from a tree to sparkle in the sun, drift in

the wind and spell the word DAYDREAM.

From that highly conceptual and creative

project, they moved to a very practical

way-finding assignment in the Institute’s

Gund Building, where they proposed

creating a more welcoming atmosphere

at the entrances and improving visitors’

ability to navigate through the building.

“We’re really looking at what we want

the visitor to see and feel when they

walk through our front doors. We’re

trying to make the place feel more

welcoming,” said Anthony Zart ’08.

That is exactly the “user-focus” Hulick

is trying to instill and is a common

thread the Communication Design

curriculum shares with the curricula in

both the Industrial Design and Interior

Design departments.

User Focus is Key

“The three questions design professionals

ask every day are: what is the project;

who is it for; and what do I want them

to feel. The emotional experience of the

user is what matters,” Hulick said.

That’s a big change, she notes, moving

away from being strictly wedded to a

medium and a set of skills and instead

espousing a way of thinking.

“If a prospective student is vacillating

between business school and communi-

cation design, I want that student,” she

said. “That’s the kind of thinking we need.”

Hulick notes that successful graphic

designers collaborate with their clients,

often working in teams to strategize

and create the best solution or set of

solutions for a communication problem,

whether the answers are found in print

or other media.

Digital Age

The tools of graphic design changed

almost overnight with the introduction

of MacIntosh desktop computers in the

1980s. Professor Gene Pawlowski ’65,

remembers the Institute’s graphic design

faculty embraced the change, becoming

the first academic department on campus

to have computers. “I think we even had

computers before the business office

because we knew it was going to be a

really good thing,” recalled Pawlowski,

who has been teaching at the Institute

since 1966.

Today, students spend most of the

first two months of the introductory

Design for Communications course

exploring their “toolbox:” typography,

images and key software programs

including Photoshop®, Illustrator®,

InDesign® and Flash®.

Hulick has also added the web design

courses, Graphic User Interface and

Information Architecture, to the curricu-

lum. “We’re about design, including

web design. We view it as a strategic

approach to a problem. What is exciting

about being at The Cleveland Institute of

Art is that we have the ability to work

closely with digital media artists from the

T.I.M.E.-Digital Arts Department, where

they focus on animation, video game

design, sound and film.”

TOP: PROFESSOR GENE PAWLOWSKI ’65

AND HIS STUDENTS REVIEW A STUDENT

PROJECT PRODUCED ON A DIGITAL PRINTER

AT GREAT LAKES INTEGRATED

ABOVE: SCREEN CAPTURE OF

WWW.HESSLAND.COM DESIGNED BY

COMMUNICATION DESIGN GRADUATE

JEREMIAH BONCHA ’06

RIGHT: “INFORMATION DESIGN,”

BY KARA MASON ’09

Medium Isn’t MessageContinued from page 1

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Where do CommunicationDesigners Work?

Before graduation, Communication

Design majors compete for internships

locally and regionally at design firms

such as Nesnadny + Schwartz , The

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

Cleveland, The Plain Dealer, Case Western

Reserve University, The Cleveland Clinic

and elsewhere.

Anna Robertson ’09, completed an

internship at MOCA last fall, designing a

press kit, flyers and museum store gift

certificates. She said the experience rein-

forced her choice of majors. “I chose

communication design because it’s a very

practical field, but I’m still doing art,

which is what I love. I know I can get a

job and still make something beautiful.”

After graduation, Institute students are

indeed consistently landing good jobs.

Nicholas Latkovic ’06 is among a growing

number of communication designers

working exclusively in interactive design.

He works for a Chicago firm that counts

Sears among its top clients.

“I don’t think I’d be in Chicago right

now if it weren’t for The Cleveland

Institute of Art,” he said. “I learned how

to present myself well in my work and in

articulating about my work. The whole

critique experience at CIA helped me to

become a better speaker whether I’m just

talking with someone over coffee or pre-

senting my portfolio in a job interview.”

Kai-Wei Hsieh ’07 is a junior graphic

designer at The Art of Beauty, which

manufactures products for salons and

spas. She calls on a range of skills honed

at CIA to design publications, packaging,

brand logos and various collateral materials.

“I’m so glad I graduated from CIA. I really

learned a lot from my professors,” she said.

Many other graduates design publica-

tions, including books and magazines;

others design way-finding systems or

collateral materials, such as posters, post-

cards, brochures or even product packaging;

still others work in broadcast graphics,

designing trailers or title sequences for

television or movies. Fewer than 10 percent

of graphic designers are in advertising,

according to Hulick.

“What’s really taking off as a separate

field of study is information design, or

taking dense information and giving it a

graphic application so people can under-

stand it. It’s not just graphs and charts;

it’s creatively conveying complex infor-

mation and sometimes it’s absolutely

gorgeous,” she said.

“Anywhere

you see words

and

symbols,

you’ve got

communication

design.”

Faculty Walk the Walk

As in the Institute’s other academic

departments, the faculty in Communication

Design are all professionals, active in

the field.

Pawlowski, who works chiefly in book

design, said continuing to practice is

“critical” to his ability to teach. “Students

will recognize it if you are not relevant. If

they are questioning either your abilities

or your knowledge, then you don’t

belong here. I’m sure they’ll tell me that

when it happens,” he added with a smile.

The adjunct faculty members teaching

in Communication Design this semester

are Steve Lageson, art director for Wyse

Advertising; Lizzy Lee, senior designer at

the Cleveland Museum of Art; Michael

Lehto, MFA ’07 informational and inter-

active designer; Christopher Ramsay, princi-

pal, Ramsay Creative; and Danielle Rini

Uva, senior designer at MOCA. “We have

great faculty. . . we’ve got some of the

leading communication designers in

Cleveland now teaching at our school,”

Hulick said.

THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM:

FROM AN ASSIGNMENT TITLED "HOMAGE TO A

DESIGNER," STUDENTS CREATED BOOKS THAT

SHOWCASE AND CONCEPTUALLY RELATE TO

THE WORK OF A LEADING DESIGNER OR FIRM.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: “CAHAN DESIGNS”

BY ERIN PILAWSKI ’10, “DUFFY & PARTNERS” BY

DIANA PERAITA ’10, “MICHAEL BEIRUT (SMART,

BOLD)” BY LIZ COHEN ’10, “CARIN GOLDBERG“

BY DAN SCHNEAR ’10, “LITTLE JACKET” BY

KATIE PARLAND ’10

KAI-WEI HSIEH ’07 PRODUCED THIS DESIGN TO

PROMOTE CLEVELAND’S INGENUITY FESTIVAL

“DAYDREAM” BY NICHOLAS BEDELL ’08

AND DANIEL SCHNEAR ’10

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CIA PRESIDENT DAVID DEMING ’67 PRESENTED A SILVER MARTINI

GLASS DESIGNED BY JEWELRY + METALS MAJOR JULIE BELFIORE ’08

TO TOBY DEVAN LEWIS AFTER AWARDING HER WITH THE INSTITUTE’S

HIGHEST HONOR, THE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE, AT THE ANNUAL

CHARLES E. BURCHFIELD ’16 SOCIETY DINNER IN OCTOBER. LEWIS,

A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SINCE 1991, SAID SHE

WAS DELIGHTED BY THE HONOR, GIVEN IN RECOGNITION OF HER

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARTS.

Medal for Excellence

Art will have people talking in

Cleveland in the coming months when

The Cleveland Institute of Art presents

three thought-provoking offerings:

a visiting artist’s public art project,

a liberal arts symposium and the

Kacalieff Lecture Series.

Carl Pope Reveals“The Mind of Cleveland”

The Institute’s Liberal Arts Environment,

together with the Baker-Nord Center

for the Humanities at Case Western

Reserve University, commissioned

Indiana-based conceptual artist Carl

Pope to create a public art project meant

to spark a productive community con-

versation about the future of Cleveland.

Pope began his project, “The Mind of Cleveland,” with a website and pub-

lic presentations to gather thoughts

from Northeast Ohioans about their

hopes for the region, their ideas about

the challenges we face and their visions

for Greater Cleveland’s future. He is

crafting these ideas into letterpress

posters and public billboards to help

stimulate further discussion.

“This is an opportunity for the com-

munity to hold a mirror to itself, ponder

its realities, its challenges and its poten-

tial for change,” said Pope. “This is a

conceptual town meeting where every-

one has the opportunity to be heard.”

