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Alumni Weekend: May 1 & 2
Art and Design Auction: June 6
New York: 5:30–7:30 p.m. at the Mike Weiss Gallery on October 23
Chicago(at SGC conference): March 2009
Phoenix (at NCECA conference): April 2009
The alumni relations office is planning more events for 2009 and will let you know as soon as the plans are set. Be sure to send Andrea Adams, alumni director, your e-mail and mailing address updates to make sure she can contact you and let you know when these will occur.
E-mail announcements regarding your accomplishments to alumni@kcai.edu to be included in the next e-newsletter. Due to space constraints, the paper version of Alumni News will no longer include class notes after the September edition. When you send your information, please indicate “for Alumni News,” and please list your name, major and graduation or attendance years to ensure that your note will be included.
The alumni relations office now has a blog! Check it out at http://blogs.kcai.edu/alumni/. If you would like to be a guest blogger, please e-mail me at alumni@kcai.edu with the subject heading as “alumni blog.”
This on-line social networking tool is another way to stay “in the loop” with KCAI alumni events. Check out our KCAI alumni group page.
On Friday, June 20, a billboard-sized image of a piece by Amy Myers (`95 painting) was unveiled in downtown Kansas City. The ARTwall is a project of the non-profit Art in the Loop Foundation, a partnership of the Downtown Council of Kansas City, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the Kansas City Art Institute and the Kansas City Municipal Art Commission. Her piece, “Liquid,” is located on the south-facing side of the Town Pavilion parking garage at 13th and Grand streets. The ARTwall is a custom-designed billboard structure created to exhibit a rotating display of super-sized contemporary art. Liquid is the third work of art to appear on the ARTwall since it began in 2006.
Amy lives and works in New York. She will host a KCAI alumni gathering from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Oct 23 at the Mike Weiss Gallery in New York, where she will be showing new work. Please visit www.amymyersart.com for more information.
Sherry Leedy (`74 painting), gallery director of Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, has been instrumental in developing the unique and thriving Crossroads Arts District, centered at approximately 20th St. and Baltimore Ave. in Kansas City, Mo. In 1985, Sherry opened her gallery in its first location in the area on Wyandotte St. Then she and former husband Jim Leedy, who retired this year as professor of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute, purchased buildings on Baltimore Ave. and began renting studios to artists. This once dilapidated, vacant part of town grew and a unique community developed as local artists, designers, furniture makers and other creative professionals flocked to this artist-friendly area. The buildings on Baltimore Ave. now house the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and the Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Gallery. As a property owner, Sherry helps to ensure that the unique character of the neighborhood is preserved.
Sherry’s forward-thinking investment in the community has helped raise the status of the Kansas City art scene. She says that out-of-town collectors have been “blown away” by the quality and depth of the work that can be found in local galleries. The appeal of the Crossroads has encouraged many talented young artists to stay in Kansas City instead of moving to New York or Los Angeles after graduating from KCAI or art programs at the University of Kansas City - Missouri or University of Kansas.
Sherry received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Kansas. It has been 34 years since she graduated from KCAI, and in that time, she has worked diligently to balance time at home, in the gallery and at her studio. She offers the following advice to recent graduates: “Do good work, get work exposed through juried shows and in galleries, develop speaking and writing communication skills, and know that it is a privilege to be able to devote all of one’s time to the studio. In fact, most artists have to have more than one job.”
Sherry serves as a sterling example of the KCAI graduates who remain in Kansas City. Her roles in the Crossroads as active community member and gallery director have positioned her as a leader in the local arts market.
Dr. Milton S. Katz, KCAI professor of liberal arts, won the sixth annual William Rockhill Nelson Award in the non–fiction category. The awards honor literary excellence by Kansas and Missouri writers. Dr. Katz is being honored for the text, Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Baseball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer.
Dr. Katz teaches American studies; art, literature and film of the Holocaust; and peace and conflict resolution.
KCAI career services office is seeking alumni interested in participating in its internship and professional practice programs. Alumni pro - practice presenters and internship site coordinators are favorites of our students, and the alumni tell us they enjoy being on campus and interacting with students in meaningful ways. If you would like more information about how you can be involved, please contact Julie Metzler in career services at 816-802-3357 or jmetzler@kcai.edu.
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Unless otherwise noted, all events are at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. All are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the web calendar at www.kcai.edu or call 816-802-3426.
Sept. 4: William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has been making multi-disciplinary works since the 1970s and has exhibited internationally. From Sept. 5 to Oct. 18, new work by Pope.L will be on view in “Animal Nationalism” at Grand Arts in Kansas City. More information is available at www.grandarts.com.
Sept. 11: Juan Capistran is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in “Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Capistran received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine and his B.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design.
