Garner’s opening salvo in the war on social media is the mobile app he designed for smart phones, Hell is Other People. Garner’s app cleverly piggy-backs on another mobile app, FourSquare. FourSquare was designed to make us available to our “friends” at every conceivable

Anti-Social Media Guru Scott Garner. Photo: Tani Ohashi, DE ‘09.

moment. Using GPS, the app sends your location to every

for being “nowheresville,” Amarillo might have been a

one you know and allows them to track your location on

front-running contender but for eccentric millionaire

a map. Properly appalled by this concept, Garner created

Stanley Marsh 3. Marsh was the master absurdist who put

Hell is Other People to turn FourSquare on its head.

Amarillo on the map with works like the iconic Cadillac

Garner’s app appropriates the FourSquare map, uses it to

Ranch as well as The Floating Mesa and the Dynamite

pinpoint the location of a user’s “friends,” then plots the

Museum. This last work is not a building, as it sounds,

best course to avoid running into any of them.

but thousands of fake road signs in and around Amarillo

Both FourSquare and Hell is Other People originated in the

designing and putting up many of the signs, and there’s

bearing oblique, witty messages. Scott worked on shop of NYU’s prestigious Interactive Telecommunications

not a little resonance with Marsh’s sly humor in his own

Program (ITP) of its Tisch School of the Arts, where Garner

work. “Stanley and the gang were a huge influence on me

is a candidate for a master’s degree. ITP brings together

as a creative person and, really, as a person in general.”

students whose passions fall somewhere between art and technology. A serious student calls it a “multidisciplinary

Garner’s first jobs as a designer, techie and code-monkey

digital media lab”; one a bit less so counters that ITP is

were with Marsh’s various companies in Amarillo. When

“like Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for geeks.” Playtime implications aside, a number of its graduates go on to form successful high-tech startups.

he left the Texas Panhandle to take one of many positions as a programmer, it was the beginning of a peripatetic life for him that he to some degree is still living. “After leaving Amarillo and bouncing around the country for a few years,”

Scott Garner started out in life a very, very long way from

he says, “I found myself in Chicago for absolutely no reason.

either Cornish or NYU, in Amarillo, Texas. If there’s a prize

During that time, I paid a few visits to the Northwest and continued on page 18

BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL Produced at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center by the Theater and Performance Production departments. 3

CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER HOME TO THE NEXT GENERATION of talented, innova

our students, faculty and alumni will add even more artistic

tive artists, Cornish College of the Arts invites you to

excitement to our region’s premier gathering space. We

immerse yourself in the wide range of artistic and cultural

hope to bring myriad artistic experiences out of the “class

experiences that we offer. Students, alumni and faculty all

room” and across Seattle Center, indoors and out. As

contribute to a rich panorama of performances, exhibitions,

our partnerships with Seattle Center and our fellow resident

lectures and demonstrations.

organizations grow and evolve, we will explore even more opportunities to engage and inspire visitors through

Dance, music, theater, visual art—and extraordinary mash-

out the Center.

ups of different art forms—explode throughout the city. All over our campus, you can experience all of the arts; in

We look forward to ensuring that the Playhouse continues

South Lake Union at Raisbeck Performance Hall and Cornish

to welcome patrons who have come to love this intimate

Main Gallery (and, sometimes, the surrounding streets)

performance space, expanding existing partnerships with

and on Capitol Hill, in the PONCHO Concert Hall in historic

organizations like Seattle Shakespeare Company,

Kerry Hall.

Whim W’him and Intiman Theater Festival. We are also actively reaching out to develop new relationships that

We are thrilled to add the Cornish Playhouse—and Seattle

will introduce artists and cultural experiences to new and

Center—to the Cornish campus. From theater, music

current audiences.

and visual art in the Playhouse, to site-specific dance across the grounds, to performances and events in the Armory, ALL PHOTOS Chris Bennion

1 The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Come visit us at Seattle Center! 2 Backstage, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

3 Rigging for Bat Boy: The Musical.

IMPACT 2012/13

REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

Bobbie and Michel Stern donate their beautiful Bechstein to Cornish. Photo: Mark Bocek.

GRAND GIFTS LIVING LEGACIES IN MUSIC Late last spring in a strange confluence of fates, Cornish received no fewer than four magnificent grand pianos, each with its own rich history and connection to alumni and friends from different eras. Said Music Department Chair Kent Devereaux: “We're

were, however, able to once again to make their escape,

fortunate to receive the gifts of three gorgeous pianos, each

and—with their uncle Herman Stern’s help—ultimately made

so different in tone and character from one another, and

their way to the United States via Casablanca.

each with a remarkable story behind it. The 1926 Bechstein piano embodies the best in early 20th-century piano

In the 1930s and 1940s, Herman Stern, Michel’s great uncle,

design and construction, while the 1962 Baldwin 9-foot

had been working tirelessly with State Department officials

concert grand represents the pinnacle of mid-century

and the U.S. Senator frome his home sate of North Dakota,

American piano design, a time when Baldwin frequently

Gerald Nye, to bring more than 100 friends and relatives

bested Steinway as the top U.S. piano manufacturer.

to America from Germany. Michel, his parents and his brother

The 1965 Yamaha grand exemplifies a new era—the emer

were among those saved. Herman's heroism is chronicled

gence of extremely high-quality Japanese pianos.” A

in the riveting book, You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist

fourth piano, a 9-foot Steinway concert grand, has also

Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, by

been added to the mix.

Terry Shoptaugh.

THE BECHSTEIN GRAND

Herman Stern encouraged his nephew Gustav to follow his

A beautiful Bechstein grand piano has arrived at Kerry

passion for music, and so the family ultimately settled in

Hall, the last stop of a long and often harrowing journey

Seattle. Here, Gustav became a fixture in the cultural life of

that included an escape from Nazi Germany. It is a gift

the city until his death in 1989.

from former Cornish trustee Bobbie Stern and her husband Michel Stern.

The Bechstein? After the war, happily for all, the family was able to retrieve the piano from the warehouse in Paris and

Michel’s musician father, Gustav Stern, was a Kappelmeister

Gustav Stern and his beloved Bechstein were reunited.

in Duisburg, Germany. The Bechstein was his piano. With the rise of Nazism and its targeting of Jewish citizens, the

While it is poignant to pass along a musical instrument that

Stern family fled to Paris, where Michel was born in 1936.

has been with the family through so much, Bobbie Stern

The piano fled with them to France, but the Sterns and the

commented that the time for the gift is right and that Cornish

Bechstein did not find safety there; the German army

was the right place, “This is a gift of history to enable the next

invaded the low countries and France, entering Paris in June,

generation to go forward and enjoy the magical sound of

1940. Secreting their beloved piano in a Paris warehouse,

music,” she said. The Bechstein will be used to train pianists

the Sterns escaped to Vichy France, where they faced the

in the music department.

anti-Semitism of the Nazis’ tool, the Vichy government. They

Michel Stern echoed his wife’s thoughts and added, “My father would have been proud and delighted that our gift of ‘Herr Bechstein’ would benefit Cornish, its faculty and its dedicated students. This piano, which survived the Holocaust, if given tender and loving care,

LAUNCHING THE PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE AT CORNISH

will continue to bring pleasure to all who hear or play it until its 100th year of existence in 2026 and, hopefully,

Following the 2013 Commencement at Benaroya Hall,

long after.”

members of the newly organized President’s Circle mingled with the celebrated honorary degree recipients

THE BALDWIN GRAND

at a private party in a South Lake Union penthouse.

The late Maria Balagno Lundquist began studying piano

The President’s Circle was established to recognize and

at the precocious age of four. At 16, she received a full

honor friends of Cornish who contribute a minimum

scholarship to study at Cornish. In 1941 she earned a

of $5,000 annually. Circle members enjoy exclusive oppor

Junior Certificate as Teacher of Piano and then returned

tunities to personally engage with President Nancy J.

to earn a Performer’s Diploma in 1947. She continued

Uscher and with artistic innovators and thought leaders

performing and teaching music throughout her life.

when they visit the campus.

When it came time to prepare her will, she named Cornish as the recipient of her “magnificent piano.”

To learn more about how you can meet the artists, citizens and innovators of our time by joining this exciting new

The stunning, 9-foot concert grand Baldwin was originally

group, contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at

used for performances during the 1962 World’s Fair

206.726.5064.

in the Seattle Opera House. It then traveled to Seattle University, and, some years later, it was purchased by Maria for her home studio. When Maria’s daughter informed Cornish of this estate gift, Music Chair Kent Devereaux determined that its best use would be to support musical performances at our new Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center. Forty years later, Maria’s piano, with its Cornish connection, has returned full circle to the Seattle Center. THE YAMAHA GRAND Genavie “Geb” Nichols studied classical piano at Cornish in the 1960s with renowned pianist John Rowland Cowell, who helped her select a piano to match her style, a Yamaha grand. With her second husband, Nichols later moved to Shaw Island, where they owned and operated the Shaw General Store for a number of years. A lifelong arts enthusiast, Genavie regularly journeyed from Shaw to attend symphony, ballet and theater performances in Seattle. After Genavie’s death, her daughter, Sarah Whittaker, reached out to Cornish to see if the Music Department would be interested in receiving the piano. The answer was an enthusiastic “yes.”

TOP Kronos Quartet member David Harrington enjoys the home of party hosts May and Wah Lui. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

BOTTOM President Nancy Uscher welcomes President’s Circle member Sherry Raisbeck, son Eric Valpey and friend Melanie Masson. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

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THE CAMPAIGN FOR CORNISH IN 2002, Cornish embarked on an ambitious and bold plan

of ongoing support for the College, made by possible by

to expand its campus and establish a firm foundation for

hundreds of donors, is an essential part of our legacy. It is

future growth. This plan was supported by the Campaign

all the more important as we continue to honor those for

for Cornish, the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken

whom named endowments have been established.

by the college. Over a decade later, we are invigorated by the opportunities we now have with an expanded campus,

All of this represents a significant investment in the future

anchored in the heart of urban Seattle, and a growing

of Cornish, and the community we serve. We now look

endowment which will provide support to students and

forward to expanding on these investments to drive further

faculty for generations to come.

growth in enrollment and program expansion as outlined in our newly adopted Strategic Plan.

