The Wriston Art Center Newsletter

INTRODUCTION

• Alice King Case, lecturer in art. Alice is in the first year of her phased retirement, in which she still teaches one or two courses per year, which this year included figure drawing and tutorials and independent studies in drawing and computer studies. In Term III she led a group of 27 students and visiting artists to Björklunden for an intensive figure drawing weekend. In April Alice was asked by the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Fox Cities Arts Alliance to serve as Artist-in-Residence for the Neenah Public Schools. In May she received an award from the Lawrence University Alumni Association. She has also received a six-week Artist in Residency grant at the Vermont Studio Center for November 2002, her third such award there. This year Alice's work has been shown at her alma mater Coe College's Sesquicentennial Celebration and in the ART AID exhibition, a fund-raiser for the new Appleton Center for the Arts. In addition, the Northwestern Mutual Corporate Offices in Milwaukee has purchased 17 of Alice's computer art prints, bringing their collection of her work to a total of 47 pieces.

• Kasarian Dane, visiting assistant professor of art, is teaching introduction to studio art, drawing, and painting. Kasarian has his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught prior to coming to Lawrence. He has also taught at the UW-Madison and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Kasarian exhibited a group of abstract paintings on aluminum in a two-person show entitled Taming the Infinite at Cardinal Stritch University. The show was reviewed by critic James Auer in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Kasarian had his own review of the Walker Art Center's Painting at the Edge of the World exhibition published in FGA Reviews #8 in Chicago and on-line with the New York-based 16 Beaver Street Group. Last fall, Kasarian was interviewed by UW-Madison Professor Derrick Buisch for the panel discussion Topographies in Abstract Painting: 5 Conversations. The presentation was given by Buisch at the 2001 CAA Conference in Chicago and included slides and discussion of Kasarian's paintings. In the summer, he studied printmaking with Francis Meyers and a group of graduate students at the UW-Madison, working in both relief and etching to create a group of prints. His painting will be included in the show Sunnyday in Chicago in the coming year, with a catalogue accompanying the show.

• Scott Espeseth, instructor in art, is teaching printmaking. Scott received his M.F.A. from the UW-Madison, where he also teaches printmaking. Scott continues to commute from Madison. Last summer he painted two houses and assisted artist Warrington Colescott in the editing of a print commemorating the new wing of the Milwaukee Art Museum. In August he was thrilled to spend two weeks in Rome and Florence viewing their great art historical treasures, eating fine food, and, according to Scott, speaking bad Italian. This fall he is teaching etching at the UW-Madison, and preparing for a solo show at the Memorial Union Class of 1925 Gallery, which opened in October. He is looking forward to returning to Lawrence in January to teach printmaking.

• Ester Fajzi-DeGroot is the new gallery and collection assistant in the Wriston Galleries. Ester has an M.A. in Anthropology and Museum Studies from the UW-Milwaukee. Before coming to Lawrence she was curator of exhibits at the Oshkosh Public Museum. Ester has kept busy the past year with reorganizing and updating the Wriston Art Gallery collection records and artifact storage areas. Over the winter and early spring she completed an inventory of artworks located throughout campus, and found some treasures along the way: an impressive etching by British artist Frank William Brangwyn, a watercolor by French Impressionism artist Maxime Maufra, and a lovely oil painting by Emily Groom (displayed in the Wriston exhibit Emily Groom, A Downer College Legacy). In May, Ester attended the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. Over the summer Ester also attended a Collections Management Workshop hosted by the Wisconsin Federation of Museums held at the Logan Museum of Anthropology of Beloit College, Wisconsin.

• Anne Grevstad-Nordbrock, instructor in art history. In February Anne presented a lecture, "Exploring the City with Camera in Hand: Ilse Bing in Frankfurt" for the Mortarboard Society's 'First Chance, Last Chance' lecture series. She was also the recipient of a German Academic Exchange Service grant for Ph.D. candidates, a travel grant from the Center for German and European Studies, and a Vilas Travel grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These fellowships provided funding for a six-week research trip to Frankfurt and Hanover, Germany during the summer of 2001. This year Anne introduced a new course, a seminar entitled Drawn to Nature: Art and Landscape.

• Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock is the new part-time visual resources librarian. Ted has M.A.s in art history from the UW-Madison and in historic preservation planning from Cornell. He also is the Wisconsin Historical Society's historic preservation and smart growth planning specialist for the northeastern region of the state. He joined the art and art history department during the summer of 2000, thereby doubling the number of Grevstad-Nordbrocks under the University's employ. With his wife, Anne, Ted has taken several groups of Lawrence students and faculty members on driving tours of lesser-known historic buildings in the Appleton area. The past year was a productive one for Ted and his student staff. In addition to continuing the development of the slide collections (approximately 1,300 images of art and architecture were added) and circulating slides among many of the departments on campus, they were also fortunate to acquire a high-end computer. This new PC, along with two scanners already in use within the department-one flatbed and the other for scanning slides-will allow Ted to begin work on a small digital image database to complement the analogue collections. A demonstration of how digital images can be used as a course material can be found on-campus at http://www.lawrence.edu/oncampus/dept/art/THDR42_htmls/thdr_42_home.htm, a sampling of artistic styles represented in the slide collections that was created for the Theater Department. The new PC also makes the process of researching, organizing, and labeling slides easier and more efficient.