Sept. 18: A studio potter, Paul Donnelly began teaching at KCAI this fall and recently received his M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. After earning his B.F.A. from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, he participated in the residency artist program at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. He has exhibited work at Northern Clay Center in Minnisota, Santa Fe Clay in New Mexico and Lacoste Gallery in Concord, Mass., and has participated in numerous juried exhibitions throughout the country.
Sept. 25: Douglas Fogle is curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh where he organized the 2008 “Carnegie International” and a series of “Forum” exhibitions. Previously, he spent 11 years as a curator in the visual arts department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. His exhibition “Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-1964” opened at the Walker Art Center in November 2005 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Oct. 2: A special instructor at KCAI this fall, Misty Gamble is inspired by the human figure and all the qualities that make it such a unique and fascinating tool for communication. As a young girl she traveled the world and worked with her father, a master puppeteer. Gamble was honored in 1998 as the first American to perform in Iran since 1979, when she performed at the Seventh International Puppet Festival in Tehran. She received her M.F.A. in ceramics from San Francisco State University and her B.A. in studio art from California State University, East Bay. Gamble recently completed a one-year artist residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, where she earned the Howard Kottler Fellowship.
Oct. 9: Susan Chrysler White, associate professor and area head of painting and drawing in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa, received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis. Her paintings function on various levels while referencing the act of painting. They are executed by pouring and pressing without brushes, yet appear at first glance to be mechanically generated. White has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists fellowship, a residency fellowship at Yaddo Foundation and a residency at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States.
Oct. 16: Author of “Train Time: Railroads and Imminent Landscape Change” (University of Virgina Press, 2007) and “Landscape and Images” (University of Virginia Press, 2005), among many other books, John R. Stilgoe conducts research on subjects ranging from national critical infrastructure, steganography, catoptromancy, catoptrics, the fantasy origins of designed human and humanoids, energy-independent housing and the submarine locating of jettisoned firearms. He is currently completing a monograph on photography, glamour and extreme landscape. He is a winner of the Francis Parkman, George Hilton and Bradford Williams medals, the AIA award for collaborative research and the Charles C. Eldredge prize for art-history research. He serves as the Robert & Lois Orchard Professor in the history of landscape in the department of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. In his free time, Stilgoe sails a 1935 ship's lifeboat he restored himself.
Oct. 23: In 1997 Martin Venezky started his San Francisco-based design firm Appetite Engineers. The firm’s client list has included Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Reebok, Simon & Schuster, Princeton Architectural Press and Chronicle Books among others. Venezky also served as art director of Speak, a now-defunct magazine of popular culture, literature, music and art. He received his M.F.A. in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1993 and his B.F.A. in visual studies from Dartmouth College. He currently teaches in the graduate and undergraduate design program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Oct. 30: Adam Lerner is executive director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar in Colorado. Previously, he was the master teacher for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum and the curator of the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University and his master’s degree from Cambridge University. He was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1997-98). Since the early 1990s, Lerner’s scholarship has focused on the relationship between art and the public. He co-edited the book “Reimagining the Nation,” which included his own essay on 19th century sculpture and French nationalism. He wrote his dissertation on early 20th century American monuments, emphasizing the career of Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore.
Nov. 6: Betsy Nofsinger, a computer graphics supervisor at Dreamworks Animation, recently completed work on the movie “Kung Fu Panda.” Currently, she is working on “Shrek 4.” Originally from Kansas City, Mo., Norsinger began her career in computer graphics at Tippett Studio in Berkeley, Calif., as an rotoscope artist working on “Starship Troopers.” There she worked on several features including “The Haunting,” “Hollow Man” and “Blade II.” She also worked at Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand, on “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” before retuning to the United States to join the team at DreamWorks.
Nov. 13: David Carbone, associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of Albany, State University of New York, received his B.F.A. at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. He also spent a summer in Maine at the Skowhegan School and later earned his M.F.A. at Brooklyn College. Carbone has had seven one-person exhibitions, and his work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in museums, commercial galleries and alternative exhibition spaces across the country. He has published criticism and essays on painters in Antaeus, Arts Magazine, Art and Antiques and Modern Painters. He can occasionally be heard on National Public Radio. He will give a lecture entitled “Edwin Dickinson: A Painter of Constant Sorrow.”
Nov. 20: An alumnus of KCAI, Richard Peterson went on to receive his M.F.A. from the Instituto Allende/Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico. He chairs the art department within the fine arts division and teaches drawing, painting and lithography at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, Calif. He has received the National Drawing Association’s Award of Excellence and the Dewar’s Young Artist Recognition Award for Excellence in painting/printmaking in the state of California. Peterson’s work has been in more than 100 group and solo shows and is in many collections including Southern Graphics Archives, Rutgers University, University Anchorage Alaska and KCAI. Peterson holds a U.S. patent for digital lithography.
