BIOGRAPHIES STUDENTS
AYOMI AKINLAWON | P 28
JULIA BRITT | P 31-32
FOSTER DENNEY | P 35
Ayomi Akinlawon is a fourth-year international student in Auburn’s Architecture and Interior Architecture program. She came to the United States from her home town in Abuja, Nigeria to pursue a degree in architecture. She has been able to begin her Architecture degree while also aiming for a dual degree with Interior Architecture and a business minor. Along with her, two of her three siblings are currently able to attend Auburn, making the university a significant part of the family’s legacy. In her fourth-year urban design studio she was able to study the city of Mobile, Alabama with her colleges and generate a design scheme for public housing and retail in the downtown area. The design includes various programs including studio, one bedroom, two-bedrooms and threebedroom apartments, gym, parking, offices, lobby, lounges, restaurant and roof top gardens.
Britt is a photographer and studio art minor who’s worked in the field of photography for 5 years. She’s been awarded the Board of Trustees Scholarship and the Dean’s Club Annual Scholarship, and she is a member of Phi Kappa Phi. In 2014 she received two awards by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for her designs in the 31st Gold Circle Awards. She also was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition in 2014 for her work in “An Artistic Discovery.”
Foster Denney is an Auburn Native who studied Environmental Design at Auburn University. He was self-motivated individual and was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Year in Environmental Design for the 2016-2017 academic year. In his last semester at Auburn, he signed-up for a course titled ‘Serial Imagery.’ In that course, he explored the role of seraility in visual art and was inspired to be a creator.
JESSE AULTMAN Jesse Aultman is a senior in Media Studies with a minor in English. He’s written and directed films that have screened at Sidewalk, IndieMemphs, The Indie Horror Film Festival, and the Auburn Student Film Festival. Jesse is also a columnist for Opelika-Auburn News where he writes weekly movie reviews. STEVEN BAILEY Steven Bailey is a Pre-Business major moving into Industrial Design this summer. He is a accomplished blacksmith and loves to play piano. He enrolled in music science to better his understanding of what makes music work and how it affects our daily life. Steven hopes the knowledge he gained in this class can be implemented within product design through understanding the relationship between emotion and music and applying that understanding to products and consumer. PETE BAKER | P 29 Minimal composure with a few indecent exposures hang on a line. This is the closet thing that can be said for Pete Baker. Emotion explodes through a thrashing of line with complete confidence in Baker’s process with no attention to fear of the composition. The line… for Baker, is an act of existence from a purgatory of waiting, so that it can be birthed into the composition where a moment is immortalized in the mark of a humanistic creation. Emotion and life are essential to the process of Baker’s art because life and emotion is all that Baker is. AMY BRIGGS | P30 Amy Briggs is a ceramic artist, sculptor, and BFA candidate at Auburn University in Alabama. Briggs is both a student and practicing artist in Auburn. She has received several awards including the Deans Purchase Award, the DavisFrye Annual Award in Art, multiple merit awards, and has also participated in various group shows both locally and regionally. In addition, Briggs has completed a work-study scholarship at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina for ceramics.
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ANDREA BUCHMANN | P 33 Andrea Buchmann is a Swiss native who immigrated to the U.S in 1999. In 2016, she graduated summa cum laude from Southern Union State Community College with an Associate in Science degree. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in art with a minor in Psychology from Auburn University. As a mother of three and full-time floral designer at Auburn Flowers and Gifts, Buchmann’s diligence and commitment to furthering her education have led her to become a member of the Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society, as well as the Golden Key International Honor Society. In 2018 she was honored with the Joyce and Roger Lethander Merit Award for her woodcut Lost Potential featured in the 2018 Fine Arts Juried Student Exhibition at Auburn University’s Biggin Gallery. Buchmann sees art as a tool to educate, heal, and empower. Upon completion of her BA at Auburn University, she plans to attend graduate school to pursue a degree in Art Therapy/ Counseling. ANNA COOK All students involved with this project are minoring in German. Matt Weist is a Senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Anna Cook is a Senior majoring in Exercise Science. Natalie Hester is a Sophomore majoring in German and Media Studies. Jenna Osczenpinkski is a Senior majoring in International Business and Finance [graduated in May 2018]. On behalf of the group: In some way or another, the German language has captured our hearts and provides an exceptional and fun outlet for gaining a different and useful skill set in addition, if not complementary, to the skills we maintain through our various majors. From Exercise Science to Engineering to International Business and Media Studies, German allows us to express ourselves in ways that create confidence and useful experiences in our everyday lives. ZACK CUNNDEY | P 34 Cundey is pursuing a dual degree in Architecture and Interior Architecture at Auburn University. He is currently at Auburn University’s Rural Studio working to design and build a thesis project with a team in an underserved area in Hale County, Alabama. He also studied at Rural Studio his third year, as well as abroad in Rome, Italy. He is a member of the American Institute of Architecture Students and Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society. He will graduate Summa Cum Laude in May of 2018, after which he will start the construction of his project, and then plans to pursue a career in New York and become a licensed architect.
CONNOR DEALY | P 4 Connor Dealy is a Senior at Auburn University, a BFA performance major and dance minor, featured ensemble member in Mosaic Theatre Company. Trained in aerial silks, commedia del’arte, shaolin wish, tai qi, and stage combat. Grew up in Daphne Alabama. Plans to move to NYC after graduation. AVERY DOVE | P 36 Avery Dove is a graduating senior in Graphic Design originally from Fayette, Alabama. Her love for art and animation has been the driving force throughout her life. Her goal is to use art as a conduit to deliver meaningful messages to the world in an easily digestible format. ALEXANDER JEREL DROUILLARD | P 37 Alexander is a contemporary artist born in 1996 from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Alexander became interested in the arts at a early age, and was accepted into the Chattanooga school for the arts and sciences by the second grade, where he would graduate in 2014 inspired by Alexander’s tumultuous childhood, he has been compelled to create works that recreate imagery through implied motion paintings that seem like a faded memory that refuses to leave the soul. EILIS FINNEGAN| P 53 Finneganis a fourth-year architecture student from Chicago, recently participated in the new Scandinavia Study Abroad Program at Aarhus University in Denmark and was accepted into the Interior Architecture Program. This past semester, she was awarded first place for her research paper on ENVELOPS and received the book award for Seminars in History and Theory. Outside of studio, she has interned at Wilson Associates in Dallas, Texas working on luxury Chinese hotels for the past two years. OLIVIA FRENCH | P 38 Olivia is from an industrious and resourceful home in Roswell, Georgia. She was born into an environment that nourished her love for all things creative. A problem solver at heart and views no detail as too small. She’s partial to the eclectic, especially those prized thrift store finds, such as unique textiles, and old books. Olivia is eager to learn and always experimenting with something new like cooking an exotic recipe, building a new piece of furniture for her patio, or out in her garden picking fresh herbs or flowers. She thrives quite well in this age of repurposing and is drawn to unique materials and handcrafted art, that seemingly tell their own story. Olivia naturally weaves her personal qualities into design work. Her designs are thoughtful, complex yet simple, artful and genuine.
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