Student Biographies

BIOGRAPHIES STUDENTS

AYOMI AKINLAWON | P 28 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.

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. JULIA BRITT | P 31-32 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.”

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. FOSTER DENNEY | P 35 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.

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.

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.

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.

BIOGRAPHIES STUDENTS

ELIZABETH GLASSL | P 39 Elizabeth Glassl is Pre-Interior Design student in the College of Human Sciences, previously exhibited a senior portfolio in Atlanta Girls School’s Art Showcase at Westside Cultural Arts Center in 2017.

INJI HA | P 40 Inji is BFA student in the Auburn University Theatre Design program. What started off as her interest in musical grew into a passion for scenic art and design. Despite the language barrier, she transferred from Southern Union Community College to Auburn University in 1 year in order to achieve her dream of being a stage designer. In her first year at the Auburn University, she worked as a scenic artist of Auburn University Theatre productions, Chicago and Civil War Christmas, even though she’d never experienced about theatre before.

GRACE HARKIN | P 41 Grace is a Graphic Design student at Auburn University who has design work featured in publications such as Graphic Design USA and Creative Quarterly. Her work was recently recognized with a Book Award at the 2018 Spring Juried Student Show in the category Typographics I. She has had other work featured in the Juried Student Show in the categories of Intro to Design, Graphic Processes, and Kinetic Typography. Grace’s process includes strong development of concept and experimentation with illustrative elements.

AUBREY HARROLD | P 58 Aubrey is a fourth-year architecture student currently acting as Vice President of External Affairs for the Auburn chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students. In her third year, she began pursuing a secondary degree in Interior Architecture and chaired the 29th Annual Pumpkin Carve. She spent the past semester studying abroad in Scandinavia, and interned this summer at Stacy Norman Architects in Auburn, Alabama.

IMAN HASSANI | P 42 Iman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Auburn University. He has dedicated his doctoral research to investigating the link between obesity and colorectal cancer. Since beginning his graduate studies, Hassani has published three articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and has twice been awarded the Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer Graduate Fellowship. Furthermore, he has been accepted to present his research at numerous national conferences and most recently won the 1st place award at a university-wide poster competition.

PATTY HOLLEY Patty Holley is a senior at Auburn University pursuing the BM in vocal performance as well as the BME in music education. She has performed many roles with the opera workshop, including 68

Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Significant awards include 1st place at the Vann Vocal Institute and 1st place at Alabama NATS auditions in both the classical and music theater categories. She is the 2017-2018 winner of the Auburn University Concerto Competition. After graduation, Miss Holley intends to attend graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in vocal performance.

NAIRIKA HOUGH | P 43 Born in Columbus Ohio, Nairika Hough is a Pre- Graphic Design major studying at Auburn University. Design has always been a huge part of her life ever since she was a child. Studying in various design courses through the entirety of her educational career, and under the guidance of her mother, she has formed a major appreciation and understanding of the importance of design and its ability to change ones thinking and feelings. Nairika is honored to be part of the SHOWCASE team and designing this catalogue.

GARRETT JOHNSON | P 44 Garrett is a senior at Auburn University where he is pursuing a BFA in Studio Art, concentrating in photography and painting. After being introduced to film photography, Johnson quickly became fascinated with the technical aspects and the immediacy of the medium. He began noticing the similarities of drawing/ painting and photography like value, contrast, marks, and color saturation. Work exploring these connections led to a Mentor & Protégé exhibition with his drawing professor. Being the recipient of the Joanna Campbell Blake Memorial Scholarship and the Study Abroad Award, Johnson was able to study abroad in Rome, Italy for six weeks. This experience fully immersed him in a culture highly influenced by art, and this trip will continue to impact his artistic practice. Upon returning to Auburn, Johnson began working at Fieldwork Projects Gallery. At Fieldworks, he was responsible for installing multiple exhibitions, including one that featured his own work from Rome. While working at the gallery, Johnson was introduced to the director of Concourse South, a music and arts festival, and was commissioned to paint a mural for the event.