Forty billboards and several down-

town Cleveland kiosk posters will be

installed in March and April. Pope’s

posters will be featured in an exhibition

on view in the Institute’s Reinberger

Galleries from March 27 until May 3.

Pope, who is a visiting fellow at CIA

and CWRU this year, is committed to

using art as a productive catalyst for

social engagement and dialogue. His

previous public art projects in New York,

Atlanta, Indianapolis and Hartford

received critical acclaim and funding

from the Guggenheim Foundation and

the National Endowment for the Arts.

Pope’s project in Cleveland is sponsored by the

Baker Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU,

The Cleveland Institute of Art, and has received

additional support from Clear Channel, Cuyahoga

County Public Library and Councilman Joe Cimperman,

Cleveland, Ward 13.

Liberal Arts Conference toExplore “CityScapes”

The Institute and CWRU’s Baker-Nord

Center for the Humanities will co-host

a scholarly conference, “Cityscapes,”March 27–30, to explore the intersections

among the urban environment, the

humanities, and social change.

Author and New York University

Professor Nicholas Mirzeoff will be

the keynote speaker. His books include

Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and

Global Visual Culture, The Visual Culture

Reader and Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and

the Ideal Figure.

The conference considers “the city”

as a physical, political, economic, and

social entity that is at once a real and

imagined place which has inspired and

continues to inform some of the most

important work in the humanities.

Lectures, which are free and open to the

public, will be listed on www.cia.edu.

Keynote for “CityScapes” funding generously

provided by the Ohio Humanities Council.

KACALIEFF LECTURE SERIES, PUBLIC ART PROJECT,

SYMPOSIUM BRING ART AND IDEAS TO CLEVELAND

“The purpose

of art is to

lay bare the

questions

which have

been hidden

by the answers.”

James Baldwin

Kacalieff SeriesLooks to the Future

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow andTomorrow: The Kacalieff Lecture Series2007–2008,” will bring nationally and

internationally renowned artists and

scholars to the Institute for a series of

lectures this semester and next fall

exploring innovative, creative ways of

approaching the complex social, eco-

nomic and cultural issues of our time

and our future.

“We are all too familiar with Macbeth’s

nihilistic lament of tomorrow as the end-

less repetition of time and history. But

what does tomorrow look like in today’s

creative minds?” asked Julie Langsam,

Motto chair, painting department head

and director of the Louis D. Kacalieff

Visiting Artists and Scholars Program.

Presenters for this second biennial

Kacalieff series will be announced later

in the semester. The series is funded by

an estate gift made by the late Dr. Louis

D. Kacalieff, a respected child psychiatrist

who was passionate about contemporary

art and art education.

Look for more details on the

Kacalieff lectures and the liberal arts

symposium on the Institute’s website and

our e-newsletters. Email [email protected]

to subscribe.

LEFT: CARL POPE TALKS ABOUT HIS

PUBLIC ART PROJECT WITH (LEFT TO

RIGHT) PAINTING MAJORS SHOKO

YAMAMURA ’08, JUSTIN MARTIN ’08

AND PETER TABOR ’10

This past October, students from every major and level had a

chance to meet — and thank — the generous people behind their

scholarships at the reception underwritten by Smith Barney

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Above: Robert J. Jergens ’60, pro-

fessor emeritus, with the students who currently benefit from

scholarships he has established, (left to right) Megan John ’09,

Elizabeth Orchard ’10, Alexander Haines ’10, Jonathan Sommer ’10,

Melissa Horner ’10 and Laura Jurkiewicz ’10.

IF VIKTOR WAS YOUR

INSTRUCTOR AT CIA …

Massachusetts Museum calls forTestimonials, Works of Design for Spring 2008 Exhibition

The Attleboro Arts Museum will celebrate

the outstanding lifetime achievements of

Viktor Schreckengost ’29 in an exhibition

this spring and is seeking work and testi-

monials by his former students to include

in the show. “Viktor Schreckengost — Legacy Exhibition” will be on view at the museum from March 21

through May 16 and will feature 90 of Viktor's works, including paintings, ceramic sculptures and prod-

uct designs. See www.attleboroartsmuseum.org.

In honor of Viktor’s 70 years of teaching, the exhibition will include work by Viktor's Industrial

Design students from 1939 to 1998. If you were a student of Viktor’s and would like to have work

included in this exhibition, write a biographical statement and testimonial describing how Viktor

inspired you as a student and what effect he had on your career. Forward your statements along with

images of your work to curator (and 1965 CIA Industrial Design graduate) Chuck Tramontana at

[email protected].

save the dateScholastics, through February 2 — The 28th Annual Cuyahoga County Regional Scholastic Art Exhibition, on view in the

Reinberger Galleries, showcases the creative achievement of the region’s junior high and high school students.

SIE, February 15–March 15 — The 62nd Student Independent Exhibition opens with a reception Friday, February 15, from 6–9 pm.

“Cutting edge” is an understatement for this annual exhibition which features work in a variety of media from CIA students

of all years.

.E.M.I.T 2008, April 3 — The unbridled creativity of CIA students is unleashed on the big screen during this annual student

film, video and animation festival presented by the T.I.M.E.-Digital Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art

Cinematheque. Thursday, April 3, from 7–9 pm with party afterward. Admission is $8; Cinematheque members $6. CIA students,

faculty & staff admitted free with CIA ID. High school and other college students also free with valid school ID.

Spring Show, TBA — Look for an invitation to CIA’s annual Spring Show, which showcases the award-winning work of

students in our Design Environment.

Dinner by Design, TBA — An exhibition of the art of the table, designed by students in Jewelry + Metals, Ceramics, Glass,

Enameling and other majors, will coincide with the Spring Show. Look for more information online at www.cia.edu/events.

VAT Open Studios, TBA — Tour the studios of our students in the Visual Arts and Technologies Evironment (Painting,

Sculpture, Fiber and Material Studies, Printmaking and Drawing).

Ceramics in Pittsburgh, March 19–22 — The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts will hold its

42nd Annual Conference in Pittsburgh (www.nceca.net) and CIA ceramics alumni, faculty and former faculty

will be featured in an exhibition curated by George Bowes ’84 and Deirdre Daw ’80 at the Borelli-Edwards

Gallery in that city (www.borelli-edwardsfineart.com).

“CityScapes” Conference, March 27–30 — This academic symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute’s

Liberal Arts Environment and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities of Case Western Reserve University.

Lectures, to be announced, will be open to the public.

“The Mind of Cleveland,” March 27–May 3 — Scheduled to coincide with “CityScapes,” this exhibition

by conceptual artist Carl Pope will be on view in the Reinberger Galleries and opens with a public reception

featuring a talk by NY-based author Nicholas Mirzeoff the evening of March 27.

BFA Exhibitions, May 5–10 — View over 2,000 works of art and design by graduating CIA students in the Joseph

McCullough Center for the Visual Arts, Monday through Friday, 6:30–9 pm; Saturday, 9 am–5 pm. The BFA Reception

will be held the evening of Friday, May 9.

Design a Life: A Conference on Creativity and Health, May 16–17 — The Institute is partnering with Cleveland State

University, the Cleveland Clinic and Euclid Hospital to present this national conference exploring the link between

health and creativity. Featuring keynote speakers and hands-on workshops.

New hours for the Reinberger Galleries — 10 am–6 pm Tuesdays through Saturdays; noon–6 pm

Sundays; closed Mondays. The Institute distributes a monthly e-newsletter with announcements of

exhibitions, events, public programs and other CIA news. To subscribe, please email [email protected].

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Six Cleveland Institute of Art students competed to

win cash prizes from Avery Dennison Corporation,

which sponsored a student art competition last semester.

Seven awards — ranging from a $1,500 first prize to

three honorable mentions of $250 — were presented

and the winning pieces were professionally installed

throughout the Fortune 500 company’s gleaming new

215,000-square-foot building in Mentor, Ohio.

“The work that was submitted was very good and

is evidence that the Institute is attracting some

tremendous talent,” said Christian Simcic, an Avery

Dennison vice president, in announcing the awards at

the November ceremony. The winning works are not

the first Cleveland Institute of Art pieces in the com-

pany’s permanent collection. Last year, Institute

President David L. Deming ’67 sculpted a relief bust

of company founder R. Stanton Avery, which is dis-

played at the company’s Mentor building.

“We have a great deal of space to fill in our new

office building and we have decided to have a heavy

emphasis on local and regional artists,” said John

Wurzberger, vice president and general manager. The

company pledged to host a student art competition

again next year and officials encouraged Institute

students to again participate.