Campaign leaders like Eve and Chap Alvord and James and Sherry Raisbeck were among those who realized

We have some exciting projects coming up that demonstrate

extraordinary aspirations for the College, raising more

this expansion. They include:

than $35 million. This directly supported campus development initiatives and our endowment. We celebrate

NEW STUDENT HOUSING

the following accomplishments that have been made

We will develop a new student housing project on property

possible by the generous support of the community.

currently owned by Cornish. The facility, slated to break ground in 2014, will provide more than 400 beds as well as

A NEW CAMPUS IN THE HEART OF URBAN SEATTLE

communal facilities and student learning space. This will

Thanks to strategic foresight, the generosity of donors and

be developed in partnership with Capstone Development

a pioneering spirit inspired by founder Nellie Cornish, we

Partners, a leading developer of student housing in the U.S.

were able to establish an early real estate footprint in the newly revitalized South Lake Union neighborhood. This

THE CENTENNIAL LAB

shift to a more urban campus has set the stage for the future

Centennial is the middle name of our founder, Nellie Cornish.

of Cornish and provides an environment for students and

We will also celebrate our Centennial beginning in the fall

faculty that is energizing, dynamic and directly connected

of 2014. Aptly named, the Centennial Lab is a transforma

to the next wave of growth and innovation in the region.

tional project for Cornish. This facility, which will be developed as a renovation of a current building we own, will

AN EXPANDED FOOTPRINT

function as a new home for the visual arts at Cornish,

No longer nestled humbly on Capitol Hill, Cornish now has

but, it will be much more than that. It will be a facility open

an expansive footprint in the city, anchored by the new

to experimentation across all disciplines and media,

campus in South Lake Union. Over the past decade, we

responding to the needs of emerging artists regardless

have expanded our geographic and facilities footprint

of major.

to serve a growing student body. We’ve seen an increase in enrollment as we’ve doubled our square footage.

THE CORNISH PLAYHOUSE Cornish began leasing the Playhouse in January of 2013.

A GROWING ENDOWMENT

Located in the artistic heart of the city, Seattle Center, the

A critical source of support for any organization is provided

Cornish Playhouse will be updated to current and emerging

through a strong and growing endowment. During the

standards of professional theater production. This theater

Campaign, we increased our endowment by more than 85

provides an unparalleled venue for student learning, profes

percent. While we still have room to grow, this source

sional practice and community engagement.

WE WANT TO THANK THE FOLLOWING DONORS FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL SUPPORT OF THIS HISTORIC CAMPAIGN. Gifts and pledges from the following donors have been recognized cumulatively from January 1, 2002 through May 31, 2013. CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT $1,000,000 and above Eve and Chap Alvord Building for the Arts John Gordon Hill and Ellen Hill The Jon and Mary+ Shirley Foundation John W. Jordan and Laura Welland* Sherry* and James Raisbeck $500,000–$999,999 Anonymous Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff and the Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation Elias and Karyl Alvord Gladmar Trust The Norcliffe Foundation Paul G. Allen Family Foundation David and Isabel Welland $100,000–$499,999 Anonymous 4Culture Michael and Marjorie Alhadeff Dr. + and Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr. The Boeing Company Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Joshua Green Foundation Edmund W. Littlefield, Jr., Laura Littlefield and The Sage Foundation PONCHO James and Kalpana Rhodes $10,000–$99,999 Rick and Nancy Alvord Virginia Anderson Roger Bass and Richard Nelson The Bravo Fund Joseph and Maureen Brotherton C. Kent and Sandra Carlson Sturges and Pam Dorrance Foushee & Associates Co., Inc. Michael and Katharine Gibson Hylton and Lawrence Hard Fund Heather Howard and Roderick Cameron William and Ruth Ingham Pam* and Ned Johnson Richard Kaalaas Dianne and Steve Loeb Wanda and W.A.+ Lynch Michael and Barbara McKernan Joan and Paul Poliak Jean Rhodes Elizabeth and Stephen Rummage Julie Speidel* and Joseph Henke Stephen Walker+ and Deborah Weasea $5,000–$9,999 Glenn Amster and Shelly Shapiro Boeing Gift Matching Program Marianne Sorich Francis* and C. Douglas Francis Judith Kindler and Kyle Johnson Richard and Rachel Klausner Dorothy and Sterling Miller Carol and William Munro Linda and Arthur Pederson Ellen* and Joe Rutledge Carlo and Eulalie Scandiuzzi Sellen Construction Dean Speer* Ellie Sprague Bobbie* and Michel Stern Sergei P. Tschernisch and Kate Purwin Marcy Walsh $1,000–$4,999 Anonymous Shary and Michael Frankfurter Wanda Gregory Lois Harris and Debra Crespin

*alumnus/alumna +deceased

Hasbro IBM Corporation Jane+ and J.J. Ewing Laura Kaminsky Gilbert Leiendecker, Jr. and Sally Leiendecker Lawrence and Karen Matsuda Microsoft Giving Campaign Gail and Larry Ransom Jamie and Michael Rawding Toby Whitney Up to $999 Anonymous Shawn Bachtler Jane Buckman Vicki Clayton Tom Cufley Tanner Hawkins* John Merner* Robert and Catherine Morrow Ross and Ava Ohashi PONCHO Jeffrey and Suzanne Riddell Philip Talmadge Allyson Vanstone and Peter Pendl Richard E.T. White and Christine Sumption ENDOWMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS $100,000 and above Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff and the Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Charitable Foundation Hearst Foundation Kreielsheimer Foundation Sherry* and James Raisbeck The Jon and Mary+ Shirley Foundation David Skinner and Catherine Eaton Skinner $25,000–$99,999 Eve and Chap Alvord Joseph and Maureen Brotherton Estate of Peter Vinikow John Goodlad Carol and Brian Gregory Judith Kindler and Kyle Johnson Douglas and Kimberly McKenna Stanley and Fumiko+ Sparks Evelyn Steen Irving Williams and Susan Barash Williams $10,000–$24,999 Estate of Gwenn Barker Harsh Boeing Gift Matching Program Sally Behnke Sophia and Marc Boroditsky Zel Brook* and Brad Whiting John Gordon Hill and Ellen Hill Noel Hon Patricia Hon, and James Bates Jon Howe and Tyler Howe Steve Jensen* and Vincent Lipe Microsoft Giving Campaign Janet Penna Crane and Tom Crane Ann Ramsay-Jenkins Brian Schilling-George* and Susan Tucker Mark and Susan+ Torrance Wells Fargo Community Support Programs $5,000–$9,999 Elias and Karyl Alvord C. Kent and Sandra Carlson Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts & Sciences David and Judy DeMoss

L. Robin Du Brin and Douglas Howe Janet Frohnmayer and David Marques Natascha Greenwalt-Murphy* and Ryan Murphy William and Ruth Ingham George Kropinski Cynthia and John McGrath Candy and Monte Midkiff Oliver and Yolanda Pardo Robert and Elizabeth Pardo Robert and Annette Parks Joan and Paul Poliak PONCHO James and Bonnie Reinhardsen Riley & Nancy Pleas Family Foundation Robert Sandberg Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Matching Gifts Program Gloria and Donald Swisher Severt Thurston and the Thurston Charitable Foundation Douglas and Janet True The Wachovia Foundation David Williams Virginia Wyman

John Merner* Michael and Phyllis Mines Carol and William Munro Leah Pallin-Hill and Bryan Hill Carl and Marian Pruzan Ann Reinking Jeff and Suzanne Riddell Hal Ryder Carlo and Eulalie Scandiuzzi Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. David and Stacya Silverman Tom Skerritt and Julie Tokashiki Benjamin Smith and Elizabeth Torrance Jane and Roger Soder Julie Speidel* and Joseph Henke Bobbie* and Michel Stern Kirby and Heidi Torrance Touchstone Corporation Maurice and Rhoda Tritschler Sergei P. Tschernisch and Kate Purwin Stephen Walker+ and Deborah Weasea Carolyn and Glenn White Deborah Winchester Marylin and Cliff Winkler Wyman Youth Trust

$2,500–$4,999 Anonymous Cornish Players Hylton and Lawrence Hard Fund Spencer Curtis and Kristen Hoehler Heather Howard and Roderick Cameron Julie Hungar Marilyn and John Klepper Amber* and Sam Knox Marguerite Casey Foundation Edward and Katherine Marinaro Sean V. Owen* and Tricia McKay Laurel Tanner Dave and Linda Tosti-Lane Gary and Karla Waterman Wm. D. and E.M. Lane Foundation

Up to $999 Anonymous (10) Jane Abel Alan Stephenson Boyd Family Trust Anne Adams Robin Albee-Kesich* and Frederick Kesich Alex Alben Jennifer Albright Leah Alexander Robert Alexander Phyllis Allport James and Karen Almon Altria Group Ameriprise Financial Employee Gift Matching Program Adele and Grover Anderson Angela Anderson* Eliza Anderson* Kjerstine Anderson* Dollie and Hubert Armstrong Sarah Armstrong Sally and Herbert Arnstein Joselito and Faye Asence Hilery Avritt John Aylward and Mary Fields Sarah Azzinaro* Karrie Baas* and Margaret Smith Muriel Bach Diamond+ Donald and Janet Backman Emily Bader Irena and Doug Baker Brett* and Dage Baker Mary Bakke Wade Ballinger and Paul Skinner Joslyn Balzarini* and Kash Wimer Linda Banning* Roy Harsh+ Jeffrey Baron and Janet Skeels Cynthia Barrientos Cynthia Bartels Margaret Barto Patricia Bauch Steven and Cathleen Baugh Kurt Beattie and Marianne Owen Jaquelyn Beatty and Warren Wilkins Paula Becker and Barron Brown Bonnie and Moses Beerman Max and Teresa Beery Didzis Beitlers* Aaron Bell Tamara Belland* Edmund Belsheim and Lisa Ravenholt Joel and Maureen Benoliel Ralph Berkowitz Lois Berry Kevin and Sarah Beshlian

$1,000–$2,499 Anonymous AEPHI Sisters Michael and Marjorie Alhadeff Dr. + and Mrs. Ellsworth C. Alvord, Jr. Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Glenn Amster and Shelly Shapiro Lloyd and Pauline Anderson Virginia Anderson Roger Bass and Richard Nelson Francesca and Bruce Berger John and Diahann Braseth Bruce and Kathleen Bryant Peter Cairo and Kathy DeJardin Ellen and Al Carlin Bonnie Cohen and Mel Baer Gene Colin and Susan Janus Computer Associates International, Inc. Judy and William Courshon Jody Cunningham and Mark Mennella Carole Fuller Michael and Katharine Gibson Joanna* and Gary Goodman Richard and Betty Hedreen Heather Howard and Roderick Cameron Intel Corporation Pam and Ned Johnson John Jordan and Laura Welland* Saleh and Lucy Joudeh Richard and Rachel Klausner Nina Ferrari LaSalle Kristin and Earl Lasher Walter and Conny Lindley Ellen and Mark Lipson Dianne and Steve Loeb Kaaren and Richard Marquez Lawrence and Karen Matsuda Kirby and Diane McDonald Tim and Paula McMannon

DONOR LISTS continued

PARENTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE When parent Ric Spengler introduced himself at the summer registration panel for parents, he shared his enthusiasm. “Just like my daughter, I get a warm glow when I talk about Cornish. It’s great to welcome new parents and give you a preview of what’s ahead for your student and for you.” “Cornish is a very special community,” Ric said. “Our daughter has thrived here—she’s received great personal attention, she’s mastered new techniques and she’s really maturing into a dedicated artist.” Ric’s wife, Alysse, recalled how she felt when their daughter first registered a few years back. She remembered sitting in the audience, hearing another parent describe how to make the most of the Cornish experience. “The time goes by so quickly—try to take everything in—the performances, the exhibitions. It’s a very precious experience.” In addition to volunteering their time, Ric and Alysse have been generous financial supporters of Cornish. For the past two years, they’ve attended our annual fundraising gala, Cornish Celebrates an Evening of the Arts, where they’ve raised their bidding paddle to support the Scholar ship Fund. For this year’s gala on November 17th, they’re organizing a table with fellow parents and supporters. If you would like to join them or receive an invitation to the gala, call the Office of Institutional Advancement at 206.726.5064.