Aug. 30 – Oct. 4: “2008 Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Biennial: New Faculty,” opening reception 6–8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29
Oct. 18 – Dec. 13: “Kansas City Design Flatfile,” opening 6–8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17
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ArtSounds is a collaboration between the Kansas City Art Institute and the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Faculty partners from each institution join together to produce provocative events that explore a maximum breadth of means, methods, media and music: art sounds and music sees. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium, Vanderslice Hall on the KCAI campus. For more information, call 816-802-3423. The fall schedule includes:
Sept. 9: Jamie Gray, Dan Eichenbaum, Brendan Kinsella and Tim Pettet
Nov. 11: Gamelan: Pat Conway and Dwight Frizzell
Contact info@kcai.edu for date and location of an October performance, which will feature Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance and UMKC dance faculty.
J.Bird Studios in Kansas City, Kan. will hold figure drawing sessions for local artists and alumni. The cost is $10-$20 for a two or four-hour session, respectively. Artists who work in a variety of media are encouraged to utilize their skills in sculpture, drawing and painting. These sessions would be a chance for artists and alumni to get together and take advantage of a very affordable modeling session and create contacts with other local artists. Cara Long (’04 ceramics/art history) is the assistant director of gallery operations at J.Bird Studios and can be reached at jbirdstudios@gmail.com.
KCAI has a birthday coming up in 2010. How old will it be?
150
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100
The answer will be posted at www.kcai.edu/alumni. Be the first to e-mail Andrea Adams at aadams@kcai.edu with the correct answer and win a KCAI T-shirt.
Eric Sall ('99 painting) will be showing new work in a solo show, “High and Wide,” at the Acuna – Hansen Gallery in Los Angeles, Sept. 6 – Oct. 18. A reception will be held from
6 – 9 p.m. on Sept. 6.
Ellen Carey (’75 photography) will be in the Connecticut Biennal at the Mattatuck Art Museum in Waterbury, Conn. this fall.
Charles Schwall (’87 painting) will participate in a two-person exhibition at the Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville, August to October 2008. In September 2008, Schwall will open a two-person show entitled “Synchronous Events” at the Rueff Galleries at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
Jeff Burk (’79 photography) had a solo exhibition entitled "Quiet Places” from June 6-July 18 at the Brickton Art Center in Park Ridge, Ill. The show will consist of 45 photographs of the Midwestern vernacular landscape.
Lynn Smiser Bowers (’75 ceramics) had an exhibition at Terra Incognito in Oak Park, Ill., from April 19 - May 21. Visit www.lynnsmiserbowers.com for more information.
Mac Hornecker (’68 sculpture) was a part of the New Bronze Sculptures show at the Olson Larsen Galleries in Des Moines. Visit www.machornecker.com for more information.
Jesse Small’s (`97 ceramics) porcelain sculptures, “Ghosts,” will be featured in “World Histories,” a group show at the Des Moines Art Center, through August 31. Jesse’s “ghosts” have been shown in solo exhibitions in China and one-person shows in New York and Kansas City.
Patti L. Krueger (’07 sculpture) is showing new work in a solo show “Transparent Figures: Everyday Thoughts Exposed” at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Aug 1-30.
Maryann Hammond (`89 fiber) will be showing "Surface Designs" in mixed media and gauche on watercolor paper for the month of September on the 25th floor of City Hall, in the City Clerk's office. The address is 414 E 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Laurence “Doc” Snyder (’83) had a show of serigraphs (screen prints) and steel sculptures at the Kansas City Artists Coalition in Kansas City, July 11-Aug 15. Visit www.DocSnyderPrints.com for more information.
Mary Ann Coonrod (’75 painting) had a show in July of her colored pencil drawings at the eclectic gallery, Goodden Jewellers, in Kansas City. Visit www.coonieart.com for more information
Jan Huling (’76 design) recently had work featured in a show at the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair. Visit www.janhuling.com for more information.
Ming Fay (’67 sculpture) showed work in a solo exhibition, "Jungle Tango," at Eight Modern in Santa Fe in August.
Michael Allen Lowe’s (’02 painting) solo exhibition "Lazaria" opened June 4th in New York.
Ming Fay (’67 sculpture) was in a two-person exhibition at Lesley Heller Gallery in New York, June 12 – July 11.
Mary Kay Botkins (’91 ceramics) will show work this fall in a group show entitled “Transformations: 6 x 6” at The Clay Art Center in Port Chester.
Nobuhito Nishigawara (’99 ceramics) will show work this fall in a group show at Winston Wachter Fine Arts in New York. In February 2009, Nobohito will have a solo show with the same gallery.
