OVERVIEW
• Introduction
• Faculty and Staff News
• Emeriti News
• Awards and Honors
• Alumni News
• Wriston Art Center Galleries
• Acquisitions to the Gallery
• Gallery Publications
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INTRODUCTION
Michael Orr, chair of the Department of Art and Art History and associate professor of art history.
This year we welcomed two new tenure-track faculty members to the department: Alexis Boylan and Joe D’Uva. Alexis comes to Lawrence from Rutgers University where she was a full-time instructor in the English Department having completed her Ph.D. dissertation in 2001 on the depiction of men in the art of the Ashcan School. Alexis has previously served as a research assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. At Lawrence, she will teach a course in African-American art history in addition to courses in 19th and 20th century European and American art history. Joe D’ Uva joins the faculty from Bowling Green University where he had taught printmaking for the previous two years. Joe completed his M.F.A. in printmaking at the University of Iowa (2000) having previously received a professional printer’s certificate from the Tamarind Institute. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a B.F.A. in painting. Joe will teach all levels of drawing, printmaking and painting at Lawrence.
One of the more noteworthy events of the year was a departmental weekend held at Björklunden, Lawrence’s northern campus located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Door County. Approximately thirty studio art and art history students and faculty spent a weekend at Björklunden in April. Among the highlights of the weekend were the collaborative printmaking project organized by Prof. D’Uva, the viewing and discussion of episodes of the popular PBS show “Frontier House” led by Prof. Boylan, and an exhibition of “art” curated by Frank Lewis. Everyone seemed to have a great time and we intend to make this weekend an annual event for the department.
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FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
• Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history, has given three conference talks this year. The first was at the annual Film and History conference entitled: “From Sea to Shining Sea: Regionalism in Frontier House.”. Then in February 2003, she presented “A Mother’s Touch: Sculpting the Career of Abastenia St. Leger Eberle,” at the College Art Association annual meeting in New York City. Finally, “Sculpting Sickness: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Images of Robert Louis Stevenson,” at a conference to mark the opening of a show of Saint Gaudens’ sculpture at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. As a special note, my student, Jon Horne, has won the Freshman Studies Writing Prize.
• Alice King Case, lecturer in art. In the Fall of 2003 Alice was asked to become a member of the new BRAATT collaborative art group formed in the Fox Cities. This is a group of ten artists, whose work is considered to be very contemporary or current. BRAATT means “Bring Radical Art to Town.” This group is preparing for a major exhibition at the Appleton Center for the Arts in the late summer of 2004. Alice was also to be a member of the jury of a new gallery in Appleton – La Pomme Rouge. It is the lovely new cooperative gallery on College Avenue. In February, her solo exhibition of “Recent Works” closed at the Allen/Thomas Gallery in Neenah. You can visit their website at www.AllenThomas.com. A recent exhibition at the Appleton Center called “Marble Madness” included one of Alice’s computer pieces which was designed as an installation piece. In February and March Alice was on her third artist-in-residency grant to the Vermont Studio Center. Besides her grant, Alice received the Rotary Fine Arts Scholarship to attend, and was able to extend her stay there. She will make a presentation to the 300 member Rotary Group in November regarding her work, and her time at the Center.
As part of her charitable contributions to her community, her works were auctioned at the Fox Valley Symphony Gala, and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital fund raising events. Her works were added to more private and corporate collections, including Thrivant Financial (formally AAL) and the Marshall and Isley Trust Division. In March she missed her usual trip to Mexico, but settled for a short sojourn to the Caribbean, visiting San Juan, St. Thomas, the Dominican Republic, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. She returned Term III of 2003 to teach Beginning and Advanced Figure Drawing, which she will also teach Term III of 2004. “It is pretty simple, she states, I should not have retired early, I have no idea what I was thinking?! I love returning to LU to teach as often as possible.” Also in Term III, a respected figurative artist from Manhattan, Sam Clayton, was a visiting artist for three days. Alice spent the summer and fall at her home in the Northwood’s. She said “I would like to know where all my art educators are, and how their careers are going! Be in touch.” You can e-mail Alice at her LU address or immycase@msn.com.