LISA MAGGI | P 45 Lisa is a current fourth-year student pursuing a dual Architecture and Interior Architecture degree in the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction. She has received numerous accolades over her tenure at Auburn University, including the Roger W. Rindt Memorial Scholarship, as well as the Spirit of Auburn Presidential Scholarship. Most recently, she placed first in the Oral Presentation category of the 2018 Auburn University Student Research Symposium. Professionally, she has worked in design firms in both Alabama and Colorado and has participated in the University of Arkansas’s Rome Center – a study abroad program in Rome, Italy. As part of her upcoming thesis studies, she has been selected to partake in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture’s Urban Studio in Birmingham next year. MALLORY MICHAEL | P 46 Mallory is a senior graphic design student with minors in marketing and international human study. Following graduation, Mallory plans to step into the professional design world. She is specifically interested in editorial design as well as branding.

DAWN MICHAELSON | P 47 Dawn Michaelson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Consumer & Design Sciences and is also a freelance functional apparel designer. Her functional apparel design research is focused mainly in sportswear and movement but also includes wearable technology, medical apparel, aesthetics and sustainable designs. Her designs have been featured in regional, national, and international shows. Sarah Gascon is a graduate student in the School of Kinesiology and an accomplished USA Women’s National Team athlete in the sports of team handball and baseball. Her main research focus includes enhancing performance through biomechanical analysis among athletes of all ages. As a worldclass athlete and an academic in the field she is in unique position to identify the physiological and biomechanical issues challenging todays female athletes.

HUGO MORRIS | P 48 Hugo Morris is a senior at Auburn University in the BFA program with a concentration in Painting. Hugo is originally from Canberra, Australia and has lived and travelled extensively around the world. Hugo found his way to Auburn on athletic scholarship for the university swim team, balancing long studio hours with the time and energy consuming commitment of his sport. Hugo has since finished his commitment with the athletic department and spend his new found time and energy pursuing contemporary art practices.

DEON NDUNA | P 49 Deon Nduna is a student studying Graphic Design at Auburn University. He has gallery representation in the Auburn Graphic Design Juried Student Show. There he was awarded multiple exhibits, with the Book award being presented to him for the “Osmosis” animation. ANNE NELSON | P 4 Anne is a junior at Auburn University majoring in nursing and minoring in dance. After being suffering from a spinal cord injury and paralysis in the summer of 2016, she continued her passion for dance and was Auburn’s first wheelchair dancer. She has now transformed Auburn University’s dance program, and become a beacon of inspiration for the others.

KATIE NOVAK | P 50 Novak, a native of Auburn, Alabama is studying at Auburn University where she is earning a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and a minor in Human Development and Family Studies. Upon the completion of her studies at Auburn, Novak intends to further her education by pursuing a master’s degree in Art Education with the aim of teaching art at the secondary school level.

BIOGRAPHIES STUDENTS

AFSOON PAJOUFAR (student guest artist) | P 51 Afsoon is a set designer for theatre, film and dance. She received her Bachelor in Painting, from Azad Art and Architecture University in Tehran, Iran. In 2015, she was invited by Auburn University Department of Theatre to design the production of The Glass Menagerie. Afsoon, currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts working on her MFA in Scene Design at Boston University. Boston area credits include Cabaret, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Ripe Frenzy, Pool(no water). Film credits include Ruined, Zoya, Remembering the Pentagons and Nar.

GRACE PARSONS Grace is a first year Pre-Science Education major, who hopes to obtain a degree in Science Education. She currently works as a learning assistant for Dr. Bowling for Principles of Biology. Grace enrolled in Music and Science because of her love of music from her prior experience in marching band and show choir in high school. She hopes to use music to connect science students in her future career.

LAKESHIA POWE

LaKeshia is a sophomore majoring in History and Law and Justice. Lakeshia hopes to enroll in law school upon graduation and have a career path in litigation. LaKeshia chose to enroll in a Music and Science course because she wanted to enhance her knowledge about the scientific study behind music and because of her background as a musician and vocalist.

ANNA ROGERS | P 52 Anna is a senior studying graphic design from Hunstville, Alabama. Her design interests include, but (definitely) aren’t limited to: print, publication, packaging, typography, and branding. She has recently been featured as one of Graphic Design USA’s Students-to-Watch 2018. When she is not in the studio, she enjoys thrift shopping, scouting out new restaurants, and listening to audiobooks. MORGAN SEARCY | P 54 Morgan is a Graphic Design student minoring in Information Technology, on track to graduate from Auburn University in May 2019. Morgan began to explore designing for social causes through becoming Student Coordinator with Professor Courtney Windham’s Women of Auburn Industrial Design + Graphic Design in Spring 2017. Morgan has interned with the National Education Association in Washington, D.C. and free-lanced with Let America Vote and Pettypiece & Co. In 2018, Morgan has been awarded Finalist of Space Multimedia Challenge with NASA MITS team, Graphis New Talent Merit Award, GDUSA American Package Design Award, and Best-in-Show in Auburn’s Spring Graphic Design Show, juried by Gail Anderson.