Ric Spengler, center, and his wife Alysse (with microphone). Photo: Mark Bocek.

Victoria Bettes Rhea Bez* Tawnya* and Sanjiv Bhattacharya Bonnie Biggs Amy Bingaman Marcia and David Binney Brandon Bird Ariana Bird Audrey Bloch Karen Bloomquist Bruce and Ann Blume Janet Boguch and Kelby Fletcher William Bolcom and Joan Morris Rebecca and David Bolin Dorothy Bollman Penelope and Vernon Bolton Adrienne Bolyard and Gene Thorkildsen Leonard Bonifaci*+ Skye Borgman* and Matt Zattell Elisabeth and Edgar Bottler Meredyth Branaman* Frank and Dorothy Brancato Jason Bready* and Audrey Folk Jeffrey Brice William and Barbara Brink James Brinkley and Mary Jane Burns Jodi Briscoe* Jonathan Broadus* and Andrea Soelter Broadus Sigrid Brorson Gary and Kathleen Brose Barron Brown and Paula Becker David Brown* Michael Brown Nate Brown* Barbara Buford Margaret Bullitt* and Andrew Schmechel Donne Burgess and Jose Jimenez Dr. Gloria and John Burgess John Burrow* and Meike Kaan Terry and John Bursett Eugene Burt Paul Butzi Vania* and Brandon Bynum Donald Byrd Karen and Craig Bystrom Timothy Cahill CairnCross & Hempelmann Ann Callaway Liz Callaway and Dan Foster Diana and Chuck+ Carey Philip and Linda Carl Kristofer Carlson* Kathy Carlson Heidi Carpine Danielle and John Carr Omar* and Rachael Carrasco Sara Carter Texanna Casey-Thompson Steve Casteel* Kristin Ceresola Zoe Chow Royce and Aggie Church Phillippe and Rosa Claringbould Richard and Rosemary Clark Vicki and Jessica Clayton Margit Clifford Susan Clifford Timothy Clifford Jill Clymer David and Margaret Coats April Cody Rochelle Cohen Ida Cole Donna Cole-Dolbeer Kathleen Collins and Andrew Elston CollinsWoerman William and Marilyn Conner Beth Cooper* Carol Corbus and Patrick Howe Lawrence and Amy Corey Derald and Helen Cornelius William and Jan Corriston Raymond Cox* and Jerald Olsen Gary and Athene Craig John and Diane Crim Miriam Crowell* Sean Cryan and Laurel Rech Casey Curran* Mary Curry Charlie Curtis and Jane Harvey Donald and Suzanne Dally Arthur and Nancy Dammkoehler Kitty Daniels Lloyd David and Michelle Marshall

*alumnus/alumna +deceased

Linda Davidson Bob and Kathryn Davis Don and Ann Davis Michael Dederer Daphne Dejanikus and Julian Simon Sybil Del Gaudio Jacqueline Delecki and Howard Uman Emilio and Carol Delgado Laura DeLuca Renko and Stuart Dempster Carol DePelecyn Rik* and Kim Deskin Benjamin Dietzen* Colleen Dishy Wes and Colin Wes Jade Dodd Grant Donesky and Rossitza Skortcheva Donesky William and Virginia Donley Charles Douglas and Donna Handly Jonathan and Paula Drachman Daniela Dron* Donna and Robert Dughi S. Wayne Duncan and Pamela Van Dalfsen Phyllis Dunn David and Donna Dunning Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Leonard Su Larry and Lynda D’Urso Barry Eben, Ph.D. Vasiliki Dwyer Phyllis and Eldon Edmundson Anna Edwards John Eicher Ellis, Li & McKinstry PLLC Gene and Pat Engle Tamsin and Jim Erickson David Esbjornson Heinz and Edith Ettner Sandra Everingham* Jane+ and J.J. Ewing Joan and Robert Ewing Jennifer Ewing-Thiel and Florian Thiel Jean Falls Ryan Fedderson* Federated Department Stores Foundation Gary Fenstermacher and Virginia Richardson Deborah and Keith Ferguson Don and Elizabeth Fiene Laura Fishman Helen Flaum Gerald Florence John and Janet Fogle Leone Fogle-Hechler Daniel and Rosemary Folan Joan Fong Cristin Ford* Ann Foster Foster Pepper PLLC C. Douglas Francis and Marianne Sorich Francis* Shary and Michael Frankfurter Jason Franklin* Sharon Friel Amanda and Geoff Froh Dorothy Fuller Theodore Galaday* Simon and Michelle Gale Helen Gamble* Sandra Garriott-Antonacci Brian and Lisa Gary Julie Gaskill and Richard Carter Richelle Gay* Carmen and Carver Gayton Christine and David Gedye Brynne Geiszler* Tavia Gilbert* Karen Gjelsteen Carl Glickman Peggy Golberg Marilyn and Alan Goldberg Linda Goldsmith Christopher Goodson* and Lindsey Walker David and Jane Gorbet Dale Gossett and Kay Kukowski Anne Gould Hauberg Kelsey Grafton* Melissa and James Grant Lyndsey Gray* Alvin and Karen Graylin Ron and Anke Greer Jennifer Grigg* Grimes Goebel Grimes Hawkins Gladfelter & Galvano, PL Tony Grob Arthur and Leah Grossman Robert M. and Joan Gruber

John Guich Helen Gurvich+ Michael Gustavson and Joan Knutson-Gustavson Ilana Guttmann Richard Haag and Cheryl Trivison John Hagman Susan and Michael Hahn Ryan Hamachek Judith Hamilton Mark and Susan Hardy Sylvia Harelik Courtney Harris* Kiana Harris* Lois Harris and Debra Crespin David and Sharron Hartman Patrick* and Debbie Haskett Michele and David Hasson Lindsay Hastings Loryn Hatten Li He* Paul Heckman and L. Montera Mary Hedlin Gail Heilbron and Edgar Steinitz Jerry Hekkel and Garrison Kurtz Joy Helmer* Andrew Highlands Amanda Hill Henry and Mary Hill Catherine Hillenbrand and Joseph Hudson Dennis Hoffman Kristine Holland Penny Holland and Wallace Hume Chirlee House William House Shawn Hove* Hub International Jan Hubert and Scott Anderson

Margaret Huchting and Eric Brown Greg and Linda Hughes Beatrice* and Robert Hull Wallace Hume Mary Ellen and William Hundley Robert and Charlotte Hutton Kristof Iverson* and Rose Tamburri* Mattie Iverson Vadon* and Mark Vadon J.C. Wright Sales Company Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen Charla Jaffee Alianna Jaqua* Alton Jennings Elizabeth Jennings* Anchor Dewitt Jensen Ellen Jeronimo Dan Johnson and Jill Chelimer Elizabeth Johnson Rolf and Sarah Johnson Bonnie Johnson Barbara Johnston Lois Jones Christine and Armando Juarez Glen and Lisbeth Juel Laura Kaminsky and Rebecca Allan Joy and Dmitry Kaplan David Kappler Jack and Evelyn Kappler Robert and Eleanor Karrer Shelly Kassen Adrienne and Alan Kaye James* and Cristie* Kearny Luke Kehrwald* Christine Kellett and Jay Kuhn Carolyn Kelly Thorpe and Lucinda Kelly Brian Kennedy Jessika Kenney* and Eyvindur Kang*

James and Marjorie Kesl Carolyn Kessler Charles and Helen Ketteman Leroy and Anne Kilcup Kim Dong Kathy Kimball Karen King Freda Klein William Klein Anna Klepper Natalie Kotar Zsolt Kovacs and Iulia Metzner Cindy and Jerry Kramer Carol Kramer Toby Kronengold Henry Kuharic Sharon Ladd Kathryn Lahey Costello James and Susanna Lane Frank* and JoAnna Lau Madelyn Lawson Christopher Laxamana* Eric Layer* Ritchie and Ronald Laymon Stephen Le Neveu and Lorraine Ketch Leo Burnett Company Charitable Foundation Dorothy Lemoult* and Jeremy Kahn David and Maria Leonard Gerard Letterie and Jan Chow Brian Leverson Mark Levine and John Keppeler Randy Signor and Jane Levine Heartha Levinson Steve and Suzanne Lewis Shirley Lincoln Jeff and Kathy Lindenbaum Ann Lindsay

Frank and Lynn Lindsay Alexander Lindsey and Lynn Manley Barbara Lippert Vivian Little and Jeffrey Bower Dorothy Lloyd Brenda Loew Clarice Lolich Mari London and Mark Popich Faustino Lopez* and Elizabeth Frederickson Lopez Dorothy Lord and James Cantwell Betsy and Brian Losh Wanda Lynch Ursula and Dwight Mamlok Alexander and Bette Mandl Dorothy Mann Drew Markham and Steve Mashuda Dorothy Marking Jane Martin Kristin Martin Mary Anne and Chuck Martin Linda Mason and David Devine David McCallum Stanley and Janet McCammon John and Janet McCann Lodi and Regan McClellan Kathleen McCormick James and Carole McCotter Kathleen McDonald Laurie McDonald Jonsson and Lars Jonsson Carl and Judy McEvoy John McHale and Marcie Campbell McHale Paul D. McKee* and Michael Lane Don McKenzie and Elizabeth Buzzell-McKenzie Patricia McNamara Cynthia Mennella* Bob Merrill and Melanie Williams

