Senior Portfolio
A Collection of Work from 2018-2022
Lumi Concert Promotion
Print Design Branding Layout
Conceptualizing an immersive concert experience Lumi was Johnson & Wales University’s 5th annual concert, put together by Sports Entertainment & Event Management (SEEM) students. Coordinating with the class’s professor and a team of four marketing students, my two design teammates and I created the branding and marketing for the event. I was responsible for designing the logo, flyers, t-shirts, and acted as the Art Director and Client Communicator for the project.
Live Music Photography
Capturing the defining moments of a live show There’s nothing like a live show. The energy and sense of community is invigorating. Balancing all the most difficult circumstances a photographer can face including low light, flashing light, and continuous subject movement can be difficult and even frustrating, but being able to capture and immortalize moments that will never happen the exact same way again is something I am very lucky, and always thrilled, to do.
Photography
Planned Parenthood Annual Report
Print Design Typography Layout
Documenting the fight to protect womens’ rights - no matter what For nearly 50 years, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah has served the state as a trusted healthcare provider, educator, and advocate. With such a bold legacy and mission, it deserves to display its hard work the same way. I redesigned PPAU’s 2019 Fiscal Year Annual Report, utilizing Planned Parenthood’s bold colors and fonts to more effectively showcase its incredible work, and make it more digestible and visually interesting for readers.
The Anthem Society
Web Design Branding Layout
Tangible reminders of faith, community, and hope The Anthem Society started as a blog for another project. It was a personal outlet that celebrated finding faith, community, and hope in music. I wanted to expand that idea into an online store that would create and sell tangible representations and reminders of the hope that is found in music. The Anthem Society store sells t-shirts, posters, and accessories based on the music of popular Christian and Christian-adjacent artists so people can carry that hope and share it with those around them.
Creativity Article Spreads
Print Design Typography Layout
Designing a thinkpiece for two different audiences For this assignment, we were tasked with selecting an article and designing it in two completely different styles for two different publications. Some projects lend themselves to experimenting with something you have been wanting do for a while, which was the case for this project. I knew I wanted my first concept to include a funky collage with a limited color palette, which then paired well with a more traditional layout and typography. To contrast this, the second layout is much more organic with a handwritten font, bright colors, and organic shapes.
Finn’s Fighters
Web Design Layout
Spreading awareness & supporting families in medical crisis Finn’s Fighters is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading awareness of pediatric cancer and supporting families facing medical crises. Provided with the logo, I worked with the Creative Director of Design Principles to develop an art direction and design static mockups for the website to be passed on to our developers.
Mortality Photo Essay
Faith, awareness, and the inevitability of death Our very first assignment in Photography class was to simply take “the best photo possible.” For our final assignment eight weeks later, we were asked to find a theme within that first photo and create a photo essay based off of it. I chose to explore the theme of mortality through the lens of spirituality.
Photography
A Wild Note of Longing Exhibit
Print Design Exhibit Design Layout
Displaying a century of American art A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder & a Century of American Art was an exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford Massachusetts. The exhibition brought together Ryder’s most iconic paintings as well as a dozen pieces by well-known modernists who were inspired by Ryder. Working with the Creative Director, I designed signage for the exhibit including the painting labels, donor panel, movie excerpt panel, and artwork guide.
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KATHY & GURDON B. WATTLES
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ELIZABETH T. & MORRIS W. KELLOGG
JAYNE & RICHARD BURKHARDT
KATHERINE & FRANK MARTUCCI
VICTORIA & DAVID CROLL
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MARILYN & DAVID FERKINHOFF
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Patrons JEWELLE W. & NATHANIEL J. BICKFORD MARNIE ROSS CHARDON & MARC E. CHARDON
FURTHERMORE: A PROGRAM OF THE J.M. KAPLAN FUND VANESSA & JOHN GRALTON
CYNTHIA & DOUGLAS CROCKER II
PATRICIA A. JAYSON
DEBORAH & WILLIAM R. ELFERS
PATRICIA & JOHN M. KALISZ
Subscribers PAMELA DONNELLY & TIMOTHY MAHONEY
EDGENIE H. & DONALD S. RICE
BESS DAWSON HUGHES & JAMES HUGHES
TINA & PAUL SCHMID
FRANCES LEVIN
KAREN E. & BRUCE A. WILBURN
ANN & D. LLOYD MACDONALD
SUSAN & HARVEY WOLKOFF
ALICE RICE PERKINS & MARK C. PERKINS
GRACE & DAVID A. WYSS
Supporters MARY JEAN & R. WILLIAM BLASDALE RUSSELL BURKE
FAITH & AMBASSADOR RICHARD L. MORNINGSTAR
BETTY ANN & JACK CANNELL
BARBARA MOSS & TIMOTHY HAYDOCK
PAULA CORDEIRO & DAVID O'BRIEN
JUDITH W. & ROBERT L. ROSBE, JR.