• Ester Fajzi DeGroot, Wriston Art Gallery collections manager, was the curator of an exhibit at the Wriston which opened November 2002. Entitled North, South, East, West: A Survey of Native American Artistry, the exhibition examined ethnographic artifacts from an artistic and historic perspective. Ester secured a generous loan from the Beloit College Logan Museum of Anthropology, as well as used the Native American collections from Lawrence University’s Anthropology Department. This was the first time that these artifacts from LU-Anthropology were used in a formal exhibition on campus!
Ester has also been active in workshops and conferences over the past year. Last November she attended a seminar on “Collections Profiling” at the Milwaukee Public Museum. In May 2003 Ester traveled to Portland Oregon to attend the American Association of Museums annual conference. In 2003 Ester was selected to be a Peer Reviewer for the Museum Assessment Program run by the American Association of Museums. The MAP sends Peer Reviewers to museums all across the country to survey and evaluate the museums performance in various aspects for AAM Accreditation. Ester was selected to be a Reviewer for the MAP Collections Management Assessment. Looking forward to the future assignments and travel, she hopes not only to share her expertise but also learn more about current collections management issues which may be helpful to the Wriston Gallery and students interested in museum studies.
• Amy Hauber, visiting assistant professor of art, has exhibited her work in a number of venues this year: Her one-person show at the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College entitled "Ovaries and Advanced Degrees" was a reflection on the current multi-tasking roles of the privileged American woman and included living plants that spelled out "grow or die," roses, marzipan sculpture, an "ivory tower" and an all-pink performance. She participated in The Stray Show in Chicago, "Hysterical Pastoral" curated by John Neff at the UIMA-Chicago, among others. As a visiting artist, Hauber presented public lectures at Kendall School of Art and Design and Calvin College, both in Grand Rapids Michigan, at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point and Beloit College, and this fall she will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to present a talk on her newest research, relating to emotional and sexual intimacy and the internet, at Carnegie Mellon University. You can view some of Hauber's artwork at www.westernexhibitions.com and can e-reach her at amyhauber@hotmail.com. After three years, Hauber is sad to leave Lawrence University and says "Thank you to all of the brilliant and generous students who taught me so much during my three year stay." Hauber will move from Appleton to a slightly smaller cow town: she has accepted an artst-in-residence position at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.
Lastly, an important addition to the Hauber family: Penny "bubba" Hauber was born on June 8, 2002 and was brought to her new home in Appleton in August 2002. The year-old pug now weighs in at 15 lbs and is doing well but will miss her cult following around the LU campus.
• Hai-Chi Jihn, lecturer in art, along with her duties as instructor of the Metals class during Term I, Ms. Jihn participated in several exhibitions during 2003 including “Transformation," the Elizabeth Raphael Founder's Prize Exhibition, National Ornamental Metal Museum, in Memphis, Tennessee; "Form to Function?", group show, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin; "Trees of Memory," solo, Glass Gallery, Kohler Art Center; "Bracelet," International Invitation, YAW Gallery at SOFA, New York; and "Planting, Potting and Pruning: Artists and Cultivated Landscape," group show, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin.
• Carol Lawton, professor of art history, has been in Athens for a year on a grant from the Kress Foundation, to work on her book on the Greek and Roman votive reliefs from the excavations of the Athenian Agora. She is also working on depictions of children in Attic votive reliefs, for a conference on Childhood in Antiquity to be held at Dartmouth College in November. Carol has just finished the text of an Agora Picture Book on sculpture and marbleworkers in the Agora.
• Frank C. Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the collections of the Wriston Art Center Galleries. The Wriston Art Galleries once again mounted an exhibition that was used in the Winter Term Freshman Studies classes. Titled “Hiroshige: Visions of the Floating World” the show featured over fifty prints by Ando Hiroshige from the Wriston’s permanent collection. In addition to the exhibition Frank developed, with the invaluable assistance of student intern, Rachel Hoerman, an interactive website detailing aspects of Hiroshige’s life and work. Frank was also pleased to offer a lecture to the College Endowment Association in Milwaukee regarding the Wriston’s collection of Japanese woodblock prints.
