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Alison Koehler, '08 had her work selected for the promotional materials for Out of the Dark-Into the Light, a walk for survivors of sexual abuse/assault held at Hamline University, April 27, 2008. She had work at the Minneapolis Central Public Library, January-March 2008 in a display of Altered Books juried from a statewide pool of college students by noted book artist Chip Schilling of Indulgence Press. Aaron Johnson-Ortiz, '07, taught a Zine Printing Workshop in May, 2007 as an Art Lab Activity at the Walker Art Center, Mpls.. He is in the MFA program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Wei Chuan Hsu, '07 is an animation and graphic design intern for Live Universe in Los Angeles. Lauren Machen, '07 showed her Artwear clothing at the the St. Paul Art Crawl, Oct. 12 -13, 2007, in the Carleton Artists Lofts. Sara Buck '07, aka Paper Buck, had work on display at the Winona Arts center as part of a Highpoint Printmaking Center members' show, Mar. 14-April 2008. She had work in Prints on Ice, the cooperative exhibit at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Mpls., Dec. 7 - Jan 12, 2008. Sayoko Nakamura, '06 is attending graduate school in Architecture at California College of Arts. Chelsey Olsen, '06, is attending graduate school in Architecture at Iowa State University. Carly Salter, '06 is a full time assistant to a professional muralist in Los Angeles. Jon Rosenzweig, '06 is a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan. Katy Brukardt '06 is an Assistant Teacher at North Wall Schools Child Development Center, a Montessori school in Spokane, WA. Natalie Ross, '05 will be attending the graduate program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. Summer Hills-Bonczyk, '05 is attending the MFA program in ceramics at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She showed her ceramic sculpture in a 2 person show titled SURFACING at MIRA Gallery, in Mpls., in June, 2006. Colleen Stockmann, '05 is working at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Elisa Berry, '05 had work in the Minnesota 3D Biennial 2007, a juried exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul. The show runs Nov. 17 - Feb. 3, 2008. Sarah Marsh, '05 recieved a work-study scholarship to Penland for Summer, 2006, studying creative furniture design. Courtney Dicmas, '05 taught painting, color theory and mixed media classes at a non-profit for adult artists with developmental disabilitie, at Anodyne Artist Company in Minneapolis in 2007. She is teaching English in Gyeonggi-Do province in South Korea, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jumana Al Hashal, '04, is attending the University of Washington program for a Master of Communication in Digital Media. She showed her short animation "Memories in Exile" at the California Building Gallery, Mpls., May, 2007. She volunteers teaching screenprinting at the Vera Project, a youth arts center in Seattle. She had work in Tekween, Making Art in Arabic, at Mira Gallery,. Mpls, Aug. 2006. She had work in 'Prism of Longing', an exhibit at the Phipps Center, Hudson WI, Jan., 2006 on the subject of Arab/Israeli relations in the Middle East. View a pdf file of the invitation prismpostcard.pdf. She had prints in "Graphic Images: New Works by 7 Local Printmakers" at the Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Feb. 2005. Her work was included in "Haneen, Between Home & Homeland" at Mira Gallery, Mpls. MN, Feb., 2005. Tiffany Kramer, '04 is in the Fibers Material Studies Post- Baccalaureate Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She had drawings in "Box Fresh" a juried exhibit of Minnesota student art at the Soap Factory gallery in Mpls., Oct. 2004. Her sculpture, "Suspended Flight" was permanently installed in the Macalester Psychology Dep't. atrium, May 2004. Amy Voytilla, '04 is attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for graduate work in Art Therapy. Katherine Montgomery, '04 had photographs in "Box Fresh" a juried exhibit of Minnesota student art at the Soap Factory gallery in Mpls., Oct. 2004. Suzanne Shaffer '04 is in San Francisco, taking print courses at City College and working at AK Press. Kristin Msjolnes, '03 is in the graduate Architecture program at the University of Oregon, Eugene. She is studying Green Architecture practices. Helen Rice, '03 and fellow alum Josh Nissenboim started a web and graphic design company, Fuzzco. Alexandra Leaney, '03 is attending the film studies