J. BRIGGS GRINNELL
MARTHA MULLEN TARADASH & MELISSA J.
MARGARET B. HOWLAND ELIZABETH & THOMAS MCKAY
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Donors
A WILD NOTE OF LONGING
ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER
Stephanie Wuertz and Sarah Cowan
Paragraphs from the studio of a recluse 6:34 MINUTES | 2021
This short film features painter Bill Jensen (b. 1945) in his studio in Brooklyn. He describes the powerful impact Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917) has had on his practice and the relationship he sees between Ryder and the primordial elements of nature. The title is taken from Ryder’s only published statement, which was published in Broadway Magazine in 1905. This short film is an excerpt from an experimental documentary film Wuertz and Cowan are currently working on that will
Wolf Kahn (1927-2020)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Five Trees in Silhouette, 2018 and Black Tree, 2018
Flying Dutchman, completed by 1887
explore the legacy of Ryder as it relates to greater questions regarding memory, obsolescence, and decay, the answers to which determine our relationship to art and nature and how we comprehend, protect,
A WILD NOTE OF LONGING
ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER
Alex Katz (b. 1927)
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Black Brook 10, 1995
WHALINGMUSEUM.ORG/EXHIBITION/A-WILD-NOTE-OF-LONGING
and interfere with both.
Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Easel, c. late 19th or early 20th century
Enhance Your Experience With These Audio and Visual Tools
© Stephanie Wuertz and Sarah Cowan, 2021
Welcome to the Wattles Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Scan these QR codes using your mobile device to learn more about Albert Pinkham Ryder, his work, vision, and legacy, and the artworks included in A Wild Note of Longing.
Katherine Bradford
Four Masted Full Sail, 2013
Listen to Curators and Artists Talking About Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Legacy and Vision.
Linda Lynch (b. 1958)
Field View (Harvest), 1985
Co-curators of A Wild Note of Longing and contemporary artists featured in the exhibition, gathered on June 25, 2021 to talk about Ryder, his legacy and vision. Listen to audio clips from this event, “Facing the Dawn,” featuring remarks by co-curators Christina Connett Brophy, Ph.D., Elizabeth Broun, Ph.D., and William C. Agee, and artists Emily Auchincloss, Bill Jensen, and Nicholas Whitman.
Sanford Wurmfeld (b. 1942)
II - 12 + B/1 (RO - DK + BG DK), 2017
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Weir’s Orchard, 1885 – 1890
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Landscape, c. 1870
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Near Litchfield, Connecticut, 1876
Lois Dodd (b. 1927)
PHOTOGRAPHY OF THIS WORK IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Landscape – Woman and Child, c. 1875
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Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Ryder’s several small landscapes with a woman and
By the Tomb of the Prophet,
placing him clearly among the “new men” in American art. An early reviewer, William Brownell, noted the
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
A Country Girl, c. 1903
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child were prized for exploring feeling over form,
Night Fishing, 1993;
after 1882* OIL ON PANEL
vagueness of Ryder’s figures, but cautioned him against “correcting” them, saying in doing so “we
Ryder sampled several different genres and subjects
should fear for their poetic feeling, their engaging
early in his career, painting decorative furniture panels
Formerly attributed to Albert Pinkham Ryder
Nourmahal, by 1924 OIL ON WOOD
Ryder’s increasing preoccupation with romantic love is seen in his mid-career subjects and in his personal
Forgeries of Ryder’s paintings began appearing
life as well. This beguiling simple country girl looks
during his lifetime, and they proliferated dramatically
straight at the viewer with an inviting glance, her
after his death in 1917. Many people were complicit in
billowing skirt echoing the sway of the trees and
the deception.