Robert ('90 photo/video) and Shana ParkeHarrison will have a solo show, “New Works,” at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York for the month of October.
Jim Innes (’56 painting) is preparing a show of monotypes for an exhibition in February at the Lime Blue Gallery in Charleston. In addition, Charleston’s office of cultural affairs is organizing a show of his Mexican paintings in the Waterfront Gallery for April.
Jeff Burk (’79 photography) had three of his prints included in the Photographic Center Northwest's 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition entitled "Please Ring Bell!" It was juried by Rod Slemmons, director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. The show was July 11 - Aug. 28 in Seattle. Images can be seen at www.jeffburk-photo.com.
Ming Fay (’67 sculpture) is showing new work in a group exhibition, "New Ink Art: Innovation and Beyond," at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Exhibition opened Aug 23.
Cay Meldyn Weston Drachnik (’42 painting) has returned from Belmont, Calif., where she had work in a show at the University of Notre Dame De Namur. She also visited Africa last year, and had a group show of paintings of Africa for the month of July at the Barton Art Gallery in Sacramento.
Ron Grauer (’48) had a graphic design firm in Los Angeles for 15 years, and painted for his own Carmel, Calif. gallery for seven years. He has continued to paint and illustrate. His wife is also a painter.
Bill Rakocy (’50 painting) has been busy this year publishing "Mogollon Diary No.3," his third book on the ghost town of Mogollon, N.M. At age 84, Bill is still going strong and last year finished six 4 foot by 8 foot murals at the Texas Oncology Center in El Paso. After his retirement as curator from the El Paso Museum of Art in 1988, he has had more time to paint and publish books. He and his wife, Gloria, have five children and five grandchildren.
Bill Hesterberg (’60 printmaking) is finishing a five-year letterpress book project which documents the major collections of Thomas Bewick's blocks worldwide and will be available from the Hesterberg Press in late 2008. The 80 page book includes printing from many original blocks.
Deanne McKeown (’60 painting) received first prize at the Sedona Arts Center Members Exhibition, as well as the Marilyn Sunderman Creativity Award.
Max Penner (`60 design) will be an artist in residence at Raymer Society Red Barn Studio in Lindsborg, Kan., Sept. 5–13. He has many fond memories of Lindsborg and has returned often to the Lester Raymer studio for inspiration and the opportunity to meet with friends. He plans to concentrate on landscapes from sketches and research from past travels.
Jerry Poppenhouse (’67 design) will teach a one-day workshop at Woolaroc on Sept 27, 2008. Woolaroc is a wildlife refuge and western museum near Bartlesville, Okla.
Ed Gallucci’s (’68 graphic design) oldest daughter, Mara, graduated from Monmouth University with a degree in history and elementary education, and his son Michael graduated from high school and will be attending Virginia Tech this fall as a physics major. Ed has been working on his life's work as a photographer digitizing my negatives and chromes of portraits from the `70s & `80s, as well as working on a book project using his photos of Bruce Springsteen in the early years.
Mark Mulvany (’69 graphic design) has a graphic design business called Mark Mulvany Graphic Design located in Denver, where he specializes in print design. He is currently involved in a 208-page case-bound book entitled "Built for Learning," which celebrates the architectural history of the University of Denver. He is also in the preliminary stages of a new book design for renowned Colorado landscape photographer John Fielder.
April Greiman (’70 design) will be honored with the Masters Series Award and a retrospective exhibition at the School of the Visual Arts in New York. She heads the Los Angeles design consultancy Made in Space. "April Greiman: Does It Make Sense?" will be on view Oct. 20–Dec. 13 at the Visual Arts Museum. A reception will take place from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 20, and her lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 21.
Paul Pawlaczyk (’72 painting) has taken a position as Preparator at The Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pa. He has just completed the installation of the exhibition “Offspring of the Winds: The Horse in Art and Imagination.” This exhibition features the artistic representation of the horse in diverse cultures over the past 3,000 years, with works drawn primarily from the museum’s permanent collections and enhanced by local and regional donors. The show runs July 12-Sept. 7. Paul also maintains his musical career as Paul Michael and The Blues Recruits, performing most recently as a headliner at an outdoor concert. Contact him at pawlaczyk67@hotmail.com.
Kevin Mullins (’72 painting) is participating in two group shows: the River City Biennale in Wichita, Kan., and "Regrowth" at the Greenhill Center for the Arts in Greensboro, N.C.
Jamie Horwitz (’73 painting), associate professor of architecture at Iowa State University, just received an award to be the Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville for spring 2009. She will give several lectures at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky. For more information, visit www.art.louisville.edu/morganlecture/.
