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The craft disciplines satisfy the human need to work with our hands, creating objects both beautiful and useful. Craft is a vibrant and diverse field – from jewelry to wood to fibers and much more – and today’s craft artists are bringing together the traditional and the innovative in exciting ways. These artists are exploring questions of materiality and making and, in the process, are redefining the discipline.

Some craft artists challenge and deconstruct the intrinsic, intimate relationship of jewelry to the body. Jewelry/Metals major Chi Yan Tse BFA ’12 (Crafts), for example, made earrings (see page 7) in the form of hypodermic needles, linking the mortification of the body through piercing to the healing – or narcotizing – of the body through injection.

Fiber artists are going beyond traditional textiles and wearable art, using conventional and unconventional materials in oftensurprising ways. Samantha Anderson BFA ’12 (Crafts), a senior Fibers student, wove clothing into wall coverings and had student collaborators wear – or be worn by – the walls, forcing us to ask questions about figure and ground, about clothing and structure (see page 8).

As these examples suggest, with the introduction of new technologies, materials and approaches, the boundaries of the craft disciplines have become increasingly fluid, as has their relationship to what has been defined traditionally as fine art. And as the speed of technological

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change increases, the possibilities for continued shifts, expansions and daring amalgamations seem almost limitless.

Craft holds an eminent and historic place at the University of the Arts, tracing its lineage back to the 1876 founding of one of the institution’s earliest predecessor schools – one of the nation’s first schools of art – the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. It counts among its luminaries Wharton Esherick, known as “the dean of American craftsmen,” modernist jewelry pioneer Olaf Skoogfors BFA ’53 (Metals) and Dan Dailey BFA ’69 (Glass), one of America’s premier glass artists.

In this issue of Edge magazine, we focus on craft, including pieces on the University’s new Glass major; a generous donation that will help to create a dedicated center for Glass Arts; an evolving relationship with Steneby, a craft school in Sweden; and a recent alumna who’s forging a path for herself by launching a gallery and studio space for her fellow craft artists.

I hope you enjoy this issue of Edge.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and suggestions.

Warm regards,

Sean T. Buffington President, The University of the Arts

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Re-Inventing the Core Creating a new core for College of Art, Media and Design

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WEAVING THE GLOBAL NETWORK

MAKING CONNECTIONS

LEGACY

Global exchanges expand UArts’ reach

Designing with people

made change through art

Celebrated Dance alumnus

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26 RETIRING DEAN LOOKS BACK Poetry and perspective from Peter Stambler

NEWS 26

Alumni notes 44

faculty/STAFF notes 38

in memoriam 58

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES 40

FROM THE ARCHIVES 60

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Sean T. Buffington President Paul F. Healy EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Vice President of University Communications

Carise Mitch Managing Editor

Mac Branscom DESIGNER

James Maurer PRODUCTION MANAGER

Dana Rodriguez CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Contributing Photographers Gabriela Barrantes ’13 Steve Belkowitz Jason Chen BFA ’08 Kristine Eng BFA ’12 Nicole Giusti BFA ’12 Dave Jackson Julie Lemberger Akiko Miyake Christy Pessagno Tara Robertson BFA ’12 Ken Yanoviak

Contributing Writers Laura Beitman-Hoover Cassandra Gardner Paul F. Healy Sara MacDonald Carise Mitch Dana Rodriguez Juliana Rossetti Kristen Scatton Joanna Sung Lauren Villanueva

CoVER IMAGE Samantha Schechter ’13 The Haunted Hallway, 2012 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Edge c/o University Communications, The University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102

Edge, Volume 1, Number 7 Edge is the magazine of the University of the Arts. Readers are encouraged to submit ideas for original articles about University students, faculty and alumni; advancements in arts and arts education; and visual, performing and media arts. The submission of artwork for reproduction is also encouraged. Please include contact information when submitting art.

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(foreground) Kristin Banks ’13 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts) in painting studios, Anderson Hall

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THE ALCHEMIST’S ART A New Era for Glass Arts at UArts

Like water, glass both flows and “freezes,” although the chemical process by which it changes from a molten liquid to a cold, hard solid is so different from the way water freezes that even today scientists don’t entirely understand it. In nature, it can be created by the flow of lava from volcanoes and lightning striking sand. It has been made and worked by humans since the Stone Age and can be as technologically advanced as an iPhone screen or the mirror in the Hubble Space Telescope. For nearly five centuries, its secrets were closely guarded on a Venetian island by a guild of artisans forbidden to leave the country.

“Working with glass is a kind of alchemy,” says Alexander Rosenberg, assistant professor of Crafts at the University of the Arts and new head of the University’s Glass program. “It is amazing as a sculptural medium. It has the ability to be transparent or opaque, colorless or vibrant. It can mimic the textures of stone or wood. There’s something about the medium that I think makes the transmission of ideas very accessible.”

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Glass has been an integral part of UArts’ Crafts department since Roland Jahn, a member of the Crafts faculty and a ceramicist, established the Glass program in the late 1960s. A student of Harvey Littleton, known as the father of the American studio glass movement, Jahn was one of the first glass instructors in higher education. Today, the Glass program is entering a new stage with the creation of the Borowsky Center for Glass Arts, a new director and the establishment of the Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts at the University of the Arts (see story on page 7).

Rosenberg, a glass artist with an undergraduate degree from RISD and a master’s degree in Visual Studies from MIT, is an evangelist for the excitement of glass. Students describe it as “getting hooked on glass,” he says.

“The physicality of the glass-working process can be deeply attractive,” he adds. “It tends to be loud, visually dazzling and hot.”

Chi Yan Tse BFA ’12 (Crafts) is representative of the students drawn to glass. A jewelry maker and Metals major, she took an elective class in Glass and became entranced by the medium. “I got into the torch,” she says, describing her fascination with flame-working in this remarkable medium. Glass-working allowed her to create her own gemstones of any color or as clear as water.

Tse says she was attracted to glass’s fragile quality and also its sense of danger. “Glass can cut you,” she points out. “Glass has these elements of both function and non-function,” adds Rosenberg. “It can be used for functional objects but then also has these material qualities that push against that.” (above) Jacqui Powell ’14 (Illustration) Melissa Rothman ’14 (Illustration)

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Glass is one of the younger crafts disciplines to be adopted by conceptual artists. “It really has only 50 years as a fine art medium,” says Rosenberg. “It gives you opportunities to work in a way that hasn’t been done before.”

Rosenberg’s own work encompasses both objects and installation, often creating videos and photographs that document the “performance” of creating work in glass. One of his pieces, “Drawing,” is a video of the animated line created when he used motion-tracking software to map the movement of hot glass at the end of a blowpipe he was using to create a piece of glasswork. “Glass has this performative element,” he says. “Contemporary glasswork often acknowledges this.”

For students who don’t want to be the traditional artist alone in the studio, glass has an additional benefit. “Glass is innately teamwork based,” says Rosenberg. “In the hot studio, you never work alone. You need more than one person.”

In general, he says, craft often has a strong community element. “The work is not necessarily collaborative, but the environment is.”

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“[glass-working] tends to be loud, visually dazzling and hot.”

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the development of the American Studio Glass movement. In 1962, the emergence of independent glass artists working outside of large factories was made possible by the artist Harvey Littleton and scientist Dominick Labino’s development of a small furnace and easy-to-melt glass. In 1963, Littleton taught the first glass-blowing class in an American college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where Roland Jahn was a student.

The history of glass as art is intertwined with the history of glass as an industrial process. From the 12th to the 16th centuries, the artisans of the island of Murano, Italy, closely guarded the secret to making and forming the glass used in both functional objects and the adornments of noblewomen and cathedrals. In the post-Industrial Revolution world, the artist and the craftsperson were separated to create a more streamlined mass-production process. A designer would create a design for an object that would be executed by a factory craftsperson trained through a rigorous apprenticeship to manage the hot, dangerous glassmaking process.

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Littleton and Labino’s innovations in the 1960s made these secretive processes available to artists who simply wanted to use glass as a medium, creating small-batch works in their own studios. Littleton traveled the country demonstrating the techniques, often at colleges and universities with existing ceramics studios that could provide the heat needed for glasswork.

“Many of the techniques we use today were available in 17th century Italy,” says Rosenberg. “It’s only very recently that we have come up with new things. But the technical information has only become widely available in the last 30 years.”

Today’s students have access to everything – and the ability to both design and execute in this challenging medium. “Our students are primarily interested in glass as yet another medium they can harness to creativity,” Rosenberg says.

With the cornerstone gift from the Borowskys, the Crafts faculty is beginning to envision the future of the UArts’ Glass program. They anticipate being able to provide more and better facilities and space, as well as more scholarships, visiting artists and artist-in-residency programs.

Rosenberg is thinking beyond physical space to new ways that the Glass program can partner with other programs at UArts, making use of its unique performative element and its status at an arts university that also encompasses the performing arts. “I can envision a collaboration using the hot shop as performance space, with dance, theater or music,” he says.

Borowsky GIFT ENDOWS CENTER FOR GLASS ARTS University Trustee Irvin J. Borowsky and his wife Laurie Wagman have made a generous cornerstone gift in support of the expansion of the University’s Glass Arts program. This major gift will establish the Irvin Borowsky Center for Glass Arts at the University of the Arts. It will also create the Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts, which will be given annually to a distinguished glass artist whose vision and skills are advancing contemporary glass art.

An innovator and leader in the publishing industry and a generous patron of the arts, Mr. Borowsky has been a member of the University’s Board of Trustees since 1981. His philanthropy in Philadelphia is legendary. Through the Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y, he has presented works of contemporary painters, sculptors and bookmakers whose vision enhances our world.

He is also the founder and chairman of the National Liberty Museum, which explores freedom, peace and conflict resolution, and celebrates the diverse heritage and tradition that gives the nation strength and purpose.

The list of Mr. Borowsky’s achievements is endless. He has written, edited and published 19 books relating to issues of interfaith research, dialogue and the history of liberty. He is the founder of the American Interfaith Institute and is a member of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. He has lectured worldwide on issues of diversity, faith and cooperation.

Mr. Borowsky and his wife have traveled to more than 61 countries and have acquired a well-respected personal contemporary art collection, which focuses on Marc Chagall paintings, bronzes by renowned 20th century artists and masters of studio glass art.

(opposite) Alexander Rosenberg in the hot studio

The University of the Arts is proud to dedicate its glass facility to Mr. Borowsky, who has served the University admirably for so many years. Indeed, the University – and especially its Glass Arts program – is humbled by his support and is honored to be counted among the beneficiaries of his generosity and goodwill.

(above) My Offer by Chi Yan Tse

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Braving hot furnaces and a physically demanding process, she discovered that glass was her real passion and soon lobbied for a Glass major within the Crafts program, which will launch in the fall of 2012. As codirector and shop technician of the Rocky Mount Center for the Arts at the Grainery in Rocky Mount, Va., she now shares her love of glass with her community as part of another bold effort: that of starting a business.

“We wanted to create something that would bring together a community of artists,” says Rogers. The endeavor began when her mother, watercolor and pastel artist Joan Rogers, now director of the center, noticed an abandoned local grain mill for sale. After a year and a half of renovations, the formerly broken-down building holds a gallery, a glassblowing studio (or “hot shop”), and studios where eight artists rent space and where classes are taught by local artists in an array of media, including ceramics, loom weaving and stained glass.

Rogers admits that launching an arts nonprofit in the current economy was a real risk.

“We’re just your middle class family,” she says. “It’s been a stretch.”

A challenge grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, matched by the town of Rocky Mount, paid for the center’s new electrical system. Support has also come in the form of “sweat equity” and encouragement from local residents and friends. More

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Carolyn Rogers BFA ’09 (Crafts) isn’t one to shy away from a challenge. Having arrived at UArts with a background in painting, she chose Crafts and the Jewelry major within it precisely because both fields were new to her, and also tried her hand at glassblowing.

TURNING UP THE HEAT CAROLYN ROGERS BFA ’09

than a year after the center opened in December of 2010, the future looks promising.

“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback, and if things continue to curve upwards the way they are, we really hope everything will pay off,” Rogers says.

She points to a number of mentors from her UArts days, in particular Crafts Professor Sharon Church and Adjunct Crafts Professor Judith Schaechter, who taught her not only to view crafts as an art form in its own right, but also to understand “the power behind making a piece of glass and then the statement of having that beautiful piece of sculpture or functional ware in your home, having beauty in your everyday life.”

It’s that tradition that Rogers aims to promote in her community. Her hot shop, named Hot

Taffy Glass, is open for public viewing so that visitors and school groups can watch her and three apprentices wield balls of molten glass on metal blowpipes to produce plates, vases, goblets, ornaments, chandeliers and art pieces. “It’s so elemental. It’s like Zeus and his thunderbolts,” Rogers says of the process.

The sometimes perilous process of working with glass might very well appeal to the same kind of risk-takers that also make successful entrepreneurs, seeing opportunity where others might only see danger. “It’s hot enough that it can burn straight through your hand; straight through your whole arm if you let it,” Rogers says of her medium. “And yet with the proper training, we can master this to make the finest goblets or the thickest, most visceral sculptures.”

Glassblower and Entrepreneur ROCKY MOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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Re-Inventing the Core IN THE College of Art, Media and Design > This is part of an ongoing series of stories on the University’s ambitious new academic plan and its implementation.

The University of the Arts’ College of Art, Media and Design (CAMD) introduces an innovative and exciting new Core Studies program in the fall semester of 2012, designed to support a wide range of student interests and paths to fulfill their education.

The successor to the University’s longstanding Foundation program, the new Core Studies program offers students the opportunity to create a more flexible, self-designed educational experience. Students will learn technical artmaking skills within a broader context – a studio practice in a more conceptual framework.

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“The focused student can begin to specialize early while also receiving a broad-based training,” says Kirk Pillow, UArts’ provost. “And the student who wants to explore and discover new things before choosing an area of focus will also be able to do so.” With the many options students will have in choosing among College Core courses, each will have a hand in devising his or her own arts-education base, with the help and guidance of expert advising.

“The program is divided into themes, into broad categories,” says Kristine Marx, assistant professor and chair of the committee that devised the new Core. “They are Image, Time, Object and Environment. Image focuses on 2-D work, Time on duration (sound, video, kinetics, etc.), Object on 3-D and Environment on context – art in the broader world.”

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In the first semester, students from the Art, Design and Film schools focus on studio art fundamentals common to all programs across the College. After that, they are able to choose from a wide range of courses.

“The idea is to help students gain an understanding of how things fit together, to begin to see the cohesiveness of all their education and that their learning experiences are not fragmentary,” says Marx. “It will be exciting to see how the significant flexibility students have in choosing courses opens them up to innovation and collaboration.”

According to Pillow, collaboration and cross-disciplinary exploration are critically important components of the Core Studies program.

“Students from any of the three CAMD Schools – Art, Design or Film – will be able to take courses from any of each school’s own Core offerings, reflecting the cross-disciplinary emphasis of the University’s academic plan. As students progress through the CAMD Core, it becomes increasingly flexible and allows students to chart their own paths under the guidance of their advisors.”

Marx, who will co-direct the new program, says that such “fluidity” creates room for exciting collaborations.

“You might have Writing for Film and Television, Graphic Design, and Crafts students all working together on a project, sharing different perspectives and learning from one another,” she says. “The synthesis could end up being a project that integrates components of all three schools.

“This creates a blurring of boundaries and a crossing of lines – it’s progressive, and it’s very exciting.”

“the significant flexibility students have in choosing courses opens them up to innovation and collaboration.”

‘Chronicle of Higher Education’ Highlights University’s Leadership in Re-Imagining Arts Education The University of the Arts was featured in the October 21, 2011, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the publication of record for the higher education community. The front-page story, “Art Schools Build New ‘Foundation’ Across Disciplines,” highlighted the University’s new vision of educating 21st century artists and designers.

Like many other art institutions across the country, UArts is rethinking its first-year curriculum in the College of Art, Media and Design (CAMD), a set of courses required by all new students in the College regardless of major. According to The Chronicle, this traditional approach to training aspiring artists has remained virtually unchanged for more than 50 years, with the exception of the addition of technology, a reality most schools have had no choice but to embrace.

The article points out that changes in the art world are driving the debate, with the biggest factor being that artists are less tied to their disciplines than they used to be. The students themselves are also fueling the need for change as they become more interested in working across disciplines and want to focus on their craft earlier in their college careers.

The University is reconceiving its curriculum in terms of themes rather than traditional disciplinary categories, says Christopher Sharrock, dean of CAMD. “Instead of saying, ‘Here’s printmaking and sculpture,’ we’re saying, ‘Let’s look at time and motion, or people and space,’” he told The Chronicle.

In her “Two-Dimensional Design” class, Assistant Professor Kristine Marx teaches her students such skills as the responsiveness of a pencil and the placement of points and lines in space, the principles of which will most certainly still be found in UArts’ new CAMD Core curriculum in fall 2012.

“The act of creating a work of art relies on principles that are shared across disciplines,” said Marx. “It doesn’t really change if the student is a photographer, illustrator or filmmaker.”