BUILDING A FURNACE, BUILDING SKILLS FOR LIFE AS GLASS ARTISTS

Glass majors added a new set of skills to their portfolios last semester when they built a

new, high-tech glass furnace in a series of weekly all-hands-on workshops. • “Glass artists

often end up building their own furnaces,” said Professor and Glass Department Head Brent

Kee Young. “By working together on this project, my students gained a better understanding

of the equipment they rely on; so it was a very practical learning experience they would not

get at most other schools.” • Young has long encouraged his students to develop skills in

maintaining the department’s furnaces; but actually building a furnace from scratch this

year took that skillset to the next level. It wasn’t an unprecedented leap, however. Slate

Grove ’06, helped build a furnace at the Corning Museum of Glass during his internship

there in 2005. • “One of the mainstays of studying in the CIA Craft Environment is

learning how to function as an independent artist in the world, not just how to use the

materials,” said Grove, who is now teaching glass at Urban Glass and 160 Glass, both

in New York City. • Glass major Uri Davillier ’08 is photographing the furnace-

building project for a DVD that Young says will extend the learning experience to

future years. Technical Assistant Chadd Lacy is spearheading the construction and

design of the unit and coordinating the effort, which began three weeks into the

fall semester and was scheduled to be complete by the start of the spring

semester. • The results: for the $20,000 cost of materials, the department

now has a highly efficient new furnace worth $35,000 that should last six

to 10 years; the students learned valuable skills; and, says Young, “There

was some nice team building with this project.”

The Institute is one of only four member institutions of the Association

of Independent Colleges of Art and Design that offers a major in

glass leading to a bachelor of fine arts (BFA) degree and has the

distinction of being the only AICAD school in the Midwest

with this degree. www.cia.edu/glass

LEFT: PROFESSOR AND GLASS DEPARTMENT HEAD

BRENT YOUNG DISCUSSES THE NEW FURNACE

WITH GLASS MAJOR GILLIAN PRESTON ’09

AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANT

CHADD LACY

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Industrial design major Justin Gargasz ’09 won

second place for an untitled oil painting. Third place

went to painting major Nicholas Moenich ’08 for his

painting, “Into the Void.” Communication design

major Nick Adorni ’09 won fourth place for a sculp-

tural work, “A Temporary Endpoint,” and honorable

mention for a series of photographs of that piece

titled “An Exploratory State.” Film, video and photo-

graphic arts major Jerry Birchfield ’09 won honorable

mention for his photograph, “Wall.” Drawing major Erin

Robinson ’08 won honorable mention for “The Travel,”

a digital photograph she printed on handmade paper.

AVERY DENNISON HONORS SIX STUDENTS IN ART COMPETITION

Works Added to Company’s Permanent Collection

exposure

Deming told the gathering of company officials,

Institute staff members, students, their families and

friends, “Part of the mission of The Cleveland

Institute of Art is to ensure that our students are con-

nected to the rest of the community and that means

providing opportunities for them to have their work

exhibited and evaluated outside of the Institute.

We are grateful to Avery Dennison for providing our

students with just such an opportunity and we hope

their employees enjoy the artwork now on view here.”

Best known for its office products, Avery Dennison

also manufactures self-adhesive materials; peel-and-

stick postage stamps; reflective highway safety prod-

ucts; labels for automotive, industrial and durable

goods applications; specialty tapes and polymers. The

company employs nearly 30,000 people in 57 countries

and reported sales of $5.6 billion in 2006.

And the winners are… First place in the student

design competition went to film, video and photo-

graphic arts major Laura Bell ’08 for her photograph,

“Lake Erie at Night” (above). Bell was surprised and

delighted. “I think that sometimes as an art student it

is hard to imagine your work having a life beyond a

studio critique,” she said. “Knowing that my photo-

graph will be part of so many people's daily lives is an

incredible honor.”

ABOVE LEFT: AVERY DENNISON EXECUTIVES

JOHN WURZBERGER (FAR LEFT) AND CHRISTIAN SIMCIC

(FAR RIGHT) WITH (LEFT TO RIGHT) NICHOLAS MOENICH ’08,

JERRY BIRCHFIELD ’09, LAURA BELL ’08, ERIN ROBINSON ’08,

JUSTIN GARGASZ ’09, NICK ADORNI ’09 AND CIA PRESIDENT

DAVID DEMING ’67

ABOVE RIGHT: “LAKE ERIE AT NIGHT,” AWARD-WINNING

PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURA BELL ’08

Cleveland Foundation Hosts Series of Exhibitions Featuring Student Work

Call it a win-win-win situation: work by Cleveland Institute of Art students is featured in shows curated by art history graduate

students from Case Western Reserve University and exhibited at the Cleveland Foundation’s downtown headquarters.

“For our students, it’s valuable professional experience in that they have to meet a deadline, work with a curator, and allow this

person whom they don’t know to create the context for an exhibition that includes their work,” said Saul Ostrow, chair, Visual

Arts and Technologies Environment and interim head, Sculpture Department.

The current exhibition, the fourth in a series that began in September 2006, is “Brave New World: Confronting the Unpredictable,”

curated by Genny Boccardo-Dubey.

“I really enjoyed working with the students and hearing about their goals for their work,” said Boccardo-Dubey, who is working

on her master’s degree in art history and museum studies at CWRU. “The students were all very excited about participating.”

The paintings, drawings and mixed-media works Boccardo-Dubey chose each incorporate elements of daily life in an exploration

of modern culture and society’s reaction to an uncertain

future. Featured artists are Mike Abarca ’09, Karl

Anderson ’09, Amanda Cates ’09, Carla Fontecchio ’09,

Nick Gulan ’09, Alex Katris ’09, Melissa Spainhourd ’08,

Darius Steward ’08 and Jessica Wheelock ’08.

“These students are gaining great exposure, in terms of

who sees their work,” said Ostrow. He noted that at least

one piece has sold from each of the three shows the

Cleveland Foundation has organized to date. “We’re very

grateful that the foundation recognizes that the quality

of our students’ work is significant enough to showcase.

It’s a reaffirmation of the good job our faculty does in

preparing our students,” he said.

For the Cleveland Foundation, these exhibitions,

organized three times a year, are “a way of supporting

emerging artists in the community and, at the same time,

furthering the scholarship and practical experience of

art history graduate students at Case Western Reserve

University,” said Kathleen Cerveny ’69, the Foundation’s

Program Director for Arts and Culture.

“We’re not a gallery, so we don’t have pristine white

walls or perfect lighting and we’re not open nights and

weekends. But we do have a very significant number of

community members coming through our offices every

day,” Cerveny said. “It’s a very strong, equal partnership

among all three institutions and we’re counting on this

continuing as long as it continues to work for us and for

the students,” she added.

“Brave New World” will be on view weekdays

between 8:30 am and 5 pm through February 15

at the Cleveland Foundation, 1422 Euclid Avenue,

Suite 1300, Cleveland. (www.clevelandfoundation.org)

ABOVE: MELISSA SPAINHOURD ‘08, DARIUS

STEWARD ‘08, CURATOR GENNY BACCARDO-

DUBEY AND SPEAKING ABOUT HIS

TRIPTYCH, "THE MINDER, THE SEARCHER,

THE KILLER," MIKE ABARCA ’09

LEFT: “CITY REFLECTIONS” BY

RYAN PATTISON ’07, FROM CIA’S

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“My education at The Cleveland

Institute of Art was really terrific.

I’m sure that’s why I was able to get

a job in a commercial studio after

graduation. It took real chutzpah,

working in a man’s field; but they

accepted me because of the quality

of my work. I want the arts to con-

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MORE THAN 300 PEOPLE HELPED RAISE THE ROOF. . . AND RAISE NEARLY $100,000 AT THE

CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY GALA IN OCTOBER. HELD DOWN-

TOWN IN CLEVELAND’S HISTORIC OLD ARCADE, THE FESTIVE EVENT DREW AN ENTHUSI-

ASTIC CROWD OF ALUMNI, FACULTY AND FRIENDS. AT RIGHT ARE EVENT CO-CHAIRS

(LEFT TO RIGHT) INSTITUTE BOARD MEMBER MARSHA B. EVERETT ’81, HONORARY BOARD

MEMBER JENNIE JONES AND BOARD MEMBER MADELEINE PARKER. ABOVE ARE

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN GRADUATES AND CURRENT CHRYSLER DESIGNERS JOSEPH DEHNER ’88,

ADAM RABINOWITZ ’06, CASEY SWANSEGER ’07, TODD RABINOWITZ ’02, SCOTT KRUGGER ’01,

RYAN NAGODE ’03 AND NICHOLAS VARDIS ’99.