graduate program at the University of East Anglia. Sena Pierce '03, was recently in the Peace Corps as a consultant for Tonga Family Health and set up a small-scale T-shirt printing operation to raise awareness and funds. Carly Schmitt '03, has her own mural painting company, Artist@Large, headquartered in Seattle. One of her murals can be found at Schroeder's Bar and Grill in St. Paul's North End. See a recent Macalester Today article about her work, http://www.macalester.edu/whatshappening/mactoday/2006winter/bigpicture.html Sarah Raser '03 is an Organizational Advancement Assistant at the YWCA of Mpls. Annie Batistini, '03 has been casting glass sculptural elements for Macalester Prof. Stan Sears' and Andrea Mycklebust's public artworks. She was an assistant at Penland, Summer 2006. Heba Amin, '02 had work in Latitudes, an exhibition of art by the recipients of Mizna's first ever granting program. The program was designed to facilitate and support original artistic work created by community members who identify as Arab, Muslim, Berber, or Iranian. The show was held May 18-26, 2007 at the California Building Gallery, Mpls. She had work in Tekween, Making Art in Arabic, at Mira Gallery, Mpls., Aug., 2006. She had a solo art exhibit in the Atwood Memorial Center Art Gallery at St. Could State University in Jan., 2006. She also had paintings in "Immigrant Status: Faith in Women", at Intermedia Arts, Mpls.,in Jan., 2006. and work in 'Prism of Longing', an exhibit at the Phipps Center, Hudson WI,, 2006. The Intermedia Arts show was reviewed in the Star Tribune. Amin was featured on a radio program on Air America MN AM950, Dec. 17 as part of the exhibit.. She organized "A Tesselation of Mideast/Midwest Artists" at Mira Gallery, Mpls., Spring,, 2004 and was named an Institute for Community Cultural Development Fellow for Minneapolis, 2004. She had paintings in"Revealing Truths: Muslim Women Artists" Spring 2003 at the Anne C. Fisher Gallery at the Center for Being and Becoming, Washington, DC. Her work was included in "Haneen, Between Home & Homeland" at Mira Gallery,, Mpls. MN, Feb. 2005. Katrina Lamb, '02 was in the Bridge Art Fair in Miami at the Catalina Hotel, with Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, Dec. 6-9, 2007. She had work in Read & Read, an exhibit at the Marin County Free Library, Sept. 15 - Nov. 16, 2007. She had an installation project, Flags and Anthems to Bring Us Closer to "Here," in June, 2007 at KEYS THAT FIT in Oakland, CA. She completed the New Genres MFA program at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. Check out the MFA exhibit http://sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=239 In Oct., 2006, she did a set of comedy/crying/& love songs at a visual culture conference, TRANS, in Madison, Wisconsin. Check it out. http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Conference/trans.html Nov. 2, 2006 she was part of the entertainment (music) in San Francisco at the New Langton gallery annual gala dinner and art auction, and had drawings there. http://www.newlangtonarts.org Loren Smith '02 has been working on the installation crew at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, since Fall, 2005. Jennifer Andrus Castro '02, is the Customer Service Representative at Art Materials, a Minneapolis art supply retailer. Jesse Cox, '01 was the director of Brooklyn Fire Proof, a gallery/interdisciplinary art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She recently co-curated a show called "F O L K : photographs, artifacts, film and music recordings from the Alan Lomax Archives." She has worked at VAGA, an artists' copyright protection agency in New York. She assisted artist Mark Dion in research for his "Field Guide to the Wildlife of Madison Square Park" a 2002 Public Art Fund Project. Emma Spertus, '01 had work in MAs Select MFAs, featuring work by students in the MFA program in Studio Art selected by MA students in Art History at Hunter College/Times Square Gallery in NYC, Oct.4 -Nov. 7, 2007. She curated Come on Over, a 2006 exhibit of experiential art by artists from NYC and the Bay Area. She is a founding memeber of the RockPaper Scissors collective in Oakland, CA. See http://www.rpscollective.com She won a 2002 Intermedia Arts installation commission, part of Art Inside/Outside Space XV, sponsored by the Jerome Foundation. Her installation was recommended viewing by the New Art Examiner magazine. She is in graduate school at Hunter College. Elissa Cedarleaf Dahl,(Anderson), '01 completed
a mural at Catholic Charities Branch II Day Shelter in Mpls. in 2007.