— Kristine Marx, Assistant Professor, Core Studies

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Actor/singer/dancer Ben Vereen, pictured here with Erin Fleming ’13 (Musical Theater) conducting a master class for Musical Theater students

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Three-Dimensional Thinker VINCENT ROSSI BFA ’98

Your mission: create a replica of a Thomas Jefferson statue without touching the original; enable long-term scientific study of a prehistoric whale fossil site in the Chilean desert; and imagine how researchers and the general public alike could use an online database to examine the 137 million pieces in a priceless museum collection.

This mission could appear in an adventure tale, maybe of a young Indiana Jones, dedicated to collecting precious data from other countries rather than stealing cultural treasures – or in the job description of Vincent Rossi BFA ’98 (Crafts).

As a 3D digitization coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution, Rossi is determining how 3D technology can best enhance the world’s largest museum and research complex.

“We call ourselves 3D evangelists,” says Rossi of himself and fellow coordinator Adam Metallo. In addition to scanning objects such as the Jefferson statue and a whale fossil site to capture their geometry in three dimensions, the two explain the exciting potential of 3D technology to internal and external audiences.

3D technology is already having an impact on Smithsonian researchers and visitors. Once Rossi and his colleague have scanned an object, they can use the data to create digital 3D models for onscreen study, as they did in the case of the whale fossil site, preserving the original positioning of the fossils for researchers before it was moved from its desert home to be reconstructed in China.

They also use the data to “print” a replica, which is how they reproduced a Jefferson statue on permanent display elsewhere, giving Smithsonian curators the visual they needed for an exhibit. Built by a 3D printing machine in thin layers of thermoplastic, the duplicate is the world’s “largest 3D printed museum-quality historical replica,” according to the Smithsonian.

Until recently, Rossi’s career focused on hands-on methods of creating models for museum exhibits, as well as props for film, television, opera and theater. Such work had its roots in his studies at UArts, where his interests progressed from metalsmithing, jewelry and furniture to sculpture, a subject he later studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Yet it was in the metal shop of UArts Crafts Professor Rod McCormick that he first experienced 3D technology.

“He was pretty cutting edge,” Rossi says of McCormick, who in the 1990s offered computer-aided design (CAD) programs for, in Rossi’s words, “virtually sculpting” jewelry onscreen.

Though the technology he uses now at the Smithsonian is for scanning rather than sculpting, it similarly places Rossi on the cutting edge. Originally hired to make exhibit models using traditional methods such as molding and casting, he and Metallo obtained a grant for a 3D scanner to aid their work. By experimenting and consulting other departments, they soon discovered broad uses for 3D and gained new digital job titles. “Now we’re developing a new department within the Smithsonian,” Rossi says.

Despite the striking results of 3D printing, Rossi believes it is the digital 3D models that may truly revolutionize the experiences of researchers and museum visitors.

He envisions an online database that would provide public access to models of items in the Smithsonian collection, allowing people to measure, spin and otherwise examine objects from home in ways that are not possible in person.

“The most exciting thing about 3D models, I think, is actually getting an object out there virtually, so people can manipulate it all around the world,” he says.

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weaving the global network

In her distinguished career as a jeweler and teacher, University of the Arts Crafts Professor Sharon Church has worked with many materials. But in a studio at the Steneby School in Dals Långed, Sweden, she watched as Eva Alfredson, the head of the fur and leather program, rolled out a sheet of beautiful shiny, supple material that Church had never seen before. It was cured salmon skin, a Scandinavian leather drawn from the bounty of the country’s northern rivers. “I’d never seen anything quite like it,” said Church.

Exposure to new materials, different ideas and techniques both traditional and cutting edge – these are just the beginning of the benefits of global travel and exchanges for today’s artists.

Church’s trip to Steneby and other Scandinavian design colleges was part of an ongoing initiative by the University of the Arts to expand the school’s international reach and deepen its global connections. “The world is so linked now,” she said.

Her own exploratory journey included visits to Finland’s Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki and Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Lahti, as well as Sweden’s Steneby, the University of Gothenburg and Konstfack in Stockholm.

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The University of the Arts is in the process of growing and strengthening its bonds with academic institutions around the world through faculty connections and student exchanges. Animation Assistant Professor Chris Magee has formed connections with EESI (École européenne supérieure de l’image) in Poitiers, France, and the long-standing connections formed by the School of Music’s Evan Solot and the Ira Brind School of Musical Theater’s Johnnie Hobbes, Jr. with the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (the school founded by Beatle Paul McCartney) led to a mutual student exchange.

(opposite) Sharon Church and Eva Alfredson at the Steneby School, Sweden (above and next page) Paper, Brass, Scissors

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Associate Provost Jim Savoie reels off a list of examples of the extensive international connections formed by faculty: “Carol Moore in the College of Art, Media and Design has formed strong connections in Siena, Italy, while the School of Music is working with an organization called ProJazz in Santiago, Chile. Camille Paglia is well established in Brazil, traveling frequently to Salvador de Bahia. Susan Viguers from the Book Arts/ Printmaking faculty traveled to Beijing last summer and James Makins of the Ceramics faculty lives a good part of the year outside Tokyo. Fibers faculty members Mi-Kyoung Lee and Warren Seelig took a group of students to South Korea, where their work was exhibited and they gave lectures at two major Korean universities.”

Church’s travels gave her insight into the state of crafts in the Scandinavian societies, where craft programs were likely to be combined with design programs oriented towards the marketplace. “For example, in Finland, art programs are encouraged to feed directly into GDP,” said Church.

“In Lahti, I saw students working on projects for American businesses. In some cases, art schools have actually joined with technical schools.”

State support for the arts in the Scandinavian societies meant that artists’ studios and facilities were intensely modern and clean.

“Their studios were spectacular. But being in Sweden and Finland where the state provides so much to its citizens, I had to think about the pros and cons of our more competitive life here in the United States. In some ways, a lack of competition might take the edge out of making art.”

The city of Philadelphia proved a draw for the young artists overseas. “They associate the city with jazz,” she said. “This has quite a strong appeal for young European artists.”

Church found that her travels abroad made her more appreciative of the American approach to the arts in the academy.

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“The U.S. is zanier and crazier,” she said.

“Schools in America are actually quite strong in supporting the pure arts. I think we are more linked to theory and to the larger ideas that drive creativity. The work I saw in Sweden and Finland was more directed to the marketplace. In hindsight, their work seemed an excellent complement to what we do here.”

As a result of Church’s visit, the University of the Arts was able to arrange a faculty exchange with Steneby, bringing noted furniture designer Franz James to Philadelphia.

Franz, who has designed products for IKEA and focuses on woodwork and design, taught a special workshop at UArts that drew together students from both Crafts and Industrial Design to create “human-centered but design-oriented” products in wood.

The differences in the structure of universities overseas, especially in the arts, can present significant barriers to the traditional semesterbased experience abroad for students and for

faculty exchanges. In order to offer alternatives to long-term study that can still expose students to the global environment, the University is developing short travel courses led by faculty that can run over the winter recess and at the end of the academic year in May. “These experiences are vitally important for faculty and students,” said Savoie. “It puts their work as an artist in a global context.”

“Students need to see themselves as global citizens,” added Church. “They need to see how they fit into the larger picture.”

At Steneby, Church met with faculty member Soren Hellquist, who teaches jewelry and metalwork. She created a project with him called “Paper, Brass, Silver,” which she brought back to her students. “Through our work, our friendship and our students, we are connected now,” she said. “Ultimately the making of a global network is an individual human endeavor.”

“Students need to see themselves as global citizens.”

— Sharon Church, Professor, Crafts (above) Swedish furniture designer Franz James

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AN ‘Ungovernable’ ARTIST Dave McKenzie BFA ’00

Jamaican-born Dave McKenzie BFA ’00 (Printmaking) never saw the need to limit himself to the book-making he specialized in at UArts. Although he majored in Printmaking, after graduation he followed his penchant for sculpture, video performance and installation art to success and recognition in the art world with a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, another at the P.S.1 National Studio Program in Lower Manhattan and a fellowship at the American Academy for artists in Berlin. He was awarded the William H. Johnson prize for outstanding early career African-American artists in 2005.

Yet his work “The Past Into the Future Infinitely,” featured this year in the cutting-edge New Museum Triennial show called “The Ungovernables,” brought the Brooklyn artist back to books or at least to reconsidering books as a physical structure, “(which is) a structure on the way out in some ways,” he says.

“On the whole, the work is really open ended, but there is this sense of a book, the things that make up a book, and all the things that could be placed into and onto a book,” says McKenzie, who was chosen for the exhibit from a diverse group of 34 artists and artist collectives born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. “I always want to understand things from as many vantage points as possible.”

A New York Times review described the outlook of the young, international artists featured in “The Ungovernables” as “…disobedient, mutinous enfants terribles.” McKenzie, who likes to explore identity, race and public space, usually with a sense of humor, doesn’t think of himself that way, but enjoyed how the work in the show could be considered from different angles.

During a recent teaching assignment at Northwestern University, he found a book in his office, a nondescript space shared by visiting faculty and containing a few leftover items. They included art supplies and the book 1999 Facts About Blacks: A Sourcebook of African-American Achievement, which he incorporated into “The Past Into the Future Infinitely.” “[The book] had nothing to do with me, but it’s difficult not to think about myself in it somehow. It’s not a very interesting book,” he said. “It was strange that I found it my office, as if a second character had placed it there.”

He feels fortunate his work has garnered so much attention. His notable performance art often features images of himself – in “While Supplies Last” (2003), he wore a giant paper-mache mask of himself and handed out tiny “Dave” dolls to passersby, while in “Self-Portrait Pinata” (2002), a “Dave” piñata is smashed enthusiastically. In 2004, he created a celebrated piece of performance art called “We Shall Overcome,” strolling 125th Street in Harlem in a suit and a giant mask in the likeness of former president Bill Clinton.

McKenzie advises today’s “digital natives” to make sure they see real works of art in museums and installations and not just online. “It’s something so trivial and trite, but it’s really important to see as much work in the flesh as possible, whether it’s film prints or visiting a museum. As much as you look at things online, there’s no substitute. When you see slides, many are of the same artworks. If you’re in a museum, you see the other paintings and can say, ‘This one is superior.’ You can make that decision for yourself.”

“The positivity or negativity of the term ‘ungovernable’ is dependent upon one’s vantage point and always open to shifting,” he said. “My work, too, is about these slippages and how the body is the primary tool for negotiating these slippages.”

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MAKING CONNECTIONS UARTS DesignS with People with Disabilities Flipping a light switch. Snapping a photo. Turning on a stove.

These everyday activities will never again be taken for granted by five recent University of the Arts grads: Christine Zapata BS ’11 (Industrial Design), Chia Ying Yu BS ’11 (Industrial Design), Ben Jewett BFA ’11 (Multimedia), Joe Cohen BFA ’12 (Multimedia) and Kevin Greenland BFA ’12 (Multimedia), who took part in a design research project organized by Industrial Design Chair Michael McAllister called “Arduino for Disabilities.” The project, funded by a grant from UArts’ Corzo Center for the Creative Economy, partnered the alums with five physically disabled Philadelphians to use open-source microcontrollers called “Arduinos” to create design solutions for daily living challenges.

Before this project, “I thought of technology as artistic expression and, you know, gadget envy, like having the newest iPhone,” said Jewett. “It makes for a very different perspective to see it being put to a place of need.”

The Arduino is a small single-board microprocessor designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. Its open-source design makes it a very flexible tool for artists, designers and hobbyists. The programming is very simple and free coding resources are available online.

The learning outcomes of the project encompassed far more than learning how to use the Arduino or producing diagrams. The class was developed through Liberty Resources, a local organization that empowers independent living for people with disabilities. To better understand the scope of the challenges their partners lived with, the UArts grads visited the homes of their project partners and learned about their lives, their passions, their physical environments and their neighborhoods. They learned about the consequences of unresponsive landlords and unhappy tenants. (above) Chia Ying Yu and Marsha Thrower collaborate (opposite, left) Kevin Greenland and Branden Franks (opposite, right) Sketch of floor-activated light switch by Kevin Greenland and Branden Franks

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Together the teams designed and tested solutions for daily living challenges that used the Arduino’s simple electronics. Several of the projects focused on creating remote controls for light switches, which are often mounted on walls beyond the reach of someone in a bed or in a wheelchair.

Friendships blossomed over the course of the project.

Greenland and his partner Branden Franks jokingly described their relationship as a “bromance,” labeling themselves “The Backwards Scientists” for their idiosyncratic approach to problem solving. They enthusiastically debated the idea of using Franks’ wheelchair to activate two sensor-powered floor switches, one in the doorway that would play a piece of music when he entered – Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” was suggested – the other controlling a light by the bed where he parks his chair.

Yu enjoyed customizing the work she did with her partner Marsha Thrower to reflect Thrower’s personal aesthetic. “When I visited (Marsha), I saw a lot of artwork,” says Yu. “She has an interest in textiles and makes jewelry and crochets – I made a cloth cover customized for her.” The final project – a series of small switches – was customized by Thrower and Yu to be aesthetically attractive as well as functional.

Cohen, Bencrowsky and McAllister worked together to design a wheelchair-mounted camera that could be operated by Bencrowsky’s left leg. “This would be a full-year project at MIT,” said McAllister. “But we are nutty enough to try it in four weeks.”

McAllister and Cohen worked with Bencrowsky to determine the height of the mount and to understand how Bencrowsky would interact with it and use it.

They tested their designs by driving a motorized wheelchair with the mounted camera through the streets of Center City Philadelphia. The final design included a personal touch – an acrylic shield laser cut with a phrase chosen by Bencrowsky that could also have been the rallying cry for the project: “Free Our People.”

You can see more photos of the “Arduino for Disabilities” project and the participants on their blog at arduinofordisabilities.wordpress.com.

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The project opened their minds to the idea of disabled individuals as a consumer group of their own. “Some of these projects could be salable,” said Jewett, who worked with Glenda Speller-Erby to create a clearly visible turn signal for her motorized wheelchair.

Perhaps the most complex design challenge went beyond assisting with everyday tasks to helping an artist achieve a dream. An avid photographer and videographer as well as an activist for the disabled, Michael Bencrowsky was planning to attend a rally for the disabled in Washington, D.C., and wanted to be able to create a documentary video of the event and take still photos. Bencrowsky’s right side is paralyzed by a stroke and his good left hand was needed to operate his wheelchair.

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Nourishing Creativity UArts Launches Campus-Wide Dining Services

Students at the University of the Arts have a new place to refuel and relax. With the introduction of the University’s new Dining Services program, the UArts campus now boasts buffet dining, a pizza and sandwich shop, and several grab-and-go locations serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night meals.

The centerpiece of the Dining Services program, which is operated through a partnership with food service management company Parkhurst, is the Terra Dining Hall, an all-youcare-to-eat buffet located in the former Italian Bistro on the ground floor of Terra Hall (211 South Broad Street). The 124-seat facility offers healthy menu options, including cooked-to-order specials, salads, comfort foods, and vegan and vegetarian entrees.

Mangia, a pizza and sandwich shop located in Hamilton Hall, and three “grab-and-go” locations in Hamilton Hall, Terra Hall and Anderson Hall, round out the program’s offerings.

“For some time, we had been hearing from parents of prospective students that they and their kids loved UArts, but felt they couldn’t choose us without a meal program,” said University President Sean T. Buffington. “At the same time, we knew from our current students that places to hang out informally on campus were in very short supply. We felt that a dining program with multiple venues could address both concerns.”

“Our students weren’t always eating the best, and that can have a negative impact on their ability to learn,” said Dr. Greg Nayor, dean of students. “When you’re spending six hours in studio classes or rehearsal, it can be hard to find time to prepare healthy, adequate meals.

Dining Services is important to our students’ academic success.”

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“With my major, I’m in Terra most of the time, so it’s nice to be able to run downstairs on a short break and be able to get a meal without having to go all the way home or to another building,” said Brad Ogden ’13 (Directing, Playwriting and Production). “It definitely fulfills the need for a place to get a nutritious meal on campus,” said Sarah Burns BFA ’12 (Illustration).

“I’m a very picky eater, but everything is usually fresh and there’s a good variety,” said freshman Jessica Pesce ’15 (Instrumental Performance). “Usually I’ll get made-to-order food, but sometimes I like the grab-and-go section because they have stuff that’s convenient to take to class.”

“I did the two-week summer program here, so I got the experience of living in the dorms with the kitchens,” said Shane Arnold ’15 (Instrumental Performance). “That was OK, but I’m happy with this. I like that I can see them cooking the food. I’ll probably move off campus next year, but I would still consider getting a meal plan.”

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Finding a company that could cater to the diverse dietary needs and desires of UArts’ students was the main goal of the students, faculty and staff involved in the vendor selection process. “We wanted a company that was going to be like the UArts’ population – eclectic and unique,” said Nayor.