In May 2003 Frank led a team including Carol Rosenberg and Catherine Hollis to victory in Lawrence University’s Annual Iron Chef competition and the Wriston Art Galleries now houses the “Official Iron Chef Carved Spoon and Fork.” He is looking forward to returning to the competition next year as a judge.
Along with his yearly offering of the Gallery Studies class at Lawrence, Frank was invited to teach the second part of the Art History Introductory Survey course at Lawrence. He was pleased to be back in the lecture hall after his last few years of hiatus from teaching.
In June and July Frank traveled to Japan with other members of the Lawrence faculty and staff. While there he attended an annual Shinto ritual that marks the summer solstice and through the generosity of the Freeman Foundation acquired a woodblock print by the artist Ando Hiroshige for the Wriston’s permanent collection. On a more personal note, the garage woodshop is up and running and Frank has already turned numerous board feet of high quality hardwoods into massive piles of sawdust and three, still unfinished pieces of furniture
• Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, instructors in photography, showed recent gum prints and tintypes at Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October. Their photographs were also included in "New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography" at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, from February to June, and "Visions of Water" at the Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, in October. Their 16 mm b/w film "One Million Years is Three Seconds" about creativity and mortality premiered at mini-cine, Shreveport, Louisiana, in March. A related exhibition ran concurrently at Turner Art Center Gallery, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, where they were Rea Fox Visiting Professors in February and March. In April, they presented a lecture and a palladium printing workshop at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Feature articles on their work were published in Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, No Depression , Nashville, Tennessee, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Philip J. Brandenberger , Brooklyn, New York, IMAGE Studios, Appleton, and Edward R. Waskawic, Omro, Wisconsin, generously donated pro-quality 4x5 view cameras, enlargers and related developing equipment enabling a significant upgrade to the photography studio and darkroom facility. A Faculty Research Grant facilitated the addition of slides of works by 15 contemporary photographers to the Visual Resources Library. These invaluable tools will be used by students working at an advanced level in photography.
Photography Independent Study students Lauren Semivan, studio art, ’03, showed solo at xhedos café, Ferndale, Michigan, in January, and Trish O'Donnell, studio art, ’03, exhibited her at Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in March and 110 Gallery, Plymouth, Wisconsin, in June. Former photography students Gianina Contin, studio art, ’01, will intern at Boston Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, Jordan Burnett, studio art/art history, ’02, was admitted to the interior design graduate program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, Daniel Leers, art history, ’02, is a project assistant for the department of prints and photographs working on the Look Magazine archive for the Museum of the City of New York dleers@cmny.org, New York, New York, and Sita Satyadahara, studio art/gender studies, ’02, is an intern at Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, New York, New York. Shimon and Lindemann welcome news from former students via email: julie@shimonlindemann.com.
• Michael Orr, associate professor of art history, delivered a number of lectures and papers during the year. He gave a paper entitled “Tradition and Innovation in the Cycles of Miniatures Accompanying the Hours of the Virgin in Early 15th-century English Books of Hours,” at a conference organized at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels in November. Also in November, he presented a lecture on Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Hans Memling’s Gdansk Last Judgment Altarpiece at a Lawrence alumni event held at the Milwaukee Art Museum. In February he gave a Freshman Studies lecture, “Visions of Ukiyo-e: The Landscapes of Hiroshige” in conjunction with an exhibition of Hiroshige prints on display in the Wriston Art Galleries. Finally, as part of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, he also lectured on "The Making of the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript" to the residents of Clement Manor Retirement Community in Milwaukee. At the end of the year, Michael was promoted to full professor.
• Kristi Roenning, instructor in art, begins her fourth year at Lawrence. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, she has taught art for 18 years in Wisconsin Public Schools and was named Wisconsin Art Educator of the Year in 1992. She states the best part of her teaching experience here at Lawrence is working with its bright and enthusiastic students. Many are now “out there” bringing that enthusiasm for art to young minds and making a difference. Most recently Lauren Preisen ’02, completing her student teaching last spring, is teaching art for the Chicago Public Schools in grades 1-7. Trish O’Donnell ‘03 is student teaching in the Appleton Schools with LU grad Renee Reimer-Ulman, ’94, and Karla Lauden. Karla received her teaching certification through Lawrence’s program in ’01.