revealing a glimpse of slip. Of the several simple young maidens in Ryder’s oeuvre — many, like Perrette and Little Maid of Acadie inhabiting the realm of literature — this feels most immediate, like a
when these “exotic” subjects captured the fancy of the
Ryder was shy with women, adopting an elaborate
it probably will some day, it will be found to belong
courtesy in his rare interactions with them. His mother
with his few masterpieces.” Twelve years later, when
Middle Eastern “old city,” but Ryder seems equally foreground. Once again, he features a white horse,
had worn Quaker dress; he was raised with three brothers and attended a boy’s school; there is no mention of a romantic attachment before he reached forty. So Ryder’s friends were surprised one day to
the favorite protagonist of his early paintings.
learn that he had found a young girl from the country
The size and format of this small work suggest it is
his apartment; the friends discretely spirited her off to
painted on a wooden cigar box lid, which Ryder frequently chose as a support.
wandering the streets and brought her home to live in the police, leaving Ryder bereft and “love sick.” His clumsiness in courtship was manifested in other ways as his loneliness grew more acute; the question of his
Loan courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum,
sexual orientation was never mentioned.
Acquired through the George I. Speer Bequest, 1968
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Three ways to access these tools:
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Landscape – Woman and Child, c. 1875
• Scan the QR codes on artwork description labels. • Scan the code to the left to begin reading labels, then scroll down the webpage as you follow the exhibit “path.” • Scan the QR codes throughout this guide to read about specific paintings.
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American 1847 – 1917)
The Lovers’ Boat, c. 1881
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Emily Auchincloss
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Ampersand, 2018 and Book, 2018 – Ongoing
A Country Girl, c. 1903
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by title in an 1880 exhibition catalogue but then lost. Sherman forecasted, “When the canvas reappears, as
art dealer F. Newlin Price published Ryder — a Study of Appreciation, a “newly discovered” self-portrait was the frontispiece; it showed the artist in his studio, and this painting on the wall, identified as the “lost” but now miraculously rediscovered Nourmahal. The trap was baited. Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Bryson Burroughs petitioned the Museum’s
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American 1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, by 1906 or 1907
With Sloping Mast and Dipping Prow, c. 1880 – 1885
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 – 1967)
Pastoral Study, 1897
The Lorelei, c. 1896 – 1917
Nature’s Mystic Spiral, 1916
Nourmahal, by 1924
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
The Shepherdess, early 1880s
Thomas Hart Benton (1889 – 1975)
Richard Pousette-Dart (1916 – 1992)
The Grazing Horse, mid-1870s
The Cliffs, 1921
Sombre Fusion, 1943
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Jackson Pollock (1912 – 1956)
Nathaniel Pousette-Dart (1886 – 1965)
Spring, about 1879
Pegasus Departing, by 1901
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Landscape with Sheep, c. 1870
Elbridge Kingsley (American, 1842 – 1918), after Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Untitled, published 1890
board to purchase this unusually large “lost masterpiece,” which they did. Numerous other museums and collectors also bought clever forgeries. In the 1930s and later, scholar Lloyd Goodrich
Loan courtesy of the Collection of the Maier Museum of
painstakingly sorted the originals from the
Art at Randolph College, founded as Randolph-Macon
innumerable forgeries, much aided by the new
Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
Waning Moon and Agitated Clouds, 2010;
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ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER
orientalist painting called Nourmahal, which was listed
“real-life” girl.
interested in the cluster of horses waiting in the
Pale Moon – Streaky Clouds – Pale Sky, 2010;
In 1920, the first biography of Ryder was published by
and leather screens, as well as a mirror frame. This is one of a handful of orientalist subjects he created
A minaret and a pyramid loom over the long wall of a
Moon With Halo and Clouds, 2015;
Frederic Fairchild Sherman, including mention of an
color, and their softness and tenderness, even to lose
art world, inspired by Delacroix, Gerome, and Tiffany.