EMORY SHAW Emory Shaw is a senior majoring in English. Ariel Medley is a Nursing and Science major. Jake Martin is a Graphic Design major. Logan Randall and Mark Ohlman are both Engineering majors. We all came together as a team to work on this project.

ALAUNDRA SHEALEY | P 55 As an undergraduate in the apparel design program at Auburn University, Alaundra won Robin Ruth’s 2015 inaugural t-shirt design competition, landing her an internship with the company and, subsequently, proceeds from the sale of apparel printed with the winning design. In 2016, she was a finalist in Huntsville Museum of Art’s Fashion Face-off where her gown design was on exhibition for several months. Alaundra graduated summa cum laude in 2016 and has returned to pursue a Master’s degree in Consumer & Design Sciences.

RADHIKA SHENOY | P 56 Radhika is a nature enthusiast and aspiring landscape architect who is interested in designing and resilient urban landscapes. She aspires to design resilient urban spaces that dissolve the dichotomy of man and nature while revealing and celebrating ecological and cultural processes.

JONATHAN STOFFEL | P 57 Jonathan is currently a sophomore studying Light, Scenic, and Costume design at Auburn University. He has worked on many shows at Auburn including design work on A Walk in Her Shoes. CONNER TOMASELLO | P 58 Conner is a fourth-year architecture student and is heavily involved within the school as a member of the student ambassador program for CADC. He is coming off of a busy third year with the beginning of his interior architecture studies as well as a semester abroad at Auburn’s Rural Studio. Over the summer he was involved with his first internship at Foster Dale Architects in Chicago, IL.

PARTHA SAHA | P 53 PhD, chemical engineering. Under the guidance of Drs. Virginia Davis & W. Robert Ashurst. His doctoral research was focused on assembling water dispersions of cellulose nanocrystals into films for engineering applications. Cellulose nanocrystals are tiny high strength materials found in biomass such as plants and trees. Dr. Saha’s research resulted in significant advances in using these renewable materials for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and photonic films. One of his research images was selected for the Materials Research Society’s 2015 Science as Art Competition and another was featured on the May 2018 cover of the American Chemical Society Journal ACS Applied Nano Materials. Dr. Saha was also the recipient of two Auburn University Research Initiative for Cancer (AURIC) fellowship grants (2016-2018), and honorable mention in the 2017 Graduate Engineering Showcase, and selection an outstanding doctoral student award in 2018. PRESTON SMITH | P 58 Preston is a fourth-year architecture student pursuing a degree in both architecture and interior architecture. He is a recipient of Auburn’s Presidential scholarship as well as a member of the Honors College. He has had internships with Hoefer Wysocki Architects and KEM Studio; both in Kansas City, Missouri. JOSEPH WHEELER | P 59

Joseph is a 2018 Auburn graduate with a BFA degree and a concentration in painting. Through experimentation and pushing materials his primary interest has become the collaboration and potential of all mediums in order to create a more involved experience between art and the viewer.

SAVANNAH WITT | P 60

Savannah is from Charlotte, NC and is now entering her third year of industrial design. Her grandma was an artist and my grandpa was an architect so she really enjoys the mix between art and structure and loves odd forms art. (She once painted globes on fresh grapefruits simply because she was told not to do so.) As a product designer, she is interested in working in the outdoor industry or helping developing countries as a service designer. Right now she is just excited to see where design takes her. Huge fan of sunny days, gorgeous hikes, and colorful flowers. Her life goals include running a marathon and climbing Mount Everest. So here’s to a lifetime of adventure and good design.

BRETT YOUNG | P 61

Brett is a BFA candidate on the Dean’s list at Auburn University. A photographer and once practicing artist herself, her mother influenced Brett’s interest in art at a young age, leading to her own career success gathering awards including the Joyce and Roger Lethander Purchase Award, Student winner of the Montgomery Art Guild, ACES First Place Award, as well as others. Although Painting is her concentration, Brett also enjoys using other mediums, as she believes that it is important to be well rounded as an artist. Brett has also participated in various camps and organizations for children from varying backgrounds, as well as serving people with special needs. One of these camps includes Camp McDowell, which she attended as a camper growing up, and also where she came to eventually.