“FROM HERE TO INFINITY & THE BIG BANG,” the Institute’s 125th anniversary

exhibition, was a retrospective show of alumni work presented at two venues last fall.

“From Here to Infinity,” in the Institute’s Reinberger Galleries, featured works by

distinguished and established artists and was curated by Reinberger Galleries Director

Bruce Checefsky. “The Big Bang” featured works of painting, sculpture, photography,

digital art and installation by 36 emerging artists at SPACES on Cleveland’s near west

side and was curated by Painting Department Head Julie Langsam. Alumni artists gath-

ered at the show’s opening in September. From left, Julian Stanczak ’54, William Harper ’67,John Paul Miller ’40, Viktor Schreckengost ’29 (seated), Richard Anuszkiewicz ’53,Alberta Cifolelli ’53 and CIA President David Deming ’67. Missed the show? Explore

the interactive online catalog at www.infinity2bang.com.

Friends, Faculty and Alumni Raise the Roof —

and Raise Funds — at 125th Anniversary Gala

raisetheroof!

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Hellos & Good-ByesInstitute Welcomes Five New Members

to its Board of Directors

At its annual meeting in November, The Cleveland

Institute of Art’s Board of Directors elected five new

members: Paul Clark, Joseph Dehner ’88, Robert

Glick, Rex Mason (who formerly served on the

Advisory Board) and Laura Ospanik ’80. Re-elected to

the Board were Fran Belkin, Barbara Hawley, Sally

Hollington, Don Insul, Carey Spencer, Peter van Dijk

and E. John Warner. Kirk Zehnder was elected to the

Board at the July meeting of the Board’s Executive

Committee. Gary Adams and Bruce Mavec were elect-

ed to the Institute’s Advisory Board, as were former

Board members Gordon Anhold and Maxeen Flower

’76. Harold Douthit and Eleanor McCoy moved from

the Board of Directors to the Honorary Board, in

recognition of their combined 60 years of service. The

Institute thanked Anne Ireland, who left the Board

after 14 years; George Dunn, who stepped down after

nine years; and Werner Gliebe, who served on the

Advisory Board for five years.

Submissions received after November 26, 2007will be printed in the next issue.

ALUMNI

Charles E. Burchfield* ’16 – was one of 54 alumni artists featured in the Institute’s125th Anniversary exhibition, “From Here toInfinity & The Big Bang,” which was on viewthrough September and October at theInstitute and offsite at SPACES. Other fea-tured artists included Clarence HolbrookCarter* ’27, Viktor Schreckengost ’29,Hughie Lee-Smith* ’38, John Paul Miller ’40,Richard Anuszkiewicz ’53, Alberta Cifolelli ’53,Julian Stanczak ’54, Ed Mieczkowski ’57,Robert Mangold ’60, Winifred Lutz ’65,William Harper ’67, Marc Brown ’69,BruceClaxton ’71, Shelby Lee Adams ’74, AprilGornik ’76, Laura Davis ’96, Ann Toebbe’ 97,Tom Vance ’97, Matthew Johnson ’98, ChrisMcLaughlin ’98, Donna Rogers ’98, JeffBechtel ’99, Libby Black ’99, Tim Callaghan ’99,Sarah Chuldenko ’99, Phil Lynam ’99, Ed Mullen ’99, Bill Newhouse ’99, NathanTersteeg ’99, Liz Mandeville ’00, DanaSchutz ’00, Charlotte Becket ’02, LaurenBugaj* ’02, Michael Cirelli ’02, RobertGoodman ’02, Andrea Gaydos Landau ’02,Chris Landau ’02, Nancy Yusko ’02, BenGrasso ’03, Joann Harrah ’03, Anna Lorich ’03,Jennifer Axner ’04, Lisa Ramsey ’04, ErikaNeola ’05, Kelly Simpson ’05, Ryan Divita ’06,Mike Dotson ’06, Derek Gelvin ’06, ScottGoss ’06, Michelle Murphy ’06, MarkReigelman ’06, and Stephanie Schwallie ’06.Faculty participants included PresidentDavid L. Deming ’67.

Paul Travis* ’17 – was featured in a solo exhibition this fall at Metropolitan Galleries in Cleveland.

Clarence Holbrooke Carter* ’27 – seeBurchfield ’16.

Viktor Schreckengost ’29 – see Burchfield ’16.

Hughie Lee-Smith* ’38 – see Burchfield ’16.

Charles Louis Sallee Jr.* ’38 – was one of theartists included in “The Harmon and HarrietKelley Collection of African American Art:Works on Paper,” an exhibition on view thisOctober at The College of Wooster campusin Wooster, OH. In September, Sallee wasinducted into the 2007 Hall of Fame atKaramu House. The Cleveland multi-culturalarts center is the nation’s oldest.

John Paul Miller ’40 – see Burchfield ’16.

Virginia Bub Moore ’41 – continues paintingwatercolor portraits and landscapes andrecently had her work exhibited at both CityHall and the Kissimmee Art Center inKissimmee, FL.

Marjorie Shaw Kubach ’45 – had a solo exhi-bition this November at the Edward WilliamsGallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University inNew Milford, NJ.

Jean Steiner Unger* ’47 – had two of herpaintings recently donated to the BathTownship Museum in Bath, OH. The paintingswere a gift from Unger’s nephew.

Mary Alice Mathias ’47 – placed second in a Women’s Art League painting show inRichfield, OH, this past June.

Albert Lewis ’49 – received the Friend ofEducation Hall of Fame Award from the OhioSchool Boards Association in October. Theaward was in recognition of “Uncle Al,” thechildren’s television program he and his wife,Wanda Lewis ’49, hosted for over 35 years.

Wanda Lewis ’49 – see Albert Lewis ’49.

David MacInnes ’49 – was featured in a soloexhibition this fall at the Palos Verdes Center-Walker Gallery in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

Benjamin C. Steele ’50 – is 98 years old andcontinues painting with oils and watercolors,and recently exhibited his “Prisoner of War”collection of 93 drawings and oil paintings.

Richard Anuszkiewcz ’53 – see Burchfield ’16.

Alberta Cifolelli ’53 – see Burchfield ’16.

Jean McLain Turner ’53 – was one of theexhibitors at the “Cleveland MiniaturiaSociety” show in Rocky River, OH, in October.A portion of the show proceeds was donatedto sickle cell anemia research.

Elaine Albers Cohen ’55 – had a one womanshow this fall at the West Shore UnitarianUniversalist Church in Rocky River, OH. Herwork included hand-dyed paper collages anddimensional, hand-cut paper assemblages. Five of her pieces were added to the church’spermanent collection.

notes Norman Magden ’57 – received an NBA Short Film Showcase Fellowship, and one ofhis films was chosen for inclusion in HarvardUniversity’s film archives.

Ed Mieczkowski ’57 – see Burchfield ’16.

George Zetzer ’57 – exhibited his paintingsand sculptures this October at the BeachwoodCommunity Art Center in Beachwood, OH.

Joy Praznik Sweeney ’58 – was one of theartists featured in “Art on the Fly,” a multi-media show at Penitentiary Glen Reservationin Kirtland, OH. Mark Sudduth ’83 was alsoincluded in the exhibition.

Robert Mangold ’60 – see Burchfield ’16.

Rolfe Singerman ’60 – retired after 30 years asan art instructor for Harvey High School in thePainesville City School District in Ohio. Whileteaching there, he designed a photo lab forstudents to experiment with black and whitefilm photography. He now produces digitallandscape and architectural images of westernMaryland, and recently had exhibitions at theSaville Gallery in Cumberland, MD, and theMaryland Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown,MD. He is currently working on a book por-traying the historic architecture of AlleganyCounty, MD.

Fred Gutzeit ’62 – was one of the artists in “Original Sins,” an exhibition which was onview throughout November and December atthe Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

George Roby ’63 – recently exhibited hissculptures and pottery in a group invitationalclay exhibition at Lakeland CommunityCollege in Kirtland, OH He also had a ceramic sculpture accepted in the regionaljuried sculpture exhibition at RosewoodGallery in Kettering, OH.