Kristi Roenning, the artist, has been accepted for a four-week artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She will be there in November 2003. Last April her painting, “Self Portrait with Friends,” was exhibited with a painting by her daughter, Philadelphia artist Olivia Schreiner, at a group show in New York City entitled “My Mother’s an Artist”. In June, Kristi participated in the invitational “Women of Spirit”. Seven new works were on exhibit for that show at the Hardy Gallery in Ephraim, Wisconsin. In September 2003, Kristi and twelve other artists celebrated the opening of the 2nd Street Gallery, an art collective in Algoma, Wisconsin. She is a founding member.
Kristi looks forward to returning for Terms II and III and to her art methods classes. She considers it a joy and an honor to bring her experiences as artist and educator to the next group of artist/educators to graduate from Lawrence University.
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• Jane Rumpf Knight, art/English, '50, Milwaukee-Downer College. I obtained Master of Science in Art Education, UWM, ’59 and M.A. in English, UWM, ’81. Have been retired from Milwaukee Public Schools where I was a teacher, since 2000. At present I have a painting studio in the Arts Building, 133 East Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Mary Ann Sanford, art, ’55, taught elementary school for 30 years in Illinois, not just art, but all subjects including music and gym, until such “specials” were hired. Started out in a 2-room school with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. Wow! Was I innocent! I learned more than the kids that year! I never had any trouble at all in making “groups” for reading, math, and spelling. Retired in 1989 (continued at the school for three more years leading the Young Astronaut group I had started in 1985) to travel, which I have done. Been to Antarctica, Egypt, Middle East, most of Europe, the Canary Islands, the Far East (around the Pacific Ocean), Scotland (2X), United Kingdom, U.S. of course, and Canada. Places yet to go and see if I can get the arthritic joints to cooperate! Have two addresses: one is my permanent home in Illinois. The other is in Maine where I go for the summer (May-September). Also two e-mail addresses: Illinois: maryann@uti.com and Maine: meill@gwi.cnt I paint for fun, friends, not to sell. Painted a mural on the underpinnings of a cottage here in Maine.
• Janie Clapp Torma, art/biology, ’56. What am I doing now, well nothing to do with my art/biology double major, but a lot to do with my liberal arts education. The latest will be the starting of a Court Watch program for victims of domestic violence in the court system in our country. This is a pilot program in the State of Illinois. The treatment of these people in the courts has been a major problem here. We will soon be a non-for-profit agency. The fact that the Court Watch volunteers are in the court rooms has already caused changes. The other major project is the water classes I have for physically challenged adults to give them the freedom to walk and exercise in the pool. We hope to start swimming classes for physically challenged children this fall. This will be a first in this area.
• Gretchen Niedert Spickerman, architecture/art history, ’57. My husband John, LU ’58, and I are retired on a large lake in the north woods of Wisconsin. Retired, but busier than ever! We are both active as volunteers at our local K-8 elementary school and are members and officers of the Lac du Flambeau Lions Club. Three of our four children only live an hour away so we often help with their families and projects. Grandchildren and great grandchildren are an important part of our lives. We also enjoy hiking and snow shoeing. I designed the house we live in and my art interests include spinning and weaving. I have three angora goats who produce mohair which I spin. I weave on a 64”, eight-harness Toika floor loom and also have a smaller four-harness table loom. Recently I have taken some classes in stained glass and plan to continue with them this winter.
• Ruthann Boucher Stolzman, art, ’58. I don’t think I have any changes to report. I continue to own and operate my own desktop publishing business, WordArt, a “cottage industry” as I operate out of my home. My web site is: www.word-art.com. My training at Lawrence has helped me immensely in this field, although we have added the element of desktop computers since those days! Elements of layout and design are still the same; just the tools have changes.