• Amy Hauber, instructor in art, is teaching the introduction to studio art, ceramics, and computer-assisted art. She has her M.F.A. from the UW-Madison and has taught at Madison and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Amy was awarded a $21,800 Academic Enhancement Grant for the Art Department's New Media Lab. The new lab is now equipped with new G4 Macintosh computers, current graphic arts and web publishing software, as well as a digital video camera and editing software to enhance the department's computer-assisted art offerings. Amy had a solo show of her ceramic sculpture, Amy Hauber: new work at the Clay Place Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. The show was reviewed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh City Paper. The work and reviews of this show can be found on the web at htt://www.clayplace.com/ceramicgallery.htm. Amy was invited to participate in several group shows, including function/NONFUNCTION at the Frederick Layton Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Sculpture Now, at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, which ran in conjunction with the International Sculpture Center Conference. This past summer, Amy participated in her second arts/INDUSTRY residency in the Kohler Company pottery, Kohler, WI. The work that she created there, a series of wearable china sculptures entitled Marry Me Motherf**ker, reflects on violence, ownership, classism, intimacy and the symbolism of jewelry (marriage, "spinsterhood," ghetto-chic (brass knuckles)) and not least importantly, her unanticipated anxiety about being 34 years old. This work can be seen in American Craft Magazine, Portfolio: Amy Hauber, December 2001.

• Carol Lawton, professor of art history, continues her work on several projects concerning Greek sculpture in Athens, where she spent the summer of 2001 on a grant from the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation. She spent the first part of the summer working on the publication of the Greek and Roman votive reliefs from the excavations of the Agora in Athens, for which she recently received an $18,000 Kress Foundation publication grant. She also continued work on the publication of the architectural sculpture from the Classical Temple of Hera at the Argive Heraion, over 1000 fragments of which are housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. In November Carol participated in the Seminar on Religion and Society in the Ancient World at the University of Virginia, where she gave a talk entitled "Votive Reliefs and Popular Religion in Ancient Athens," and a seminar for graduate students and faculty on "the Origin and Nature of Greek Votives." In April she traveled to Cornell University to give another lecture, "Popular Cult in Ancient Athens: the Evidence of the Votive Reliefs," and in May her talk on "Athenian Anti-Macedonian Sentiment and Democratic Ideology in Attic Document Reliefs" was presented at the Conference on the Macedonians in Athens, 323-220 B.C. at the University of Athens. Closer to home, she participated in a Main Hall Forum on the work of the philosopher Martha Nussbaum, and in spring term, she added a new course, Women in Classical Antiquity, to the art history, classics and gender studies curriculum.

• Frank C. Lewis, the new director of exhibitions and curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries, has an M.A. in art history from the University of Chicago. He was editor of Metalsmith magazine for the past eight years, and most recently taught at the UW-Parkside and the UW-Milwaukee, where he was also acting director of the Art Museum. Frank recently juried both the SECURA Fine Art Exhibition, sponsored by the Appleton Art Center, and the 2001 Wisconsin Artists Biennial, sponsored by Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors. In the past year he authored a catalogue essay on the work of Carol Emmons for the Rockford Art Center and an article in Metalsmith on the metal work of Green Bay artist David Damkohler. Along with his normal curatorial duties at the Wriston Art Gallery, he organized and installed an exhibition of art works by senior art majors at Lawrence. This exhibition was displayed at Aid Association for Lutherans, in Appleton. In June Frank traveled to Florence, Rome and Venice, Italy. While exploring Venice he attended the Venice Biennale.

• Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, instructors in art, are co-teaching photography. They received their M.F.A.'s from Illinois State University and have taught at UW-Madison and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Julie and John mounted a major exhibition of their work at Lawrence University's Wriston Art Galleries in April 2001, as well as organizing related programming. Their work was also highlighted in "Strange Presences", a group exhibition at Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, in October 2000. During the "Around the Coyote Arts Festival" in the fall of 2000 and 2001, they exhibited at Lawrence alumna Pamela Callahan's Callahan/Walte Studio in Chicago's Wicker Park. The Milwaukee Art Museum acquired four of their prints for its permanent collection in January 2001, and a series of their photographs was included in Nicolette Bromberg's book Wisconsin Then and Now: The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project, published in October 2001 by the University of Wisconsin Press. They continue to maintain their web site www.shimonlindemann.com and began work on a black-and-white film "One Million Years Is Like 3 Seconds" in the summer of 2001.

• Michael Orr, associate professor of art history, was on leave during Term I, 2000-01 and traveled to New York to carry out research for a volume of his co-authored book, An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. He presented the lecture "The Making of the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript" at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside in November 2000, and in May 2001 repeated the lecture at the annual meeting of Early Music Now in Milwaukee. These lectures were sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He also delivered a public lecture to the Winchester Academy in Waupaca, WI, in April 2001 entitled "Public Display and Private Devotion: The Function of Religious Art in Medieval and Renaissance Europe." At the end of the school year, Michael was invited to present the after-dinner speech at the Senior Class Dinner, where he spoke on "Representing the Lawrence Difference." He will be on leave in Term I, 2001-02.