Thomas William Jones ’64 – had a one-manshow, “Winter Impressions,” in November, atthe Portnoy Galleries in Carmel, CA.

Deborah Teas Lass ’64 – her watercolor “Fish I” was recently acquired by the MuskegonMuseum of Art in Muskegon, MI, for their per-manent collection.

Charlotte Lees ’65 – served as a judge for the Ohio State Fair’s Fine Arts Exhibition inAugust. Lees has her own galleries in Akronand Columbus, as well as one in Park Desert, CA.

Ron Testa ’65 – was one of the artists featuredin the Lake County Discovery Museum’s CurtTeich Postcard Archives 2007 “Postcard ArtCompetition/Exhibition” in Wauconda, IL, thispast November and December.

Douglas Ungar ’65 – had work on view in theOhio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery exhibition“New Horizons: Rewards of Time and Place” inColumbus. The exhibition ran from Novemberthrough the beginning of January 2008.

Bruce McCombs ’66 – had work included in the recent exhibitions: “Biennial ofContemporary American Realism,” Fort WayneArt Museum, Fort Wayne, IN; “19th NationalExhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society,”Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; “81stInternational Print Exhibition,” the PhiladelphiaPrint Center, Philadelphia, PA; “71st NationalMid-American Exhibition,” The Butler Instituteof American Art, Youngstown, OH; “31stBradley International Print & DrawingExhibition,” Bradley University, TheContemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL; “2007Adirondacks National Exhibition of AmericanWatercolors,” Old Forge, NY; “NationalWatercolor Exhibition,” Juror’s Mention,Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI; and“Festival 2007,” Juror’s Mention, The GrandRapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI.

James Watral ’66 – exhibited his recent draw-ings and ceramic sculptures in “Shaken andStirred: Recent Works by James Watral,” atGallery 219, Eastfield College, Dallas, TX.

William Harper ’67 – see Burchfield ’16.

Marc Brown ’69 – see Burchfield ’16.

Bruce Claxton ’71 – see Burchfield ’16.

Charles Herndon ’71 – The Charles HerndonGallery, located in downtown Cleveland, wasone of the galleries included in this year’sSparx Gallery Hop, Ohio’s largest art walk.

Candace Knapp ’71 – was one of twoAmerican sculptors invited to participate in the 2007 International Exchange Exhibition at the Miaoli Wood Sculpture Museum inSanyi, Taiwan. Five of her 11 sculptures were acquired by the museum.

John Nottingham ’72 – along with John Spirk ’72, gave a presentation on innovation at the Executive Caterer’s Corporate Clubmeeting in October in Mayfield Heights, OH.The monthly program highlights localcorporate leadership.

John Spirk ’72 – see Nottingham ’72.

Constance Pierce ’73 – was recently promotedto associate professor of art, and awardedtenure, at St. Bonaventure University in St. Bonaventure, NY.

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Shelby Lee Adams ’74 – see Burchfield ’16.

Lauretta Jones ’75 – had work included in the“12th International Exhibition of Botanical Artand Illustration” at Carnegie Mellon Universityin Pittsburgh, PA. The exhibition opened inSeptember and ran through December 21.

Tom Aprile ’76 – had a one-man show at theUM Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. His work wasalso included in “The Ineffable Object,” anexhibition at The Art Gallery at Cleveland StateUniversity. David Pohl ’87 and Patsy Kline ’90also had work included in the CSU show.

Martin Boyle ’76 – had a solo exhibition ofpaintings at Kendall Gallery, Cape Cod, MA, in August.

April Gornik ’76 – see Burchfield ’16.

Denise Brunkus ’77 – has been chosen toillustrate a children’s book that is a collabora-tive project between First Lady Laura Bushand her daughter, Jenna Bush. The book, whichis currently untitled, will be published in thespring of 2008, and the proceeds will bedonated to two educational programs.

Richard Heipp ’77 – exhibited his work in a solo show at the Duncan Gallery of Art at Stetson University in DeLand, FL, inSeptember and October. He was also commis-sioned to create a public art installation byFlorida State University in Tallahassee, FL.

Barbara Klar ’78 – held her six-week jewelrywax carving class and one-day found objectjewelry workshop in October in Marbletown,NY. In addition, her latest creations wereincluded in “Art by the Foot,” an exhibition inSeptember at the BE Gallery in High Falls, NY.

Babs Reingold ’78 – has work included in “The Feminine Mystique,” an exhibition onview at the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ,through February.

Riva Siegal ’79 – currently teaches high schoolchemistry in El Paso, TX.

Linda Arbuckle ’81 – was one of the featuredartists in “Eat With Your Eyes,” an exhibitionat the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis,MN, in October. Greg Pitts ’83, Bob Bruch ’94and Pete Scherzer ’95 also had work includedin the exhibition.

Loretta Eby ’81 – and her husband own HotGlass, a company that specializes in the hand-blown creation of oil lamps, ornaments, per-fume bottles, paperweights and garden globes.She works out of her studio at Happy ValleyPottery in Watkinsville, GA.

Greg Pitts ’83 – see Arbuckle ’81.

Cathy Rehn Vella ’83 – exhibited her animaldrawings at the Federated Church of ChagrinFalls in Chagrin Falls, OH, in October.

Mark Sudduth ’83 – see Sweeney ’58.

Brian Joiner ’85 – was one of the artists in“Celebration of Creativity: OAC Fellowships1980–2005,” an exhibition at the Ohio ArtCouncil’s Riffe Gallery in Columbus that fea-tured a diverse selection of 18 Ohio artistswho have received Individual ArtistFellowships in the past 25 years. Lori Kella ’97was also included in the exhibition.

Mark Howard ’86 – has designed public art,trash cans and grates, for the Euclid Corridorproject in Cleveland.

Pamela Argentieri ’87 – has work included inLark Books’ 500 Metal Vessels, published lastfall. In November, she visited Studio ArtCenter International in Italy, where she hadstudied between her third and fourth years atCIA. She is also producing a new line of digi-tally designed jewelry.

Anna Beekman ’87 – recently joined ChowanUniversity’s Visual Art Department as theAssistant Professor of Graphic Design, inMurfreesboro, NC.

Judy Brandon ’87 – exhibited work in the gardens of the former Café Limbo as part of “Gallery in the Garden,” an exhibition thatran in conjunction with the Sparx Gallery Hopin Cleveland.

Harriet Moore Ballard ’87 – had a one-woman show titled “Order and Chaos” at theBonfoey Gallery in Cleveland in October.

David Pohl ’87 – see Aprile ’76.

Ann Rea ’87 – was featured in the Novemberissue of The Wine Enthusiast. She is a painterwho specializes in vineyard landscapes.

Philip Lewin ’88 – was recently promoted to Assistant Vice President, InternalCommunications for ABB, a company that specializes in automation and power technolo-gies, and will be relocating to the company’sheadquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Deborah Pinter ’88 – was part of “A Tributeto Masumi,” an exhibition in tribute to thedeceased artist and educator by her formerstudents which was on view in ClevelandState University’s Gallery C throughoutNovember and the beginning of December.Suzanne Adams ’94 also had work included in the exhibition.

Diane Pribojan-Rabak ’88 – had her first soloshow at The Little Gallery at BGSU’s FirelandsCollege in Huron, OH.

Monica Zimmerman ’88 – is currently a mid-wife in San Francisco, CA.

Michael Romanik ’89 – received a Judges’Selection Award at the Cain Park Arts Festivalin Cleveland Heights in July. In September, hedesigned and produced a limited edition repro-duction of an Aaron Douglas enamel pendantfor the Spencer Museum of Art’s gift shop inLawrence, KS, to coincide with an exhibitionof Douglas’ work. He also received First Placein the Fine Crafts at the Historic Shaw Art Fairin St. Louis, MO, in October.

Patsy Kline ’90 – see Aprile ’76.

Kari Russell-Pool ’90 – had work exhibited at SOFA, the 13th annual InternationalExposition of Sculptural Objects and FunctionalArt in Chicago. Also exhibiting at SOFA wereMarc Petrovic ’91, Ross Richmond ’94, Kevin Snipes ’94 and faculty members Eoin Breadon and Brent Kee Young.

Lucy Schultz ’91 – is currently an independentdesigner who used to work for Fisher-Priceand Mattel Toys. Her two toddler books, FarmFaces and Zoo Faces, were recently publishedby iKids, a division of Innovative USA Inc. Inaddition, her game “Gerald McBoing Boing”was published by Endless Games in 2006, andher dice game “Abgezoct!” was published bySpiel Spass in Germany last year.