Dean Snyder (’74 sculpture) was chosen by the Olympic Committee to be included in the group of 130 sculptors to display new works at the Bejing International City Sculpture Exhibition, opening August 2008. His work "Boogle" is a carved marble sculpture which will be located inside the new Olympic Aquatic Center.
Deborah Kahn (’75 painting) will be in a four-person group show in January 2009. She teaches at Chautauqua in New York. Also, she was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.
Allan Winkler (’75 ceramics) gave a workshop in ceramics and papercutting at Pottery Northwest. He also plays the drums for the band Hearts of Darkness Afrobeat. They played outside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. On July 18 as part of their Friday night concert series. His 12-year-old son, Eli, played the drums with his band Illusion for a later Kemper Museum concert on Aug. 29.
Mike Lyon (’75 painting) continues to be a working artist in Kansas City, where he makes large scale paintings, drawings and woodblock prints. Mike had a solo exhibition at the Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kan., March 20-July 19. He is represented by Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. One of his large-scale works on paper, a life-size watercolor with pen and ink portrait of Crosby Kemper, was purchased by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and is currently on display there. He and his wife, Linda, have five children between the ages of 23 and 27. Linda and Mike share a stand in the second violin section of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. Visit http://mlyon.com for more information
Philip Hale (’75 painting) would like to promote the Midwest Paint Group exhibition “Pride of Place: An Exhibition of Paintings Exploring Water Motifs in Landscape” in Ryerson Woods, Ill. It features works of four KCAI painting alumni, Bob Brock (’79), Philip Hale (’75), Timothy King (’81) and Jeremy Long (’89). The exhibition was held July 26–Aug. 17 at the Brushwood Estate Home in the Ryerson Woods Conservation Area. Visit www.midwest-paint-group.org for more information.
Laura Foster Nicholson (’76 fiber) will have work at the Patina Gallery and Katie Gingrass Gallery for SOFA in Chicago this November. She has been designing home textiles for Crate & Barrel (www.crateandbarrel.com) for two years, and currently has a tablecloth, apron set and six dishtowels for sale there. She also designs jacquard ribbons exclusively for Renaissance Ribbons, having sold her ribbon business, LFN Textiles, to them in 2007.
Michael Gault (’76 painting) of Sedalia, Colo. recently completed a contract for 200 original oil paintings for an installation in the Arrabelle Resort, located in Vail Square. The paintings include Colorado landscapes, street scenes and wildlife scenes. Michael currently teaches part time at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He also is a featured artist at the Vail Promenade Gallery in Vail.
Dean Shaffer (’76 painting) was included in the 2008 Bowery Gallery juried show in New York July 29–Aug. 16.
Mark Osterman (’77 design) has recently accepted a position as process historian for the newly formed Center for the Legacy of Photography at George Eastman House at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, N.Y. Mark currently holds a position in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the Eastman House. Both of these programs are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mark and his wife, Frances Scully Osterman, have been important influences for the new culture of artists using historic photographic processes. They give workshops in historic processes worldwide, are both represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, and the Tilt Gallery in Phoenix, Ariz. Their work has been featured recently in the Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James, and Le Vocabulaire Technique de la Photography, edited by Anne Cartier-Bresson.
Ernie Greer (’78 design) has retired from Steelcase Inc, where he has worked for the past 23 years in capacities including director of design and president, Asia Pacific. He is starting a new company based in Hong Kong focusing on design-based business strategies and product development. He commutes between homes in Hong Kong, Michigan and Thailand and can be reached at epgreer@aol.com.
Karen Keifer-Boyd’s (’78 painting) writings will be published later this year. She co-wrote “InCITE/InSIGHT/InSITE: Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, The First 25 Years.” In addition, she wrote “CyberNet Activist Art Pedagogy” for the publication G.L.O.B.A.L.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N, Art and Education and “Computer Games: Art in the 21st Century,” for the Brazilian publication Maps for playing: The cultural relevance of games. Karen is currently a professor of art education and an affiliate professor of women's studies at The Pennsylvania State University, School of Visual Arts. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences discussing the intersections of technology and education. Karen has presented at Yuan Ze University in Taoyan, Taiwan; Hong Kong Institute of Education; University of Art and Design in Helsinki; Northern Illinois University; Western Michigan State University; Ohio State University; and the University of Oregon. She is a Fulbright Scholar and is an invited member of the Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars.
Michael Bauermeister’s (’79 sculpture) piece “Buckeye” was added to the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection last year. It is on display in the Renwick Gallery.