Full Moon With Aura, 2017;
Up Road Night, 2012;
their fragmentariness would, one feels, be risky.” Loan courtesy of Karl and Leslie Gabosh
Read artwork labels at the size and pace you like and look closely at artworks online.
Cloud Formation, 2009;
diagnostic technique of x-radiography. Sherman had to disavow many of the “found” paintings he had authenticated, and it was revealed that at least two-thirds of the works in Price’s book were forgeries,
Formerly attributed to Albert Pinkham Ryder
including the frontispiece Self-Portrait and this elaborately concocted Nourmahal. The sheer extent to which the forgers went to deceive, including also a fake dealer’s stamp and letters of
T.P.’s Boat in Menemsha Pond, c. 1934
Untitled, c. 1952
authentication from Ryder’s art school “friends,” indicates the esteem in which Ryder’s art was held. Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1932 (32.67.2)
By the Tomb of the Prophet, after 1882
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 – 1946)
Pegasus
Clouds, 1927
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
An Oriental Camp, c. 1875
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
The Mosque in the Desert, 1883
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Dancing Dryads, by 1879
Lord Ullin’s Daughter, before 1907
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Gay Head, undated
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Jonah, c. 1885 – 1895
Dead Bird, 1890s
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)
Homeward Bound, c. 1893 – 1894
Marsden Hartley (1877 – 1943)
Gull, 1942-43
Ronald Bladen (1918 – 1988)
Two Yellow Arms, c. 1957 – 59
Bill Jensen
A Room of Ryders (Dedicated to Ronnie Bladen), 1986 – 88
Peter Shear
Let’s Find Out, 2020
Nicholas Whitman
Moonlit Spray on Rocks, 2016
Frankenstein
Print Design Typography Illustration Layout
A closer look into the heart of Frankenstein’s monster Frankenstein is a classic gothic novel, filled with significant themes, rich imagery, and extensive symbolism. What surprised me most about the original story was the monster and how different he is from how he’s portrayed in pop culture. In the story, he is eloquent, intelligent, and above all else, wants to be loved by his creator. The cover reflects the conflict between the monster and his creator throughout the story. The heart, which is hand-stitched to the cover, represents Dr. Frankenstein’s creation and it’s desire for connection and love. The mismatched, scrambled letters, which are hand-cut, represent the doctor’s descent into insanity as the story progresses.
Rosewood Manor
Web Design Branding Layout
Creating an elegant experience for a haunted mansion hotel Rosewood Manor is a fictitious haunted mansion hotel located in Newport, Rhode Island. The mansion hosts various events including weddings and concerts, and holds annual midnight ghost tours for those who wish to learn more about the history of the mansion and try to catch a glimpse of the supernatural. The website highlights complimentary services that appeal most to guests, including a bar and lounge, complimentary wifi, and complimentary chauffeur services which make local exploration more convenient.
Merch Designs
Designing your future favorite shirt In high school, I designed a line of merchandise for a class assignment. Thanks to the world of social media, one of the bands, Tenth Avenue North, saw my design and liked it so much that they asked to print it on t-shirts. Since then, I have been fortunate enough to create many more designs for them, and a handful of other artists based in Nashville, TN including We the Kingdom, Austin French, and RED.
Print Design
Fork & Forage
Print Design Branding
Creating a farm-to-table culinary experience Fork & Forage was an intimate pop-up chef table created in partnership with a team of Johnson & Wales culinary students. My two design team members and I created the branding and deliverables for their final pop-up event. I was responsible for creating the individual menus, which were printed on two pieces of paper and stitched together with a piece of thread, the large format menu, and acted as the Art Director and Client Communicator for the project. We ultimately delivered six individual menus, one large format menu, six comment cards, and eight table tents.
Mort Modern Pro Typebook
Print Design Typography Layout
Showcasing a modern interpretation of a mid-century typeface Mort Modern Pro is a serif typeface in 56 styles inspired by mid-century advertising lettering. The teal, yellow, pink, and orange colors are reminiscent of the mid-century era, while the stark black background gives the book a slick, modern look and feel. To show just how extensive the typeface is, I created a two page spread with blocks of color that feature a character of each weight and style, and a cover that showcases a variety of the typeface’s many glyphs in the same playful, eye-catching way.
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