Check out the project
http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2007/02/19/news/news01.txt Maya Winfrey, '01 completed an MA degree in the Performance Studies Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts, NYU, New York. She collaborated with Jess Cox '01 on a curatorial project at Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, NJ, in Feb. '05. Margot Orr, '01 completed both a Masters in Architecture and a Masters in Urban Design at Washington University, St. Louis. Britanny Anderson, '01, is a Development Assistant the Frederick R. Weismann Art Museum in Minneapolis. Aaron Edelson, '01 works as a printer/installer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Read about a his brush with censorship in the Baltimore city paper http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8616 with a followup in the Baltimore Chroniclehttp://www.baltimorechronicle.com/082004AaronEdelson.shtml. Carrie Stark, '01 worked at an art gallery called "Kiskadee: A Cultural Laboratory" in Trinidad in 2002. Gretchen Hooker, '01, is in the graduate program for Industrial Design at RISD. She was an intern at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rochester, NY, in 2003. Her collaborative artist book project, Good Eats, was selected by WSW for a Hands-on-Art Residency Grant. See the project at http://www.wsworkshop.org/_art_book/ab_feature.htm She previously worked for Springstep, an arts center for traditional and contemporary arts in Medford, MA. J. Guerrero '01 finished the graduate program at Parsons School of Design, NYC in 2005. Lucy Goldstein, '01 is enrolled in the graduate program at the Massachusetts College of Art. Jake Keeler, '00 (MN) received his MFA in painting in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has work in Rose Colored Glasses, a group exhibit at Passerby in NYC, Feb. 7 -10, 2008. He had work in GRUPE, at Passerby in NYC and at Mandrake in Los Angeles, in 2006. He had paintings in a 2- person show at Gage Gallery, Augsburg College, Mpls., Nov., 2005. He taught Principles of Art, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 as well as 2-D Design and The Mural at Macalester College. His mural for aND Gallery/Zander Cafe Building in St. Paul garnered interviews in City Pages and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. His work can be seen at http://www.no-fun.org Toben Windahl, '00, is a practicing architect. He attended the architecture program at UC Berkeley. His work was in an all stencil art show at Buddy Space in Chicago, traveling to Boxcar Books in Bloomington IN, Solidarity Books in Indianapolis, plus Nashville, Louisville and Pittsburgh in 2003. Elsa Lenz '00, completed a PhD in Art
Education at University of Arizona, Tucson in 2006. She was an Intern
at The Museum of International Folk Art at the Museum of New Mexico.
She is the Family Audience Specialist at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in
Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Kate Copeland '00 received her MFA in Printmaking
at Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. She has been on several artist's
residencies to Penland, was artist in residence at Wilson College in Pennsylvania,
Summer 2003 and in Fall 2006 is an artist in residence at the Oregon College
of Art and Craft in Portland. She will be a studio assistant in
daguerrotype at Penland, Summer 2007. She is on the faculty at Portland Community College and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Emily Stewart '00, completed her MFA in Fibers at Arizona State University, Tempe, 2004. She had an Artist Residency at Palo Alto Art Center in 2005, and had work accepted to the 2005 CRAFT USA at Silvermine Guild Gallery, New Canaan, CT. She exhibited at Macalester College's gallery in the Material Inquiry exhibit, 2005. Dan Tanz, '00, received his MA in Special Education from the University of St. Thomas. David Kurt , '00, is in graduate studies at the Savannah College of Art.
See his work at http://studentpages.scad.edu/~dakurt20/ Anastasia Masurat '98 taught at the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Mpls. Masurat published a 'zine of pop culture commentary called Love/Hate, 2003, available for $3. Contact lovehatezine@hotmail.com She is in graduate school at the Missouri School of Journalism. Rebecca Noran (Art Minor '99) exhibited her MFA Thesis photographs, 'Places to Go: Bathrooms of the Twin Cities ' at the Hennepin History Museum, Mpls., Sept., 2006. Noran is completing the graduate program in Interactive/Graphic Design in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota.She is a Communications Specialist in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Mpls.. Greg Fitz '99, is the Curator for Macalester College Galleries. He had paintings in a 2- person show at Gage Gallery, Augsburg College, Mpls., Nov., 2005. In 2004 his work was in Art On the Plains, a show juried by critic Eleanor Hartley at the Plains Museum of Art and in The Art of Democracy exhibit at the MIA, MAEP gallery. Gabe Akagawa, '99 (Minneapolis) received his MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he currently teaches sculpture courses. He co-curated and participated in "Faketure" a group exhibit held in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center Gallery at Macalester College, Nov., 2005. Siri Davies, '99, teaches the K-4 art program at the Congessional Schools of VA in Falls Church, Virginia. Susan Andersen is on the research team at Fusion Hill, a creative design firm in Minneapolis. Amy Gerber, '98 held an internship at the Oakland Children's Museum directing a visual art and writing exchange between students in West Oakland, CA and Accra, Ghana, West Africa. See the student visual exchange project www.re-presenting.org Amy coordinated this exchange as part of a masters degree in Art Education completed at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006. She recently released a CD with her band The Church Animals and is making videos, art and music in Albequerque, New Mexico. Nicholas Herman, '98,( Minneapolis) received an MFA in sculpture from
Yale School of Art in 2004. His work was displayed at the Sculpture
Center in Long Island City in 2005. In 2006 he received an Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrtaes Sculpture Park in NY. He works for the School of Visual Art and
Cooper Union, both in NYC. Suzy Bielak, '98, is attending
graduate school at the University of California in San Diego. "Waiting,"
a 2-person exhibition in Minneapolis at Gallery Co. was held in October
2006.. She had prints in the Jerome Emerging Printmakers Exhibit at Highpoint
Center for Printmaking, Mpls, Mar. 2004.