David McCullough (’70 painting) is currently in a group exhibition at the Bath House Cultural Affairs gallery in Dallas, and showed watercolors and paintings in a group exhibition at the HCG gallery in Dallas in August 2008. He recently received his M.F.A. in art and technology and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the same area at the University of Texas. He is working on new Quantum Art: digital mixed media paintings for exhibitions next year. David’s wife, Barbara, is a photographer in the Bath House show, and the couple have been working on several ceramic installations for commissions in Dallas. His son Devin, a young photographer, had a photo published in the “Best of College Photography Annual 2008.”
Rick Patrick (’79 painting) has several shows featuring his spoken word “True Stories.” Visit www.talkingsktick.us for more information.
Brenda Cole Seymour (’80 design) and her Mural Arts Studio in San Francisco recently completed several murals, tapestries and a large mosaic for the hotel lobby registration desk at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Brenda and the Mural Arts Studio also completed several pieces for the Disney Tokyo Hotel. Working with John Rufenacht Interior Design in Kansas City, Brenda and the Mural Arts Studio completed and installed several pieces for a private residence in Pebble Beach.
Louis Katz (’81 ceramics) had a show at the Islander Art Gallery in Soho, Texas, last February.
Keith Williamson (’81 design) was an art director for five years in Kansas City, then in 1987 moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he produced digital work on Scitex and Macintosh systems. From 1992 to the present, he has been the owner of Wonderdogpro.com, a creative services studio, specializing in designing and producing a variety of visual media using digital technology. Since 2001, Keith has been to Brazil five times, where he met his wife, Cecilia. The couple recently celebrated their sixth anniversary.
Kent Mauck (’82 design) was recently recognized as an honorary member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects, Iowa Chapter. Since 1992, his firm, Mauck Groves Branding and Design, has published Iowa Architect magazine, an award-winning publication showcasing Midwest architecture.
Jeremiah Donovan (’84 ceramics) is currently a professor of art at the State University of New York - Cortland. He is also the director of China Study abroad. His recent exhibitions include Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca Ceramics 2008, and Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Institute : Resonance: International Collaborations in China 2008.
Debra Di Blasi's (’85 painting) mixed-media story "Quell the Mayhem Night" won Diagram's Innovative Fiction Award and will be published. Kelly Link, author of “Stranger Things Happen” and “Magic for Beginners,” was this year's judge. The annual prize awards $1,000 to the winner.
Mary Bliss (’85 ceramics) started a traveling raku kiln business this year in Kansas City. Mary takes pots and prepared glazes to private parties and fundraisers where guests and participants can glaze and fire pots they made and take them home when the night is over.
Jeff Bales (’86 design) is making a new 300 mpg vehicle which you can see at www.goblinmotors.com.
David Crismon (’86 painting) is currently a professor and chair of art and design at Oklahoma Christian University. His upcoming shows include the Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, Texas in November 2008 and the JRB Gallery in Oklahoma City, Okla. in Dec. 2008.
Becky Hart (’89 fiber) is the associate curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she has curated several exhibitions including “Julie Mehretu: City Sitings,” the reinstallation of the contemporary galleries at the DIA and Alexander Caulder’s “Young Lady and her Suitors.”
Maryann Hammond (’89 fiber) will be in the strategic governance division of the CIO Office in Kansas City, Mo.
MK12, a Kansas City studio started by graduates of KCAI, is currently doing work on the next James Bond film. The studio is designing and directing the main title sequence and the graphic introduction that appears at the beginning of every Bond film, and it is also working on several scenes in the film. The alumni that are a part of MK12 are as follows: Ben Radatz (’98 photo/video), Jed Carter (’98 photo/video), Tim Fisher (’98 photo/video), James Ramirez (’06 photo/new media), John Baker (’98 design/illustration), and Teddy Dibble (’80 photo/video).
Mark Greenburg (’90 printmaking) is married to Ann-Marie (Riederer) Greenberg (’90 painting). They have three children, Georgia (10 years old), August (8 years old) and Frankie (1 year old), and live in Chicago. They run their own music-for-use companies called the Mayfair Workshop and Mayfair Recordings.
Leigh Tarentino (’90 painting) was hired as an assistant professor in the visual art department at Brown University beginning this fall.
Mary Kay Botkins (’91 ceramics) taught a clay class at the John C. Campbell Folkschool in Brasstown, N.C., this past February. In March, she taught a clay class at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tenn.
Jessica Kincaid (’92 fiber) was selected to attend the 2008 Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Workshop and Retreat. In addition, Jessica was a 2007 recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Award. Also that year, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art acquired one of her pieces for its permanent collection. She received her M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and was included in the exhibition "Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970–2007." Visit www.jessicakincaid.com for more information.
Steve Grimmer (’93 ceramics) is an assistant professor of ceramics and area chair at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He is curating a show with three other ceramics alumni, Steve Godfrey (’94), Steve Rolf (’92) and Steve Roberts (’93), at the 2009 NCECA conference in Phoenix. Steve is married with three children.