• Kristi Roenning, instructor in art, is teaching art education and supervising the art education students in their student teaching assignments. Kristi studied at the UW-Milwaukee and at the University of Minnesota and has taught for many years in the Appleton Area School District. Kristi writes that the opportunity to share her experiences and beliefs as an art educator with future art teachers seemed to be a natural extension of her com-mitment to assist students of every age in discovering the value of living the creative life. She was not disappointed. She said the students she worked with during the year were enthusiastic, bright and eager to learn the art of teaching art. From the informal gatherings at Polly's, where Kristi and student teachers discussed the joys and realities of teaching, to the hours discovering the many "methods" to all this art madness in the classroom, she felt it was an honor to be a part of these students preparation for a career in nurturing the creative self. Kristi looks forward to continuing this journey with last year's students and to welcome new students just stepping onto the path.

• Yumi Janairo Roth, assistant professor of art, participated in several group exhibitions in Madison, Milwaukee, New York, Boston, and Miami. In the fall Yumi exhibited work in "Off the Wall" at Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison and "Hardware from the Heartland" at 16 Beaver Street Gallery in New York City. In the winter, her work was included in "Questions of the Quotidian" at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee and Art Miami. She also collaborated with artist and teacher Jennifer Crupi on work for a group show at the Newton Art Center in Boston, "21st Century Metalsmiths." In April, Yumi exhibited new work for a solo show, "Parts and Labor" at the Wisconsin Academy Gallery in Madison. She was interviewed on Madison radio WORT's "Creative Agendas" and was featured in the Capital Times in an article called, "Finding Art at Menards."

• Dorothy Sawvel is the new secretary of the Wriston Art Center, but she is not new to Lawrence, having previously done administrative work in Stephenson, then the new Briggs Hall offices. Along with her other duties, she worked on the annual Wisconsin Rhodes Scholars Competition, which has been hosted on the Lawrence campus over the past three years. Dorothy has taken on the responsibility of editing our newsletter and has met some of you via email. She especially hopes you will enjoy the updates coming from our past graduates in this year's expanded Alumni/ae News section. Dorothy wants to give a special thanks to all who contributed to this issue, and looks forward to hearing from you for next year's edition. We hope that you will all become acquainted with her soon.

Arthur Thrall, professor emeritus of art. In January Arthur judged the Milwaukee Area Teachers of Art Annual Exhibit, and in April was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio by host Damien Jacques. He had a solo exhibit at Studio 613 Gallery in downtown Milwaukee, and also was a guest artist featured at the 21st Annual Secura Fine Art Exhibition in Appleton. Arthur taught a drawing class at Björklunden this past summer and later in fall, participated in a group show, "The Five," with Milwaukee artists at the Fairfield Public Gallery in Sturgeon Bay.

AWARDS AMD HONORS:

Jennifer Benjamin, art history/classics, '01 and Sarah Bowen, studio art, '01 received the Elizabeth Richardson Award. Sarah Bowen, studio art, '01,also received the Senior Purchase Award for her piece entitled "Popcorn" in the Senior Art Exhibit. Jacob Cox, studio art, '01, received the Senior Art Prize for Men. Carrie Ehrfurth, art history, '01, received the Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Art. Annah Krieg, German/art history, '01, has been the recipient of the following awards: The Herman Erb Prize in German, the Jessie Mae Pate McCongha Prize for her interdisciplinary scholarship and summa cum laude honors in independent study. She also won the Gervais E. and Mary Katherine Reed Award, to the senior woman who, in the opinion of her classmates, best exemplifies academic achievement and service to others, and whose extracurricular activity, either on or off campus, demonstrates commitment to the common good. She is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in Germany in 2001-02. Kristina Sunde, studio art/art history, '01, received the E. Dane Purdo Award and was a recipient of the Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Art.

A Special Announcement

ART EDUCATION

• Paula Chaney-Johnson did her student teaching at Johnson Elementary and at Appleton North High School, where her cooperating teacher was Lawrence graduate Renee Reimer-Ulman '93. Paula is pursuing her career in art education and at this time is very busy teaching as a substitute for the Appleton Area School District.
• Karla Lauden did her student teaching at Edison Elementary and Appleton West High School in their Renaissance Program for the Arts. She received a teaching contract from the Appleton Area School District and is now teaching art at Columbus and Lincoln Elementary Schools.
• George Lundgren, studio art, '01, participated in the Urban Education Program and completed his student teaching in the Chicago area.
• Jennifer Totoritis, studio art, '00, completed her student teaching at Horizons Elementary and Appleton West High School.