“We have students who are strict vegans, who have food allergies, who love meat. Parkhurst was able to cater to all those different needs and tastes. Also, 90 percent of their food is made from scratch on the premises, and they use fresh, organic ingredients as much as possible.”

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Having a Dining Services program also helps the University keep pace in the competitive higher education world. “Most colleges and universities with a residential population have Dining Services, so we were behind most of our peer institutions in that we weren’t offering it,” said Nayor. Residential students are automatically enrolled in the 19-meal-perweek plan, while other meal plans are available on an optional basis for off-campus students.

The University will continue to refine the Dining Services program based on feedback from students. “Students have been offering feedback via the Facebook page, and we’ve learned a lot from that,” Buffington said. “The dining program is much improved since it launched in the fall. And we’re continuing to learn and to improve.”

One way Nayor hopes to grow the program is to make the dining hall more than just a place to grab a quick bite. “We now have a central place for students to interact, which we’ve never had before,” he said. “Having that space on campus also provides us with opportunities to hold programming and events that we couldn’t before. We’re looking at how to use the space to build a greater sense of community on campus.”

But for now, it’s enough knowing the 2,200 student artists at the University of the Arts are far from starving.

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“It’s one less thing for our students to worry about,” said Nayor. “They know when they’re hungry, they’re going to be able to get a healthy, satisfying meal, and that’s good for everyone.”

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“He was never afraid to try, and he was always encouraging others by his example. He left his footprints in your soul.”

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niles ford 1959-2012 | Celebrated Dancer and Choregrapher Dedicated His Life to Making Change Through Dance

It’s been over 25 years since Niles Ford BFA ’86 (Dance) – celebrated dancer, choreographer and founder of the Brooklyn-based Urban Dance Collective – was a student in UArts Dance Professor Andrew Pap’s ballet class. For Pap, the memories of Ford are as clear as if it were yesterday.

“When he was here, we had a group of very talented dancers, but he had a special place among them,” Pap said of Ford, who passed away in January at the age of 52. Ford’s New York Times obituary on January 17 described his remarkable presence: “With a long-boned body seemingly as pliant as warm taffy, Mr. Ford was a dancer of quiet intelligence, understated sweetness and intense focus.”

“He was capable of making such an impression – without even doing anything, he stood out,” said Pap. “The way he carried himself inspired respect, and he had dignity in the way he moved.”

“When he came in to audition, he blew us away,” said choreographer Merian Soto, who cast Ford in her 1992 piece “Historias,” for which he won a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie). “He had this spirit that energized every move.”

“I loved to partner with him – I could close my eyes and fly,” said Kim Y. Bears-Bailey, a classmate of Ford’s and current School of Dance faculty member. “And he had a smile that could light up any room.”

Although Ford’s style was rooted in modern and African dance, he worked hard to achieve proficiency in all forms while studying at UArts. That dedication and focus gave Ford a style of dance that was “very modern, very grounded, very spiritual and very athletic,” said Bears-Bailey. “He was so free-flowing and fearless and very strong.”

That strength was evident in many of his best-known pieces.

“Black and White and Blue,” his 1993 collaboration with James Adlesic, found the two dancers exploring race and gender issues through athletic and sometimes violent movement.

In “Historias,” which examined the dark side of Puerto Rican history, Ford portrayed various stereotypes of AfricanAmerican men.

“I asked him to expose his body, to be vulnerable,” Soto said. “It was very difficult and we fought, but he was willing to confront his fear. He was committed to achieving the vision we had.”

Ford’s final work, “Summer of Hate/15 Steps,” which premiered posthumously at Brooklyn’s FLICFest, the Irondale Center’s festival of feature-length independent choreography, focused on the race issues that emerged around President Barack Obama during the summer of 2010, and explored what role the media and the young, technology-oriented Facebook generation played in these conversations.

“He was a very moral person and he felt outrage about the injustices of culture,” said Soto, adding that as an AfricanAmerican, Ford experienced racism when traveling around the world and even within the dance community.

Bears-Bailey said that Ford’s UArts training had much to do with his confidence as a choreographer.

“I do believe the seed was planted then, and once he got his wings to fly, he soared,” she said. “The influence UArts gave him was to add a more diverse and versatile range of knowledge of movement style and vocabulary, and the freedom to explore his artistry.”

Besides using his skills to add to the dialogue about culture and race in today’s society, Ford also worked to educate people about the power of dance and inspire a new generation of dancers.

“He was a great spokesman for dance,” said Pap. “He was all about being involved and involving the community. He was in schools, community centers, nursing homes, everywhere – dancing and talking about dance.”

“Niles always wanted to make a difference in people’s lives through dance,” said Bears-Bailey, adding that a large part of his legacy is “his ability and dedication to make a change for good through dance. He was never afraid to try, and he was always encouraging others by his example. He left his footprints in your soul.”

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RETIRING LIBERAL ARTS DEAN LOOKS BACK Mention Dean of Liberal Arts Peter Stambler, and the first thing that comes to mind is the poem.

Each fall at the University’s opening meeting, Stambler – a poet, photographer and avid traveler – recites an original poem with a companion slideshow of photographs from his recent travels.

“Each fall I know that I can count on being amused by Peter’s witty performance,” Liberal Arts Professor Nancy Heller said.

“I seem always to be illustrated by a gargoyle or dour merchant-prince or ghastly children’s toy,” said University President Sean Buffington. “I dread it, but I will miss it too.”

Stambler’s poem will be absent from the 2012-2013 academic year opening meeting. He will be on sabbatical after stepping down as dean at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. He’ll return as a faculty member in 2013, after a year of traveling to Greece and Turkey to research a course and possible book on Greek mythology.

While his witty, whimsical poem may be the first thing colleagues will miss about Stambler, it is far from his most important contribution to the University of the Arts. Thanks to Stambler’s efforts during his 11 years as head of the Liberal Arts department, the University boasts a robust Liberal Arts program that forms an integral part of a UArts education.

“He completely revamped the Liberal Arts curriculum, developed and launched several wildly popular minors, and has designed the Creative Writing major that we hope will be implemented in 2013,” said Buffington. “Those are pretty remarkable achievements.”

“I was able, with the help of the college, to raise the profile of Liberal Arts so that the department merited a dean – before, Liberal Arts had never had anything but a director,” said Stambler. “Now, we are an equal part of this institution and everyone knows it.”

Stambler says that Liberal Arts are as important to a student artist’s education as their studio classes and rehearsals.

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“Art has a responsibility beyond the self-expression of the individual,” he said. “Self-expression is important to an artist, but my opinion is it damn well better be smart and informed as well, and to do that, you need to develop some solid understanding of thought and the human experience.”

Stambler is also noted for his history of taking on what some deem the most challenging task of all: reading the names of all graduating students at Commencement.

“Like most U.S. universities, ours boasts students from a broad range of countries, with many ethnic backgrounds and incredibly varied names,” said Heller. “It’s no mean feat to pronounce all those names correctly, yet every spring Peter does a marvelous job of formally recognizing all our soon-tobe alumni.”

That sense of loyalty and attention to detail extends to faculty as well, who concur that Stambler created an environment that was challenging yet supportive, with his own unique flair.

“Unofficially, [Peter’s] greatest accomplishment was giving the Liberal Arts division a new sense of identity,” said Liberal Arts Professor Jack DeWitt.

“What had been a contentious division learned to work together better and respect each other more.” “[Peter] always treats me with the utmost respect, listens to my ideas and encourages my studies,” said Liberal Arts Professor Christa DiMarco. “He rarely, however, overtly lets me know, ‘Hey, you’re just swell; great job!’ One day, he told a story that indirectly relates directly to me, as he often does. The gist was that as a parent, it is important that your kids not rely on your praise. They should not seek approval from others but find it within themselves so that they build confidence and follow their voice.

And so, in the most subtle of ways, Peter was guiding me, not to be a better employee per se, but to be a stronger person, something I suspect he did with all of us in one way or another.”

Stambler’s dedication to his students goes beyond decreeing that they learn about history and literature – it includes being an active presence in their education.

“At the end of each semester, the students in my Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop give a reading.

In seven years, I don’t believe Peter has missed a single event,” said Liberal Arts Professor Elise Juska.

“I am grateful for his support of the hard work of my students – who, more than once, at the end of a reading, have announced triumphantly: ‘I made Peter Stambler laugh.’ ”

Graduation Poem, 2009

by Peter Stambler Welcome to your Medieval Hour, Decked in gowns that warmed Erasmus’ icy bones, And mortarboards designed to shower To the floor when you stoop to fetch your new iPhones.

And sleeves full broad enough to hold your books, And tassels flicking to keep the flies away: A Medieval Hour when Erasmus hooks His arm in yours and takes you for his protégé.

For just this hour, you all look just the same, Your genius covered, your ambition slack, Your hopes on hold until hear your name Resounding through the zodiac.

Well, this is getting stuffy, don’t you think?

The trusted voice says, simply, “Yes, we can.”

You can, you will, you ought; you must not shrink From art or life or service. That’s the plan.

“Each fall I know that I can count on being amused by Peter’s witty performance.”

— Nancy Heller, Professor, Liberal Arts

The world is poor enough. Go, make it rich.

Do something festive, artful, bring us all to tears Once more, as you often do, when you bewitch Your elders who long to be your peers.

And please, do humor us, and do not feel bemused When, parents, friends, and we who’ve grown bold To say it, and will not be refused For saying, “Beneath those medieval gowns, “They’re gold, pure gold.”

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RECORD AMOUNT RAISED FOR SCHOLARSHIPS The fourth annual ArtUnleashed Exhibition and Sale was a great success, raising over $390,000 for the Sam S. McKeel Promising Young Artists Scholarship Fund, the most ever raised by the event.

More than 600 collectors, art enthusiasts, faculty, staff and alumni attended the gala Preview Party where artists mingled with collectors and supporters and were entertained by performances from students in the School of Music. Many others visited the exhibition and purchased artwork during the public sale.

Held April 11 – 14, ArtUnleashed offered a unique opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts at all levels to connect with the next generation of creators and visionaries. This year, revenues from sales were up 70 percent over the prior year and original works, from fine jewelry and crafts to paintings, drawings and prints, were sold.

For the first time, ArtUnleashed dedicated a single gallery to a special selection of work from two of UArts’ most noted alumni and true American originals: Arnold Roth BFA ’50 (Illustration) and Adam Wallacavage BFA ’95 (Photography).

Roth is one of America’s most celebrated illustrators and cartoonists. For more than 50 years, Roth’s zany and cheerful illustrations have been appearing in the pages of The New Yorker, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and Punch, as well as the covers of jazz CDs and books. Roth works in pen and ink with watercolor wash on watercolor paper, an aesthetic he attributes to his association with UArts.

Self-described “lowbrow-surrealist-skateboard-pop artist,” Wallacavage is an artisan and photographer renowned for creating intricate glass chandeliers shaped like octopuses. His South Philadelphia brownstone, a work of art in itself, was lovingly renovated and designed with each room as a showcase for themes from Jules Verne to taxidermy and has been featured in many magazines and photo shoots.

Sincere thanks to all the artists and to those who attended, purchased art or contributed to the event.

Special thanks go to honorary chair Anne F. Hamilton; co-chairs Shelli Alford, Deanna S. DeCherney BFA ’66 (Interior Design), Jill Felix Colton, Sherry Effron and Stacey Spector; presenting sponsors Harriet and Larry Weiss; and lead corporate sponsor Blick Art Materials.

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Headlines 134TH Commencement Award-winning author and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (Coraline) delivered the keynote address and received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts (HDFA) at the University of the Arts’ 134th Commencement, held May 17, 2012, at the Academy of Music on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts.

In his first-ever university commencement address, Gaiman urged young artists to be fearless. “Write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can,” he said. “The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”

The perfect spring day began with the joyous sounds of a New Orleans-style jazz band from the School of Music, which led the class of 2012 up Broad Street to the Academy, where UArts President Sean T. Buffington presided over the ceremonies.

President Buffington also paid tribute to the courage of the young artists. “What I have observed in you and learned from you,” he said, “is that you speak because you believe it is the responsibility of the artist to do so. You have made a choice to be an artist – and in choosing art, you have chosen to speak, to make meaning through creative action, no matter whether anyone’s paying attention or not, whether posterity takes notice or ignores you. By speaking, you contribute to the capacious treasure house of meaning that is nothing less than the guarantor and inheritance of our shared humanity. And that’s as important and grandiose as it sounds.”

The theme of the courage of the artist was echoed in the other commencement addresses. “The class of 2012 are the bravest people I know,” said former Marine Kevin Wright BFA ’12 (Writing for Film and Television) in his valedictory address. “Bravery is not always attributed to the artist,” he said, “but it should be.”

Wright, who did four years of duty before coming to UArts, earned a standing ovation with his speech. “Art tells us there is something in the world we can count on,” he said. “Like courage we didn’t know we had, it surfaces in a moment of crisis.”

Jeffrey Zarnoch BS ’84 (Architectural Design), delivering the greeting from the Alumni Council, told the more than 500 graduates, “Be brave, tell good stories, count on your friends.”

Longtime Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth was also presented with an HDFA. Christian “Patch” Patchell, professor of Illustration, presented the award, noting Auth’s more than 40 years at the Inquirer and his many awards, including the Thomas Nast Prize, the Herblock Prize, “and a little something called the Pulitzer Prize.”

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The Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Award went to two alumnae, Hilary Clark BFA ’98 (Modern Dance) and Alina Wheeler BFA ’70 (Illustration).

School of Dance Director Donna Faye Burchfield introduced Clark, a dancer and choreographer noted for her work in the downtown NYC dance scene. Burchfield said of Clark, “Her bold and fierce commitment to experimental and unknown territories within performance shakes loose the grasp of a history and allows for the necessary emergence of curiosity and openness.”

Wheeler, a graphic designer and brand identity expert, is the author of the seminal textbook Designing Brand Identity. Polly McKennaCress, chair of the Museum Studies program, presented Wheeler with her award, calling her “a dynamic interdisciplinary woman who illustrates first-hand how influential a degree in the arts can be.”

Three students received this year’s President’s Award, which recognizes students who have demonstrated academic and artistic excellence of the highest order. Emily Howe BFA ’12 (Industrial Design), Adriana Lopez-Villareal ’12 (Directing, Playwriting and Production) and AJ Luca BM ’11 (Instrumental Performance), MM ’12 (Jazz Studies) were all recognized with this award.

Academic Achievement Awards were given to the highest academically ranked student within each college. Caitlin Kelly BFA ’12 (Photography) represented the College of Art, Media and Design, while Victoria Lauren Zajac BFA ’12 (Vocal Performance) was the honoree for the College of Performing Arts.

Professors Michael Rossman (Foundation), Ronald Kerber (School of Music), Benjamin Olshin (Liberal Arts) and Barbara Proud (Photography) received distinguished teaching awards.

Gaiman’s speech, which he called “everything I know about going out and being an artist,” thrilled the audience with funny and heartfelt advice to the new graduates. “When things get tough, this is what you should do,” he said. “Make good art. I’m serious. Husband leaves you for a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art...probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best.

“And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Make the world more interesting for you being there. Make good art.” (opposite, clockwise) Neil Gaiman, Madelaine Novak BM ’12 (Vocal Performance) and Daishyana Antoinette BM ’12 (Vocal Performance), President Buffington, Alô Brasil, Adriana Lopez-Villareal, Kevin Wright, Peter Stambler

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Illustration Prof Is ‘Hunger Games’ Artist Illustration Professor Tim O’Brien, well-known for his portraits of such newsmakers as Osama bin Laden, Steve Jobs and the Pope, has been catapulted into the pop culture stratosphere with his illustration of the “mockingjay” brooch for the best-selling book series turned blockbuster film, The Hunger Games. The Brooklynbased artist’s work, which appears on the books’ covers and as the movie’s ubiquitous logo, was adapted by the film’s producers in order to keep a consistent visual reference to the popular series.

The mockingjay was animated to create a powerful ending visual for the film’s trailer. In a profile in The Philadelphia Inquirer, O’Brien said of the image, “I’ve done postage stamps, covers.

I’ve never had an illustration that was so universally recognized.”

Illustration Faculty Scoops Up Top AD Awards Alumnus and University of the Arts Lecturer Jonathan Bartlett BFA ’07 (Illustration) was named one of the 2011 Young Guns winners by the Art Directors Club of New York. ADC juror Nina Boesch said of his work, “Jonathan’s illustrations have a certain timelessness and depth that transport the viewer right into the spaces he creates. His sense for typography is as advanced as his color palettes, which turn his illustrations into a true viewing pleasure.” The Brooklyn-based freelance illustrator was also awarded a 2011 Silver Medal in Advertising from the Society of Illustrators.