Bradley J. Rinke (’93 design) is currently the senior graphic designer for the Liquor Control Board of Washington.
Holly Swangstu (’94 fiber), gallery director of the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, hosted KCAI’s Young Professionals Group July 24 at the gallery and spoke about her experience as a gallerist in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Mo.
Ben Bates (’95 ceramics) has been a full-time ceramics techician and a ceramics instructor at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Ill., since 2005. This summer, he taught an advanced ceramics course, preparing to build a 35-cubic-foot soda kiln under CLC’s new kiln shed.
Jason Sonderman (’95 printmaking) is currently a partial owner of a design studio with his wife, Micah. The couple started DV Studios about five years ago, and the studio has grown enough for them to work full time in Kansas City, as well as utilize the freelance talents of other KCAI alumni (Wayne Wilkes (’95 illustration), and Chris Nemeth(’94)) and other designers across the United States. Their portfolio includes Web and on line application design, identity design, package design and promotional design.
Nicole Emanuel (’95 painting) is currently a liberal studies master's degree student at UMKC with the goal of publishing a novel and completing an accompanying painting exhibition. She had two paintings chosen for the UMKC all-campus show in Spring 2008, and one painting chosen by the dean of arts and sciences for display in the Department office. Nicole is also planning a traveling exhibition of Midwest street art and poetry. She had been married 20 years, and has two children, ages 3 and 7.
Timothy Hutchings (’96 video art) has a solo exhibition of video works at the Kunsthalle Wien in Austria this month. He will also be showing a sculptural work called "Line of Sight" at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, Minn., in a show called "Nothing at the End of the Lane." Earlier this year, he had solo exhibitions at the Sydney College of Art in Australia and the I-20 Gallery in New York. Timothy has solo shows scheduled for The Center of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, and The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York. His work has been included in two separate exhibitions at the Charlotte Street Foundation. Visit www.timothyhutchings.com for more information.
Jerry Lyles (’96 painting) has completed his first academic year as a tenure track assistant professor of art at the University of Texas-Pan American.
Allison Paschke (’96 ceramics) recently completed a large commission for the lobby at Nvidia Corporation. She also had a solo show at 5Traverse Gallery. Her daughter, Phoebe, is going to the Berklee College of Music, and her son, Arthur, recently married and is studying computers at the Johns Hopkins University.
Kelly Porter (’97 printmaking) recently had her wallpaper business “Porter Teleo” featured in Vogue magazine with a celebrity designer. Also, “Porter Teleo” is now represented in four leading showrooms in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Visit www.porterteleo.com for more information
Amy Dane Falkowski (’98 painting) became the administrative director for the department of fashion design at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in September 2007. She also has her own small business, “amy dane,” where she hand-makes children’s hats which are sold at “The Purple Goose” in Madison, Wis. The hats were featured in Girls’ Life magazine in the summer of 2006. She currently lives in Lake Forest, Ill., with her husband, Andrew Falkowski, and daughter, Ginger, age 21 months.
Franceska McCullough’s (’99 painting) sculptures are being exhibited in the West Edge Sculpture Exhibition in Seattle, from Aug. 4–Oct. 4. Also, she is taking part in an artist panel at the Seattle Art Museum on Sept. 4 with the other five artists. Visit www.westedgesculpture.com for more information.
Elliott Oliver (’99 painting) and Liz Smith (’99 painting) have started a new project space, fakespace LA, in Los Angeles. They have group shows scheduled through 2008. The first show opening is Aug. 30, entitled “hey, what's on your mind?” For this show, Elliott Oliver, Gyan Shrosbree (’98 painting) and Liz Smith are creating a large-scale wall painting inspired by exquisite corpse drawings. For more information please visit their Myspace page or e-mail heywhatsonyourmind@gmail.com.
Brett Gonterman (’99 design/illustration) is celebrating his seventh year of marriage in 2008. He and his wife are expecting their third child this winter. The couple has a daughter, Naomi, 4, and a son, Gabe, 16 months. Brett is currently working on a children’s book.
Jennifer Kiraly (’99 painting) is currently licensing artwork to OopsyDaisy Fine Art for kids. She lives in Scottsdale, Ariz. with her husband and daughter, Deming Rose, who is 2 years old. Her Web site, www.bellytalesandbeyond.com, has great products for kids, including nursery labels and colorable thank- you packs. She continues to teach drawing and painting at Notre Dame College Preparatory in Scottsdale.