• Ann Alexander McDonnell, art, ’59. Now that I am retired, I divide my time between Pound Ridge, New York and Sanibel Island, Florida. I have also become a true “migrant” worker since I coach swimming and serve as a lifeguard in both locations. This is a nice change from fund raising and public relations, which provided my bread and butter for 20 years. All in all it is very pleasant. My addresses are: 35 Old Pound Road, Pound Ridge, NY 10576 and 3118 Twin Lakes Lane, Sanibel, FL 33957.
• Mary Schroeder Benjamin, studio art, ’62, lives in Columbia, Missouri, and is a clay artist specializing in colored porcelain vessels and jewelry. Her business is Design in Clay and she owns, as part of a five-woman partnership, a studio in Columbia.
• Ingrid Tucholke Finnan, art education, ’66. I am working out of my home splitting my time between contractual work designing decorative textiles and painting still lifes in oil. This is pretty much an ideal life style were it not for the fact that earning money is completely speculative in both areas. I am looking forward to hearing what other alumnae/i are doing in the arts.
• William Brehm, art/art history, ’67. Latest news: Just got back from a week at Dillman’s in northern Wisconsin studying watercolor with Tom Lynch. It had to be the best class (including Lawrence) I have ever attended, and I have attended quite a few. Anyone who has the chance should consider it. He has seminars around the country. I was remarried in 2001 (Marnie also an artist) and now live in Hamilton, Ontario, where I am semi-retired and spend a lot of time painting and traveling.
• John Dietrich, art, ’67, has been a full-time potter since 1968 and currently owns and operates Ellison Bay Pottery in Door County Wisconsin. Gallery website is: www.ellisonbaypottery.com.
• Jane Moore, art, ’67. My husband and I own and operate a resort – Burren West Resort – on Magic Reservoir which is about 40 miles south of Sun Valley, Idaho. The resort includes an RV park, restaurant, bar and convenience store.
• William Gardiner, art history/architecture, ’68, Married to Barbara Kratky Gardiner, French ’68. Graduated 1973 University of Cincinnati, architectural degree. Practiced architecture in Cincinnati for six years. Moved to West Palm Beach in 1979 and became an unlimited general contractor, and developer. Moved to Orlando in 1997 to become Director of Development for Arvida, a St. Joe Company, Florida’s premier developer and builder of over 60 master-planned communities and the largest land owner in Florida. Four children, one grandchild, one wife.
• Ann Schauffler, art history, ’68, is living in Lexington, Massachusetts and married Stan Griffith on June 22, 1996.
• Mary Rae Chemotti, art, ’70. I have been busy with an ongoing photographic and architectural history project to document 19th-century and early 20th-century churches in areas of immigrant settlements in Wisconsin. This is a project taking me to the back roads and rural areas of the state from my home in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
• Margy Upton Trumbull, studio art, 72. I had wonderful Arthur Thrall as my main mentor! My student teaching at the Milwaukee Art Center in 1972 was under Mary Rae Chemotti, art,'70. (See above update.) I went to work at the Toledo Museum of Art following graduation as part of the National Endowment for the Arts. I met Scott, we were married, and we moved several times, worked in frame shops, apprenticed with jewelers (one was with Philip Morton who wrote the textbook for Dane Purdo's jewelry class). My confidence grew and I had a small fine arts jewelry business for several years, but with the onslaught of children, I got into cooking instead of making art. I have taken several metals and computer classes from the University of Toledo and Bowling Green University as I could manage, but have not completed any degree program. My life is still full with boys (sons Scott, Matt, Ben, and Will Trumbull and Troy Botha, our dependant from AS) turning into men and my husband changing companies. I am retiring from community boards as an arts advocate with hope of going back to "making art" again. I have a degree magna cum laude in soccer mom and school volunteering. Perhaps it is on to a new life in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• Holt Quentel, studio art, ’83. Holt is represented 1987-1991 by Stux Gallery, New York. She showed extensively in the States, Europe, and the Far East.