View her work online at http://www.susannahbielak.com/
She had work in the Aug. 2004 issue of New American Painting and
was selecetd for the Minnesota Biennial: 2D II at the Minnesota Museum
of American Art, St. Paul, MN, 2005. Lucretia Keeler, '97 completed the graduate Art Education program at Edgewater College in Madison, WI. She teaches high school art in Woodbury MN. Kristy Davis '97 received her M.A. degree from NYU in Visual Culture. She received a 2nd masters in library science specializing in Art Librarianship and special collections in 2004. She is an Assistant Archive Cataloguer at the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection, in London, England. Stacia Wick, '97 is a volunteer at the Urban Arts Academy in Minneapolis. Corwin Butterworth, '97 designs and builds custom furniture in Pawtucket, R.I.. Jake Tobias, '96 is a landscape designer for Wallace, Roberts & Todd in San Francisco. Meleck Davis is completing the graduate program in Interactive/Graphic Design in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He studied film and web design abroad in India and worked with an NGO of weavers. He is an accomplished drummer and has been playing Taiko drum for Ragamala Indian Dance Theater. Stephanie Day Iverson '96 (Minnetonka, MN) is completing
her doctorate degree in the History of Decorative Arts at Bard College
in New York, NY. She gave a talk on designer Bonnie Cashin's work at the
Goldstein Gallery, University of MN, St. Paul. Jenny Undis, '96, owns and operates Lunalux, a printmaking and design studio on Loring Park in Minneapolis founded by Tim Gartman, '89.. http://www.lunalux.com/ Leah Bowe, '96 attended graduate school in Art History at the University of Seattle. As a research assistant at The Art Institute of Chicago she gave a 2003 lecture on Nampeyo of Hano and the Sikyatki Revival, 1895 to the Present. She is currently working with the Bruce Goff archive. Hannah Padilla, '96 , wrote and translated material for "Ni Una Mas", a Day of the Dead Altar/Art Installation for the 370 tortured and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico. The ofrenda was at Mira Gallery, Mpls., Nov., 2003. Britanny Anderson, '01, designed the promotional graphics for the exhibit. Gus Reiber, '95 works in graphic and user interface design at a software startup firm in Boston. Jeremy Piller '95, is a prepress technician at First Impression Group in Mpls., MN. See his artwork online at http://www.mnartists.org/Jeremy_Piller Anne Cypcar, '95, received her MFA degree in Painting from Ohio University. She is teaching at Parson's School of Design, NY and working as a textile designer. Her website URL is:http://www.cypcardesign.com/ . She participated in the Momenta Art seventh annual benefit to support its mission to exhibit the work of emerging and underrepresented artists, in Brooklyn in February 2003, and at White Columns in New York, NY in March 2003. Her son, Slate, was born Nov. 15, 2005. Lisa Sanditz. '95, received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her solo painting exhibit 'Flyover' is on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO, Oct. 6, Jan. 7, 2006. She is represented by CRG Gallery in NYC. Several of her paintings were featured in the 2004 issue of New American Painting magazine. Nick Larimer, '95 received his MFA in 2006, from Parson's School of Design, NY, in Design and Technology. Erin Haney, '95 is completing her doctorate degree in Art History at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London. Rafael Salas, '95 , is an assistant professor in Drawing and Painting at Ripon College. He has a solo show at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, WI, June 1 - July 7, 2007. He had a solo show at Ripon College in Feb., 2006. His work was in a group show titled 'Risky Business', at PPOW gallery in New York, in Aug., 2006. He had a solo show at UW Waukesha, Nov. 2004. His paintings and drawings were in an exhibition at Chashama's 135 Gallery in NYC, Oct. 2003. He had work in a group show titled "Poignant" at A Space Gallery in Brooklyn, Spring 2004. See his work online:www.rafaelsalas.com Greg Prickman, '94 was an archivist and librarian