Erik Neff ’91 – was featured in a one-personexhibition of recent paintings and drawings atraw & co gallery in Cleveland’s Tremont neigh-borhood in October and November.

Marc Petrovic ’91 – see Russell-Pool ’90.

Norbert Ziebold ’91 – was one of 25 artistswho participated in the memorial exhibition“to masumi,” this October at DoubtingThomas Gallery in the Tremont neighborhoodof Cleveland. The work of Adri Wichert ’07was also included.

Kurt Koepfle ’92 – has been named an associate partner in the New York City office of Pentagram, an international designconsultancy firm.

Frank Tyneski ’92 – became the new execu-tive director of the Industrial DesignersSociety of America (IDSA) in October. He is alongtime Society member who has accumulat-ed more than 50 domestic and foreign patentsand won numerous design awards.

Tracey Halverson ’93 – exhibited “AnimalPaintings” at The Purple Tooth Wine Bar inAnnapolis, MD, this fall.

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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY,

BY CIA PRESIDENT DAVID L. DEMING ’67

ABOVE: FRANK TYNESKI ’92 WAS NAMED

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INDUSTRIAL

DESIGNERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA IN OCTOBER

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Stephen Kasner ’93 – currently lives and works in Sacramento, CA, and recently published an oversized coffee-table book,Stephen Kasner WORKS: 1993–2006.

Suzanne Adams ’94 – see Pinter ’88.

Bob Bruch ’94 – see Arbuckle ’81.

Dian Disantis ’94 – had a one-woman show,“Zone 9: Subtropical,” this fall at the ShorebyClub in Bratenahl, OH. Her paintings represent the flora and fauna along the shores ofDaytona Beach, FL.

Margaret Yuko Kimura ’94 – see Kibbe ’04.

Ross Richmond ’94 – see Russell-Pool ’90.

Kevin Snipes ’94 – see Russell-Pool ’90.

Lissa Bockrath ’95 – exhibited her work in“Dissolving Nature,” a solo show on view atThe Wooltex Gallery in Cleveland throughoutDecember and January.

Timothy Collins ’95 – currently works at The Gathering Hope House in Lorain, OH, as a recovery specialist who leads art therapyclasses for the mentally ill.

Pete Scherzer ’95 – see Arbuckle ’81.

Laura Davis ’96 – was one of three CIA gradu-ates featured in “In Transit: The Road Isn’tAlways Straight,” a panel discussion at theInstitute this past October. Nancy Yusko ’02and Mark Reigelman ’06 also participated inthe panel. Also see Burchfield ’16.

Michael Jimenez ’96 – was one of the designers interviewed in “Hired Guns,” thefeature article of the September issue of

Event Design magazine.

Chris Zielski ’96 – exhibited his etched andglazed wall tiles in “Silver, Bronze and Steel,” at River Gallery in Rocky River, OH, this past November.

Chris Harvan ’97 – has spent the past threeyears getting back into web design and production. He is currently working for a localweb design company. His freelance promotion-al website is http://skipstonemedia.com.

Lori Kella ’97 – see Joiner ’85.

Ann Toebbe ’97 – was one of the five artistswho participated in the panel discussion,“Banging Away in the Studio: 5 SuccessfulAlums Share What It Means To Be a PainterToday.” The discussion was held at the Institutein September. Tim Callaghan ’99, SarahChuldenko ’99, Robert Goodman ’02 and BenGrasso ’03 also participated. Also see Burchfield ’16.

Tom Vance ’97 – see Burchfield ’16.

Vincent Como ’98 – currently lives in Brooklyn,NY, and was one of the winners of myart-space.com’s “New York, New York 2007” com-petition. A show was held in November in theChelsea district of Manhattan featuring thecompetition’s winners.

Susan Danko ’98 – participated in theNovember print show, “Monothon,” at Zygote Press in Cleveland.

Christa Donner ’98 – had work included in the“2007 Drawing Invitational with the PierogiFlat Files,” in September at Kent StateUniversity’s School of Art Gallery in Kent.

Matthew Johnson ’98 – see Burchfield ’16.

Chris McLaughlin ’98 – see Burchfield ’16.

Donna Rogers ’98 – see Burchfield ’16.

Libby Black ’99 – is among the 100 alumni andfaculty whose work is in “Artists of Invention:A Century of The California College of theArts,” on view until March 16 at the OaklandMuseum of California, in Oakland, CA. Libbyalso completed a summer residency at SPACESin Cleveland. Also see Burchfield ’16.

Tim Callaghan ’99 – see Burchfield ’16 and Toebbe ’97.

Craig Kucia ’99 – exhibited his latest body ofwork, “many sundays were spent talking ofrockets,” at the Art and Culture Center ofHollywood in Los Angeles, CA, this fall.

Phil Lynam ’99 – see Burchfield ’16.

Ed Mullen ’99 – see Burchfield ’16.

Bill Newhouse ’99 – see Burchfield ’16.

Sarah Chuldenko ’99 – see Burchfield ’16 and Toebbe ’97.

Nathan Tersteeg ’99 – see Burchfield ’16.

Daniel Amato ’00 – see Skirball ’02.

Erwin Angala ’00 – is a designer for GeneralMotors, and his latest design, the CadillacCTS, arrived in dealership showrooms this fallafter winning “Best in Show” at last winter’sDetroit Auto Show.

Liz Mandeville ’00 – see Burchfield ’16.

Dana Schutz ’00 – see Burchfield ’16.

Christopher Zahner ’00 – see Maugans (faculty).

Charlotte Becket ’02 – see Burchfield ’16.

Lauren Bugaj* ’02 – see Burchfield ’16.

Michael Cirelli ’02 – see Burchfield ’16.

Theresa Galido ’02 – is a senior designer atDigitas in New York City, a member of theParis-based Publicis Group. She is currentlydeveloping concepts for websites, rich mediabanners, and email campaigns for AmericanExpress. She was previously an Art Directorin Tampa, FL.

Andrea Gaydos Landau ’02 – see Burchfield ’16.

Robert Goodman ’02 – see Burchfield ’16 and Toebbe ’97.

Meredith Jorgensen ’02 – works for theDetroit Science Center in Detroit, MI, as theChildren’s Gallery Manager, and is helpingdesign exhibits for the museum’s new pre-school and kindergarten space.

Chris Landau ’02 – see Burchfield ’16.

Jen Omaitz ’02 – is pursing her MFA and wasrecently awarded a teaching assistantship atKent State University teaching first yeardrawing. She also exhibited her new paintingsand drawings at a show in Denver in September.

Jennifer Skirball ’02 – was one of the artistsfeatured in the “Cleveland Women inBusiness” open house at Mulholland and Sachsin Woodmere Village, OH, this past October.She and her husband, Daniel Amato ’00, werealso profiled in the October/ November edition of Shaker Life about the renovation of their two-family home.

Nancy Yusko ’02 – see Burchfield ’16 and Davis ’96.

Eric Zimmerman ’02 – exhibited his work atthe annual “Aqua Art Miami” in Miami, FL.The week-long event was held December 5–9.

Joe Bluhm ’03 – has published an art book onthe extreme side of live caricature. The bookcan be viewed at www.RejectsTheBook.com

Ben Grasso ’03 – had a solo exhibition, “Rust Belt,” at Thierry Goldberg Projects inNew York City in November. He was also fea-tured in “If I Remember Right,” a group exhibi-tion of paintings and drawings at the FrontRoom Gallery in Cleveland this fall. The exhi-bition also included work by Jessica Langley ’05,Christi Birchfield ’06, Michael Dotson ’06,John Haughwout ’06, David Krofta ’06 andPaul Koneazny ’06. Also see Burchfield ’16 and Toebbe ’97.

Joann Harrah ’03 – see Burchfield ’16.

Anna Lorich ’03 – see Burchfield ’16.

Miriam Norris ’03 – lives on the Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota working at theHeritage Center Museum in the Red CloudIndian School system. Her work is part of atwo-year grant project to catalog the muse-um’s three-dimensional collection of contem-porary and historical Lakota and other NativeAmerican art.

Jennifer Axner ’04 – see Burchfield ’16.

Anne Kibbe ’04 – was featured in “AllWomen, All Print, All The Time,” an exhibitionat Zygote Press in Cleveland in November.Christi Birchfield ’06, Denise Stewart ’06and CIA technical assistant Karen Beckwith ’87also had work included in the show. Alongwith Margaret Yuko Kimura ’94, Stewartand Beckwith, Kibbe also participated inanother Zygote Press exhibition, “FirstImpressions,” which was on view at theBeachwood Community Center inBeachwood, OH, in September.