• Denise Crouse, studio art, ’84. Hello to all my old art buddies at LU. It’s been a long and fun 20 years. After I graduated from Lawrence, I got a “real” art degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have the opportunity to occasionally exhibit my paintings, prints and drawings. I worked in the graphic arts/communica-tions/marketing field until the birth of my daughter, Nora, 3 ½ years ago. Now, in addition to being a full-time mom, I teach art to toddlers and preschoolers at the Appleton Art Center. I’m married to Jody Vanesky, LU ’84, another Lawrence art student. Life is good for the family that makes art together!
• Rebecca Sigler-Africano, art history, ’86. The birth of our second son, Paul Raphael Africano, on 3/4/02 is by far the biggest and brightest news from Normal, Illinois. He joins big brothers, Nick, a junior at Macalester College, and Gianni, who is 11 years old, and the best big brother any mom could ask for!
• Michael Fendry, studio art, 87. In July I defended my MA degree in Instructional Leadership, and have begun my Ph.D. program in Educational Policy and Leadership with Marquette University. It is a good “fit” and much of the coursework is online. Currently I am employed with Milwaukee Public Schools Division of Academic Excellence/Department of Professional Development. One of my duties is to collaborate with teachers and representatives from Harvard University on the development of an online teacher support portal. LU grad, Ellen Latorraca-Muro, ’87, is one of my colleagues on this project! Recently I traveled to San Francisco to hear a concert by jazz vocalist Shirley Horn. By chance I ran into Melanie Wooten, LU ’86, and her husband—so we shared a limousine.
• Pamela Callahan, studio art, ’88. In January of this year, I began painting full-time. It’s been a transition—from fitting in art-making around my work schedule to creating a work schedule for my art-making—but it’s been great so far. Each fall, my longtime partner, John F. Walte and I open our studios during the Around the Coyote Arts Festival. I invite all in the Chicago area to stop in any time during the year.
• Kevin McCary, studio art, ’88. Hi! I will be starting my third year of teaching at St. Therese Elementary in Deephaven, Minnesota. I teach K-8 art to about three hundred plus students. This summer I am back at school to work on my Masters in Art Education. I’m taking classes at the University of Minnesota. I am really excited about this!
• Siri Engberg, art history/English, ‘89. My husband Marty Broan and I had our second child, Eliza Louise Broan, on September 25, 2002. Our son Simon is now 2 ½ and loves having a sister. I am still working as Associate Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where I am currently organizing exhibitions on the work of Chuck Close and Kiki Smith (both shows will open in 2005 and tour nationally). This spring, my third book, Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991 was published by the Walker Art Center and Hudson Hills Press. The publication is a catalogue raisonne of the more than 500 prints the artist produced in his lifetime.
• Kelly Anne Goode Tooker, art history/studio art, ’90. I am an Account Executive at Fullerton & Company, Inc. in Portland, Oregon, which handles commercial accounts and is licensed in property and casualty. Married in March of 1992 to Robert W. Tooker, Jr. and have two children Maraya Nurece, 9 ½ years, and Elleah Kes ,7 ½ years. We are living in Vancouver, Washington.
• Molly Arnason, art history/French, ’92. I was married in July, 2002 to Edward Sanderson and am currently teaching French and acting as a Class Dean at The Rivers School, Weston, Massachusetts. We are enjoying a little cabin in the woods on a pond, thanks to faculty housing.
• Jon Greene, art history, ’93. My wife, Julie, and I have two kids: Avery Elizabeth who is 20 months and Samuel Timothy who is two months. Currently we are trying to survive our first scorching summer in St. Louis, where we recently moved from Chicago (where we lived for the past five years) at the start of this year. My job working for a division of J. Walter Thompson brought us here.
• Dawn Remien Langenkamp, studio art, ’93. After graduating and completing my student teaching program in Chicago, I decided that the politics of the local school system was not for me. I then found a job taking care of two wonderful boys, and was able to do all the art projects that I wanted, along with teaching them to swim, play soccer and generally have a fun time being a kid. After two years, I switched careers and have been working as a designer for Crate and Barrel ever since. In September of 2001, I was married. We bought a home in my hometown of Evanston, Illinois and are now expecting the birth of our first child in early November. One day I will find the time to pick up that paintbrush again, but for now I am very happy and content!