‘Artist As A Filmmaker’ Film Series LAUNCHES The University of the Arts and the Philadelphia Film Society have launched “The Artist As A Filmmaker” series, a monthly film program highlighting world-renowned directors who transitioned their careers from visual artistry to filmmaking. The series, which celebrates the introduction of the University’s new School of Film, also serves to expand the annual Philadelphia Film Festival’s “Masters of Cinema” component, educating its audience on the collaboration of multiple art forms. “The Artist As A Filmmaker” debuted in April with the Jim Jarmusch-directed film “Stranger Than Paradise,” a benchmark in the progression of independent cinema. Other films screened include “Matinee” by “Gremlins” director Joe Dante BFA ’68 (Photography), Oscar-winning film “Beginners” by Mike Mills and the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Vertigo.”

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(above, top to bottom) Hunger Games illustration detail by Tim O’Brien Snake Skin Wing Tips by Jonathan Bartlett (opposite, top to bottom) UArts dancers at Arsenale della Danza Free2Fly app by Eduardo Calmon

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Dance Students Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale

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Four University of the Arts Dance students were selected to participate in the Arsenale della Danza dance workshop at La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Biennale), one of the world’s highest-profile celebrations of the arts. Tunai Jones BFA ’12 (Ballet), Richard Villaverde ’13 (Ballet), Arianna Henry ’13 (Ballet) and Miles Yeung (Modern Dance) ’14 follow three other UArts dancers who were chosen last year to be the first American students to attend the dance workshops led by renowned artistic director and choreographer Ismael Ivo. Jones, Villaverde, Henry and Yeung were among 30 young dancers from around the world selected through competitive international auditions and spent five months in Venice attending intensive workshops taught by global dance artists.

The Venice Biennale has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organizing international events in contemporary arts.

Arsenale della Danza is an intense combination of study and performance, a physical learning-by-doing process of research and exchange. Dancers spend six eight-hour days each week dancing and studying. In addition to working in the studio with top dance masters, the dancers take part in a final performance in Venice.

The students found the experience changed them as artists as well as individuals. “I have always taken class with a technical mindset,” said Henry, a native of Warwick, N.Y., “but while dancing in Venice and experiencing such different cultural influences throughout the many workshop processes, I am learning so much about my humanity as a dancer.”

Donna Faye Burchfield, director of the School of Dance at the University of the Arts, said, “It is a dream come true to have these four students go to Venice to continue to build on our relationship with Ismael Ivo and the Dance Biennale in Venice.”

‘Digital Suitcase Solution’ Is a Winning Design The 2011 Collab Student Design Competition, held in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, created its first ever “Collab Choice Award” for the Free2Fly app designed

by University of the Arts student Eduardo Calmon ’13 (Industrial Design). Students were challenged with designing an overnight bag inspired by groundbreaking architect and jetsetter Zaha Hadid, the recipient of the museum’s Design Excellence Award. Instead of a bag, Calmon created Free2Fly, which he calls a “digital suitcase solution.” The app suggests garments based on the weather forecast at a traveler’s destination and then transmits files to a knitting machine near the traveler’s hotel, which produces garments that are available on arrival. Juror and Metropolis magazine editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy was intrigued by the unconventional entry, telling The Philadelphia Inquirer, “It’s an interesting idea for a world that’s becoming dematerialized.”

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Student WORK HONORED BY Society of Illustrators The Society of Illustrators’ Student Scholarship Competition honored Samantha Schechter ’13 (Illustration) with a $4,000 scholarship and selected eight other University of the Arts student illustrators as finalists in its annual nationwide exhibition and competition. A detail from Schechter’s “The Haunted Hallway” is the cover image of this issue of Edge.

Work by Schechter and her fellow Illustration majors Elizabeth Bobzin BFA ’12, David Curtis ’13, Sophia Ellen Duda BFA ’12, Andy Hood BFA ’12, Holly Maguire BFA ’12, Kayla Miller ’13, John Thomas BFA ’12 and Gregory Wright ’13 was on display at the Museum of American Illustration in New York from May 9 to June 2. A jury of professional illustrators and art directors chose only 253 works out of over 8,000 entries submitted from nearly 90 colleges.

Ceramics Student Wins Windgate Fellowship The soaring gothic cathedral in Chartres, France, inspired the senior work of John Souter BFA ’12 (Crafts), but he did not imagine he’d be seeing the real thing so soon. In March, Souter learned that he was one of 10 students nationwide selected for a 2012 Windgate Fellowship, one of the largest gifts to Crafts majors in the country. The $15,000 grant will allow Souter to travel and study in France this summer as well as support his post-graduation work.

Funded by the Windgate Charitable Trust, the award recognizes graduating seniors who have excelled in the world of craft through their work in ceramics, book arts, fiber, glass, metals, mixed media, sculpture, textiles or wood. This year – one of the most competitive in the award’s history – 114 applicants competed for the 10 awards.

Souter will spend a month in France, visiting the cathedral and traveling and exploring the French ceramics industry and tradition. “I plan to do a lot of drawing,” he said. When he returns, he plans to continue working and making art in Philadelphia and is pursuing opportunities to work at Philadelphia’s Clay Studio as part of UArts’ work exchange. “I won’t actually be making ceramics while I am in France,” he said, “so by the time I get home, I will be itching to get back in the studio to make things.”

(above, top to bottom) Midnight in Dostoevsky by David Curtis Thanks, R&K by John Souter (opposite) Music students (left to right) Travis Hill, Sean Marks, Francis Carpino

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Alumnae Music Videos Go Viral UArts alumnae have gained national attention for two musical viral videos – one planned, one impromptu.

A video of four School of Music grads covering Adele’s “Rumour Has It” using kitchen utensils as instruments went viral, with more than 130,000 hits on YouTube. The video was also featured on AOL, HuffingtonPost.com, Philly.com, CASA.org and on the homepage of “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest’s website.

The alums – AJ Luca BM ’11 (Instrumental Performance), MM ’12 (Jazz Studies), Megan Wellman BM ’10 (Vocal Performance), Ariel Kerber BM ’10 (Vocal Performance) and Mary Anne Cleary BM ’09 (Vocal Performance) – are members of the a cappella group the Dolls, which they started in 2008 while at UArts.

Jessica Latshaw BFA ’03 (Modern Dance) is the star of a viral video that received over one million hits, where she performed her original song “Ain’t My Friend” on a New York subway car in an impromptu musical collaboration. She performed the song live on “Good Morning New York,” the Fox morning show.

She continues to record and perform in Newark, N.J., Wilmington, Del., and New York City.

Music Students Selected for Top Jazz Orchestra Instrumental Performance majors Francis Carpino BFA ’12, Travis Hill BFA ’12 and Sean Marks ’13 were selected for the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra, recognized as the premier orchestra for the East Coast’s finest college jazz musicians. With three students selected, the University of the Arts had the most students of any college chosen for this prestigious group.

“We are very proud of our outstanding young musicians,” said Marc Dicciani, director of the School of Music. “The University of the Arts continues to be recognized as one of the very best training grounds for top-flight jazz musicians in the country.”

Hill, a trombone player, Marks, a baritone saxophone player, and Carpino, a trumpeter, performed with the orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in January under the direction of renowned composer, arranger and performer Mike Tomaro.

UARTS WELCOMES NEW TRUSTEE The University of the Arts welcomes Alan Rubin to its Board of Trustees. A native of Philadelphia, Rubin began his professional career in administration and operations management in Los Angeles and New York. In 1980, he purchased his first company, a wholesale distributor based in Hamilton, N.J. After nearly 30 years of successful business endeavors, Rubin began to focus on his long-term interest in the arts. In addition to his studies in art history and acting, he studied at the Barnes Foundation under the late Violet DeMazia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State in General Arts and Sciences and a master’s degree in Health Care Administration from George Washington University.

Rubin recently served as the president of Philagrafika, a non-profit organization supporting the art of printmaking in Philadelphia, and continues to explore new opportunities to pursue his interests within the visual, performing and educational arts in Center City Philadelphia, where he resides.

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‘IMAGINEERING’ THE FUTURE DANIEL JOSEPH BS ’06 Like his hero Walt Disney, you might call Daniel Joseph BS ’06 (Industrial Design) an “American optimist.”

Joseph says he was attracted to the ride because he felt it said to the riders, “We need you to help us create the future.”

“I have always loved dreaming about the future and thinking there will always be something better coming,” says Joseph, a special effects designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. “This meshes so well with Disney and how it has told the story of the future for so many years.”

“It engaged and questioned the rider to do something bigger than go on an attraction at a theme park,” he says.

It took an optimist to pursue his dream job at “the Magic Kingdom” of the Walt Disney Company through many setbacks and challenges. If he had known everything it would take to land his dream job, says Joseph, he might never have gotten there.

When Joseph was 6 years old, he had his first glimpse of Disney World on a trip with his family. “I remember very specifically the Haunted Mansion, and the special effects were awe-inspiring,” says Joseph.

Joseph pursued Industrial Design at UArts with the idea that the major would lead him to the only place he had ever wanted to be – the Walt Disney Company. He never stopped working on haunted houses and special effects, spending three summers working at Eastern State Penitentiary’s famed haunted house, “Terror Behind the Walls,” while at UArts.

It was sheer optimism that led him to enter – and win – Disney’s annual ImagiNations Design Competition as a senior at UArts.

His winning design was a retrofit for a Disneyland attraction called “The People Mover” that had closed in the late 1990s. The original People Mover was part of the futuristic Tomorrowland and boasted the slogan “Ride Tomorrow’s Transportation Today.”

Prize money in hand, he headed for Los Angeles after graduation.

He worked for companies that contracted with Disney, and then landed an internship in the Research and Development department at Walt Disney Imagineering. The internship finally led to the achievement of his long-held dream – a job in the Special Effects and Illusions department.

Today Joseph is a Disney “Imagineer” and spends his days brainstorming and creating models of buildings and designing special effects and illusions for Disney’s theme parks. Thirteen of his designs have been patented for Disney. One of his patented designs – a floor system that simulates the feeling of walking on and in a natural environment, such as snow – was featured in a PC Magazine article called “The Best Inventions of 2011 – So Far.” Joseph calls the foundation he received at UArts both rigorous and wonderful. The weekly presentations he had to give in front of a crowd and under stress were worth their weight in gold.

“It was painful a lot of the time,” he said. “That’s something I use every day. In front of six, eight, 10 brilliant people – I speak with confidence about my craft.”

At UArts, he says, he learned “how to talk to people and convey ideas to people who aren’t in your own brain.”

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Photos by Photography Professor Alida Fish were featured in “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection,” an exhibition at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y. Aperture Foundation has simultaneously released a book.

“Connections,” a solo exhibit by Associate Professor Diane Pepe held recently at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, was reviewed in the December issue of Sculpture magazine.

Greenfield Library staffer Mike Sgier recently had one of his comics featured in the Philadelphia City Paper’s Comics Issue, which named his monster strip “best in show.” Sgier was also featured in a short Q&A on the City Paper’s blog.

A video by Core Studies Assistant Professor Kristine Marx was shown in November 2011 at a DVD release event for flute and percussion duo Due East at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y. Liberal Arts faculty member Anna Beresin presented “Painting Motion: A Multimedia Approach for the Recording of Urban Children’s Lore” at the joint meeting for the Society of Ethnomusicology and the Congress on Research in Dance in November 2011.

Artist and Illustration faculty member Earl B. Lewis was exhibited at Pennswood Art Gallery, located in Pennswood Village, a continuing care retirement community in Newtown, Pa. Lewis has illustrated more than 30 books for children, winning three consecutive Coretta Scott King Awards. His illustrations were chosen as a Notable Book for the Language Arts and most recently, he earned the Randolph Caldecott Honor for the book Coming on Home Soon.

“Mud Architect,” a short documentary about clay artist and Professor Emeritus William Daley produced by Electronic Media Professor Tom Porett, was screened as part of “5 Filmmakers, 5 Stories from Phila-

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delphia Stories 8,” presented by the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association’s (PIFVA) Cinema Speakeasy series.

Photography Professor Harris Fogel, recently named a Fulbright Specialists Roster Candidate in U.S. Studies, Fine Arts, had work in the Tom Knight Legacy exhibition at the Humboldt Arts Council in the Morris Graves Museum of Art in California. “Behind the Atom Curtain: Life and Death in the Nuclear Age,” an Atomic Photographers Guild exhibition organized and co-curated

by Fogel, was presented at the Foto Freo Photography Festival in Midland, Australia.

Liberal Arts faculty member Carla P. Weinberg, along with the University of Pennsylvania’s E. Ann Manner, translated and wrote the introduction and annotation of the “Ogdoas,” a 15th century Latin text by an Italian grammarian. The book, Education, Civil Virtue and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri, was published in December 2011.

In October 2011, Liberal Arts Professor Nancy Heller presented a paper about flamenco dancing in Pedro Almodovar’s 1995 film, “The Flower of My Secret,” at a joint international conference on dance in film in London. In December, she gave a seven-hour seminar in Washington, D.C., for the Smithsonian Associates titled “Understanding Contemporary Art.” Liberal Arts Professor Patricia Stewart explored the work of Russian “outsider artist” Nikolai Lyovochkin in the January 2012 issue of Art in America magazine. Novy Zhurnal (The New Review), the major Russian emigrant journal of literature and criticism, published a translation of an article by Stewart on Valera and Natasha Cherkashin, a husband-and-wife pair of Russian multimedia artists and their Global Underground, a visionary virtual subway system that will unite all of the world’s cites. The Cherkashins did a presentation of their work at UArts and created a Philadelphia “station.”

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Liberal Arts Professor Virginia Bower gave an opening lecture on the exhibition “On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce” at the University of Mississippi Museum.

University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies Camille Paglia reviewed the The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years written by Greil Marcus in the December 2, 2011, issue of The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

“The Battle of Carnival and Lent,” an epic work by stained glass artist and Adjunct Professor of Crafts Judith Schaechter, is part of an installation of 17 site-specific works for the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which also features work from UArts alum Tyler Held BFA ’11 (Sculpture) through November 30.

Schaechter’s work is also included in the following: “Fusion [A New Century of Glass]” at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; “Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennale” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; “Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012” at the Toledo Museum of Art; and “A Visual Conversation” at the River House Arts of Perrysburg, Ohio. Schaechter also gave the keynote address at the National Glass Centre in England’s International Symposium in Architectural Glass and will conduct a threeday workshop at New Frontiers in Stained Glass at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in July.

The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania presented the work of Mi-Kyoung Lee, associate professor of Crafts and head of Fibers at the University of the Arts, in a new exhibition titled “In Material: Fiber 2012. “In Material” was offered in conjunction with FiberPhiladelphia 2012.

“There’s A Place,” an exhibition at the Bucks County Community College’s Hicks Art Center featuring work by Fine Arts Lecturer Daniel Gerwin and Lecturer H. John Thompson MFA ’09 (Studio Art), was reviewed in the February 10, 2012, issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Crafts Professor and nationally renowned studio jeweler Sharon Church was one of the artists featured in the exhibit “Out on a Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry” showing at the Racine Art Museum.

“Earth Tones,” the new jazz CD from Music Professor and former College of Performing Arts Dean Rick Lawn’s Power of Ten big band, is gaining coast-to-coast radio play and moving up the jazz charts, peaking at No. 75 on the Jazzweek radio play list. It was featured on the “Jazz After Hours Playlist with Jim Wilke,” a Public Radio International syndicated show, and on J. Michael Harrison’s “The Bridge” on Philadelphia’s iconic jazz station, WRTI. Art and Design Education professors Rande Blank and Barbara Suplee were featured presenters at the National Art Education Association’s 2012 Convention.

Film Professor Peter Rose presented two programs at International House Philadelphia as part of its Directors in Focus series: “Tongue Ties,” a compilation of films, videos and performances on language, and “Sight Songs,” a suite of films and videos about landscape, light and vision.

Assistant Theater Professor Linda Henderson will be presenting a paper at the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Cyprus in July. The paper, “The Sister Art of Music in the Plays of Bertolt Brecht,” is based on her work with the internationally recognized Brecht scholar, Dr. Heinz-Uwe Haus.

Dr. Haus was the guest director of UArts’ recent production of Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechwan” for which Henderson was the music director.

“The Hawk,” a new work for choir and orchestra by UArts Music Professor and alum Evan Solot BM ’67 (Trumpet), MM ’75 (Music Performance), premiered at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City.

The work is a setting of a poem by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright, from his 2006 collection God’s Silence.

Longtime University of the Arts Liberal Arts Professor Toby Zinman was recognized by American Theatre magazine as “one of the nation’s most influential theater critics” for her work with The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia City Paper. She is also the regional reviewer for Variety, a regular contributor to BroadStreetReview.com, and has written for the London Times and The New York Times. She has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her third book, Edward Albee, was published by University of Michigan Press in the spring of 2008, and her newest book on Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons was published in June 2010.

(left, top to bottom) Work by: Mi-Kyoung Lee Judith Schaechter Mike Sgier (above, top to bottom) Work by Harris Fogel William Daley Peter Rose

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Opening Reception: Philadelphia Steven Alvarez BFA ’09 (Photography) is pictured (left) at the opening reception for “Confidence is Not a Four-Letter Word” on January 27. The exhibition at Philadelphia’s Paradigm Gallery and Studio, founded by Jason Chen BFA ’08 (Animation) and Sara McCorriston BFA ’09 (Theater Design and Technology), featured the works of 18 UArts alumni.