• Nalin Advani, studio art/education,n '87, is doing installations using rice, paper, and shadows. Nalin is chief marketing officer of eSol, Inc., a company which develops software for mobile and embedded internet consumer devices. Nalin sat on the board of the hosting committee for the Yokohama Triennale, which was an extremely successful showing with over 100 artists and 350,000 participants. Recent travels have included Bali, Mongolia, India, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau, with Bangladesh the next destination.
• Laura Andersen, art history, '96, lives in St. Paul, MN and works at the American Academy of Neurology Education & Research Foundation, doing special event fundraising. She is also in the process of creating a literary/arts lifestyle magazine in the Twin Cities, with the first issue planned for September 2002.
• Lydia Armstrong, art history, '79, is presently Assistant Vice President of JP Morgan Chase & Co. in NYC.
• Charlie Arnold, studio art, '01, is in his first year of advanced studies at the Maryland Institute of Art and Design. He is taking both post-baccalaureate and graduate courses, and is living in Baltimore.
• Elizabeth Athens, studio art, '99, has spent the year working at the Madison Art Center as the assistant to the director. Her job involves development, research for the new facility that the museum is designing, some curatorial work and publicity. She's considering returning to graduate school in art history with a museum focus.
• LinaBeth "Libby" Barber, studio art/psychology, '79, has worked as an architect for 19 years and has lived in Portland, OR for 12 years. This past year she took a position with the U.S. courts as an on-staff architect during the design phases of a new federal courthouse for Eugene, OR. Libby's office is in Portland's federal courthouse, completed in 1997, which she helped design while working with BOORA Architects.
• Geoffrey Baum, studio art, '88, has done extensive work at the University of Illinois-Chicago in electronic arts. He was part of the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria this year. Click on this site to see Geoff's work: www.evl@uic.edu.
• Jenny Benjamin, art history, '01, has an internship as a research assistant for the Director of Education at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
• Teri Bill, studio art, '79, owns with her husband, John, Manchester Investments, where she is office manager. This past year, Teri has been renewing her photographic skills using a digital camera, and taking advantage of its computerized alterations.
• Kris Brainard Addington, art history, '94, married David Addington in August of this year and is presently communication consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Minneapolis. She is working on her Masters in Arts Administration at St. Mary's University in Minneapolis.
• William Brehm Jr., studio art, '67, lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and is a management consultant. He also is a water-colorist and enjoys nature photography for fun.
• Megan Burdick-Grade, studio art, '90, has moved from the San Francisco area to Appleton with her husband, Tony Grade, LU, '88. Megan is an art therapist and is now working with the Fox Valley Pastoral Counseling Center.
• Pamela Callahan, studio art, '88, has been living in Chicago for 12 years, doing painting and printmaking. She is committed to a non-profit organization called Woman Made Gallery, where she is associate director. It supports and cultivates the diverse contributions of women artists, offering resources, and opportunities for exhibiting and networking (http://womanmade.org).
• Caroline Campbell-McCarthy, studio art, '82, is a practicing artist in the St. Louis, MO area. Caroline also volunteers her talents at her daughter's elementary school.
• Melissa Capra Ehren, studio art, '83, has been an art instructor at St. Cecilia and St. James Catholic Schools in Mequon, WI. She has since moved to Lake Oswegeo, OR, where her husband Jack is with Planar Systems.
• Heidi Carin Ritter, art history/music, '00, lives in Madison. She is currently working for United Airlines and enjoying their worldwide travel benefits. Heidi plans to return to school in the fall of next year.
• Winifred Carloss Larsen, studio art/art history, '64, lives in Wichita, KS. She has been busy being a grandmother to two who live in Illinois, a wife to her retired husband, a technical secretary to an engineering firm, and a volunteer mentor/tutor with elementary kids. She still enjoys art and crafts. She said both of their kids are active artists and much better than she ever was.
• Ted Chesky, studio art, '83, is living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is vice president of Design Hub, a graphic design and web development company. Ted is also completing his flight instruction certification this year.
• Jacob Cox, studio art,'01, will be exhibiting a series of paintings at the Allen Thomas Gallery in Neenah in December and January. The show is entitled "Never Seen," and includes work from six artists that have never been shown professionally. He has recently moved to Minneapolis and is continuing his artwork there.
• Adam Demers, art history, '94, is working at Carmichael Lynch Advertising, displaying artwork around northeast Minneapolis, riding his motorcycle around the Midwest, and finally scraping paint off the a house he is buying.
• Leslie Dickinson, studio art, '73, has been teaching art at the same middle school for 17 years, and just received an award for professional excellence given to the top 30 educators of western Washington. Leslie said she incorporates a lot of technology into her classes. She also loves to draw her four-year-old quarter horse
• Kelli Dornfeld, studio art, '90, and her husband, Chris, live west of St. Louis on an organic farm with their 1-year-old son, Cole. For 11 years she has been in the St. Louis school district and is presently teaching art to middle school students. She is currently piloting two new courses for eighth grade: Drawing and Cultural Arts.
• Dean Dunakin, studio art, '98, works in Chicago as a freelance illustrator, fine artist, and designer. Recent projects include illustrating jazz bassist Cecil McBee's technique book, designing and programming Art.com's online winter and holiday catalogs, and making commis-sioned paintings and drawings. You can view his work on the web at dean@dunakin.com.
• Erik Eckblad, studio art, '95, is a graphic designer with WITI-TV in Milwaukee.
• Peter Edwards, studio art, '99, has renewed his contract for a second year with Japan Exchange Teaching Program. Karen Adams, studio art '99, is also working in Japan. They both can be reached at petercharlesedwards@hotmail.com.
• Carrie Ehrfurth, art history, '01, started graduate school at Penn State this fall and is working towards her M.A. Aside from her classes, she is a teacher assistant for an introductory level art history class.
