ALUMNI NEWS FALL 2019
PATRICIA AARON (14) had a show, Atlantic Way and the Irish Glens, at Globe Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM through August 4. She will premiere a recent painting, “Chieftains Glen,” at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities invitational, Colorado Abstract +10, from September 12 - November 17. More paintings will be featured at the Space ANNEX Fall Salon opening September 6 in Denver, CO. LAUREN ACAMPORA’s (04) new novel, The Paper Wasp, was published by Grove Atlantic in June and named one of the best books of the summer by The New York Times Book Review. SAMUEL ADAMS (18) is the recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
public spaces and in the countryside, offering an eclectic program animated by encounters and collaborations. KATIE ARNOLD’s (15) piece, “An Elite Athlete’s Real-Life Training Plan,” based on her recently published memoir Running Home, was featured in The New York Times in July. FRANCES ASHFORTH (18) had work in the group show, Time and Place: Works on Paper, at The Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT through June 19, as well as in Mirage: Energy & Water in the Great Basin at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, ID through August 15. In the spring of 2020, the show will travel to the Boise Art Museum.
PEN/Hemingway Award finalists, IAN BASSINGTHWAIGHTE (19), LING MA (19), and ELISSA SCHAPPELL (02,19) gave a combined reading at Sheridan College on September 19 as part of Wyoming’s statewide “Explore Hemingway” series. ÉRIC BAUDELAIRE (01) is the recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. EVE BEGLARIAN’s (96,10,16) new piece in honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, “None More Than You,” premiered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in NYC on May 31. Another piece, “You See Where This Is Going,” for loadbang and string orchestra premiered on May 30 in Nanning, China.
NELLEKE BELTJENS’ (02) works on paper from her new series, Road to Travel, were included in the group OLIVE AYHENS’ (03,10,16) solo show, Organic Complexity, curated show, Line to Surface, at Raumx in MARTIRENE ALCÁNTARA London through July 20. by HILLS SNYDER (84,16), was (16,18,19) has an exhibit of at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, TX abstract photography in Photographs by RHONA BITNER through May 25. the Ucross Art Gallery titled (93,02,19) were included in the Metamorphoses: An Act of Poetic SALLY BALL’s (04) new book, show Theatres of Fiction at the Ruth Imagination which will be on view Hold Sway, was released in the and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art through December 6. at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY spring by Barrow Street. She through June 9. also has work in a collaborative In August, JUMANA AL YASIRI artist’s book, HOLD, with Czech th (17) participated in the 6 edition MELISSA BOUCHER (15) had work of Us, the Moon & the Neighbors, a printmaker Jan Vičar, which will in the show, On ne demande pas des festival where more than 20 artists be a central feature of Vičar’s solo comptes à un orange, exhibited in show at the Academie des Beaux and companies from 7 different the official selection of the festival Arts in Paris in the fall. countries performed in houses, Les Boutographies.