California Connections As part of its continuing outreach to alumni who now live outside of the Philadelphia area, the UArts Alumni Association spent a week in California in February 2012. The trip began in San Francisco and worked its way down to Southern California, including stops in Los Angeles, Orange County, Pasadena and San Diego. Though a series of events, alumni were able to catch up with classmates, make new connections and learn about the latest news from UArts.

In addition, parents of current students joined UArts graduates at several events, so that they could have the opportunity to hear from alumni about their UArts experience and career paths since graduation. Would you like to help the Alumni Association plan events and programs in your region? Contact the Alumni Office at alumni@uarts.edu to get involved!

(right, top) Charlotte Marsh BS ’72 (Industrial Design) and Doshanna Bell BFA ’08 (Theater) enjoy dinner in Laguna Beach on February 23 Mary Dembo BFA ’85 (Graphic Design) [back row, fourth from left] hosted a brunch for alumni and parents at her home in Pacific Palisades on February 26

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Visit the events calendar at uarts.edu/alumni for upcoming alumni events nationwide.

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

Concert Performance: Philadelphia Faculty and students at the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts shared the stage in a concert performance of “Big River” in February. Alumni had a chance to meet the cast members, including Tony Award nominee and Brind School faculty member Forrest McClendon, faculty member Chuck Conwell and alumnus Ben Dibble BFA ’00 (Musical Theater) [pictured top right] at a dessert reception on February 24.

Senior Showcase Reception: New York City Graduating students from the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts traveled to New York City for their Senior Showcase and had the opportunity to meet and mingle with alumni at a reception on March 5. Pictured [right, second from top] are Megan Seaman BFA ’12 (Musical Theater), Nicole Kinzel BFA ’12 (Musical Theater), Mara Jill Herman BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) and Claudia Newland BFA ’12 (Musical Theater).

Alumni Gallery Opens Alumni and Parent Relations recently renovated its office to include gallery space that celebrates the accomplishments of our alumni.

The gallery, which lets students, staff, faculty and fellow alumni who visit the office appreciate the work of UArts graduates, will be curated by a UArts student on a quarterly basis around a theme of his or her choosing.

The first installation took place in fall 2011 and was curated by Paul Winter BFA ’12 (Painting/Drawing) [pictured right, third from top].

Winter titled the exhibition “The Subject of Space” and chose works that spoke about or raised questions about the ideas of intimate space, interior and exterior spaces, our relationships to space, and how space changes over time.

Calls for work will be announced via e-mail and on the alumni website. Alumni of all years, degrees and programs are invited to submit their work. For questions about the gallery, please contact alumni@uarts.edu.

(opposite, bottom) Back row, from left: Katie Adams (Advancement Office); Nectar Redman, mother of Rebecca Redman BFA ’15 (Musical Theater); Mary Dembo BFA ’85 (Graphic Design); Emily Hopkins BFA’08 (Musical Theater); Howard Goldberg BFA ’71 (Photography); Lauren Villanueva (Alumni and Parent Relations); Doshanna Bell BFA ’08 (Theater); Seated, front row, from left: Kathryn Lee BM ’74 (Viola); Jacqueline Kahn-Trauberman BS ’75 (Environmental Design); Jacky Gunter, father of Stephen Gunter BM ’13 (Music Composition); Sean T. Buffington (President); Nima Dabestani BFA ’04 (Theater); John Filizzola BFA ’04 (Theater); and Susan Templeton BFA ’78 (Graphic Design) and her daughter

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Caitria Gunter BFA ’12 (Crafts: Fibers) Gathering

SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT

Established in 2003, the Virginia G. and Harvey Kimmel Scholarships in Crafts at the University of the Arts is an annual scholarship that supports five senior students majoring in Crafts, with each of the five awards going to one student in each of the craft disciplines: Ceramics, Fibers, Glass, Metals/Jewelry and Wood.

“It is an amazing opportunity and I feel very lucky to be chosen,” said Paige Fetchen BFA ’12 (Fibers), one of this year’s awardees. The other Crafts students awarded a 2012 Kimmel Scholarship are Karen Krogh BFA ’12 (Wood), John Souter BFA ’12 (Ceramics), Chi Yan Tse BFA ’12 (Jewelry) and Brittany Walker BFA ’12 (Metals).

This is the kind of spark that Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel ignite in the young artists of the city of Philadelphia.

The Virginia G. and Harvey Kimmel Scholarships in Crafts (above) Mrs. Kimmel, Paige Fetchen, Brittany Walker, Chi Yan Tse, Mr. Kimmel

ValuesCreativityVisionPlanning UArts Legacy Society

There are many creative ways to support UArts and future generations of art students. If you’ve included UArts in your estate plan, please let us know.

When you inform us that you have included UArts in your will, you automatically become a member of our Legacy Society. If you’re considering including UArts in your estate plan, but haven’t done so already, feel free to call Mira Zergani at 215-717-6050 in the Office of Advancement or speak with your planning advisor.

“We are extremely committed to the Crafts program at the University of the Arts and the school’s mission,” said Harvey Kimmel. “It is such an amazingly creative field. We feel that it is important to support students so passionate and dedicated to their work.”

The Kimmels moved to Philadelphia 12 years ago.

Virginia’s lifetime interest in arts, crafts and jewelry led to their immediate engagement in the city’s arts and culture community. After meeting University of the Arts Crafts Professor Sharon Church, Harvey and Virginia began supporting the University. Virginia has served on the boards of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Arden Theater for a number of years.

Avid supporters of the arts, Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel give generously to arts and cultural programs throughout the city every year. Through the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, the Kimmels support organizations such as the Wilma Theater, the Arden Theater, the Arts in Schools Collaborative and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

Harvey Kimmel is one of the founders of the Arts in Schools Collaborative, whose mission is to bring the arts to inner-city schools. Its primary program is “Dancing Classrooms Philly,” a licensed ballroom dancing program for Philadelphia schoolchildren. In addition, Harvey and Virginia are the founding members of the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Producer’s Circle, helping the city’s promising young scribes of varying backgrounds to focus on literacy, creativity, academic skills and self-empowerment. They have also endowed programs for students at the Wilma Theater and at Pennsylvania State University.

With the Kimmels’ generous support, the University’s Crafts program continues to flourish. The Virginia G. and Harvey Kimmel Scholarships have had a huge impact on the University’s ability to attract and retain promising Crafts students.

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Jim Ferrantello BFA ’51 (Advertising Design) and Chris Ferrantello ’79 (Illustration) are a dynamic father and son team. They regularly work together on projects. Jim worked for WCAU-TV (local Philadelphia NBC affiliate) after graduation and built sets. He also worked on the U.S. space program, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and promotional pieces for the moon landing for Philco and the U.S. government. Chris has had work accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, worked with the Sony Corporation and exhibited work at the Woodmere Art Museum.

Ed Letven CERT ’54 (Advertising Design) held a workshop at Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, Pa., called “Discover ‘The Endgame’ in Watercolor Painting.”

Idaherma Williams BFA ’54 (Illustration) had a solo exhibition, “Idaherma: A Discovery of Woodblocks in Color,” at the Villanova University Art Gallery in January and February 2012. An article in The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed her as “an experienced front-runner among printmakers today.”

Suzanne Horvitz BFA ’59 (Art Education), MA ’72 (Art Education) is currently working for the U.S. State Department as a cultural advisor to the embassy in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Burma, Syria, Ecuador and Argentina, enriching the areas with her fine arts talents. She also holds her doctorate in teaching from Columbia University and worked as the executive director of NEXUS, a Philadelphia art gallery, for 20 years.

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Jerry Pinkney DIPL ’60 (Advertising Design) had his exhibit “Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney” curated by the Norman Rockwell Museum at the Flint Institute of Arts through April 2012. The exhibit will then travel to Detroit, Yonkers, Dallas, Philadelphia and Atlanta through 2014. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame and participated in a lecture at the Society titled “An Evening of Children’s Book Icons.”

Gail M. Brown BFA ’65 (Fine Arts) curated “The Art of Seduction: Exquisitely Crafted Temptations,” an exhibition featuring unique, contemporary, handmade objects that offer enticements – tactilely in seductive material palettes and processes; emotionally by the attraction of their forms and frames of reference; and intellectually by the power and context of their potent ideas. The exhibit featured work in multiple mediums from 39 artists and ran at Howard Community College’s Rouse Gallery in Columbia, Md., January through March 2012.

Ellen Chuse BFA ’67 (Sculpture) returned to Rome 40 years after spending a year in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship in Sculpture. She used the time to reconnect to the “unique light, shapes and colors” that she encountered. These paintings were displayed at a solo show at the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., through January 2012.

Evan Solot BM ’67 (Trumpet), MM ’75 (Composition) performed at the First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art in Philadelphia, premiering “Peace Is a Haiku Song,” an a cappella choir piece with text by poet/activist Sonia Sanchez. Singers from around the city gathered to perform, with a new mural also created in her honor.

Victoria Pendragon BFA ’68 (Fabric Design) authored Sleep Magic, Surrender to Success, published by Ozark Mountain Publishing in February 2012.

Ivan Barnett BFA ’69 (Illustration) is the owner of Patina Gallery in New Mexico. Patina Gallery was featured in the Gallery Profile of the December 2011 issue of Art Jewelry Forum.

Sanderson Caesar BFA ’69 (Industrial Design) and Elizabeth H. Caesar BFA ’71 (Environmental Design) own and operate playground safety and design company, Playcare, Inc. More info at playcare-inc.com.

Dan Dailey BFA ’69 (Glass) has a solo exhibition “Dan Dailey: Working Method” at Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Mass., through September 2012. Visitors will see 33 works Dailey created over 40 years since he studied with famous glass artist Dale Chihuly. Dailey, who founded and teaches in the glass program at Massachusetts College of Art, has been a designer for Cristallerie Daum, France, as well as Fenton Art Glass and Steuben Glass.

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Alan Magee BFA ’69 (Illustration) had an exhibition titled “Underground Rivers” at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland.

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C. Bangs BFA ’70 (Painting) and Greg Matloff have written a book, Biosphere Extension: Solar System Resources for the Earth. They also created a video that goes along with the book that is available online. The book was also accepted into the Brooklyn Museum’s artists’ book collection.

C. Wynn Medinger BFA ’72 (Graphic Design) served for 25 years as CEO of Brandlogic, an international branding firm. Wynn has now moved on to creating a new magazine devoted to celebrating the equestrian lifestyle (equestrianquarterly.com ) as well as a website that brings together America’s premier equestrian properties.

Karen Sandler BFA ’72 (Fibers) is the facility coordinator and administrative assistant at Beth Sholom Congregation, a synagogue designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Elkins Park, Pa. She is also a parttime office manager for Tri State Wellness Center in Abington, Pa., which specializes in massage and bodywork therapy and FAR infrared sauna therapy.

(opposite, left) Idaherma Williams’ Orchids (opposite, top right) Jerry Pinkney in his studio (opposite, bottom right) Dan Dailey’s Ring Man (right) David Goerk’s 6.13.2009

Fred Snitzer BFA ’73 (Sculpture) was featured in Art Basel Miami’s 10th anniversary magazine as one of the 10 leaders in the Art Basel Miami community. Many other alumni were present at the event, including Dotty Attie BFA ’59 (Art Education), Dan Walsh BFA ’83 (Painting) and Sean Landers BFA ’84 (Sculpture).

Ida-Merci De Blanc BFA ’74 (Jewelry) wrote, “My husband and I moved to North Central Arizona (semi-rural) in 2006 and started a tech consulting and support services company in 2008. Our business is doing well and we have a couple of good people working for us. We

Stephen C. Midouhas BS ’75 (Environmental Design) resides on Long Beach Island, N.J., where he practices architecture and enjoys beachcombing and fishing. The Rosenblum Residence, which he designed and constructed in 2009, is featured in 50 U.S. Architects, published by Design Books. The book features the work of one architect from each state; Midouhas was selected to represent New Jersey.

have interesting and challenging work to do, clients who need work done intelligently and with integrity, and we can provide work for people who need to take care of their families. We count ourselves fortunate in these times.”

Lesia Sochor BFA ’74 (Painting) writes of attending UArts (Philadelphia College of Arts when she graduated), “I loved it! I am still painting, still creating.”

Tony Salicandro BM ’75 (Flute) is the founder and director of Salicandro’s Conservatory of Musical Arts, which is moving to a two-story storefront on East Kings Highway near Amhurst Road in Audubon, N.J. The

Maureen Drdak BFA ’75 (Painting) is currently working in Nepal as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. She presented on her work, “The Prakriti Project: A Pioneering Synthesisi of Repoussé and Contemporary Painting” at the Fulbright Commission in Gyaneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal. She exhibited her Fulbright thesis work at the Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu in January 2012. Her monumental work, “Flying Nagas” (based on her previous study in the collection of Berthe and John Ford), will incorporate ancient Newari repoussé and gilding techniques, and addresses the issue of global warming through indigenous Asian imagery. She is currently the Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center artist-in-residence in the Patan Museum, Patan, Nepal.

Conservatory now has about 40 teachers serving students from about 400 families. He is also a UArts faculty member, teaches at Rowan University and performs with Minas, a Brazilian jazz group.

David Goerk BFA ’75 (Painting) had a solo exhibition in New York City at the Howard Scott Gallery in January and February 2012. He spent time in Philadelphia in the band Bunnydrums from 1980 to 1986 and moved to New York City, where he began pursuing a visual art career. His work is in many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rutgers University.

Bruce Tolman BFA ’75 (Sculpture) had a solo show displayed at the Cheryl Hazan Gallery in New York titled “Decade Ponds.” For his 10th show at the gallery, Tolman showed 19 paintings capturing the nature of his upstate New York home on canvas.

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Kay Wood BFA ’75 (Illustration) illustrated the cover of Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan, written by Michael Silverstein.

The Kindle edition is now available on Amazon.com.

Anne Belov BFA ’77 (Painting) has been supporting herself for the last 24 years as a painter. She has also leapt into the fray of children’s book writing and illustrating, working for the last year on a wordless picture book called Pandamorphosis. In addition, she writes and draws an online cartoon, “Your Brain on Pandas.”

Richard Fanelli BS ’77 (Environmental Design) writes, “Fanelli McClain is celebrating 27 years in business with the re-branding of our business and the launching of our new website. We design commercial office space in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Some of our clients include The Washington Post, ManTech International, Boeing and Raytheon, to name a few.”

Sheldon Krevit BFA ’77 (Painting) writes, “I’ve been living in Santa Fe, N.M., for over seven years. My work is represented here and in Memphis by the Jay Etkin Gallery. I was in a show in Memphis in May 2011 and one in Santa Fe the summer of 2011. I was also in a show in Albuquerque at 516 Arts, curated by Peter Frank, called ‘New Mexico Showcase,’ which was on view through April 2012.” (above) Anne Belov’s Sottovoce Lombardia (right) James Rauchman’s Sunset

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Peter Olson BFA ’77 (Photography) writes, “I was asked to create a series of photographs in Brazil and the U.K. for Citi this year. I also created images for Purina’s new branding library.”

Marguerite Rodgers BFA ’77 (Wood) had her residence featured in the August/September 2011 issue of HOME New Zealand. Rodgers is the owner of the world-renowned Marguerite Rodgers Interior Design firm. She was also awarded seven first place International Design Awards in the following categories: Residential Over 10,000 sq. ft., Residential 5,000 to 10,000 sq. ft., Residential 3,500 to 5,000 sq. ft., Residential Singular Space, Residential Bath, Commercial Office and Commercial Restaurant.

Terry Wolfson-Tighe BFA ’78 (Painting) writes, “For the past 30 years, I have been creating fabric collages. I have mastered the ability to create very complex painterly images utilizing fabric and fiber. At a distance the images have the illusion of being painted, but when close, you realize the image is made from a collection of multi-sized, multi-textured pieces of fabric. The small swatches are manually cut by hand and pieced together like a mosaic, then glued to canvas to form painterly realistic images. I show and sell, mostly by word of mouth.

I am married and have three grown children, and I am currently a corporate professional with experience consulting with clients, developing educational training programs and communications on complex initiatives with concentrations on Medicare Part D, Medicaid and healthcare reform.”

Gary Schwartz BFA ’79 (Animation) had work displayed in Open Show Detroit at the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography in October 2011. He was also a puppeteer for the Matrix Theatre’s performances of “Puppet Scrooge” during the 2011 holiday season.

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Helmut C. Calabrese BM ’80 (Composition) collaborated with Francesco Cultreri on scoring the film “Il Gioco È Fatto?” directed by Francesco Russo. The film won the special mention for Best First Work at the 2011 Terra di Siena Film Festival in Italy.

James Rauchman MA ’80 (Art Education) has spent the past year exhibiting all over New York City, most recently in the Poet’s Den Cultural Center in Manhattan.