• Charles "Chuck" Engberg, studio art, '62, graduated from Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1967 and has practiced as an architect ever since, having worked in New York, New Haven, Chicago, and Milwaukee, which is now his home. He has designed the LU Conservatory expansion (Shattuck Hall) and several renovation projects in the Memorial Chapel. Chuck is married to Susan (Herr) Engberg, LU,'62, who is a writer of fiction. The have two daughters, Siri,'89, and Gillian '92. (see below)
• Siri Engberg, art history/English, '89, is currently working as associate curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she has been on staff for 11 years. Recently she organized a traveling retrospective of the prints of Edward Ruscha, and has published her second book, Edward Ruscha: Editions 1954-59. She is now working on a catalogue raisonné of the prints of Robert Motherwell, along with several exhibitions - one on Chuck Close, and another on Kiki Smith. This year Siri and her husband Marty had a son, Simon Lockyer Broan.
• Michael Fendry, studio art, '87, was selected along with others on his teaching team to participate in the Phillips Collection Summer Teacher Institute in June 2000. The team was awarded a stipend of $1750 each to participate in designing curriculum. He had a summer assignment as project liaison to the Flying Rhino/Insect Safari Project. This fall he started a position as "teacher- on-assignment" with MPS Educational Services/ Curriculum & Instruction.
• Scott Frankenberger, studio art, '71. This year's activities included ClayFest 2001 in Indianapolis - 2nd prize, 100 Teapots in Baltimore, All Indiana Pottery in Richmond, and the Ceramics Invitational in Fish Creek, WI. He accepted a commission to begin murals for I.V.Y. Tech State College, Lafayette, IN, four large panels that are a combination of ceramic tiles and painted graphics.
• Courtney Gerber, art history, '99, continues her work at the Walter Art Museum and is planning to attend graduate school in museum studies in 2002.
• Joy Gerrits Vertz, studio art, '96, lives in Port Washington, WI, and had a son, Flynn, born March 9, 2001. She is working as executive area manager for Scrap in a Snap, a scrapbooking company, designing papers and products.
• Kelly Anne Goode Tooker, art history/studio art, '90, completed her M.A.T. from Lewis & Clark College in 1992. After seven years as an automotive aftermarket jobber for NAPA Auto Parts, she sold the store in August 2001. Kelly currently volunteers as an art discovery coordinator for a local elementary school and assists with other volunteer projects at her daughters' (Maraya 7, Elleah 5) school. She would love to hear from other art alumni/ae in the Portland/Seattle area (KATooker@aol.com).
• Jon Greene, art history, '93. On October 25, Jon and his wife, Julie, celebrated the birth of their first baby, Avery Elizabeth. For the past five years, Jon has worked for J. Walter Thompson in Chicago, currently as client director.
• Kelli Gustman Prast, studio art, '87, lives in Green Bay with her husband and two children. Kelli is active doing new works and very involved in the schools of the local community. She is also a vital part of St. Norberts College Special Arts Program, a nationally recognized program specifically designed for children with special needs.
• Reed Haslach, studio art, '98, is living in Miami, FL. She is an assistant to the curator of Jay I. Kislak Foundation, home to a large collection of pre-Columbian art, artifacts, and rare books.
• David Healy, art history, '72. David's entire career has been in education administration, first, for 25 years at William and Mary, and then at the University of Maryland, Goucher College, and Williams College. In the last two years, he was the chief financial officer and currently the assistant head of the school for admin-istration and finance at Milton Academy outside of Boston, where both of his children are enrolled. He has had an abiding involvement in architecture over the years and has begun a collection of photography which he is sure is driven by long subdued interests stirred in Wriston.
• Kathryn C. Henry-Choisser, studio art, '81. From August 2000 through July 2001, she was president of the board of directors of 1708 Gallery, a non-profit gallery in Richmond, VA. In October Kathryn had a solo show of paintings and drawings entitled "Lost and Found" at the Artspace Gallery in Richmond, VA.
• Greta Hildebrandt Watson, studio art, '89, is currently doing advertising design for Lakeside School of Massage Therapy in Milwaukee, WI and working there as the marketing coordinator.
• Martha "Marty" Hillary, studio art, '65, attended her first three years of college at Milwaukee-Downer. She is married with four children of her own, and her husband has five. She has been working with a Migrant Head Start Program for the past 25 years and a few years ago obtained her Master's in Human Resource Development. Her organization has programs for the children of migrant farm workers on the East Coast. She and her husband recently relocated to Raleigh, NC and wonders if there are any LU alumni in the Raleigh area.
• Jeanette Ann Housner, studio art/English, M-D, '62. Jeanette is doing one-of-a-kind art-jewelry, shown at Allied Arts Gallery in Richland, WA. She also does private commissions.
• Heather Humbert Price, studio art, '98. After marrying Dan Price, LU, '99, they packed up and moved to north central Minnesota with their five cats. After a brief stint as the associate editor of the New York Mills Herald, she joined the staff of the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center as the arts retreat coordinator. The NYMRCC provides studio space for emerging artists from around the world. Heather has had her first solo show and has been busy teaching classes for both adults and children.
• Mike Ingala, studio art, '96, does web design and development for Mentor Graphics, a software company outside of Portland, OR. He said the highlight of this past year was a trip for three weeks in May with his wife, Annee Pope Ingala, LU, '98, to Malaysia and Bali.
• Anne Jacobsen Murray, studio art, '82, lives in Chicago and is a special education teacher at Burban School.
• Deanna Jones Duffy, art history, '96, is living in Vallejo, CA. She's in her second year of teaching French in the public high school. Deanna has been enjoying the art and dining in the bay area. Her husband, Ben Duffy, LU, '96, will graduate from medical school in May 2003.
• Hayley Kahn, Jacob Cox, and Courtney Lind had a show of digital prints and a multi-media installation at the FLUX Gallery in Milwaukee, WI, April 2001. At the opening, experimental music was provided by a group of Lawrence students, Lauren Semivan from the conservatory, along with art majors Keith Lepinski and Matt von Ohlen.
• Zan Keyser, art history, '99, is now living in Alexandria, VA. She is currently attending graduate school in art history and museum studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