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT 2012/13 6% Auxiliary Services

10% Gifts and Grants

10% Buildings

8% Other Income

9% Depreciation/ Interest

82% Tuition and Fees

13% Institutional Support

44% Academic Programs 18% Scholarships

WHERE THE

MONEY COMES FROM

MONEY GOES

VII

DONOR LISTS continued Rachelle and Bob Mezistrano Dorothy and Sterling Miller Kathy Miller Michael Minney* Craig and Stefania Mitchell Erin Mitchell* Kabby Mitchell Jonathan Mitten* and Timmie Marsden* Ramiz Monsef* Dan and Lis Montgomery Mary and Richard Moss Anne* and Jeffrey Motl Phyllis Mullins Lori Neig Wilwerding* and Geoff Wilwerding Hollis Near and Anna Seaberg Carla Negrete Martinez* Herbert and Marilyn Nelson Marywilde Nelson William and Barbara Nelson Hans and Ann Neumaier Ann New Akiko and Jonathan Newcomb David and Shirley Newell Benjamin Niu Jack and Lollie Norman Victoria North and Alan Caplan Sharon Nov Stella Novit Josh Oakley* Heather Dew Oaksen and Gregory Oaksen Arthur Olsen Craig Olsen* and Richard Konigsberg Sara Orr-Smith Beverly Page and Michael Verchot Richard Page Joshua Palmer* John and Linda Parazynski L. Rosario Parker Scott Parker Kasia Pawluskiewicz* Richard Peacock Linda and Arthur Pederson Helen Pelton Cheryl Penttila* Charles and Angelica Pepka David Perez* Marlene Perrigo Kennedy* and Bob Kennedy Mimi Petkoff James and Muriel Phillips Julie Pickering Margaret Pickering Jennifer and Manuel Pineda Kevin Pitman* Steve and Cait Platz James Policar Susan and Marcos Policar Johanna Polit* Martha and Seymour Pomerantz William and Sherry Portuese Jarrad Powell* and Molly Scott Elin Pratt Geoffrey Prentiss Marilyn and Wallace Prestbo Bob Priest and Claire Sykes Frank Pritchard Steve Pruzan and Janet Abrams Daniel Purdom Sherrie Quinton Debra Raab Joan Raab Kathleen Rabel and Stephen Hazel+ Jennifer Rainbolt* Dennis Raines* Hugh Ramsey Schelleen and Charles Rathkopf Lois Rathvon* Dave Rawlyk and Launi Skinner Douglas and Brenda Redfern Ginny Redpath The Reeve Family Pattilou Reeves* and Chris Davidson Shelagh and Terrence Regan Laura and Jim Rehrmann Karlis Rekevics Ernest Rhoads* Richard and Pamela Rhodes Constance and Norm Rice The Ridge Women’s Golf Course Christine and John Riley Jean and Alex Ritzen Burton and Norita Robbins Jeff Robbins and Marcy Wing Carol Robinson

David Rollison* Bob and Laura Rookstool Nichole and Martin Rose William Rose* Judy Rottersam Donald K. Routh Gregory Ruby* Allison and Chris Ruettgers Ellen* and Joe Rutledge Lena and Maher Saba Ruth Saeker Toru and Kiyo Sakahara Julie and Eric Salathe Monica Salazar* Courtney Sale* June Sale Daniel Salins Albert and Frances Salopek Irwin and Thelma Samegh Werner and Joan Samson Carol Sanders Murl Allen Sanders and Janet Hesslein Polly Sanford* James and Lisa Sargeant Cindy Saul Peggy Scales Katherine Scharhon* Karen Scherwood Jill Scheuermann and Russell Paquette Eric Schonleber* Karen and Jack Schwartz Molly Scott and Jarrad Powell* Patricia Scott J. Randolph and Lynn Sealey Seattle Golf Club Ladies Division Ronnee Segal Jack Seifert and Cynthia Burrell Qadriyyah Shabazz* Stephanie Shadbolt* Daniel and Alicia Shafer Lora and Omar Shahine Christopher Shainin* and Hope Wechkin Sydney Sharples Kristina Shellie-Cahn and Timothy Cahn Cynthia Shelly Jianping Shen Roxanne Shepherd and Gerald Kroon Kay Shirley-Nilsen and Wendy Santamaria Rita Shtull Harro and Sandra Siebert Mary Lou Siebert David and Jennifer Silver Shirley and Jack Silver Robert and Robin Simpson Shirley and Maurice Skeith Max and Jane Slade Nancy and Jack Slater Douglas Smith and Stephanie Ellis-Smith Erminia Smith Harriette Smith Maggie Smith Wilma and John Smith Snoqualmie Entertainment Authority Nelly and George+ Sofer Sanjiu and Diuya Soman Dean Speer* and Francis Timlin Stuart and Patty Spencer Howard and Patricia Stambor Marsha Stanton Sharron and Stephen Starling Bonnie and Alan Steele Anne Stevenson Marvel and Philip Stewart Chris Stollery Leslie* and Jeffrey Stoner William and Barbara Street Justine Su Nicole Sumner* Harald Sund Peggy and Michael Swistak Ann Tagland* Laura and Michael Targett Joshua Taylor Joel Tepp Howard Tharp Ricky Tharpe Boyka Thayer* Thomas and Marilyn Thies John and Barbara Thomas Diane Thome James Thompson Anne and James Thomson The Threshold Group, LLC Janice Tipp Ruth and John Tomlinson

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*alumnus/alumna +deceased

Estelle and Francisco Tordillos Alexandra Torrance and Paul Okner Andrew and Diane Torrance John and Marie Torrance Joanne Torrance William and Pam Torrance Dan and Sandy Trainor Liz Tran* Susan Trapnell and Erik Muller Ann Tritschler Charles and Dale Tritschler Donald and Polly Tritschler Catherine Tsai and Jason Young Junichi Tsuneoka* Nancy Uscher and William Barrett Susan Valencia Delia and Norman Van Brunt Van Vinikow Chas. and Anne von Rosenberg Nicole Von Suhr and Fred Jacobs Henry and Gloria Wachs Joan Waiss and Steve Wells Stephen Walker Lou* and James Wall Mildred Walsh Jean Wang Jenifer Ward Hazel Warlaumont Angel Weaver* and Kelly Browning Christine Weh* Scott and Michele Weller Amy Wells Kelly Wergeland Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Wellspring Family Services Wellspring Group

Stephen West and Pamela Yorks Peter and Suzanna Westhagen Nancy and Bruce Whitcomb Richard E.T. White and Christine Sumption William Whitener Thomas Whitlock Dan and Minori Whitney Ann Wickline Edith Wieland Jane Carlson Williams Emily and Todd Williams Michele and Richard Williams Cynthia Willsey Nora Wilmarth Jean and Craig Wilson Howard Wilson John Wilson Thomas Wilson Roan and Tara Winchester Nathan Winkel* Linda and Holden Withington Deborah Wolf Malcom and Mary Wolfson Janet Wolverton Jasmine Woo* Alan and Wei-ping Wood LaVerne Woods and John Zobel Marion Woyvodich Carol Wright Mary and Frank Wyckoff Tom and Margo Wyckoff Sako and Ryan Yasuda Jake Ynzunza* Lisa and Jack Young Andrew and Borbala Zaborski

GIFTS IN MEMORY/HONOR Over the years, gifts to the endowment have been made in memory or honor of some very special people who continue to have a lasting imprint on Cornish and the community we serve. We join donors in honoring and celebrating the individuals listed below. GIFTS IN MEMORY

GIFTS IN HONOR

Merce Cunningham Viola Stevens Barron Jane Ewing Jane Francis Schultz Joan Franks Williams Jon Gierlich Lynn Goodlad Gwenn Barker Harsh Lawrence Halpern Chris Holland Christine Howe Jeanne-Marie Klepper Thelma Lehmann Deborah Ann Penna (AR ’00) Betsy Torrance Kirby Torrance Thomas Stone Torrance Peter Vinikow Stephen Walker Eva Wilcox

Zel Brook (AR ’96) Yvonne Beaton Bonnie Cohen David DeMoss LaMar and Marlys Efaw Jeff Holland and Kate Zylstra Patricia Hon Steve Jensen (AR ’82) Judith Kindler Ellen Lane Todd and Char Rawlings Terry Sparks Paul Taub Sergei P. Tschernisch Irving Williams and Susan Barash Williams

Every gift is important to us, and we strive to keep accurate records. We apologize if we have inadvert ently omitted or incorrectly listed any names. Please call us at 206.726.5064 to advise us of any errors so that we can correct our records. Thank you.

ANNUAL OPERATING

JUNE 1, 2012 – MAY 31, 2013 THANK YOU to the many community members who made

For information on how you can support Cornish and the

gifts to the Cornish Annual Fund, as well as to scholarships,

future of the arts, please call the Office of Institutional

student support and academic programming. We are

Advancement at 206.726.5064.

especially delighted to acknowledge first-time donors and those who have increased their giving. Your contributions sustain the outstanding educational and artistic environment essential to the development of our students.

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GRAND GIFTS continued

LEFT TO RIGHT Byron Schenkman, Peter Mack and Christina Valdés, with Cornish’s new Steinway D. Photo: Mark Bocek.

After it arrived in Kerry Hall, Sarah reminisced about the

grand pianos over the years, but never a Steinway Model

importance of music for her mom. “At the celebration of

D, 9-foot concert grand piano, long considered the

her life, “ she said, “we shared the story that any one of us

preeminent piano in the world. Steinway pianos of this

five kids could come home from school and present her

caliber routinely sell for more than $125,000 new, and

with a snake, or the house could be burning down, and if

seldom become available used.

she was on her piano, she was focused, intent, not hear ing any of us nor any of our blather or demands. This is a

So, when the Music Department received news earlier this

memory that holds clarity to this day for all of us.”

year that a recent model Steinway D piano was available for sale, Music Department Chair Kent Devereaux and

STEINWAY D CONCERT GRAND

Professor of Piano Dr. Peter Mack quickly formulated a

In recent years, Cornish has taken great strides to enhance

plan. Less than 90 days later, with the help of some very

its classical piano program, starting with the addition to its

generous individuals, Cornish finally took delivery of its

faculty of two nationally renowned pianists—contemporary

very first Steinway Model D concert grand piano.

music virtuoso Cristina Valdés and Byron Schenkman, a pianist and harpsichordist specializing in early classical

Purchase of Cornish’s first Steinway Model D concert grand

repertoire—to join long-standing Cornish faculty member

piano was made possible by contributions from the following

and Steinway Artist, Dr. Peter Mack.

individuals and foundations: Carol and Brian Gregory, Sharon Cornish Martin and Tom Martin, Camille D. McCray, Melisa

However, one crucial ingredient was missing: a Steinway

and Jeffrey Williams, Albert and Irene Fisher, Susan Winokur

concert grand piano. The College had owned a number of

and Paul Leach, Mary Kollar, Stephanie Shadbolt, Natalya

top-quality Steinway, Bosendorfer, Baldwin, and Kawai

Ageyeva and Ron Traficante, Anonymous (in memory of Constance H. Hellyer) and the Juniper Foundation.