for the Chicago Public Library. Jeff Gillam, '94 is a graphic designer. His work is featured in the book, The Art of Modern Rock, the Poster Explosion. Jen Katz - Buonincontro '94, defended her PhD dissertation in Educational Leadership at the University of Oregon, Eugene, November, 2005. Her thesis topic was "Developing a Model for Promoting Creativity in Leaders based on a Comparative Case Study of 3 Arts-based Executive Studies". Keith Saunders, '94 is making art and painting "Floaty" murals in Taipei, Taiwan. He had work at the Mo!Relax Cafe` in April, 2006. See a collection of floaty art at flickr. See some painted banners for a Spring festival. Turi McKinley, '94 finished her MFA degree at Parson's School of Design, NYC and presented her thesis exhibition of interactive glass sculpture in June, 2005. She works at Frog Design and teaches at Parson's School of Design in NYC. Becky Herman, '93 (Grinnell, Iowa) received her
MFA degree in sculpture from Parson's School of Design, NY and had work
in "Exit Biennial, The Reconstruction" at Exit Art. in NYC.
She and Mark Shoffner '93, had a screening of their film, "Autobiography
of a Beaver" at the New Filmmakers Anthology Film Archives in October,
2005 in NYC. They also had work on display at the Sculpture Center in
Long Island City, NY, in December, 2003 and a a
joint site- specific installation in March, 2003.
See their work at http:// www.groupc.org
Christopher Tradowsky, '92 had an article in the Spring 2004 issue of Art Journal. He is in the PhD program in Art History at UCLA. Jenny Schmid '92 (Seattle, WA) received her MFA
degree in printmaking from the University of Michigan.
An assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, she was both a 2003
McKnight and Bush grant awardee. She received a 1998 Fulbright
fellowship to study printmaking in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
She had work in a 2-woman print show at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, titled "Unprepared" in Feb., 2004. Her work
was included in the "Outlaw Printmakers Show" at Big Cat Gallery,
NYC, Mar., 2004. Adam Burke '92 (Iowa City) received an MFA degree from University of Iowa in 2000. He has been engaged in multimedia and performance art projects. He is a Production Assistant for "Inside." a 2007 CourtTV production about the Iowa State Prison and has been taping numerous candidates for CSPAN's Road to the White House segments. See his work at http://www.atomburke.com Melina Weir '92, got her MA in art therapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, She is a practicing art therapist in Minneapolis. Contact her at melinaweir@yahoo.com Christopher Beccone, '92, was on a 4-person design team that won the architectural competition to design the new Akron , Ohio art museum. Contact him at cbeccone@hotmail.com Martin Curley, '92, is a design assistant in the Apparel division at Nike's European HQ in Amsterdam. He can be contacted at martin@solventdesign.com Ryuko Ozawa, '92 received an MFA from New York University. She had work in "Inviting", an exhibit at Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, Nov. 29- Dec. 23, 2005. Bill Lewis, '91 is an independent architect/designer in St. Paul. He received an MA in architecture from the University of Minnesota. Contact Lewis Design Studios at wsl@lewisdesignstudios.com Ethan Lebovics '91, has photographs on display at The Independent, Calhoun Square, Mpls. MN opening March 16 , 2008. He is a Production Manager for the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Josh Seaver, '91 completed the Masters program in entertainment technology at the Entertainment Technology Center in Adelaide, Australia through Carnegie Mellon University. See his blog at http://www.joshuaseaver.com/wp Lisa Tubach, '90 (East Lansing, MI) received her MFA degree in painting from Michigan State University. She will be teaching Foundations at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, starting Fall 2006. She was the Media Relations representative for the Nebraska Arts Council. ³Blended Geographies: Paintings by Lisa Tubach² was on exhibit at Underground Gallery at the Kansas City Artists Coalition, May 2005. Dan Noyes, '90, had a solo sculpture exhibition titled "stones uttering steel", in the Gage Family Art Gallery at Augsburg College, Mpls.in December, 2003. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a master’s of architecture, worked as an architect at BWBR Architects, a prominent firm in the Twin Cities, and is now in private practice. Charley Friedman, '90, presented work at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, NE in May, 2007. He was also in a show at P.S. 1 in NYC and in a group exhibit at Dowling College in January 2007, which was reviewed in the NY Times. He had a solo exhibit at White Columns in NYC in 2003. His website is www.charleyfriedman.com Karin Odell, '89, is an independent graphic designer in Minneapolis, at Venus Designs. Her website URL is: www.venus-designs.com David Wells, '89, received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. Beth