• Rick Kroos, studio art, '66, arrived in Hong Kong in mid 1969, direct from serving in the Corp of Engineers in Vietnam, and joined an engineering firm. Over the course of 25 years, he has purchased and expanded the company to become the premier mechanical engineer company in Asia, with offices in six countries and employing 1200. They were the first mechanical engineers to work and establish an office in China upon "normalization" in late 1978, and eventually completed many turnkey projects throughout that country. His most satisfying memory of his career has been working with many world-renowned and prominent architects. Rick is now retired, enjoying Asia and Hong Kong as "home."
• Alison Latimer, art history, '97, graduated from Sotheby's Institute - London with a M.A. in Art Business last October, writing her dissertation on "Digital Imaging: Legal and Ethical Considerations." She moved back to Chicago and started working for Starcom IP, doing internet advertising strategy for Oldsmobile and the U.S. Army.
• Kelly Litton Frank, studio art, '79, lives in Crystal Lake, IL and is the design center manager for Cambridge Homes.
• George Lundgren, studio art, '01, had an apprenticeship with a Door County potter this past summer. George lived on the premises, helped with the production work, throwing, glazing and the general operation of the pottery. George now is in Australia, where he will begin taking university classes in architecture.
• Carolyn Lussow Paul, studio art, '97, has moved to Madison after her tenure as an art instructor at Evanston High School, Evanston, IL. She is a new mother and works as an art collection curator and historian at the School Renaissance Institute. Her husband, Alex, is now a law intern at the Supreme Court in Madison.
• Sara Lyke, studio art, '96, is teaching in the Bedford Public Schools in Sylvan, Ohio. She is working on her Master's degree in education at Spring Arbor College.
• John McNamara, studio art, '90, lives and works in Rockford, IL. John has his own design business where he creates functional sculptures in iron.
• Mary McNamara, studio art, '98, of Madison, WI, is in her second year of service with AmeriCorps.
• Leslie Marquardt Vidas, studio art, '99, is vice chair of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, president of Kaukauna Creative Arts Group and a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is also doing an independent study here at Lawrence with Professor Kasarian Dane, and is preparing for a solo exhibition at Conkey's Book Store in Appleton and Cheveux/Art Refuge Salon in Neenah.
• Meg McCaskey, art/German, '94, graduated in June with a master's degree in architecture from the University of Texas. She is very interested in new media and electronic music and has done a lot with cyber-architecture. Meg now works for a video game design company in Texas.
• Erin Mereness Harrison, studio art, '99, is a stay-at-home mom with two children and one on the way. Her work illustrating books for children is going well. Erin also does wall murals and teaches art to home-schoolers.
• Meta Muehleisen McKinney, art history, '88, has been busy with her soon-to-be two-year old son, Benjamin, and taking care of their new baby girl, Clara. Meta says her ties to art have been with crayons and washable markers.
• Tiffany Mullen Faber, studio art, '85, is in her last year of residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. She is a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
• Gary Nettekoven, studio art, '89, is the founder of Diamond Works, a residential cleaning and maintenance company since 1995. Gary was married to Laura Jelnick in August of 2000.
• Pamela O'Donnell, art history/English, '85, received the Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Library Science this past year. Pamela is in her final year of graduate school at the School of Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison. Her goal is to work in a film/video/photo archive.
• Erin Oliver, studio art/art history, '99, is the assistant director of Annual Giving here at Lawrence. Erin enjoys keeping up with her artwork by doing watercolor portraits.
• Natalie Parks, studio art, '96, is in Olympia, WA, working for Fungi Perfecti as a personnel manager/executive assistant. Visit www.fungi.com to better understand what Natalie supports. She and her husband have moved to a lake home in the Olympic National forest. She said life is drippy, gray, and beautiful.
• Danna Pye, studio art/Spanish, '95, is currently working as a sculptor and potter out of Minneapolis. She also writes and publishes her own satire/cartoon called "Misfit." She spent the summer on a 2-month honeymoon in Peru, hiking and visiting Inca ruins.
• Jeff Riley, studio art, '68, still keeps in touch with Arthur Thrall, his art professor from '64 to '68 and has a small collection of his works in his home in Guilford, CT. Jeff's architectural firm, Centerbrook, which he founded in 1975, several years after graduating from Yale Architecture School, was recently named Firm of the Year by the American Institute of Architects. He also received, among other awards, the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Alumni Award from Lawrence University. Currently, he is designing a new School of Public Health for the University of Michigan, a Concert Hall and Music Center for the Hotchkiss School, a sports complex for Quinnipiac University, and a conference center and dining hall for the Silver Lake UCC Conference Center.
• Julie Rodemeier, studio art, '91, received her M.A. degree in 1998, and is now an instructor in art history at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
• Natasha Salier, art history/English, '96, is currently pursuing her doctorate in counselor education at Northern Illinois University. She is working at University Resources for Women at NIU as a counselor. Natasha also teaches undergraduate courses in career planning and orientation/transition to college for new students.
• Leah Salscheider Strothman, art history, '94, is director of corporate marketing at CFA, an architectural consulting company in Chicago. Leah serves on the Associates Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and is chairman of the board's educational programming.
• Cathy Sawinski, art history/classics, '99, is in her third and last year of graduate school at UW-Milwaukee. She will be graduating in May with a master's degree in art history and certification in museum studies. She is busy preparing her thesis, which will be an exhibition and catalogue concerning family photographs from the early 20th century. She also has been working at the Milwaukee Art Museum as a curatorial intern/research assistant since January.
• Lisa Schmidt Miezwa, studio art, '85, is the art director of Publications International in Chicago.
• Mary Schroeder Benjamin, studio art, '62, after graduating received a M.A. from the University of Missouri in ceramics. She is a clay artist specializing in colored porcelain vessels and jewelry. Mary currently owns, with a partnership of five women, the Bluestem Missouri Crafts, a gallery in Columbia. It has been in business 19 years and is nationally recognized as a showcase for regional fine crafts in a nine-state area. She is also active as an arts advocate through The Best of Missouri Hands, a statewide art organization that helps educate and support craft artists in all aspects of their development.