Lisa Ramsey ’04 – see Burchfield ’16.

Michelle Murphy ’04 – see Burchfield’16.

Sandra Williams ’04 – is an assistant profes-sor of art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and recently taught a course on creat-ing mixed media works of art by combiningpainting with found objects.

Kim Botkins ’05 – and Nick Hawes ’05 weremarried July 28, 2007, in Cincinnati. She cur-rently works at LPK in Cincinnati as a design-er for Pampers.

Ryan Faraji ’05 – worked on EA Sport’s videogame “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08,”creatingthe tree graphics for the game.

Nick Hawes ’05 – is attending the Universityof Cincinnati and working on a master’s degreein Biological Anthropology. Also see Botkins ’05.

Jessica Langley ’05 – was featured in the“Virginia Commonwealth Painting andPrintmaking 2008 MFA Candidates” exhibitionthis September at VCU’s FAB Gallery inRichmond, VA. Brooke Inman ’06 and ValerieMolnar ’06 also participated. Also see Grasso ’03.

Erika Neola ’05 – see Burchfield ’16.

Kelly Simpson ’05 – is a designer at Danskwhose “Urban Picnic” table setting was featured on The New York Times website. Also see Burchfield ’16.

Thu Tran ’05 – was one of the artists who created a costume and marched in the “FoodParty” parade in New York City in September.

Christi Birchfield ’06 – see Grasso ’03 and Kibbe ’04.

Ryan Divita ’06 – see Burchfield ’16.

Mike Dotson ’06 – see Burchfield ’16 and Grasso ’03.

Derek Gelvin ’06 – see Burchfield ’16.

Scott Goss ’06 – had work on view in“Footlong,” an exhibition at Eastern NewMexico University in Portales, NM, this fall.Also see Burchfield ’16.

Slate Grove ’06 – was a featured artist in“Glass Works,” a group show at the HewittGallery in Marymount Manhattan College inNew York City in November.

John Haughwout ’06 – see Grasso ’03.

Brooke Inman ’06 – see Langley ’05 andMaugans (faculty).

David Krofta ’06 – see Grasso ’03.

Paul Koneazny ’06 – see Grasso ’03.

Michael Lassins ’06 – is a member of To Be aHigh Powered Executive, an instrumentalband whose first full-length album “We Don’tWant It Safe, We Want It Secret” was official-ly released in November on the labelRopeadope Records. Clarke Curtis ’07,Noah Hrbek ’07, Michael Marks ’07 and

Craig Rockwell ’07 are the other members of the band.

Valerie Molnar ’06 – see Langley ’05.

Mark Reigelman ’06 – has opened his ownstudio in Brooklyn, NY. He has designed anumber of boutiques in the Chelsea districtof New York City, and is now working withCleveland Public Art to develop a series ofplanters that will be part of the EuclidCorridor Project. Also see Burchfield ’16and Davis ’96.

IMITATION WAS THE SINCEREST FORM OF

FLATTERY FOR JEWELRY + METALS PROFESSOR AND

DEPARTMENT CHAIR KATHY BUSZKIEWICZ WHEN

SEVEN OF HER STUDENTS CAME TO CLASS

ON HALLOWEEN DRESSED AS BUSZKIEWICZ!

LEFT TO RIGHT ARE COLLEEN TERRY ’10, ANGELA

EBERHARDT ’08, LINDSEY HAWES ’09, BUSZKIEWICZ,

ERIKA UZMANN ’09, JULIE BELFIORE ’08, ELIZABETH

STAIGER ’09 AND AMANDA BRISTOW ’09

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EOIN BREADON, ADJUNCT FACULTY,

GLASS DEPARTMENT

ABOVE: “BLEU,” BARRY UNDERWOOD,

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FILM, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS

Salvatore Schiciano ’06 – was one of theartists in “Tis the Secor – a Fine Art HolidayExhibit and Celebration,” an exhibition atSecor Studios in Toledo, OH, in December.

Stephanie Schwallie ’06 – was recently promoted to Head Designer of the costumejewelry line for Simply Vera, Vera Wang, thefashion designer’s new line at Kohl’s depart-ment stores. Also see Burchfield ’16.

Denise Stewart ’06 – see Kibbe ’04.

Robert Brown ’07 – lives in Orlando, FL, and works at EA Sports as a central charactermodeler for video game characters.

Janet Bruhn ’07 – see Maugans (faculty).

Clarke Curtis ’07 – see Lassins ’06.

Noah Hrbek ’07 – see Lassins ’06.

Michael Marks ’07 – see Lassins ’06.

Craig Rockwell ’07 – see Lassins ’06.

Brittany Ruccella ’07 – owns her own company,Ccella Bottega, which specializes in makingclothing from organic cotton with non-toxic,all-natural dyes and re-purposed materials.

Adri Wichert ’07 – was one of two artistsfeatured in “Faces and Family Events At TheFront Room” in Cleveland this past Novemberat The Front Room Gallery. Also see Ziebold ’91.

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FACULTY & STAFF

Kristen Baumlier (Department Head andAssistant Professor, T.I.M.E.-Digital Arts) –performed “Oh, Petroleum” at the annual con-ference of the American Solar Energy Societyin Cleveland last July.

Ben Blount (Director, Extended Studies +Community Outreach) – had editions of hisbook, H.N.I.C., acquired by two library collections: The Joan Flasch Artists' BookCollection at the School of the Art Instituteof Chicago and The Clarence Ward Art Libraryat Oberlin College.

Eoin Breadon (Adjunct Faculty, Glass) – hadsculpted glass works from his two newestseries, “Lineage” and “Figures,” at the ThomasRiley Gallery booth at SOFA, the 13th annualInternational Exposition of Sculptural Objectsand Functional Art in Chicago. Also see Russell-Pool ’90.

Karen Beckwith ’87 (Technical Assistant,Printmaking) – See Kimura ’94 and Kibbe ’04.

Kathy Buszkiewicz (Department Head andProfessor, Jewelry + Metals) – had a piece,“Savior,” acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston for its permanent collection throughthe Daphne Farago collection. With the addi-tion of Farago’s gift, the MFA now houses themost comprehensive and important collectionof international studio jewelry in the world.Buszkiewicz’s piece is included in the show,“Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne FaragoCollection,” on view until March.

Amy Casey ’99 (Reinberger Galleries) – wasincluded in the 71st edition of New AmericanPaintings. She won an Ohio Arts CouncilIndividual Excellence Award. Amy is represent-ed by Zg Gallery in Chicago, where she had asolo show in October. Her work will appear ina three-person show at White Walls Gallery inSan Francisco this month.

Barbara Chira (Adjunct Faculty, Foundation) –had two drawings juried into an exhibition inJuly at the Kent State University DowntownGallery. Her latest installation work wasrecently exhibited at the annual Tri-C facultyshows (Eastern and Western campuses) andshe was commissioned by the ClevelandMuseum of Art to create a medium-scale lightsculpture for the museum’s annual WinterLights Lantern Festival.

Dan Cuffaro ’91 (Chair, Design Environment;Head, Industrial Design Department) – has beenhonored by Crain’s Cleveland Business as one ofNortheast Ohio’s up and coming businessleaders. Cuffaro was named one of Crain’s “40Under 40,” and was profiled with the other 39honorees in the November 19, 2007 edition ofthe publication.

Michael J. Danko (Visiting Instructor, LiberalArts) – presented a paper at the NonfictioNowConference at the University of Iowa as partof a panel titled “The Infinite Suggestivenessof Common Things.” He participated in aroundtable discussion called “Teaching theClassical Essay.” An edited version of this dis-cussion will be published in Fourth Genre, a lit-erary journal. A poem of his will be publishedin the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of TheJournal, a literary magazine published by TheOhio State University.

David L. Deming ’67 (President) – was commissioned by Case Western ReserveUniversity to create a stainless steel sculpturefor its campus. “Inner Circle,” a nine-foot highby 12-foot-long sculpture, was installed in thefall at East 115th Street and Bellflower Roadin CWRU’s North Residential Village. TheUniversity’s Putnam Endowment fundedthe commission.

Matthew Fehrmann (Adjunct Faculty; Film,Video and Photographic Arts) – had photo-graphs included in the exhibition “FutureFlux,” at Parish Hall Cleveland last fall.