Bogle, '89 is in the graduate program at the University of Minnesota in the College of Human Ecology. She plans to study children¹s writing and illustration combined with clothing design. Shannon Rolle Dittbrenner, '88, got her MFA in painting from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 1998 and has taught drawing at Pasadena Community College. Matt Pawlowski '88 owned and operated ESP Gallery in San Francisco from 1997-2000. His work has been displayed in in numerous shows at Circa Gallery in Minneapolis and he participated in the 5th Annual Monster Drawing Rally 2005 to benefit Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco. He has an exhibit scheduled at Circa Gallery, 210 N. 1st St., Mpls. Sept. 6- Oct. 10, 2008. See his work at http://www.circagallery.org/pawlowski.html Judith Altobell, '86, was a recipient of the 1998 McKnight Ceramic Artists Fellowship in Minnesota. Her work was included in The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture at the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth in 2000. Rick Swearer '84 organized the print studio for and was a board member of ArtOrg, http://artorg.info/ a cooperative artists' studio and education center in Northfield, MN. He is currently glass blowing with The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN.Monica Rudquist, '83 is a noted ceramist, receiving a 1995 Jerome Project Grant. She had work in the 30/30 exhibit at Lillstreet Gallery in Chicago, Feb., 2006. monicarudquist.com/index.html Nick Baker Swearer, '79 is a bronze sculptor working in Connecticut. He made Iggy, a 40 foot long Iguana sculpture from 12,500 welded railroad spikes. It is owned by the Science Museum of Minnesota and can be seen at the riverfront entrance to the museum. Rachel Fine, '77 is a graphic designer, trainer and teacher. In 2000 she received an MA in Human Development from St. Mary's University. See her article in Guidestar, a nationally-known provider of information to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Click on the December, 2006 newsletter link http://www.guidestar.org/DisplayArticle.do?articleId=1076 She can be reached at rachelfine@mn.rr.com . Gerry Scott, '77 is a Professor of Art History at the University of Oregon and a noted Egyptologist. Thomas Holman, '76 is director of the Forum Gallery in NYC. Laura Blau, '76 owns Blupath Design, a firm promoting sustainable design in Philadelphia. Chris Baird, '75, is a professional mural painter. She shows her work at Vern Carver and Beard Galleries in Mpls. and Vale Craft Gallery in Chicago. She recently participated with other Mac alums in The ArtCar Parade in Mpls., July 2007. Here is a link to her hand painted van. She can be contacted at christiebaird@comcast.netBeth Bergman, '73 owns and operates Wet Paint, a St. Paul art supply store. She recently participated in a group exhibit at And Gallery in St. Paul. http://www.wetpaintart.com/ Mary Griep, '73, is Associate Professor of Art and Department Chair at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. The 'Anastylosis' series of drawings was on display at the MIA MAEP gallery in Mpls., in 2007. Her work has been shown in exhibitions including the Chicago Navy Pier International Art Expositions, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Plains Museum. International exhibitions include those in Thailand, Finland and the Dominican Republic and works in US Embassies abroad. Cherie Doyle Riesenberg '72 was Curator of the Exhibition Program for the Macalester College Art Gallery and is a member of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM). Wayne Potratz, '63 (MN), is a renowned sculptor and Professor of Art at the Univesity of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Sara Aeikens, '63 (MN) operates Imprints International
and is a photographer in Albert Lea, MN. Contact her at aeikensara@hotmail.com Tim Gartman, '89, died January 12, 2003, after a seven-year battle with cancer. Gartman founded Lunalux, a printmaking and design studio on Loring Park in Minneapolis. His stylish and innovative use of antique blocks and printing equipment place him in the forefront of the Letterpress Revival movement. His family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Macalester College Art Department. Beryl J. Wright, '70 (New Haven, CT), d. 2000,
earned a PhD in Art History from Yale. She was best known for curating
"Against the Odds: African- American Artists and the Harmon Foundation"
a ground-breaking exhibition about the arts of the Harlem Renaissance.
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