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SUMMER AT CORNISH

More than 470 young artists participated in Summer at Cornish 2013.

1 Modern Dance. Photo: Mike Urban.

2 Figure Drawing. Photo: Ashleigh Robb (AR â&#x20AC;&#x2122;14).

3 Chamber Ensemble Intensive. Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis.

4 Pinhole and Experimental Photography. Photo: Ashleigh Robb (AR â&#x20AC;&#x2122;14).

MONSOON SEASON continued “It took a lot for me to get to go to Cornish,” says Hoffer of the financial sacrifices he and his family made. “I had incentive grants the first two years. I worked as a janitor. My aunt gave me some money out-of-pocket from her social security. When my grandma passed away, we sold her house to help pay for Cornish. Then, once I made it past sophomore year, my aunt was like, ‘We’re going to do whatever it takes to make sure you graduate, because you’ve put too much into it. But, I swear to God, if you f--k around while you’re there, you’re going to have the guilt of the Hoffers to deal with!’” Hoffer’s family needn’t have worried—he was a straight-A student. “The difference between talented people and great artists is discipline,” says Cornish Theater faculty member Keira McDonald. “Jerick is a talented person who also has a high degree of discipline.” It was in David Taft’s clown class at Cornish that Hoffer began to recognize the connection between acting and drag performance. “The more we examined clown form,

In addition to Jinkx Monsoon and Kitty Witless (a character he developed for The Vaudevillians, the hit show he created with fellow Cornish alum Richard Andriessen (TH ’10), Hoffer has created a bevy of drag personas that are making it to the stage one by one. “Dierdre A. Irwin is my Southern psychic character,” he says. “She’s a Southern trans vestite, well, transsexual—she’s post-op. She’s a medium, and she channels dead celebrities to put on a cabaret show with their voices. I have a Russian spy character named Pretty Pistoff. And then there’s one in development that’s a French-speaking drag queen named Madame Guillotine.” Jerick Hoffer’s ambitions go beyond performing in drag clubs. “Not all drag has to be glamour-based, and not all drag has to be campy and over-the-top,” he says. “Sometimes you can just authentically play a female character.” His dream is to play the Witch in Into the Woods, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and perhaps even Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Producers, are you listening? NO BOUNDARIES continued the work of groups such as DAE. “But it is not simply a

the more I saw the parallels with drag,” he says. “I made

matter of history: students gravitate naturally toward this

a conscious decision to treat my drag personas as clown

‘post-disciplinary’ space—the work they are creating is

forms. Each of my drag personas has a certain aesthetic

fed deeply by disciplinary training and often transcends

and certain things that need to be in place physically to get

those boundaries in collaborative and innovative ways.”

into the form, and then I volley back and forth between the physical form and the mental form of the drag persona

“I have developed some pretty hard-core collaboration

and treat it like commedia dell’arte. I don’t think your

skills over the years,” says Kohl. “I think that means

average drag queen does that.”

knowing when to go with the flow of what others are

His experience at Cornish encouraged Hoffer to see drag

guns and fight for your important ideas. Collaboration

as part of the larger continuum of theater and performance.

forces you to constantly be on your toes and keep your

bringing to the table and when you have to stick to your

“The kind of drag that makes me most excited is creating

sense of perspective sharp.”

a character with her own backstory and her own life,” he says. “It’s not just you in drag, but it’s a character you’ve

“Jarrad Powell basically blew my mind,” says Kohl of the

created, and you just happen to play the opposite gender

longtime Cornish Music faculty member and artistic

to portray it.”

director of Gamelan Pacifica. “Instead of introducing me to ‘music theory,’ which in our usual talk means ‘European

Over time, he began to consider how to combine drag with

music theory,’ he introduced me to many music theories

serious acting. He even crossed swords with an instructor

from different parts of the world. Gamelan structures,

who insisted that the notion of Hoffer playing a female role

Indian scales, different tunings. This approach really freed

in Hamlet was inherently comical. “He told me, ‘They’d

my mind and told me that I don’t have to judge myself

never be able to take you seriously as Queen Gertrude

based on other people’s ideas of what is correct music.”

because you’d be a man in a dress.’ And I said, ‘Well, you’ve never seen me in a dress!’”

For Kohl, one of the benefits of studying at Cornish was the opportunity to encounter and build relationships with

legendary director Robert Wilson to create a new piece based on his seminal work, Einstein on the Beach. And they are currently developing The Warrior, a new work with Kronos Quartet that will be presented at the Neptune Theatre in November.

Collaboration is not just a way of making art, it’s a way of being. For Kohl, collaboration is not just a way of making art, it’s a way of being, a metaphor for utopia. “It’s crazy how similar a bad collaboration can be with the larger problems we have in society,” he says. “People often just don’t play well with each other, and so much of the time it comes down to egos. We have to know what is important for the larger work, not just what is important to ourselves. So when a collaboration goes well, I feel a deep sense of communion and satisfaction, and hopeful about the poten tial for what people are capable of. In a larger sense of HARUKO NISHIMURA, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE Photo: Steven Miller, stevenmillerphotography.com

other engaged, inspired, skillful artists who were also students at the time. [Violinist] “Eyvind Kang is a great ex ample,” he says. “He was just on fire when we were at

humanity, if we can’t get along in making art, then there is certainly no hope of us getting along in the more compli cated aspects of our existence.” MARY LAMBERT continued

Cornish together. His attitude about music—his open mind,

released the single. “Simply because this song is not political.

his relentless work ethic really affected me.” He also

It’s not about oppression or marriage equality. This song

notes longtime collaborations with cellist/singer/composer

is a love song. That’s all it is. It’s an honest love song, an

Brent Arnold and violinist/composer/choreographer Paris

extended version of my chorus from Same Love. It’s

Hurley, among many others.

another side of the story.”

“Ever since graduating Cornish I have been guilty of kid

Music aside, it’s the writing that the great number of inter

napping a steady stream of pre- and post-graduates for

viewers want to ask Lambert about. And there’s a good

our projects,” says Kohl, who recently invited current

reason for this: her writing is fearless, lacerating, a punch

Cornish art student Reilly Sinanan to join DAE and hired

in the gut. Find her song I Know Girls (bodylove) from her

former Cornish art student Brooke Jacobovitz to manage

EP Letters Don’t Talk. Mix the raw emotions of her spoken

DAE’s online presence. “I have probably not had a year

words with sweet interludes of her singing and you find

that I didn’t collaborate with someone who was at one

yourself moved over a lot of emotional territory. So the

time at Cornish.”

warmth and satisfaction of She Keeps Me Warm is perhaps

Presented locally by On the Boards, Seattle Theatre Group,

Lambert personally.

the beginning of something new and important for and the Frye Art Museum, DAE has also toured to venues in Berlin and dozens of other cities around the globe. Like

“I have made a bit of a departure,” she says. “I feel like I’ve

any boundary-pushing artistic group, DAE is not without

been in the industry for a solid year and I’ve learned a lot,

its detractors—including The Stranger’s Brendan Kiley, who

and I wanted to make a pop song. I wanted to make some

referred to DAE as “spectacular, clanging, and unerringly

thing that I could hear on the radio and that didn’t sacrifice

pretentious”—but their work has also been embraced by

integrity. So I’m really proud of She Keeps Me Warm.”

major cultural icons. They were recently invited by the

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Love resonates, Lambert believes, with everyone, gay or straight, woman or man. She dreams of a universal love that everyone shares, so that anyone hearing her specific love song to her partner feels an immediate connection to his or her own experiences. She understands that the song can’t be removed from its context, but take away the novelty of hearing a gay woman artist sing freely about her relationship, and what you’re left with is the pure emotion we all feel, the emotion that makes “she keeps me warm” such a good hook. “It was inadvertently political,” she says, “but my intention was to show the idea of universal love, and that there’s someone who keeps us warm. That’s love.” MARY LAMBERT continued Just as Lambert is at pains to separate her new song from politics, she’s leery of being thought of as a pioneer, “first man on the moon, and all that.” But in her quiet way and with a personal love song, she is doing something new and special. What’s in a pronoun, “she”? A whole lot. Maybe it’s a revolution. It makes it clear that a woman is singing about a woman in this song. “There were occasional songs where I used ‘she’ but I kept it pretty vague as far as pronouns go,” she says, “and I usually just use very general pronouns.”

What’s in a pronoun, “she”? A whole lot. Maybe it’s a revolution. It makes it clear that a woman is singing about a woman in this song. “Doing Same Love sort of gave me that strength and it was like, ‘People can handle this,’” Lambert continues. “I don’t know why everybody is so scared to do this. I get it. I was scared to do it. It wasn’t so much being afraid that people wouldn’t like it, it was more that I didn’t want to alienate an audience. Because if you’re somewhere as a performer, you don’t want to isolate or pigeonhole yourself as a gay artist or as whatever. “I think the turning point for me was hearing women of all ages singing ‘she keeps me warm,’” Lambert says, and she clarifies that she means both gay and straight women. “Up until that point, I’d been sort of scared to [use ‘she’]. But after hearing so many people enjoy it … I mean, as a lesbian, I watch The Bachelor, and I don’t care! Because it’s about love, and I’m excited! I love romantic comedies, and it doesn’t matter that they’re a straight couple, be cause love resonates.”