• Beth Schwindt, art history, '00, is working at the University of Wisconsin Hospital as the house staff (residents and fellows) coordinator. Beth is also a volunteer docent at the Madison Art Center, exploring all the great regional art and architecture, including the Frank Lloyd Wright house two blocks from her home. She is contemplating graduate school.
• Amy Seidenbecker, art history, '91, has taken large strides this year in developing her own business as a creative studio, which offers graphic design, writing, and some photography. Her largest client is Elmhurst College, a liberal arts college outside Chicago. She's also begun putting some of her photography in the fine arts market (www.amyseidenbecker.com).
• Eileen Sliwinski, studio art, 87, is working as an art teacher in the Seattle public schools. She continues to pursue her own work in metalsmithing.
• Robert Smart, studio art,'96, received his M.F.A. at Boston University in sculpture in '99. He is presently working as a sculptor on the East Coast. Robert has recently received a commission from the Class of 2001, as their class gift, to do a large on-site installation for the atrium in the new science building.
• Miriam "Mimi" Ann Spiegel Volkmann, studio art, '59. With summer came retirement for Mimi after almost 40 years of teaching a variety of subjects and at all grade levels in the USA, Switzerland and in Germany. This included classroom teaching, arts and crafts, English and German as foreign languages as well as bookbinding. At this time, she is enjoying a kind of prolonged vacation with time to reflect on the past and look forward to a not yet determined, productive and useful future! And learn how to use a computer!
• William Stiles, studio art, '57 and Karen Rather Stiles, LU, '60, have been retired for several years and spend most of the winter in Edina, MN and the summer at Berry Lake, Gillett, WI. They also fit in trips to see their daughter, her husband and grandsons (4) in CA.
• Anne Strass Gustafson, studio art, '85, lives in Mequon, WI. Anne is a practicing watercolorist and stay-at-home mom. Her husband, Dan Gustafson, LU, '84, is an environmental attorney in Milwaukee.
• Richard (Rick) Strobel, studio art, '89, is a sculptor. He and his wife have moved to Longmont, CO, where he also works at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley.
• Kristina Sunde, studio art/art history, '01, is at the New York Academy of Art, Manhattan. She is doing comprehensive studies in figurative art. She has re-ceived a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the fall of next year. After her residency there, she will return to the Academy.
• Lenore Thomas, studio art/religious studies, '93, has been married just over a year and is in her second year of graduate school, seeking an M.F.A. in Art with an emphasis in printmaking. She has been showing her work around the country and is currently part of a traveling show that will continue for at least a year. Lenore recently had four pieces accepted in the Mid America Print Council's Juried Exhibition, and won an award in Ingram, TX for a 61/2-foot long print. She continues to teach and works at Tandem Press.
• Trevor Thomson, studio art, '90, completed his degree several years ago at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is a senior developer for Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation firm, and is now living in Congers, NY.
• Ben Tilghman, art history, '99, and Darran White, LU, '01, live in Williamstown, MA, where Ben is a Master's candidate at the Williams College graduate program in the history of art. In addition to taking language classes and graduate seminars, he is an intern to the director of the Clark Art Institute, doing research and support work on a planned building expansion designed by Tadao Ando.
• Jennifer Totoritis, studio art, '00, and her new husband, Brad Searl, LU, '99, were married July 15. They have a one-year commitment as teachers of English immersion to Chinese students in Taipei, Taiwan.
• Anne Trass Baruth, studio art, '91, is an art instructor at the "new" Appleton Catholic Education Center Middle School. Anne is still an active illustrator.
• Erica Tryon, art history, '96, has been awarded a fellowship by Brown University to enter its MA program in International Development Studies.
• Ingrid Tucholke Finnan, studio art, '66, has happily switched from working as a salaried employee in decorative textile design to an independent contractor in this field. She said, "My hours are mine, my ideas are mine, the name on the selvage is mine, and the royalties are mine," but she adds, "there may be few of those."
• Katherine van Beuningen-Newkirk, studio art/Germa,n '84. During the past year, along with her paying job, she has been doing mostly costumes, drawings and photography projects. Currently Kathy is working on more costumes for an independent film project. She has been invited to be part of the "COW" exhibition held in Chicago, and plans to attend many more conventions to show her new pieces.
• Aaron Wax, studio art, '97, is living in Brooklyn with his wife Maren (Dean Hemwall's daughter). This past year Aaron worked as a lighting technician and photo assistant, making a movie entitled "Creamaster 3" which is about contemporary artist Matthew Barney. The film, which was shot in New York, Ireland and Scotland, will premiere at the Guggenheim Museum. Aaron also took photos that will appear in a soon-to-be released book that corresponds with the film.
• Sophia Wagner, studio art, '99, has returned from her successful year as an International Rotary Scholar in Ireland.
• Lisa Weatherbee, studio art, '00, has been traveling through the world the past year, including working at Harrods in London for seven months. She is planning to begin a program in art direction in advertising at the Miami Ad School.
• Sam Welch, studio art, '97, lives in Oak Park, IL. He has been writing screenplays and working as a carpenter.
• Sherrill Weller Knezel, art education, '91, has been teaching elementary art in Wauwatosa, WI. She has also been taking graduate classes in technology and website design. Sherrill has two boys, ages 2 and 5, who keep her very busy when she is not teaching.
• Laurie Werth, studio art, '73, received a M.A. in art education from UW-Madison in '77. She is an elementary art teacher in Madison. During the last year, she continued to paint and create with clay in her backyard studio. Laurie and her husband Jerry have two daughters, Alison a freshman at Macalester College and Becky a freshman at East H.S.
• Kerrik Wessel, studio art, '86, received his Master of Arts in Architecture from the University of Minnesota and has been a practicing architect for several years in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area.
• Iona Yabut Troiano, studio art, '97, lives in Oakbrook, IL. Iona received her M.A. in Art Therapy from the University of Illinois. She is now a registered art therapist at the University of Chicago's Children's Hospital.