Josh Berger (’99 design) and Dana Fritz ('92 photo/video) have been working together on establishing the Workspace Gallery in Lincoln, Neb. Workspace Gallery is located in the historic Sawmill Building, which was developed by and includes the offices of WRK LLC. Josh is the project manager for WRK LLC, and the gallery receives financial support from the Porter Foundation through WRK LLC. Workspace Gallery focuses on one-person exhibitions of contemporary photography that are co-curated by Dana. Please visit www.workspacegallery.googlepages.com/ for more information. In addition, Dana’s experiences as a fine-art photographer are featured in an article online at www.pdnedu.com/features/0803itsaliving.shtml.
Christopher Willits (’00 photo/new media) is working on a new solo record. He recently returned to San Francisco from his tour in Asia, where he had concerts in Japan, China and Thailand. Visit www.christopherwillits.com for more information.
Aletha Fulton-Vengco (’00 painting) received a K-12 teaching certificate from Avila University and taught for three years in a charter school in Missouri. She received an award for “Teacher of the Year” for the 2004-2005 school year. Aletha moved to California in 2006, where she works to rehabilitate injured wildlife, protect the environment and educate children and adults with special needs.
Dylan Mortimer (’02 painting) has participated in several group exhibitions, including: “Holy Holes-Absolute Stalls” at the Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and “Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities” at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Art Center. An installation of his piece “Prayer Booth” can be seen in New York, as well as various other public art pieces in Iowa, Tennessee and Washington.
Meghan Kelly (’02 fiber) is planning an extensive North American tour with her boyfriend, Gabriel Harrison, as they go in search of outdoor statues, works of art and interesting sights. The two are starting a conservation business called OnSiteArts. The premise of OnSiteArts is to assess primarily outdoor sculpture and metal works and to keep an online database which schedules maintenance and cleaning. Their business website is www.onsitearts.com and you can also visit Meghan’s blog.
Michael Allen Lowe’s (’02 painting) paintings are collected internationally through the Wally Findlay Galleries (New York, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and Barcelona). Michael keeps a studio in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Visit www.MichaelAllenLowe.com for more information.
Guy Michael Davis (’03 ceramics) and Katie Parker (’03 ceramics) have a business along with Rebecca Harvey and Steven Thurston, called Non Fiction Design. Guy and Katie are in a show next month at the Uppercase Gallery in Calgary, Alberta–Canada, entitled "Old School.” Guy had a solo show up at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, through the month of July, and was recently published in the text “Nature–Inspiration for Art and Design.” Katie was recently published in the text, “Fragiles–Ceramics, Porcelain, and Glass.”
Anne Reeves Leone (’03 ceramics/creative writing) was in a show entitled “Mail Order Monsters” in Athens, Greece. It also included KCAI alums Jaimie Warren(’02 printmaking) and Cody Critcheloe (’03 printmaking).
Ryan Wing (’03 photo/video) received an Emmy nomination for his work on a commercial for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Heather Marton (’04 printmaking) has a second children’s book coming out in the spring entitled “Ol' Bloo's Boogie-Woogie Band and Blues Ensemble.” Also, she had an opening on Aug. 8 at J-Bird Studios in Kansas City, Kan.
Angelica Sandoval (’05 design/illustration) would like to announce the launch of her website, www.studioasandoval.com, which was designed by KCAI alumnus, Shawn Sanem (’00 painting).
Cortney Andrews (’05 photo/new media) is currently the assistant director of Plane Space, a contemporary art gallery in New York. She recently curated, “Losing Ground,” a group exhibition of paintings and photographs that address our perception of and relationship to landscape. Her work will be included in two group shows in the fall: “Levitations at Photo Epicenter” in San Francisco and “New York/New England/New Talent” in Amherst, Mass. She has also been accepted to CAMAC, an artist's residency in Marnay-sur-Seine, France for the spring 2009. Visit www.cortneyandrews.com for more information.
Curt Bozif (’06 painting/art history) has spent the past two years earning his MFA from the department of art theory and practice at Northwestern University, and he graduated this past June.
Garrett Fuselier (’08 graphic design) works at Ontarget Interactive, a Web design firm in the Crossroads Arts District, in Kansas City. He is also doing freelance collaborative work with Rhianna Weilert (’08 graphic design).
Thomas C. “Tom” Jenkins (’75 photography), died at the age of 54 due to a heart attack at his Dallas home. Tom was well-known for his 12 - year career at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he was the lead photographer. As an independent artist, his clients included the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, as well as the Museum of Fine Arts and the Rienzi in Houston. Tom was particularly talented in capturing images of item made of silver, using lighting and various backgrounds to manipulate the photographs. He is survived by his wife, Lisa, his 10-year-old son, Andre, and his sister, Nancy Wilson. Memorial contributions may be made to the Andre Jenkins Education Fund in care of Lisa Jenkins, P.O. Box 180545, Dallas, TX 75218-0545.