Charles Long BFA ’81 (Painting) is the artist of an installation on the Oval Lawn of Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. The installation, “Pet Sounds,” is an interactive, large-scale mixed-media work composed of a network of colored pipe railings. When touched, the railing produces sounds and vibrations coming from within the sculpture. The installation is on view May 2 through September 9, 2012. He is currently a full professor and chair of the Art department at the University of California, Riverside.

His work has been featured in over 30 solo exhibitions domestically and internationally. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, and the Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Long is represented by the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.

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Edward Spector BS ’82 (Industrial Design) has been fortunate to work at some outstanding industrial design consulting firms, including Bresslergroup in Philadelphia. Over the years, his projects have ranged from invention and concept development to manufacturing production. Products Spector has worked on include graphics, consumer products, toys, safety equipment, medical equipment and industrial machinery. In 2006, he developed a company called exambuddies, LLC, with the goal of softening the interaction between pediatricians, health care workers and their young patients. They use the slogan “Making Health Care Fun for Everyone!”

Over the past few years, he has also been privileged to contribute his skills by traveling to India with a grassroots organization called “Helping India Together (HIT),” which assists local orphanages, hospitals, women’s shelters and other organizations.

Donald Robinson BM ’83 (Flute) is an acclaimed world-class producer and songwriter who has worked with artists such as Grover Washington, Jr., Bob James, Nancy Wilson, Rachelle Ferrell, Phil Perry, Gladys Knight, Regina Bell, Phyllis Hyman and Miki Howard. He secured publishing deals with Jobete Music in 1987 and EMI in 1993. After being recruited by prominent music executive Ed Eckstein, he helped launch the successful career of Grammy Award-winning songstress Vanessa Williams. He also has to his

credit songs that have been featured in major motion pictures and TV programs including “All My Children,” “One Life To Live” and “The Young and the Restless.”

Jill Kraft BFA ’84 (Photography) is currently in private practice as a holistic health counselor, guiding and supporting people in choosing and implementing the nutrition and lifestyle choices that suit them best.

William Quigley BFA ’84 (Painting) wrote, “I loved PCA, it was the finest education in preparing one to become a critical thinker and address the issues surrounding making serious work.” He has exhibited in group and solo shows in Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and all over the world. His first show was with Henry S. McNeil when he was introduced to Andy Warhol in 1985. Recently, he appeared in Concord, Mass., for an art signing of his first “Career Series of Etchings and Silkscreens.” His art work was also auctioned – along with Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Yoko Ono and Cecily Brown – at the Children’s Museum of the Arts Auction 2011.

The proceeds went to CMA’s outreach program, which brings the arts to underserved children in NYC. More info at quigleyart.com.

Craig Brown BFA ’86 (Illustration) had six pieces in a group show at Gowanus Print Lab in Brooklyn sponsored by the Graphic Artists Guild.

Victoria Pember BFA ’86 (Graphic Design) is now a certified nursing assistant at Delaware Hospice.

Keith Alan Spaar BFA ’86 (Illustration) is currently working as an art director for a party goods company.

Sabin Howard BFA ’87 (Sculpture) had pieces exhibited at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art in Manhattan. The gallery show,

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“Sabin Howard - The Classical Art of Sculpture,” was shown through March 2012 with a special reception and launch of his new book, The Art of Life. Howard taught for 20 years before turning to sculpture full-time. His works are in private collections and museums worldwide, and he has been featured in more than 50 art shows.

Betti Pettinati-Longinotti MA ’87 (Art Education/Glass) had work in a show titled “She-roes” at the Salem Fine Arts Center of Salem College in North Carolina in March 2012.

Amy Kitts Lienert BFA ’88 (Acting) spent years as a Broadway casting director working on the original Broadway production of “The Lion King” as well as multiple productions at Lincoln Center Theater. She now owns a project management company in NYC, where she lives with her husband.

Lois Sellers BFA ’88 (Photography) has been taking photographs for about 35 years and recently had a photo exhibit on view at the Springfield Library in Pennsylvania. As a member of the Media Arts Council, Sellers also had a show of her photographs in the Party Room of Media’s Court Diner as part of Media’s Second Saturday festivities from February through March 2012.

Susanne Sulby BFA ’88 (Theater) is in Robert DeNiro’s film, “Silver Linings Playbook.” After graduation, she taught at UArts for 10 years and did acting and voice-over work before getting married and starting a family. She has been married 22 years and is mom to two school-aged kids.

She also wrote and starred in her onewoman play, “Sanctuary.” It was part of the Times Square International Theater Festival and is about the impact of war on women, using actual emails from soldiers in Iraq; video; poetry from Auden, Owen and Rumi; and Sulby’s own writings.

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Regina Barthmaier BFA ’89 (Painting/Drawing), MA ’03 (Art Education) had artwork in two group shows. The first was “Warholized” at the DaVinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia in February 2012, where her pieces sold at the opening and she received a commission to make another one. The second one was “Urban Observations” at the Plastic Club in Philadelphia in February 2012, where she received an Honorable Mention.

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Shari (Hiatt) Egan CERT ’90 (Interior Design) is currently a design administrator for Arcus Design Group Architects, Inc. Her certificate in Interior Design from UArts allowed her to have a career in Philadelphia in design and project management for various companies.

Christina Fleury BM ’90 (Piano) writes, “I am looking forward to entering the Dominican Order very soon as a contemplative nun. The Dominican Order values the performing and visual/creative arts and higher education as a means to grow closer in union with God, and also as a way to inspire others to reach for the heights of such union. I look forward to having more time to offer my music as a prayer to the One who is the Divine Artist, He who continually inspires beauty and greatness in the arts and in the world.”

(opposite, left) Betti PettinatiLonginotti‘s Uomini Famosi Archive (above) Regina Barthmaier’s MRI Self Portrait (right) John Bellomo in Dead Man’s Mambo

Georgianna Krieger BFA ’90 (Saxophone) recently had an exhibition in Berkeley, Calif., at Fertile Grounds.

The show ran from late November to mid-December 2011.

Matthew McHale BFA ’90 (Illustration) has been living in San Francisco for the past 18 years. For the first part of his design career, he worked for large Fortune 500 companies, marketing firms and advertising companies.

In the last seven years, he has ventured out on his own, mainly working with non-profits and socially conscious

Maximos Zachariadis BFA ’93 (Metals) moved from Athens to London in early 2012. In Athens, he has a well-established jewelry store that has many selling points across the world, where he designs and manufactures his work.

companies or individuals, which is both rewarding and challenging in this economy. He writes, “I utilize my illustration skills heavily in my print and web work and am very thankful for the level of teaching and guidance I received from PCA. Many of my contemporaries are not as skilled or well-versed in design theory, history or practice from what I can see of their work and style. I miss PCA and remember fondly my years living in Philadelphia and wish all the best to the school.”

Chad Attlesey ’94 (Industrial Design) is the founder, president and chief technology officer of Hardcore Computer, Inc. Attlesey was also the owner of i, Incorporated, an engineering and design consulting service. He co-founded and served as president and chief technology officer for MindSet, Incorporated, where he created a variety of bodyworn technologies and delivered prototypes to the U.S. military. Prior to his work with MindSet, Attlesey worked for and with Pemstar, a leading provider of engineering automation and test equipment services.

Stacey Martino BFA ’91 (Theater) is a playwright and acting teacher in Los Angeles and is married with two children. The story of Martino and her husband as Los Angeles newcomers is chronicled in the local public television series “Arrival Stories.”

John Serpentelli BFA ’91 (Animation) was featured in an award-winning documentary, “Animating Autism,” where he taught a small group of autistic kids how to make their own animated films. He also launched 2headedsnake.com, which features his recent drawings and collages. Serpentelli had two short independent animated films released in early 2012.

John Bellomo BFA ’94 (Theater) most recently starred in a one-man show, “Dead Man’s Mambo.” The show was part of the Maryland Shakespeare Festival and under the direction of the Philadelphia-based OMBELICO Mask Ensemble.

Jennifer Rife-Ismael BFA ’92 (Metals) is the mother of an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. She has been working full-time running the service department at Benari Jewelers in Exton, Pa., for 10 years. She writes, “I still love jewelry and get to work with it every day. I occasionally make my own jewelry, but between work and the family, it doesn’t happen often!”

Ana Marie Radosta BS ’93 (Industrial Design) is celebrating her 15th anniversary of making jewelry. Since 1997, Radosta has been honing her designs and making one-of-a-kind pieces of art jewelry and selling through fairs, museums, galleries and jewelry stores in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Some of the collections she has created are Abisal, Flow, CorozoAu, Fazetá and the Eternity Link.

Deborah Lopatin BFA ’94 (Photography) is the communications and public relations manager for IRCAM, a research and contemporary music center that is part of the Pompidou Center in Paris, France.

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Tattoo artist Shane O’Neill ’94 (Illustration) was crowned “Ink Master” on the finale of the Spike reality competition show of the same name. He owns two tattoo parlors, one in Middletown, Del., and the other in Willow Grove, Pa. O’Neill won a cash prize of $100,000 and a profile in Inked magazine.

Deborah Pang Davis BFA ’94 (Photography/Film) joined the Multimedia Photography and Design department faculty as assistant professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

She recently relocated from Portland, Ore., where she has been running her own interactive design studio, Cococello, for the last seven years.

Marie Sivak BFA ’94 (Sculpture) was awarded career opportunity grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation in support of her upcoming solo exhibition “Video Miniatures” in September 2012 at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y. The show will include a series of sculptures that combine carved stone with embedded video and will be on view during the Dumbo Arts Festival.

The grant will support exhibition expenses and the publication of a catalog with an essay by Charlotta Kotik, curator emerita of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Sivak was one of 24 artists and artist teams selected for Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, which ran February 26 - May 26, 2012, and was curated by Prudence Roberts.

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Shelley Spector BFA ’94 (Sculpture) had new works featured in “Dreck Groove,” an exhibit at the EKG Exhibition Space in Philadelphia that ran through March 2012. “Dreck Groove” included a collection of embroideries on fabric, repurposed from shirts, pants and other clothing, and the imagery is based on the extreme environmental events during the summer of 2011. Spector’s work is part of many public and private collections that include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Human Rights Campaign in Washington and HBO Incorporated in New York. She is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery.

Davis in the production. He has sold more than 50,000 CDs with his band, Octane. The band performed and toured with Disturbed, Fuel, Three Doors Down and Staind. Recently, Bortnick toured with “American Idol” season 6 finalist Chris Sligh.

Jim McHugh BFA ’96 (Illustration) writes, “I have been a working freelance illustrator since I left UArts, creating caricatures for various magazines and newspapers. I also work as an academic teaching associate at the Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia.

My wife and I started a program called McArt School, where we teach children the elements of art in after-school and Saturday morning programs.”

Valentine Aprile BFA ’95 (Painting/ Drawing), MA ’97 (Art Education) worked on a film in NYC titled “What Maisie Knew” in the summer of 2011. She worked as an actress and also as an on-set coach for her 6-year-old daughter, Onata Aprile, who played the title role of Maisie, as well as stars Alexander Skarsgard and Julianne Moore. One of her paintings, “Indian Summer,” was also chosen to be used in the film.

Ezra Alexander Cohen BFA ’95 (Sculpture) has been operating a web design and development firm that has satellite offices in Philadelphia, Olomouc and Prague in the Czech Republic, and Kiev, Ukraine.

Matthew Suib BFA ’95 (Photography) and Nadia Hironaka BFA ’97 (Film) have been working together as collaborators since 2008. Most recently, the duo exhibited “1967,” a video installation on display in January and February 2012 at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.

Brian Bortnick BM ’96 (Music Performance) was in the production of “Rent” at the Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, N.J., that ran through February 2012. Bortnick is a national recording artist and played Roger

Susan Moloney BFA ’96 (Painting) is painting full-time in her studio. She has been showing at several galleries in Philadelphia and is a new member of the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers.

More info at moloneyart.com.

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Jeremy Mayhew BFA ’98 (Film) resides in Martha’s Vineyard and has done work for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, which utilized his talents in video animation and graphic design. He is now creating motion design work for Redken, a sub-division of L’Oreal hair care products. Apart from his freelance work, Mayhew makes time to create film pieces for himself, which are unique compilations of different types of art, including music, photography and animation. Check out his films on vimeo.com under Jeremy Mayhew.

Robert Reinhardt BFA ’98 (Art Education) won a national merit award from B&W + Color magazine in 2011 and was featured on the cover of the World Monuments Fund’s fall issue.

One of his photos was also selected to be included in Laurel Hill Cemetery’s 175 Years of Reflections 1836 – 2011.

His recent book, Newington Cemetery, was published in August 2011 and Living Images was published in November 2011.

Sara Carano BFA ’99 (Musical Theater) is a member of the WaitStaff, a sketch-comedy troupe and their original and popular skit, “The Real Housewives of South Philly.” They performed at Philadelphia’s Helium Club in March. Of her UArts experience, Carano said, “One reason I wanted to go to UArts was that most professors were working actors in Philadelphia and in any business, it’s about who you know. I fell in love with Philadelphia, even just coming here to audition for UArts.” (opposite, top to bottom) Shelley Spector’s DG2 Valentine Aprile’s Sing (right) This Means War with Daren Herbert

Matthew Grodsky BFA ’99 (Animation) was recently elected as a member of Bensalem, Pa.’s Board of Education.

Grodsky works for a plumbing and HVAC firm, but has also been a civil servant working for the Free Library of Philadelphia and worked in children’s programming at Nickelodeon as an animator on “Little Bill.” He is the proud father of two children.

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Daren Herbert BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) played the role of Agent Bothwick in the movie “This Means War” starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, released on February 17, 2012. The movie is about two CIA operatives battling with each other over the affections of the same woman.

They assemble teams to spy on one another and Agent Bothwick finds himself on one of the teams.

ChaoChi Lu MFA ’00 (Museum Exhibition Planning & Design) is currently working for architecture firm Capol International in China, starting up an environmental graphic design department as the art director.

Daniel Mandel BFA ’00 (Musical Theater) is the creator of the show “Dan VS,” which began airing its second season on the Hub Network with a Thanksgiving special on November 19, 2011, followed by a Christmas special on December 17, 2011. The second season premiered in January 2012.

Marlene Large BFA ’01 (Graphic Design) is currently employed by eMoney, creating videos that combine web design and motion graphics and creating widgets for the iPad. See her work at financial-truth.com.

Heather Kelley BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) writes, “After completing my MFA in Acting at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory (in Florida), I returned to New York in 2009 and subsequently founded Mad Dog Theatre Company (maddogbarks.com) with six friends from graduate school. I have since appeared in Mad Dog’s first two productions, ‘All The Way From China’ and ‘This Is Not The Play,’ and am proud to serve as literary manager for the company, which produces exclusively new work.”

James P. McGee BFA ’01 (Illustration) is an art teacher at Juan Diego Catholic High School in Sandy, Utah.

He spent over a year creating a mural that was commissioned by the Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Orem, Utah. The mural was installed and dedicated in April 2012.

Craig Holden Feinberg BFA ’02 (Graphic Design) has an exhibit featuring posters and other artworks at Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery from May to June 2012 in Philadelphia. Feinberg has developed social awareness campaigns for the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization as senior art director at Unison in Washington. He has also worked for the United Colors of Benetton.

Jayson Musson BFA ’02 (Photography) recently had his show “The Grand Manner” installed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Musson also created a series of YouTube videos under the alter-ego name of Hennesy Youngman, which went viral for his contemporary art criticism.

David Hanna BS ’02 (Industrial Design) is a senior line builder/designer for a footwear company in Wayne, N.J. He has designed for Skechers for four years and has products all over the world.

Sabrina Rehnke BFA ’02 (Musical Theater) writes, “I am currently working for an organizational effectiveness consultant firm. I am happily married and about to have our first baby.”

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Jason Smith BFA ’02 (Multimedia) is the co-founder of Livid Instruments, which has teamed up with Richie Hawtin, a world renowned musician and DJ, to create a revolutionary MIDI instrument, the CNTRL:R. It is the latest addition to Livid Instrument’s line of controller instruments and features design input from Hawtin and the artists on his Minus record label.

Lindsey Wasiuta BFA ’02 (Film) is currently working for the Office of the Medical Examiner for the State of Delaware as a forensic evidence specialist and forensic photographer.

Juan Charvet BFA ’03 (Multimedia) was recently hired as a senior technologist by Frog, a global innovation firm with over 1,600 employees worldwide, collaborating across 15 locations.

Michael Gatto BFA ’03 (Acting) is teaching Stage Combat at Kent State University at Stark, Ohio. It is the first time the course has been offered at Kent State. He is also in rehearsals for “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” a world premiere play adapted from the Agatha Christie novel by Cleveland playwright, actor and director David Hansen. More info at greatlakestheater.org.

Bobbie Ann Tilkens-Fisher MA ’03 (Museum Education) writes, “I specialize in finding mid-century furnishings for clients desiring anything from a special stand-out piece to a total midcentury makeover. I also provide design consultations, editing and organizing of existing decor and stage for events or sale.