do it
September 29 - November 5, 2000
The show was an interactive exhibition that greatly drew upon the participation of the viewers. The objects/ events/ideas in "do it" reflected a century-long interest in the various ways that art encourages viewers to look at and think anew about the world. This traveling contemporary exhibit was conceived by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and circulated by the Independent Curators International of New York. Frank Lewis, Wriston Art Center's director and curator, presented it.

Artistas Argentinos, Contemporáneos/Four Contemporary Argentinean Artists
November 17, 2000 - December 17, 2000
The Daura Gallery of Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia originally organized this exhibition that featured the artwork of Victor Chacón-Ferrey, Guillermo Cuello, Gustavo Fares, and Ana Traversa. It gathered the work of artists who, according to co-curator Gustavo Fares, portray "...a double play between the local and the global, the centers and the margins, between what was and is, oppressed and the oppressor..." "Tactile, expressive, and ambitious, the works in this exhibition posit the efficacy of both painting and sculpture in an age torn by cynicism and post-modernity."

Double Exposure: Pairs, Sets, and Twins from the Permanent Collection
November 17, 2000 - March 18, 2001, Leech Gallery
From Hegel's dialectical model of progress to present day art historians' use of double projection in the classroom, binary comparisons have been employed frequently in modern western culture. Whether addressing the mythic aspects of twins, seeking to emphasize family resemblance, or simply dealing with the formal exercise of arranging two figures in space, a number of works in the collection have doubling and repetition as a prominent feature. This variety of examples offered a chance for viewers of both serious study and playful speculation to appreciate this unique aspect of our permanent collection.

Transforming Gender/Picturing Difference
January 19 - March 18, 2001
The late 19th and early 20th century is rich with works of art, which promote, confuse, confound, and contradict earlier definitions of terms such as male and female, and masculinity and femininity. This exhibition presented a large variety of images from our permanent collection in order to encourage investigation into and comparison of the variety of roles pictured and sometimes uncritically accepted in society. It included paintings and prints by Picasso, Degas, Renoir, Rousault, Kandinsky, Grant Wood, along with many other artists.

Three Pieces in Time Fragments: Photography by J. Shimon & J. Lindemann
April 6 - May 20, 2001
The exhibition juxtaposed photographs of Manitowoc artists J. Shimon and J. Lindemann with objects from their personal collection. Although the exhibition contained images made in small Midwestern towns over a period of fifteen years, visitors were invited to observe the penetration of the universal mass culture, which has altered personal experience in even the remotest corners of the country. At the opening there was a special screening of the film entitled "American Movie" with a talk by filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah Price.

Annual Senior Art Exhibition
June 1 - August 11, 2001
The senior art majors' work provided an exciting show that featured a variety of media, including drawings, prints, paintings, photography, ceramics, metals, sculpture, and computer-assisted art.

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