THE ANTISOCIAL MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE continued really liked it, so I began considering going to school there.” Someone he knew was applying to Cornish at the time, so he allowed himself to fall into this gravity well and sub mitted his own application. He was accepted into the design department. The first two years at Cornish were rough. He had to take all the required courses, even though he was older than most freshmen and had a lot of work experience. On top of that, he was enrolled in what was then a new subject area in the department, motion design. Following a pattern in his work that he readily admits to, Scott turned his problems and frustrations into art. This took the shape of a serial pranking of design department coordinator Brian Kennedy, the person charged with ensuring design students met departmental requirements. The pièce de la résistance of this series was a response to the annual art and design B.F.A. exhibition, an anti-show, which Garner christened the B.F.K.—as in “Brian Freaking Kennedy.” Design students were encouraged to create works based on surreptitiously obtained photos of Brian provided by Scott and the “show” was set up on the sly in one of the empty studios. Garner’s own contribution was a rendering of Kennedy in the manner of a church window, replete with halo, titled The Martyrdom of Saint Brian. “Scott was a prankster, the department’s Pied Piper,” says Kennedy today, with something like a parent’s proud smile. “He was a real pain in the ass—I wish we had more students like him. … He was incorrigible. I respected it, I enjoyed it, and, to some degree, I was in on it.”

Throughout his four years at Cornish, Scott more than made

Now as a graduate of Cornish, Scott hopes to carve out

up for his pranks with a string of well-thought-out, tech-

an unusual niche for himself, working only on special

savvy and highly finished pieces, especially as he got past

assignments. On his site, scott.j38.net, he writes: “I am

the department’s requirements. “During my junior and

basically unemployable in a conventional sense and have

senior year,” says Garner, “things began to really open up

very little interest in working on commercial projects.” It’s

and many of my instructors were extremely accommo

a statement that would spell the end of many careers, but

dating as I began to look for ways to bring interactivity into

for Garner, you’ve got to believe he’s got it worked out.

my work, as seen in … my thesis project, Heartache as a

And now that he is, fleetingly at least, a media darling, it

Masterpiece. I was also able to use a directed studies class

seems there may definitely be a method to this madness.

in the humanities and sciences department as a crash course in basic electronics, which resulted in the creation

He finds this sudden bit of fame ironic, given that the whole

of the Piano Gloves.”

impetus for creating Hell is Other People was to avoid

Scott also made full use of Cornish’s rich humanities and

Garner, “that on the surface, this project has been a mas

sciences program by focusing on classes taught by

sive failure, because I’m interacting with people much more

philosophy prof Raymond Maxwell. “My last semesters at

than I was before.

social interactions. “That’s the most ridiculous part,” says

Cornish I kind of majored in philosophy by just taking all of Raymond’s classes,” says Garner. As the title of

“It’s fine,” Garner continues. “I think that there’s something

Garner’s anti-social app is taken from Jean Paul Sartre’s

in the air as far as people getting fed up with social media

play No Exit, he has directly benefitted from the class

and starting to think about it a little bit more critically. I

on existentialism, at any rate.

think the project was a catalyst for people to start talking about those ideas, and it provides something concrete to focus on.”

1 Map view of Scott Garner’s anti-social media app, Hell is Other People. 2 Scott Garner, Heartache as a Masterpiece, single frame from an interactive kiosk, 2010. The kiosk featured a number of “paintings” of famous artists and thinkers which, on click, showed animated views with quotes; in the example, an image of Sigmund Freud is shown with accompanying quote.

3 Scott Garner, BeetBox, interactive mixed media, 2012. BeetBox is a sculpture that doubles as a musical instrument and triples as a visual pun. By touching the each actual beets suspended in the poplar enclosure, the user initiates the replay of a series of sound files. Touch sensing is handled by a capacitive touch sensor controlled by a circuit board and a custom code set.

A TOAST TO THE PROVOST continued

alike, and an invitation to “visit Provost Payne” sounds like the lead-in to a scene from Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome.

the handsome man running it, William Payne, and said, “Right, I’ll take one of each.” And Hospitalfields House is where, in fact, she lived until her husband William’s retirement a few years back.

Her official bio covers her Scottish background, including her time at Glasgow School of Art and the University

Mrs. Payne is in no way a reluctant transfer to the United

of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art and

States. In fact, she has been plotting a move here for

Design. But that’s not the Truly Interesting Part—which

some time. Cornish provided the perfect opportunity, along

is actually in two parts. The first part of the Truly Interesting

with William’s retirement. She believes that the College is

Part is that her family hails from the Outer Hebrides, the

on the verge of greatness. The ability to understand great

string of islands in the remote northwest of Scotland, the

opportunities is a family trait. Moira reports that her

one last area of the country where Scottish Gaelic is

daughter, Lauren, is a lawyer in London who specializes in

commonly spoken. Scott Payne has studied the language

“air and space law.” You read that last part correctly, Lauren

extensively, and though she claims not to remember it,

is an expert in legal matters pertaining to outer space. It’s

this is no doubt false modesty; one and all are invited to

a brilliant choice, actually, as outer space is, for all intents

engage her in Gaelic whenever the opportunity arises.

and purposes, endless. Not only is the universe expanding, the expansion is accelerating, we are told. There is quite

The second part of the Truly Interesting Part is that, having

literally nowhere to go but up in this specialty.

pointed out the first part of the Truly Interesting Part, she didn’t actually grow up in the Outer Hebrides—nor, in fact,

Finally, a college provost must be willing to make deals to

in any part of Scotland. No, her father was a tea planter

get things done. Moira has displayed her fitness in this

in India, and she grew up on the other side of the world.

area by having purchased her son’s acquiescence to the big

Moira’s accent, which sounds so authentic to American

move to Seattle by promising James he could choose

ears, was thus acquired by unknown means. As the

the family’s car on arrival. In practical terms, this apparently

daughter of a tea planter, she is, not surprisingly, very par

means she won’t be getting the Volvo she wants. On the

ticular about her tea. For some reason, she has been

plus side, we imagine she’ll look good behind the wheel of

forced to borrow a local teapot, since her personal pot

a Porsche.

has still not arrived from the U.K. (perhaps the absolutely perfect residue in the pot is covered by the Official

With the addition of this unofficial biography to the official

Secrets Act).

entry, the reader should, at last, appreciate the full scope of the talents of Cornish’s new provost. At the very least, it

A provost must be the sort to look to the future—and must

should provide the stuff for many conversations—in Gaelic,

plan accordingly. Even as a young artist, Moira Scott had

one hopes.

great abilities in this direction not displayed in her official biography. Her positive glut of awards is exhaustively noted in the official bio; one of these was a residency at prestigious Hospitalfields House. Many young artists would have looked at a grant to spend time painting land scapes at Hospitalfields House as an end in itself, but that shows their lack of initiative and enterprise. Young Miss Scott apparently sized up the beautiful estate and

–Maximilian Bocek

DR. GWENDOLYN FREED Dr. Gwendolyn Freed joined Cornish College of the Arts as Vice President for Institutional Advancement in June. She serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet, overseeing fundraising, alumni relations, marketing, communications and public relations. Dr. Freed has a background in external relations, higher edu cation and the arts. She came to Cornish from the Minneapolis-based scholarship foundation, Wallin Education Partners, where her primary focus as Executive Director was donor development. Previously, she served as Vice President for Marketing and Communication at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. She also worked as a major gifts officer at the Minnesota Orchestra. An oboist and former journalist, Dr. Freed has written about the arts for such outlets as the Wall Street Journal and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She holds a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin Conservatory and a master of music degree from The Juilliard School. At the University of Minnesota, she earned a master of public affairs degree in public and nonprofit leadership and management and a Ph. D. in educational policy and administration. “We are excited about Gwen’s arrival,” said Cornish President Nancy Uscher. “She brings a strong combination of skills and experience for Cornish. She has high energy and passion for our mission. We are grateful that Gwen has relocated her family here from Minnesota.” “Seattle is spectacular. I appreciate the warm welcome I have received from the Cornish community,” said Dr. Freed. “I look forward to partnering with trustees, administrators, faculty, students and alumni to advance the College.” 21

ALUMNI NEWSWIRE 2012 In December of 2012, Irene Beausoleil (DA ’12) and her artistic collaborator Scott Sutherland successfully published their first photocollection titled Moments of Truth, an e-book available online at the Amazon Kindle Store. They have been diligently working on new material since then and have expanded the scope of their project to include live performances. This manifested itself during March 2013 with the premiere performance of The Crux’s New Summer Time in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Nina Malevitsis (DE ’12) has just accepted employment at Teague in Seattle as an interior designer. 2010 Kelly Ehlert (TH ’10) played The Loud Stone in Eurydice at A Noise Within Theatre Company in Pasadena, Calif. Giuseppe Ribaudo (TH ’10) appeared as Richard in Fuddy Meers, David Lindsay-Abaire’s quirky character comedy at City Lit Theater in Chicago, Ill. Yevtushenko, Amber Schein’s (MU ’10) indie-rock band, released two EPs, Do and Patient(s) Zero, in 2013 and followed them up by suc cessfully raising enough money to record their first full-length album. Charles Spitzack (AR ’10) is now being represented by Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Wash. 2009 In addition to appearing in The Huffington Post, Juxtapoz, Harpers Bazaar, Artists and Illustrators Magazine, and American Artist as one of their “25 Artists of Tomorrow,” Aleah Chapin (AR ’09) also celebrated her first solo show at Flowers Gallery in New York, N.Y. Justice Theater Project’s February 2013 production of Julius Caesar featured Cornish alumna Michelle Johnson (TH ’09) as she portrayed Portia for the people of Raleigh, N.C. Mariel Neto (TH ’09) appeared in the Erickson Theatre’s production of Caryl Churchill’s play The Skriker, the story of a shape-shifting being chasing two teens in London. Mariel played one of the two pursued teens. Starbucks Coffee Company scored a real win when they hired Tobi Wray (DE ’09), formerly Tobi Seagran, back in July 2009 as an interior designer. Since then she has done outstanding work for them including her latest project at their first ever TAZO Tea store in University Village, Seattle, which opened November 2012. 2008 In addition to completing her masters of music in jazz performance from New York University (NYU), Kelly Ash (MU ’08) has been hired as adjunct piano & voice faculty (jazz/pop) at NYU and by the New York Jazz Academy as vocal faculty. In Summer 2013 Kelly’s band released a fulllength album and has been touring the U.S. and playing in New York, N.Y.