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At Home Modern, can also assist in the de-accession of unwanted furniture, art and accessories. I also enjoy finding small, unique items that I can sell on Etsy. When I’m not out there hunting, I teach Art History and Museum Studies at a the Art Institute of Philadelphia. I’ve also worked as a gallery director and program director for an arts non-profit.”

Laurin Frierson BM ’04 (Vocal Performance), who goes by Laurin Talese, is currently performing and sharing her passion for jazz music in the Philadelphia area. The Chicago Tribune profiled her as someone who is trying to stay true to traditional jazz roots, but who breathes new life into old music and sparks popularity among a younger crowd. Frierson sang backup on tour for artists such as Jaguar Wright and Vivian Green and hopes to establish her own identity with a recording she will be releasing next year.

John Benson BFA ’05 (Multimedia) was hired as an engineer by tumblr, a microblogging and social networking website.

Nathan DiStefano MFA ’05 (Painting) was featured in an article in the February 16, 2012, edition of the Bucks County Herald. His work was displayed in a new gallery that opened in Doylestown, Pa., in April 2012.

Heather Donahue BFA ’05 (Musical Theater) was in the 1999 film “Blair Witch Project” and spent a year cultivating medical marijuana, which she documents in her book GrowGirl. It was released on January 5, 2012.

Taryn (Cagnina) Lane BFA ’05 (Musical Theater) is pursuing a master’s degree in Expressive Therapies with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.

Lacey Lechner BFA ’05 (Painting/ Drawing) currently manages architect and interior design accounts for an American furniture design company, DESIRON in NYC. She also recently co-founded a design company, EatCakeStudios, LLC, also based in NYC, with a business partner. Services include designing bespoke pieces, specifying, full-service interior design and interior architecture. Lechner also maintains a painting studio in the Dumbo area of Brooklyn, N.Y. Megan O’Brien BFA ’05 (Applied Theater Arts) teamed up with her brother, Michael O’Brien, to create 11th Hour, a theater company that started with cabaret series that turned into a season of full musicals. In November 2011, they celebrated the company with a benefit concert that raised money to continue their productions. The company continues to create innovative shows that “wow” the Philadelphia community.

Nicole Rae Styer BFA ’05 (Crafts) was featured in the November 2011 issue of the Reading Eagle. It tells the story of how Styer and her brother, Lee, own businesses on the same South Philly street. He owns the restaurant Fond and Styer owns N.R.S. Boutique at 1822 E. Passyunk Avenue. Her clothing line is available in 40 shops and boutiques across the nation.

Matt Dangler BFA ’06 (Illustration) illustrated The Secret History of Mermaids, a children’s book from Templar Publishing in 2009. His solo show, “Center Flame” was at the CoproGallery in Santa Monica, Calif., in May. His art was included in issues 14, 15, 17 and 18 of the illustration annual Spectrum: The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art. Kati (Lyles) Donovan BFA ’06 (Musical Theater) is still out in sunny San Diego pursuing her MFA in Musical Theater.

In December 2011, she performed as the featured soloist with Orchestra Nova in La Jolla as part of its holiday pops concert. Donovan will be applying to college-level education jobs back on the East Coast for fall 2012.

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In celebration of “National Opera Week,” October 28 – November 6, 2011, the Freedom Theater in conjunction with OperaAmerica had a one-night performance that featured all UArts alumni and upcoming graduates, including Christopher Latzke BFA ’06 (Acting), LaTasha Morris BM ’06 (Voice), Andre Webb BM ’08 (Voice) and R. Brandon Dennis BM ’09 (Voice).

Jen Mooney BFA ’06 (Dance Education) is currently a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader on her second season with the team. She was chosen out of 400 cheerleaders in the league to dance at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii in January 2012. She also works at a dance studio in New Jersey teaching ballet, tap and jazz.

Dana Schloss MA ’06 (Museum Exhibition Planning & Design) joined the TALUS Science Center to be the lead developer/designer and prototyper in 2009. The innovative and experimental Science Center in Calgary, Alberta, opened in October 2011. Schloss has worked in prototyping with the Museum of the Moving Image, New York Hall of Science, American Philosophical Society, Mutter Museum and Franklin Institute, among others.

(opposite) Matt Dangler’s Feeding the Inner Sanctum (right) Nathan DiStefano’s Umbrella

Mary Scholz BFA ’06 (Musical Theater) relocated to Los Angeles in May 2011 and is loving her new surroundings. Her song “Tennessee” was nominated for a 2011 Hollywood Music in Media Award in the category of Adult Contemporary. Scholz is playing shows in the L.A. area and working with other songwriters and has been doing background work on various television shows as well as getting her foot in the door as a script supervisor for indie and student films. Her newest music video “Hide” will be released sometime this winter as the first half of a video project with her indie label Ringlet Records.

Kelli Barrett ’07 (Musical Theater) is playing the leading role in the reading “Beauty,” written and directed by Tina Landau with music by Regina

Iquail Johnson BFA ’07 (Dance) wrote, “Dance Iquail began performing regular home season concerts on May 16, 2012, at the Painted Bride Arts Center. UArts students, staff and alumni will receive special discounts.”

Spektor. She will also be playing the lead role of Alice in the new reading of the musical “Honeymooners,” directed by Jerry Mitchell and starring Hank Azaria. Her episode of “A Gifted Man” entitled “In Case of Abnormal Rhythm” aired on December 2, 2011.

Stephanie Meliti BFA ’07 (Jazz Dance) was featured in New Jersey’s Gloucester County Times when she returned to Philadelphia as a cast member of the musical “Barney Live in Concert – Birthday Bash!” The show came to the Liacouras Center at Temple University in November 2011. Meliti appeared in the show as a female chorus member and occasionally as Riff, a 6-year-old Hadrosaur who loves music. Meliti said, “The most fulfilling part of the job is the kids. They get so excited. It’s so rewarding to see the kids get excited ... they sing and dance throughout the show.”

Genevieve Dion MID ’07 (Industrial Design), fashion design program director at Drexel University, has focused her research on identifying production methods that advance the field of wearable technology. Following the signing of a groundbreaking million dollar agreement with Shima Seiki USA, Dion will now have a state-of-the-art laboratory to conduct research for the development of new smart textiles and wearable technologies, and to explore new methods of production that will ultimately impact a number of market sectors.

Alex Eckman-Lawn BFA ’07 (Illustration) has worked with many bands, including Architect, Psyopus, Backstabbers Inc., Yakuza, Hacride and Circle of Dead Children, designing T-shirts and album art. He has also done design and artwork for Willowtip Records, Black Market Activities, Tribunal Records and Scholastic Books. He has just wrapped up work on Awakening, an existential horror comic book to be published by Archaia Studios Press. (See his work on page 17.)

Matt Frock BFA ’07 (Painting) is currently a teacher at the Haverford School teaching art and design, photography, and woodworking. He published a new book Love2, which he wrote in 2007 and has been working to illustrate it since.

Phoebe Silva BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) interned for SITI Company during its Fall Training Workshop, delving deeper into Suzuki and Viewpoints training. This is her fourth training session with the company. She is also enrolled in Yoga to the People’s Teacher Training program, by the end of which she will have earned her 200hour yoga teaching certification!

Carly Johnson BM ’07 (Voice) is currently taking the Louisville, Ky., music scene by storm. According to Louisville magazine, Johnson is working full-time at local music venues and with a nine-piece band, Liberation Prophecy, a jazz band that has a nonjazz feel.

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Anne Wilson BFA ’07 (Modern Dance) co-produced a show with two local playwrights at the Papermill Theater in Kensington titled “Wild Punch: Dance Theater Adventures in Kensington.” “Wild Punch” included Wilson’s 30-minute dance solo “graceful frustrated expletive,” which is about her personal evolution as a dancer, as well as Josh Mcllvain’s play “Waiting for the Boss” and John Rosenberg’s “Automated Fault Isolation.” This collaborative production presented audiences with three new pieces distinct in theme, approach and discipline within one show.

Heather Woodward BFA ’07 (Musical Theater) moved to Los Angeles after shooting a new pilot called “The Prospects,” written and directed by Kaelan and Christian KellySordelet, and is now taking classes at the Groundlings.

Doshanna Bell BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) was hired for her first international commercial in January 2012 for AICO.

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Jason Chen BFA ’08 (Animation), Ian Foster BFA ’08 (Animation) and Marina Gvozdeva BFA ’08 (Animation) were commissioned to produce a music video for Philly/N.Y.-based band Jukebox the Ghost. The video was featured as an exclusive premiere on Vevo.com.

Sean Elias BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) left his schooling to develop a new musical comedy written by John Hoover, based on Hoover’s New York Times bestseller How to Work for an Idiot. This new musical, taking the same title as the book, is slated to open on Broadway during the 2013-2014 season. Elias has also been invited to callbacks for a new musical called “Cupcake” opening in Boston in 2012. He continues his private consultation with corporations such as Apple and Campbell’s Soup in regard to keynote design and presentation, as well as his work at Apple, Inc. as a genius.

Carly Fuller BFA ’08 (Photography) did a product shoot for a children’s accessories line called “Lole’s Giggles.”

Kyra Bromberg BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) finished up “A Christmas Carol” with Manhattan Children’s Theatre and dove into her next project, which was her second year of performing with ActorCor on its annual MLK, Jr. Day concert “Say Yes!” She then went on tour through May 2012 with American Family Theater’s “Alice in Wonderland,” where she played Tweedledum, the Duchess and the Mad Hatter. Bromberg continues her work as a company member with Village Playback Theater.

Melissa Andrade Johnson MAT ’08 (Visual Arts) is currently a fine arts teacher for William Penn High School and New Castle School in Delaware.

Nathaniel Butler BFA ’08 (Sculpture) had a solo exhibition at New York City’s Medailia in February 2012 titled “Dissonance: Storytelling and the Story.”

Dotan Negrin BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) is traveling across the United States with an upright piano in a truck and aims to bring people together

James Lincke BFA ’08 (Illustration) is a full-time graphic designer/creative production artist at American Process Lettering (AMPRO Sports) in Secane, Pa. He recently took a trip to London to be a part of and attend the world premiere of “Superman: Requiem,” a feature-length independent film in which he created concept artwork as well as character posters for the film. He also did freelance work for actor John Schneider of “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Smallville” fame.

through the power of his music. What started as a trip to develop his skills on the piano evolved into a movement that inspired people to fulfill their own dreams. His travels are chronicled on pianoacrossamerica.com.

Lauren Palmeri BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) is on the “Beauty and the Beast” national tour through August 2012!

She is in the ensemble and understudying Belle.

Nathan Pankratz BFA ’08 (Painting/Drawing) had a solo exhibition through March 2012 in the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia. The exhibition featured his recent abstract paintings and works on paper.

Pankratz was a founder and member of Philadelphia-based collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid from 2009 to 2011 and has shown at a number of galleries in Philadelphia, Switzerland and Italy.

Vanessa Rivera BFA ’08 (Graphic Design) is a senior interactive designer for a company called Blue Diesel, an inVentiv Health Company.

Eric Welch BS ’08 (Industrial Design) was named 2011 Outstanding Alumnus of the Benchmark School, an elementary and middle school in Media, Pa. Welch was promoted to exhibit designer at the Franklin Institute in 2010 and is designing an 8,000 sq. ft. exhibit called “Your Brain,” which is set to open in 2013.

Genna Baroni BFA ’09 (Ballet) joined Company E, a Washington, D.C., dance company embarking on a collaboration with choreographers from Israel called “Next: Israel.” Presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Embassy of Israel and the Shakespeare Theatre Company, “Next: Israel” is the inaugural program by Company E in a series of concerts celebrating the work of artists nation-by-nation. The company performed in Washington on February 25, 2012, and is now on tour.

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Amanda Benton MFA ’09 (Book Arts/Printmaking) is the designer of a poster that was one of three chosen in a national competition to promote the plan of the American Jobs Act. She received a copy of her poster signed by President Obama.

Joey Contreras BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) was recently featured in the Broadway in South Africa 4th Annual Gala at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom, hosted by Lance Bass. He continues work on his new musical “Horizontal Academics” with Kate Thomas through NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, which received its first New York reading in May 2012.

Angela Davis MM ’09 (Jazz Studies) is a contributing writer for All About Jazz and her interview with Joe Lovano was published in February 2012.

She is an Australian saxophonist, composer and writer and joined All About Jazz in 2008.

Lindsay Gilbert BFA ’09 (Sculpture) had a solo exhibition at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia in March 2012 titled “The Spaces in Between.” She also won the FIDEM XXXII Congress exhibition competition. Her glass medallic sculpture will be exhibited in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, this summer. (opposite) Still image from video by Jason Chen, Ian Foster, Marina Gvozdeva (above) Poster by Amanda Benton (right) Dotan Negrin at Yosemite

Adrienne Langer BFA ’09 (Illustration) had a gallery show titled “Born and Raised” at Barber on 24th in Philadelphia in February 2012.

Kyung Min BFA ’09 (Illustration) is currently vice president of TAF JK Group Inc. As VP, Min works in graphic design and web development and manages employees and projects.

TAF JK Group, Inc. is a full-service

teaching a Mentoring Through the Arts theater class in Reading, Pa., to inner-city teens. She has a few other projects lining up, including beginning to develop her own drama therapy program with the Yocum Institute for Arts Education. When not teaching theater, Rowley is still a substitute teacher’s assistant at Delaware County schools, working with students with special needs.

branding and web design firm. Coupling creativity with professional experience and expertise, they provide entrepreneurs and their companies with logos and web design, print works and branding solutions.

Liz Panjian BFA ’09 (Theater Management and Production) is currently an associate director at YMCA Camp Mohawk in Litchfield, Conn. Her main job functions are development, human resources and office management. She finds office management very fulfilling. She also does a little photography on the side and just photographed a wedding last summer.

Casey Sharpe BFA ’09 (Crafts) is a recipient of the Gemological Institute of America’s Richard T. Liddicoat 2012 Scholarship. The scholarship awards each recipient a full scholarship for the Graduate Gemologist program.

Sharpe, recipient of the distance education scholarship, is currently working as a jewelry designer and will continue in this role as she pursues her gemological education to enhance her gemstone knowledge.

Nicholas Park BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) is very proud to announce that his debut solo cabaret “PJs and Pixy Stix: A Cabaret” played to a sold-out house on December 16, 2011, at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre. After the success of the first show, he did an encore performance on January 30, 2012. It featured the talents of Kelly Brown on piano and H. Aubrey Grant BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) on guitar. Park has recently accepted a position on the board of directors for Rock & Rawhide, a new organization dedicated to helping our four-legged friends that are currently in shelters. Park is still all smiles serving tables and hosting HumpDay Karaoke every Wednesday night at XES Lounge (157 W. 24th St) in NYC. Meghan Pearson BFA ’09 (Theater Design & Technology) writes, “I am the costume shop manager for the Weathervane Theater in New Hampshire. I work and live in upstate New York and am moving to NYC in September 2012.”

Ryan Walker BFA ’09 (Acting) completed three productions with the South Camden Theater Company and also worked as an emcee for the American Red Cross in 2011.

Ambe Williams BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) is currently in rehearsal for the role of Vera Dotson in a production of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” at the American Stage Theater in St. Petersburg, Fla. She will also be getting her EMC card from this production. Williams just finished the national tour of “Encore” with Chamber Theater Productions.

Janet Rowley BFA ’09 (Musical Theater) recently finished playing the role of Sarah Calder in “The Boxcar Children,” a play based on the children’s book of the same name. The play was directed by Beverly Houck BFA ’94 (Musical Theater). Rowley is still a teaching artist with Theatre Horizon’s Autism Drama program, and is now

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Mike Curcio BS ’10 (Communications) is currently working as a contract trainer for a variety of healthcare informatics systems. He also does video production work independently and for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Michael Doherty BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) hosted and appeared in 11th Hour Theater Company’s annual “Philly Rocks” at World Cafe Live on February 27, 2012. He also appeared in “Punchkapow” with Team Sunshine Performance Corp. at the Passage Theater in Trenton, N.J., in March 2012. Doherty was also seen as Georg in Media Theater’s “Spring Awakening.” He has a busy summer to look forward to, which includes acting in “Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown” at People’s Light and Theater Company and two Philadelphia Fringe Festival productions. Along with Alex Bechtel BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) and Greg Nix BFA ’10 (Musical Theater), the guys are producing an original work entitled “Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die.” As a co-founder and coproducer of Round Table Theatre Co. with Dan O’Neil BFA ’10 (Musical Theater), Doherty will produce “Speech and Debate,” also for the Fringe Festival.

Jesse Gerard BS ’10 (Industrial Design) currently works at PhillyWorks designing and creating speaker systems. The speakers come from many local materials and are a product based on his own ideas on how to make them. He also belongs to NextFab, a co-working space in University City, where he uses many tools to create the speakers.

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Josh E. Johnson BFA ’10 (Multimedia) currently resides in Voorhees, N.J. He founded web design and internet marketing company Big J Media a few years before graduating and has been working full-time since graduation. He has worked for small businesses building websites as well as creating and managing social marketing strategies, which have proven successful in promoting and selling the clients’ products and services. He has also started working with some college students to outsource his work, hopefully leading up to being busy enough to hire a programmer and graphic designer to further what the company can provide and hopefully help provide just a few more jobs to the economic crisis.