John Garton (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts) –had two review articles accepted for publica-tion by Renaissance Quarterly, a scholarly jour-nal published by the Renaissance Society ofAmerica. One article examined a new publica-tion in German on the artists Titian andGiorgione, the other is a review of a newRenaissance textbook by Carol Richardsontitled Locating the Renaissance.

Rita Goodman (Chair and Associate Professor,Liberal Arts Environment) – has spearheaded asecond international conference for liberalarts to be part of Humanities Week 2008 incollaboration with Case Western ReserveUniversity’s Baker-Nord Center for theHumanities. More than 70 scholars fromaround the world sent submissions for theopportunity to speak about urban identityand the role the humanities can play inredefining a city. See story on page 4.

Gretchen Goss (Chair, Craft Environment;Department Head and Professor, Enameling) –participated in the Philadelphia Museum ofArt Craft Show in November. She broughtroughly 30 students from the Craft Environmentto Chicago for the 13th annual InternationalExposition of Sculptural Objects and FunctionalArt (SOFA).

Matthew Hollern (Dean of Faculty, Professor,Jewelry + Metals) – traveled to Italy inNovember to pursue faculty exchanges andreview programs at Studio Art CenterInternational, Istituto Europeo di Design, andthe Associated Colleges of the Midwest pro-gram in Florence. He will again participate inSIGGRAPH, this year as the head of the out-put team in “the studio,” which will include2D, 3D and 4D digital design.

Knut Hybinette (Assistant Professor, T.I.M.E.-Digital Arts, Foundation) – has a video gameinstallation, “Ripon,” which he created withTroy Richards, installed in a solo show at the Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicagoduring January.

Sarah Kabot (Assistant Professor, Foundation) –had work in the exhibition “Hot House:Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook,1970–2007” at Cranbrook Art Museum inMichigan last fall. The show will be on view atthe Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA,from February 9 until June 15. www.reading-publicmuseum.org

Kasumi (Associate Professor, T.I.M.E.-DigitalArts, Foundation) – was invited to perform for the opening night at the Chroma Festivalde Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico(www.chromafestival.com) and present a retrospective of her work to students and faculty at The Universidad de Guadalajara.Her film “The Free Speech Zone,” was chosenfor distribution by a company based in Milan,Italy. She was promoted to senior producerand director of post-production at SecondStory Productions, a Cleveland-based mediacompany. www.kasumifilms.com

Kevin Kautenburger (Assistant Professor,Foundation) – served as juror for “Open T.A.N.K.,”the regional juried exhibition of The ArtistsNetwork of Kent at Kent State University.

Liz Maugans (Adjunct Faculty, Drawing,Printmaking) – is curating “CAMP OUT,” whichwill be on view at Zygote Press through theend of February. Janet Bruhn ’07, BrookeInman ’06, Christopher Zahner ’00 and cur-rent CIA students Adrian Bertelone ’09,Carla Fontecchio ’09, Alexander Katris ’09and Jessica Wheelock ’08 are participating.

Saul Ostrow (Chair, Visual Arts and TechnologiesEnvironment; Department Head, Sculpture) – isworking on a critical essay for the WhitneyMuseum’s “Summer of Love” exhibition forthe inaugural issue of Routlege’s journal The60s and an article for Art in America on abstractpainter Jack Whitten. Ostrow will have essaysincluded in The State of Criticism, edited byJames Elkins and published by Routledge, andPhilosophy, Art, History, Future, edited byVladimir L. Marchenkov, University of OhioPress, both scheduled to be published thiswinter. He contracted to curate the exhibition“Color in 3D” for the Westport (CT) ArtCenter in May.

Troy Richards (Department Head, AssistantProfessor, Drawing) – had work in an exhibitionat the Sarah Meltzer Gallery in New York Citylast summer. The show, titled “Ceci n'est pas...(This is not…),” was reviewed in The New YorkTimes and several other publications. The NewYork Public Library purchased an edition of thework for its collection. Also see Hybinette (faculty).

Cris Rom (Director, Gund Library) – organizedan exhibition of artists books from the GundLibrary collection for the November “Joy ofText Festival” at Heights Arts Gallery inCleveland Heights.

Julian Stanczak ’54 (Faculty emeritus) – wasincluded in the “Director’s Choice” exhibitionat the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, OH,in October. Anthony Schepis ’55 was also afeatured artist in the exhibition. Also seeBurchfield ’16.

Anthony Schepis ’55 (Faculty emeritus) – seeStanczak (faculty).

Paul St. Denis ’60 (Faculty emeritus) – was thefeatured speaker at the September meeting ofthe Western Ohio Watercolor Society. Paulhas won several awards from this organization.

Barry Underwood (Assistant Professor andDepartment Head, Film, Video and PhotographicArts) – attended the Photo District News’ PhotoPlus International conference and expo inNew York City in October and exhibited workat the Photo Miami InternationalContemporary Art Fair for Photo-Based Art,Video & New Media in December at SkewGallery in Calgary (www.artfairsinc.com/photomiami/2007). He will chair the 2008Society for Photographic Education MidwestRegional Conference which will be hosted byCIA next November.

Clarence E. VanDuzer ’45 (Faculty emeritus) –exhibited his work in two shows this fall:“Decades of Painting and Sculpture” at theBeachwood Community Center in Beachwood,OH, and a retrospective exhibit at the MichaelWolf Gallery in Cleveland.

Brent Kee Young (Department Head andProfessor, Glass) – has work in exhibitions atthe Tucson Museum of Art and the HickoryMuseum of Art in North Carolina. His work inthe Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery,“Amphora.....Save,” from his Matrix Series, isnow installed with other pieces under thetheme “Craft and Lifestyle: Mystery andManners.” Also see Russell-Pool ’90.

Allen Zimmerman (Adjunct Faculty, LiberalArts) – was a featured speaker at an interna-tional affairs panel titled “America's Decline asa World Leader” at Oberlin College last May.

IN MEMORIAM – ALUMNI

Fuller Bogard ’30 – passed away on October 9,2007, at age 100. Fuller retired in 1960 fromGeneral Motors in Elyria where he wasemployed as a tool and die maker. He enjoyedtraveling in the United States, Canada andEurope. His other interests included photogra-phy and taking slides and movies of family andtravel. Fuller was preceded in death by his wifeMarion Bogard ’33, whom he met whileattending the Institute. He is survived by histwo daughters, five grandchildren and sixgreat-grandchildren.

Margaret Twitchell Swank ’40 – died at age90 in September 2007 in her hometown ofMansfield, OH. Margaret studied the art ofportraiture at The Cleveland Institute of Art,and was instrumental in organizing theMansfield Fine Arts Guild in 1947. She helpedguide the guild through various transitions toits permanent and current home at theMansfield Art Center, where she was madelifetime trustee. Margaret also began children’sart classes at the guild and taught art educa-tion at Ashland College. She won awards inmany of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s MayShows, exhibited in regional venues and invita-tional art shows. She is survived by three children,six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Richard Hoyt ’50 – passed away April 25, 2007,after a long battle with cancer. He was 81.Richard made a career sketching ink back-grounds for everything from advertisements toa boat company calendar. He is survived by hiswife, Doris Rossbach Hoyt ’50, whom he metwhile attending the Institute.

Nicholas Hlobeczy ’52 – died at age 80 inSeptember 2007 in Oregon. He was born andraised in western Pennsylvania and served inthe Navy during WWII. Hlobeczy worked as alithographer for the Photo Litho PlateCompany of Cleveland before heading theCleveland Museum of Art’s photographydepartment from 1967 to 1990. He wonnumerous awards for his work and in 2005published a book, “A Presence Behind theLens: Photography and Reflections.”

Louise Snyder Boyle ’61 – died in Boulder, COin August at the age of 84. She continued tosculpt and paint until the last year of her life.A one-person show was held in Boulder just afew weeks before her death. Most of hercareer was in California, where she continuedthe bronze work she began as a sculpturemajor at CIA. She focused on painting onlyduring the last 20 years of her life, selling togalleries and private collectors, mainly inCalifornia. She is survived by her two daughters,four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

John Paul Petro ’64 – passed away September21, 2007. The former Lakewood resident was64 years old.

Duane A. Piks ’75 – died September 17, 2007at 59. Before attending the Institute, he servedin the US Army during the Vietnam War.Duane is survived by his brother, sister andseveral nieces and nephews.

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