Melissa Henry (TH ’08) graduated from the year-long accelerated M.A. program in performance studies at New York University, and she will receive the award as an “Emerging Scholar.” She was also in Seattle as one of the dramaturgs for Saint Genet’s performance at On The Boards, Paradisiacal Rites in May 2013. 2007 Ezra Dickinson’s (DA ’07) Mother for you I made this, presented by Velocity Dance Center as part of its Made in Seattle series, was aimed at activating a conversation about the failed mental health care system in America through memories of Dickinson’s childhood with his schizophrenic mother. Audience members were taken about the forgot ten places of Seattle, each equipped with a personal audio tour that brought together conversations between Dickinson and his mother with sounds from the actual landscape. Nicholas Robbins (TH ’07) has been hired as the managing director of Rogue Artists Ensemble in Los Angeles, Calif. Rogue Artists Ensemble is a collective of multidisciplinary artists who create hypertheater, a hybrid of theater traditions, puppetry, mask work, dance, music and modern technology. With an emphasis on design and story telling, the Rogues create original, thought-provoking performances. He is also co-founder, along with Taylor Maxwell (TH ’07), of the Silver Lake Picture Show, a free outdoor community event, which this summer has opened up for a second season. The Picture Show screens a popular feature film at the public plaza in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, and invites the community at no cost. Before every feature, they screen a short film by a local filmmaker and give them an oppor tunity to tell the viewers about their process. After graduating from Cornish, Leah Snyder (DE ’07) pursued a legal education at Seattle University School of Law. She recently passed the Washington and Massachusetts bar examinations and joined Kroontje Law Office PLLC, a small firm that practices civil litigation and dispute resolution in downtown Seattle, Wash. 2006 In February 2013, Casey Curran (AR ’06) exhibited work in Dissymmetry at Roq La Rue in Seattle, Wash. and in Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City. His work also made an appearance the next month in Introductions at SAM Gallery in Seattle, Wash. The Cornish alumni presence was felt across the pond in November 2012 when Franni Donohoe (DA ’06) and co-director Olivia Preye premiered their work Fish Tales of Alaska at The Yard Theatre in London. This multidisciplinary, collaborative performance explores man’s relationship with the sea and pays homage to the tradition of story telling and its place in human culture. Jaime Navarro (TH ’06) has been promoted from lead generation account executive to account executive at Fierce, Inc., leadership development and training experts. She will join the business’ development team and work directly with clients to build brand awareness and drive sales. Jaime first joined Fierce in 2010.

1 Irene Beausoleil from the cover of her book Moments of Truth; co-authored and photo by Scott Sutherland.

2 Kathryn Altus, Salish Geometry, 18 x 12”, water soluble oil on birch panel.

3 Image from Velocity’s Made In Seattle: Ezra Dickinson, Mother for you I made this. Photo: Anthony Rigano.

4 Bette Burgoyne, Forest (detail) 2012, black paper white pencil. 8.5”h (12.5”section)

In her final year at Brooklyn College’s PIMA Graduate Program, Tinu Oyelowo (TH ’06) along with the rest of The Robot Immigrants created a performance installation entitled My Heart Is a Traveler that was performed during April 2013 in Brooklyn, N.Y. This piece explores personal stories of immigration across multiple generations and cultures set against a backdrop of perpetual technological change. Adam Spencer (AR ’06) started a new business, Cellar Door Mercantile. It specializes in print art and design, including clothing, house goods, art and much more. All products are produced responsibly and from local sources, when available. Selling in local Seattle street markets and online, the staff of Cellar Door Mercantile gives back to the com munity by donating their time and money to nonprofits throughout the city. Adam has also been busy in his studio and exhibits once or twice a year. 2004 Saying goodbye to his old job and many great memories, Andrew Hock (TH ’04) will now be teaching language arts, social studies and acting at the Academy of Arts and Academics in Springfield, Ore. Dana Young (TH ’04) is currently working at Carbine Studios as part of the newly announced WildStar project. Initially employed as part

of the QA team, she was promoted to the design department in September 2011. She’s loving the work she does, being creative and having a chance to be a part of the design team. 2003 Playwright Mallery Avidon (TH ’03) premiered Breaks & Bikes with Chicago’s Pavement Group in November 2012, quickly followed by another new play O Guru Guru Guru or why I don’t want to go to yoga class with you in March 2013 at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Ky. The House of Von Macramé, Joshua Conkel’s (TH ’03) new, fulllength musical, opened January 23 at The Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, N.Y. This pop horror fashion show is a celebration of stylish European horror films from the ’60s and ’70s, an extravaganza of design and spectacle, and an exploration of iconoclasts. 2002 Margot Bordelon (TH ’02) graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A in theater directing. She recently directed Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine at the School of Drama in the Iseman Theater. Other work at the school includes Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra; A Duck On A Bike by Amelia Roper; and Game Room by Justin Taylor.

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1 1 Poster for Maya Soto’s Gathering Bones. Photo: Joseph Lambert.

4 2 Kristy Tonti, Is this the Moon, oil, paper, wax on wood.

3 Lady Rizo sings; photo courtesy of Amelia Zirin-Brown.

4 Christine Sandifur, Gmail 1.0, monoprint.

Liz Tran (AR ’02) journeyed to Iceland to take part in the SIM Residency, returning in November 2012, at which point she spent the better part of her winter hunkering down at the Seward Park Clay Center working on, among other things, the exhibition Symbiosis.

Amelia Zirin-Brown (TH ’99), AKA Lady Rizo, has led a busy, globetrotting life as she’s brought her glamorous cabaret performance from New York City to the West Coast of the United States, Australia and Europe.

2001 Body in Balance welcomed Erin Ranta (DA ’01) as a partner, bringing a new level of excellence and versatility to the studio’s fitness offerings. In addition to ballet and Pilates, Ranta is the only instructor on Maui teaching an exciting form of fitness called “Booty Barre” that combines all the principles of ballet, Pilates, yoga and weight training.

1998 Live Girls! Artistic Director Meghan Arnette (TH ’98) directs Macha Monkey Productions’ March 2013 presentation of award-winning playwright Allison Gregory’s Cliffhouse.

2000 A year has passed since Rebecca Smedley (DA ’00) got married, and she’s excited to report that she and her husband are expecting a boy in November 2013. This heralds a new chapter in Rebecca’s life, as she also winds down her seven years of running the dance course at Amersham & Wycombe College. She’s excited to see what the future holds! 1999 Is this the Moon and other works by Kristy Tonti (AR ’99) were shown at Bainbridge Island’s Gallery at Grace, April 2013.

Seattle Art Museum invited Heather Hart (AR ’98) to install The Western Oracle: We Will Tear The Roof Off the Mother, the third in her oracle series, at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle as part of their Summer at SAM programming. Heather has also been keeping busy with her residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass. 1996 Zel Brook (AR ’96) was granted an award through the Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant, as well as additional funds from the Ford Family Foundation, to help her fund her residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

1994 Elizabeth Ely Moreno (TH ’94) announced that her play Cinderella or the Story of Bigfoot was published earlier this year by Pioneer Drama Service.

1979 During May 2013 Kathryn Altus’ (AR) work was exhibited at the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, Wash.

Christine Sandifur (AR ’94) participated in Visual Acoustics, a group exhibit exploring music and sound through visual representations at the Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery, Phoenix, Ariz.

CORNISH ACROSS GENERATIONS Work by Ryan Aragon (AR ’11) and Allyce Wood (AR ’10) appeared at SOIL in Seattle, Wash. early in 2013 for their show, Plantbodies— Indicators & Reactors.

Constellation – Mana, a piece by Kumi Yamashita (AR ’94) will be on exhibit through February 2014 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Kumi is one of the finalists from the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Sharon Arnold (AR ’06) opened the doors of LxWxH Gallery to the public in December 2012 during Georgetown’s monthly art walk, Art Attack! So far, LxWxH Gallery has featured the work of many talented artists including Bette Burgoyne (AR ’86).

1993 Erik Geschke (AR ’93) was selected to receive the Ford Family Foundation Fellowship for Oregon artists for 2013 at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, Calif. Among his recent exhibitions was Head, Shoulders, Genes and Toes at the Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts. Curated by Judith Rushin, this exhibition featured artists exploring the intersection of art, human biology and medicine.

Back in October 2012, Ben Gibbard, front man for Death Cab for Cutie, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote his solo debut album with cover art designed by Drew Hamlet (DE ’10). The cover design project was undertaken at Hum Creative, which was founded by Kate Harmer (DE ’05).

The Austrian television detective series, Janus, stars alumnus Alex Pschill (TH ’93) as forensic psychologist Dr. Leo Benedict. 1992 On January 6, 2013, Barbie Anaka (MU ’92) celebrated the release of her new album, Speechless, with an album release party at The Triple Door in Seattle, Wash. This marks her first CD release in nearly 10 years. 1990 Pauline Smith (PP ’90) had the honor of designing the costumes for Kiyon Gaines’ new ballet, Sum Stravinsky, which premiered at Pacific Northwest Ballet in November 2012. 1987 The West Australian Department of Culture and the Arts has awarded Wolfe Bowart (TH ’87) with the 2013 Creative Development Fellowship. January 2013 also saw the UK premiere of his production Letter’s End at London’s Southbank Centre. 1983 Rose Cano (TH ’83) and eSe Teatro presented award-winning play wright Luis Alfaro’s poetic urban drama, Oedipus el Rey in conjuction with A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) in December 2012. December 2012 saw Cynthia Nawalinski (AR ’83) show some of her work in Infinite Possibilities: Science, Math, Book Arts at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Ore. 1981 Myra Melford (MU) was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 to work on the multi-media piece, Language of Dreams, which will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, Calif. on November 8 & 9, 2013. She will also be starting a 2-year residency at YBCA through the Doris Duke Artists Residencies to Build Demand for the Arts, where she will be working with them to reimagine their jazz programming and initiatives. Finally, Myra was honored by receiving the Doris Duke Artist Award.