Greg Nix BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) continued to collaborate with 1812 Productions on various projects, including its annual Valentine’s Day concert at the Tin Angel and a monthly “This Is The Week That Is” segment for WHYY’s NewsWorks radio show. He also appeared in “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” at the Walnut Street Theatre this spring, followed by an original Fringe piece with Alex Bechtel BFA ’08 (Musical Theater) and Michael Doherty BFA ’10 (Musical Theater), to be directed

by Brind School faculty member Amy Dugas Brown. He also signed with Bloc NYC for New York representation during fall 2011.

A score by Sean Paulsen BM ’10 (Music) for a short film posted on FunnyorDie.com went live. It starred tennis legend John McEnroe and received over 10,000 views in its first 10 hours. In January 2012, his group Dapper Cads released its first EP. It was self-produced under his studio/ publishing group Settlers & Explorers Music and is now available on iTunes, Spotify and many other music outlets. The release came on the heels of winning the Untz Challenge II, a popular electro blog’s contest for the best-produced track out of hundreds of submissions. Dapper Cads is a trio

that includes fellow alumnus Joe Chernus BM ’11 (Guitar Performance).

Paulsen writes, “I believe the versatile faculty members at UArts are completely to thank! I feel I embraced their different talents and sought out teachers that prepared me to score films and also write, produce and distribute an album.”

Jacqueline Real BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) recently shot a new web series called “Get Lucky” about dating in Brooklyn.

Nancy Gail Ring MFA ’10 (Painting) received glittering reviews for her solo exhibition entitled “What You Get Is To Be Changed.” The Star Ledger said, “Ring’s powers of observation are acute, but she never lets her technique become claustrophobic – there’s plenty of white space left for the imagination to roam.” She is also the co-founder of the artist blog jellypress.com.

Dariela (Didi) Sanchez Cortes BFA ’10 (Acting) returned to her native Mexico in July 2011. She became the producer and star of her own TV show for children called DiDiVersiOneS and successfully finished the first season with 20 episodes that she wrote and directed herself. The show combines sketches of dance, handcrafts, interviews, education, skills and fun characters to entertain and educate.

J. Michael Stafford BFA ’10 (Theater Design & Technology) recently started a full-time position in the Production department at the Juilliard School, working on School of Drama plays and School of Vocal Arts operas. He is also still freelancing around the Greater New York Area for various companies.

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Allen F. Weaver BFA ’10 (Musical Theater) will appear in “Miss Saigon” at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pa., this summer. He is playing the role of Thuy, and the show runs through July 8, 2012.

Nicholas Whittaker BM ’10 (Electric Bass) is an electric bass player who studied under Craig Thomas and Howard Thompson and performed in the Jimmy Paxson Salsa Ensemble, Justin Binek’s Jazz Singers, Rick Hall’s Steely Dan Ensemble and Marc Dicciani’s Rumble Ensemble. After graduation, Whittaker moved to South Miami and joined Soundworthy Entertainment Corporation, with which he performs at the Hard Rock Casino and the Seminole Classic Casino in Ft. Lauderdale every month.

Whittaker also writes, performs and records his own music under the moniker Tombolo. He also teaches guitar and bass lessons around the South Florida area. He performs with Keandra Cordero BM ’10 (Voice) as an acoustic guitar and vocal cover duo, the Cordero-Whittaker Duo, at private events and cocktail hours.

Caroline Boyd BFA ’11 (Film) was a video intern at Project Twenty1 and is now developing a web series with fellow alumni Robert Curry BFA ’11 (Film) and Georgie Keveson BFA ’11 (Applied Theater Arts) that has begun shooting.

(opposite, top to bottom) Jesse Gerard Alex Crozier-Jackson (right) Veronica Bruce’s Good Day

Veronica Bruce MFA ’11 (Studio Art) was in the group show “Reality Slips” at Robert Bills Contemporary in Chicago. The show ran through April 2012. “Reality Slips” presented new work that included sculpture, painting, collage, photography and installation. The work explores the unsustainable linearity of assumptions at multiple levels of dominant systems of information.

Tim Passarella BS ’11 (Industrial Design) is a senior designer at Levelwing, a digital marketing agency in NYC and Charleston, S.C. Levelwing, recently named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. magazine, uses real-time best-ofbreed technologies to generate actionable intelligence, which moves you away from “faith-based” advertising to measurable “fact-based” results.

Nick Costa BM ’10 (Percussion), MAT ’11 (Music Education) is the technology associate for B. Reed Henderson High School in the West Chester Area School District. He is also an independent educator teaching private drum lessons at Keswick Music in Glenside, Pa., a musician performing with indie rock group Modern Suits and the George Weldon Jazz Trio, and has performed on various recording sessions throughout the greater Philadelphia area.

Alex Crozier-Jackson BFA ’11 (Ballet Performance) performed the lead role in BalletFleming’s original ballet “The Myth & Madness of Edgar Allen Poe” in March 2012. Crozier-Jackson has performed nationally and internationally with Pennsylvania Ballet, Brandywine Ballet, D.ID Dance Identity and the Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine. He is a founding member and current dancer with BalletFleming based in Philadelphia. Crozier-Jackson has originated the title roles in Christopher Fleming’s “Gaspar-A Pirate Fantasy” ballet and the upcoming “The Myth and Madness of Edgar Allan Poe” to critical acclaim.

Nicholas Deacon BM ’11 (Music Performance) wrote, “I’m working as a personal trainer at the YMCA. I’ve gotten a few certifications as a personal trainer and specialist in performance nutrition and am hoping to get a few smaller, more specific ones shortly. I take private clients outside of the YMCA and I’m also presently contemplating returning to school for physical therapy.”

Ashlyn Stoner BFA ’11 (Musical Theater) performed with L.A.’s premier caroling group the Goode Time Carolers for the 2011 holiday season.

The group performed at Disneyland Park and Hotels, as well as many special events throughout Southern California. Stoner also signed with Cydney McCurdy, a commercial agent with Media Artists Group.

She also plays Lily in the web series “Zombie Kittens,” a post-apocalyptic farce that began shooting in November 2011.

Kenya Gayles BFA ’11 (Theater) is currently a stage management fellow at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia and serves as the assistant stage manager for its 2011-2012 season.

Parris Lacey BFA ’11 (Modern Dance) writes, “I am currently dancing with two dance companies, one in Philadelphia and one in Utah. I am freelancing as well.”

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in memoriam Russell Hoban BFA ’41 (Art Education) passed away at the age of 86 on December 13, 2011. Born in Lansdale, Pa., he served in the Army infantry after graduation. He worked as a storyboard artist and television director until 1957, when he started working in freelance advertising. He began his career as a children’s book writer in the late 1950s, eventually completing more than 50 books for children of all ages. His best-known works include Bedtime for Frances from the beloved Frances series, as well as The Mouse and His Child, which became an animated movie in 1977.

He had great critical success with Riddley Wallker, a postapocalytic fantasy novel noted for its inventive language.

In an appreciative essay in The New York Times celebrating Hoban’s life and career, writer Laurence Downs noted, “Children’s books, like pop songs, are simple things we’ll never run out of, partly because so many people want to write them and think they can. But simplicity is harder than it looks. So are depth and beauty. Mr. Hoban’s ‘Frances’ books take us all the way to delight, using an easy-reader vocabulary.”

Harry Kale BFA ’42 (Advertising Design) passed away on November 7, 2011. After graduation, Kale served overseas in WWII as a sergeant. He met his wife, Yvette, after the war and they were happily married for 57 years. The GI bill allowed Kale to also pursue a degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture. He worked for the Eshbach and Glass Architecture Firm, which grew into a leading firm in the Delaware Valley, designing and creating for 30 years. He worked on many buildings at institutions such as Wordsworth Academy, Glassboro State, Rutgers South Jersey, Kent and Queen Anne Hospital in Maryland, Penn State in College Park and the Temple Law Library.

He was recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1970. Family and friends wrote that he was a “kind, intelligent man who pioneered modern architectural design, while living an incredibly full life.”

Jan Berenstain BFA ’45 (Illustration), co-creator of the Berenstain Bears series, passed away on February 24, 2012, at the age of 88. Berenstain wrote and illustrated hundreds of affectionate tales featuring Mama, Papa, Brother and Sister Bear together with her husband and fellow alumnus, Stan Berenstain BFA ’45 (Illustration), who died in 2005. Jan and Stan Berenstain met on their first day of art school in 1941 and married in 1946. Prior to the 1962 publication of the first Bears book The Big Honey Hunt, the couple

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launched a long-running cartoon series called “All in the Family” and published artwork in magazines including Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. The Bears books, which were inspired by Jan and Stan’s children and grandchildren, address all aspects of family life, from getting kids to do chores to managing first-day-of-school jitters.

To date, more than 300 titles have been released in 23 languages. With more than 250 million copies sold, the Berenstain Bears series is one of the bestselling children’s book series of all time. (See the next issue of Edge for more on Jan Berenstain’s legacy.)

Rosina S. (Sinopoli) Radomile BFA ’46 (Costume Design) passed away at the age of 86 on February 26, 2011. A resident of Drexel Hill, Pa., she was the beloved wife of Dr. John J. Radomile Sr. for 63 years.

Mark von Zech Jr. BFA ’50 (Illustration), an accomplished artist and advertising executive, passed away at age 87 on February 17, 2012, in Virginia Beach, Va., where he resided for the past three years. Von Zech served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII. He retired as the art director from Reimel / Carter Advertising in 1996 after 35 years. He was an award-winning fine artist, specializing in water color. Von Zech’s most treasured time was spent with family. He was the husband of the late Betty von Zech and is survived by three children and two grandchildren.

Robert Milnazik DIPL ’51 (Advertising Design), a graphic designer and artist of Wayne, Pa., passed away at age 81 on January 22, 2012. Milnazik established a design studio in 1954 in Center City Philadelphia and serviced accounts for N.W. Ayer & Son and did design work for individual clients such as Publicker Industries and Rohm & Haas Co. He designed and illustrated menus for restaurants such as the Green Tulip Room at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. After retiring in 1993, Milnazik created paintings in gouache – a medium similar to watercolor, though more opaque – and his work was exhibited at area galleries. In 1997, he and his daughter, Kimmerle, and his wife, Janet, exhibited their paintings together at a show at Immaculata College. Last year, he and his wife exhibited at the Barn Studio Gallery in Doylestown. He is survived by his wife of 59 years and his son.

Donald Wilf DIPL ’52 (Theater Stage Design), an artist who owned Donald Stanley Inc., an interior-design company in

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Ardmore, Pa., from 1959 to 2011, passed away on January 15, 2012, at age 84. Wilf was resident designer for the modern-dance department at the University of Pennsylvania from 1946 to 1948 and designed catalogs and costumes from 1949 to 1953 for the Center City Philadelphia dancewear firm Baum’s while freelancing as a costume designer for showgirls at the Latin Casino nightclub in Cherry Hill, N.J. He was a producer and designer of summer revues at the Log Tavern in Milford, Pa., from 1953 to 1957. After consulting for a former wallpaper and fabrics firm in Wilmington, Del., he opened his own firm in 1959. Besides his partner, Dr. Peter Arger, Wilf is survived by his brother, Jerome.

Joseph Nettis BFA ’53 (Illustration) passed away at the age of 83 on November 2, 2011. Shortly after graduation, National Geographic published photos from his bicycle trip through Europe in 1955 and he persuaded the magazine to sponsor a round-the-world journey in the spring of 1956.

After completing his work for National Geographic, he struck out across Spain, where he shot 10,000 photos for a book he eventually published, A Spanish Summer, and his photographs ran in numerous magazines. In Man and His Religions, published in 1963, Nettis gleaned photos he had taken from around the world of religious ceremonies involving birth, coming of age, marriage and death. In 1964, he published Philadelphia Discovered, a pictorial tribute to his hometown. His portrait of Adlai E. Stevenson appeared on the cover of Life magazine and a color photo of a boat in front of the Fairmount Water Works appeared in The New York Times Magazine in June 1984. Nettis also wrote the text for his books and published a novel in 2001, Sergio’s Odyssey. (See this issue’s “From the Archives” for a special remembrance of Joseph Nettis and his work.)

Wesley Emmons BFA ’54 (Jewelry) passed away on May 23, 2011, at age 83. He was a talented craftsman and taught Crafts and Jewelry at UArts until 1966. Since 1964, Emmons and his wife operated Emmons Jewelers at 16th and Spruce Streets in Center City Philadelphia. During his long career, he made jewelry for Eleanor Roosevelt, Buddy Rich and a pectoral cross for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He designed an altar piece for Old Zion Church on Broad Street as well as the silver medallion presented to outstanding graduates from his alma mater. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Woodmere Gallery, and he was included in the “Touch of Gold” show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1974. A retrospective

of his work was exhibited at the University of the Arts in 2004. He received commissions by museums and galleries to restore precious gold and silver pieces. Inspired by a son who is an avid runner, Emmons took up jogging in his early 40s. He worked his way up to running in marathons and ultramarathons and continued to run until his early 70s. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, as well as two sons and four grandchildren.

Ronald Dove DIPL ’57 (Advertising Design) of Glen Mills, Pa., was 78 when he passed away on December 9, 2011.

He was an artist who was president of the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia for 37 years. Dove was an instructor, head of the design department, student coordinator, assistant director and director at Hussian before becoming president. After graduation, Dove had a design studio in Philadelphia and taught for several years at Rosemont College and the Philadelphia College of Art as well as at Hussian. He held several offices with the Art Directors Club of Philadelphia, including three terms as president. He received the club’s President’s Award in 1985 and the Inspiration Award in 2002 for being a “beacon of motivation for the creative community.”

David Arnold White BS ’73 (Industrial Design) of Landenberg, Pa., passed away on January 31, 2012, at age 60. He was the owner of DesignDesign, Inc., a graphic and product design company in Kennett Square, where he worked with his daughter, Erika, and son, Ian. He was a member of the St. Michael Lutheran Church in Unionville. He enjoyed racket ball, golf, vacations to the Caribbean and time spent with his family. Survivors include his wife Linda, with whom he shared 38 years of marriage, three children and one grandson.

Edward C. Shultz MAT ’96 (Visual Arts) passed away on December 11, 2011, at the age of 81. After high school and being honorably discharged from the Army, he spent many years owning his own business of fixing televisions, starting in 1956. In 1995, he earned a Bible Studies degree from Philadelphia College of Bible then went on to earn his master’s degree at UArts in Art Education. From 1997 to 2011, he taught at King’s Academy School. He became an ordained minister in 2007, serving as a volunteer pastor at Calvary Chapel of Southern Ocean County. He performed the wedding of his son in August 2011 and the baptism of a cousin just weeks before his passing.

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from the archives

FROM THE ARCHIVES

by Sara MacDonald Public Services Librarian

Joseph Nettis BFA ’53 (ILLUSTRATION) Alumnus, Photographer and Archives Photo Donor I’d like to take advantage of this installment of “From the Archives” to recognize the late Joseph Nettis BFA ’53 (Illustration), who donated many of the UArts Archives’ most-used photographs (see “In Memoriam” on page 59).

Joe graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the UArts College of Art, Media and Design) with a diploma in Illustration, but began his successful photography career almost immediately. Of particular note just after graduation was a July 1955 photo-essay about bicycling through Europe for National Geographic. He died November 2, 2011.

I met Joe through the Golden Arts alumni luncheons and corresponded with him about his photographs. He, along with other alumni, helped me to identify people and dates for many of the photos already in the archives. Joe graciously allowed us to use his photographs in The University of the Arts (ISBN 073854521X), published in 2006, and was hired by the school numerous times for photo work, including school catalogs in the mid-1960s. Here are a few of Joe’s best shots, in particular from his student days.

(left, top to bottom) Students on the steps of Hamilton Hall, circa 1950 Written on the back: “Drawing, 1950. Joe Camana, teacher, assistant to Fred Rothermel” Hamilton Hall, early 1950s. The school at that time was called the Philadelphia Museum School of Art

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(this page, clockwise) Written on the back of this photo from the early 1950s: “anatomy tests” Written on the back of this photo: “fdeP.R. [Fred deP. Rothermel, faculty]; final anatomy project, 1952” Philadelphia Museum School of art student John fulton Short graduated in 1954, moved to Spain, and became a successful bullfighter known as “El Yankee.” Joe took this shot of John while both were still students, circa 1950. one of the photos from the article “Left Bank at Broad and Pine” by Nancy Love, with photos by Joseph Nettis. the article appeared in Greater Philadelphia: The Magazine for Executives, 55.12 (December 1964), p. [44]. caption: “instructor Sol Mednick briefs pensive sophs on basic photography.”

ALL PHOTOS BY JOSEPH NETTIS. Please send any corrections to Sara MacDonald at smacdonald@uarts.edu.

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