Kris Iverson (MU ’78) and Ro Tamburri (MU ’79), along with Mary Jo Dugaw (MU), vocalist, performed during April 2013 in the Haller Lake Music Series. Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE), led by co-founders Joshua Kohl (MU ’96) and Haruko Nishimura (MU), won a Creative Capital Award and the International Music Theatre Now Award presented by the Germanybased International Theatre Institute. DAE has included numerous Cornish alumni collaborators over the years. Circus Loversick, a piece cowritten by Annalyn Lehnig (TH ’06) and Alma Schneider (TH ’07), explores the disorder and the downfalls, the majesty and the mayhem of love, through monologues delivered by Annalyn as she takes on the roles of The Juggler and The Tight Rope Walker, among others. Originally produced in San Diego, Calif., Annalyn and Alma brought Circus Lovesick to the Howlin Wolf Den in New Orleans, La. during March 2013. GUSFORD | los angeles is Kelsey Lee Offield’s (AR ’09) new contem porary art gallery committed to representing emerging and mid-career local and international artists. Founded in February 2013 GUSFORD now represents and exhibits a dynamic selection of artists including alumna Dorielle Caimi (AR ’10). Mikey Rioux (AR ’09), John Backstrom (AR ’10), Danielle Hammer (DA ’10), Ian Huddleston (MU ’12) and Kaitlin Webster (DA ’11) successfully raised the money for their new collaborative project. The Sho: Filthy / Mockingbird is a multimedia dance theater piece that explores the sense-making process and examines the underlying assumptions in the performance-making processes. The performance took place in October 2013 in Chicago, Ill. Maya Soto (DA ’03) presented her new work, Gathering Bones, in May 2013. It featured a 60-minute dance work with original music composition by Seattle composer Paurl Walsh (MU ’05), as well as an interactive gallery space where the audience is invited to step right into the creation of the work. Among the performers were Teresa Hanawalt (DA ’03), Amy Johnson (DA ’11) and Carla Negrete Martinez (DA ’11). In Sacramento, Calif., Capital Stage’s new adaptation of Stephanie Gularte’s Hedda Gabler featured two Cornish alumni, Michael Wiles (TH ’97) and Jessica Chisum (TH ’98), who played George Tesman and Thea Elvsted respectively.

FACULTY & STAFF NEWSWIRE Cornish’s biennial Design Faculty Exhibition featured work by Stephanie Bower, Susan Boye, Jeff Brice, Rossi Skortcheva Donesky, Ellen Forney, Julie Gaskill, BeAnne Hull, Jacob Kohn, Mark Kornblum, Tiffany Laine De Mott, Julie Myers, Robynne Raye, Jenny Sapora, Dan Shafer, Hal Tangen and Junichi Tsuneoka (DE ’02). Art Professor Robert Campbell was featured in Digital Art: A New Generation at The Gallery of the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts. Campbell also received a 2012 GAP Award from Artist Trust to fund the services of Seattle composer and Cornish faculty member Jarrad Powell for the musical soundtrack of his experimental documentary, Pulchrior in Luce. Professor Heather Dew Oaksen, art, received a 2012 GAP to support the creation of a cohesive distribution package for the film, Minor Differences, which focuses on the powerful firstperson narratives of five former juvenile offenders. The film premiered last fall at the Northwest African American Museum. Dawn Cerny, art, was all over the Seattle area this past year, beginning with The rug pulled out from underneath; you lie on the floor at the Hedreen Gallery in the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University. She had a piece in a new publication by La Norda Specialo that was published in honor of Jeffry Mitchell’s retrospective at Henry Art Gallery. She also had work at Soil Gallery and Greg Kucera Gallery and in Short Run at the Vera Project. Long time Cornish faculty member and current jazz history instructor Paul deBarros released a new book, Shall We Play That One Together?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland. Music staff member and coloratura soprano Rachel DeShon starred in Seattle Opera’s new opera for youth, Our Earth: Heron and the Salmon Girl. She also performed in holiday concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

1 Cover, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney.

Music Professor Emily Doolittle and Adjunct Professors Wayne Horvitz and Jessika Kenney received 2013 CityArtist funding from the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Seattle. Professor Ron Erickson was featured in the program for La Cenerentola at Seattle Opera, where he also serves as head of wardrobe. Design Faculty member and Stranger Genius Award-winner Ellen Forney published Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir to great reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Curve, Bust, O Magazine, Sherman Alexie and more. Marbles was also named been named “One of The Season’s Best Graphic Novels” by TIME Magazine. Performance Production professor Karen Gjesteen retired after more than 33 years at Cornish. Seattle Symphony Orchestra commissioned Music Professor Janice Giteck to create a new piece involving the participation of Native American tribal communities around the Puget Sound region. Art faculty member and gallery curator Cable Griffith had a solo show at The Kittredge titled Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-AStart. At the Frye, Griffith was one of a group of prominent area artists commissioned by Scott Lawrimore to create “art work in response to musical compositions based on James Joyce’s volume of poetry entitled Chamber Music.” Cornish faculty member and alum Gretta Harley lived another life in Seattle’s Grunge scene; it’s gone, but it flashed back in a brash new rock musical, These Streets, at ACT. The new work was created by Gretta and Sarah Rudinoff, in collaboration with Elizabeth Kenny.

2 Jacob Kohn, Golden Pond II, 2011, oil on canvas, 12 x 42 inches. Photo: Jacob Kohn.

3 Iyun Ashani Harrison and company. Photo: Joseph Lambert.

Ashani Dances, the company founded and headed by dance Professor Iyun Ashani Harrision, performed three original works: Artifact, Like Sand Between My Fingers, and After Snow in a June dance concert. Cornish faculty members Natalie Lerch and Peter Mack are soloists for the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2013–14 season. Julie Myers, design faculty, received the Educator of the Year Award in the 2012 Designer of Distinction award program from the Washington State chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. Cornish Curator of Visual Resources Bridget Nowlin and Seattle photographer Laurel Schultz presented Collection in Focus: Early Photographic Processes, an exploration of early photography in the Henry Art Gallery’s collection. Nowlin, who is also registrar for the Monsen Collection at the Henry, focused on the scientific and artistic innovation behind each process and some of the key photographers working during the period. Three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto, master pianist, composer and arranger, teamed up with versatile duo partner, flute virtuoso Paul Taub at SFJAZZ Center in August. Both are members of the music faculty. Cornish music faculty member Paige Stockley (cello) released a new album, August Ruins, composed by Peter Vukmirovic Stevens. Christine Sumption, humanities & sciences and theater faculty member, served as dramaturg for the world premiere of Cheryl L. West’s Pullman Porter Blues at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the annual Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival. The Festival also featured the work of actors Carol Roscoe and Terri Weagant, both members of the theater faculty.

4 Ron Erickson recognizes Performance Production professor Karen Gjelsteen, who retired after more than 33 years with Cornish. Photo: Winifred Westergard.

5 Gretta Harley. Photo: Charles Peterson.

Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Antony and Cleopatra featured theater faculty members Amy Thone and Terry Weagant. With her installation Lost Long: a landscape, Cornish art professor Ruth Marie Tomlinson created the memory we all should have of the wide landscapes of Montana. The exhibition was the culmination of her residency there which included learning about field recording and sound editing. As a result of the residency, Lost Long includes her first audio component. Wayne Rawley, Cornish graduate in Theater from 1992, received a Gregory Award for best new play for his script Live! From the Last Night of My Life. He had plenty of Cornish company; three of the other nominees in that category were grads or faculty. Also nominated were Richard Andriessen (TH ’10) for The Callers, Jessica Hatlo (TH ’08) for Stuck, and faculty member Stephanie Timm for Sweet Nothing. The winner for outstanding director, Desdemona Chiang, was the director of several Cornish productions. Chiang won for Jesus Hopped the A Train. Other Cornish nominations included Gabriel Baron (TH ’00), outstanding director, Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Greg Carter, Performance Production faculty and artistic director of Strawberry Theatre Workshop, outstanding production, Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Carol Roscoe, Theater faculty, outstanding actress, Dirty Story; Matthew Smucker, Performance Production faculty, outstanding scenic design, First Date; Carol Thompson (TH ’10), outstanding supporting actress, The Callers; Connor Toms, (TH ’01), outstanding actor, Red; and Richard E.T. White, Theater department chair, outstanding director, Red.

JONATHAN LINDSAY continued

IN MEMORIAM 2012/13 Please join us in recognizing these individuals who have

Lindsay says he was driving a tractor long before he

contributed to Cornish College of the Arts and our

could drive a car. After his schooling at venerable

community over the years.

Cranbrook, he formed a sensible plan to matriculate at the London School of Economics. This intention was

Clayton Corzatte was a former Cornish theater faculty member and renowned actor, whose decades on the stage included a Tony Award nomination and roles at the 5th Avenue, Seattle Repertory, Village, Intiman and ACT theaters, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Jane Ewing retired from Cornish after 10 years as vice-president of institutional advancement and a distinguished career in fundraising including positions with Wellspring Family Services, UW School of Public Health and The Little School. She served as president of the Northwest Development Directors Association (NDOA) and Bellevue Schools Foundation boards and received the 2012 NDOA profes sional achievement award. George Fiore was a former music faculty member at Cornish, University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University; Seattle Symphony associate conductor for choral activities and Seattle Opera chorus master; and directed the Northwest Boychoir and numerous churches. Dong Il Lee was a 2010 graduate of the Design Department's Interior Design program. He moved to the US from South Korea in 2002, completing high school in Pennsylvania. One of his projects in his junior year won a Northern Pacific regional student competition held by the International Interior Design Association.

1 Clayton Corzatte, King Lear. Photo: courtesy New City Theatre

3 George Fiore. Photo: credit TBD

2 Jane and JJ. Ewing. Photo: TeamPhotogenic

4 Dong Il Lee. Photo: courtesy Cornish College of the Arts.

derailed, however, by a fascination with America, a malady from which a surprising number of Brits suffer. Traveling about in the U.S., he fell into an education at a teacher-training school. Needing money for his education, he fell, in turn, into a work-study job in the school’s financial aid office. It was this latter work with the needs of students, rather than his training as a teacher, that has guided Lindsay’s career. Coming to Seattle, according to Lindsay, represents a homecoming of sorts for someone raised in the forest country of Kent: “It’s a return to a city that celebrates the outdoors.” He is looking forward to hiking in the area, as well as to an increasing involvement in a vibrant arts scene. –Maximilian Bocek

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Join us once again for Our Creative Society, our annual convening of artists, thought leaders and practitioners. This year, we explore the ways in which creativity rooted in artistry can bring new approaches to human health and wellbeing. From the health of our communities and public lives to the very personal issues we face, creative therapies and solutions can be found in the most unexpected places.

Friday, January 31, 2014 Opening Night Party & Performances

Saturday, February 1, 2014 Day of Ideas Please visit cornish.edu/creativesociety for emerging programming information and other event details. This event is open to the public.

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TELL US YOUR STORIES. SEND US YOUR PICTURES. Nellie Cornish opened the The Cornish School of Music on

Why? We want to share as many of your stories and images

November 14, 1914 and look how far we have come! We are

as possible. You’re one of the people who made all of this

looking forward to celebrating Cornish’s first 100 years—and

possible, whether you are an alumnus, a current or former

our next 100—beginning November 14, 2014 and run

faculty member, staff member or trustee, or simply a

ning through November 2015.

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