• Lenore Thomas, religious studies/studio art, ’93. I just received my M.F.A. in Art from University of Wisconsin-Madison. My husband and I are moving to Chicago where I will be opening up a gallery called Red Rocket with a friend. Currently, I am teaching art and hope to continue that in Chicago as well.
• April Eisman, art history/English, ’94, I’m still a Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. I am writing my dissertation on Bernhard Heisig, an artist from the former GDR (East Germany). Currently I am in Berlin doing an internship at the Neue Nationalgalerie for the exhibition, Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR), which opened in late July 2003. In April 2004, I’ll return to Germany for a year (or more) on a fellowship through the Freie Universitat. Nutmeg, my dog, is summering in Boston, but next year she’ll be coming with me! Also, this spring Shad Wenzlaff, art history/music, ’94, Annie Krieg, art history/German,’01, and I gave papers at the 30th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society for the panel, 20th Century German Art, a mini Lawrence reunion.
• Nikki Roberg, art history, ’94. I live in Seattle, Washington and am the Knowledge Sharing Coordinator for NPower, a national organization that provides technology assistance to the nonprofit sector in the United States. I also do some visual communications work for NPower and for other nonprofits in the area.
• Renee Reimer Ulman, studio art, ’94. I currently teach Drawing and Painting and Art Survey (an introductory art course) at Appleton North High School. This school year will be my ninth year teaching. In 2000, I married Chad Ulman who is an architect at Hoffman Corporation and on February 19, 2002, we had a little girl, Sophie Christine, who has kept me very busy. We currently live near City Park in Appleton in an old farmhouse that we are hoping to restore. I am also in the process of getting my Masters in Creative Arts and Learning through Lesley University. This school year, Trish O’Donnell, studio art, ’03, will be student teaching with me, and I’ve had several other student teachers from Lawrence in the past nine years. I can’t wait for the newsletter!
• Shad Wenzlaff, art history/music, ’94. In April Annah Krieg, art history/German, ’01, April Eisman, art history/English,’94, and myself formed the 20th Century German Art panel of papers at the 30th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 10, 2003. Annah delivered a paper titled: Heinrich's Cathedral: St. Servatius and the Construction of the 1000 Year Reich; April Eisman delivered a paper titled Hans Grundig's Victims of Fascism: The Jewish Question in Post-war East Germany and my paper was titled From the Trench to the Catacombs: Otto Dix in Italy. The panel was chaired by Barbara McCloskey from the University of Pittsburgh, where both Annah and April are currently studying toward art history graduate degrees. I am currently working toward my graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Heather Varga Davis, art history/sociology, 95. I married Graham Davis on October 12, 2002. I have one child, Andrew Varga, age 6, born on December 15, 1996. I work at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the Neurodiagnostics Department. My husband and I recently bought an acre of property on Lake Wissota and plan to build a house in the next few years. We also hope to have another baby soon!
• Jennifer Kosloski Plamann, studio art, ’95. I married Adam Plamann on May 3, and we now own a “farmette” on the edge of New London, Wisconsin. During this past school year, I completed my fourth year of teaching art at Wilson Middle School, Appleton. I was privileged to be involved in designing an innovative project-based, student-driven, secondary charter school; Valley New School, that will open on August 27, and I will be one of four teacher/advisors there. In the spring, I began a Master's Degree program through Lesley University (along with fellow Lawrentians Renee (Reimer) Ulman, studio art, '94, and Lauren Frownfelter, music, '99) integrating visual art, music, drama, dance, storytelling, and poetry. In my spare time, I have been acting and choreographing for community theatre groups in the Fox Valley area.
• Danna Pye, art/Spanish, ’95. I am a ceramist, and I publish my own magazine. I also am a full-time mother, with our son Ezra, who was born April 26, 2003. I live with my husband, Kenny, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Scott Rice, studio art, ’95. Scott plans to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin in August, 2003. This spring, his film “The Anatomy Lesson” was well received at screenings both at the University of Texas at Austin and in Los Angeles.
• Deanna Jones Duffy, art history/French, ’96. I just finished my teaching career in California to move to Texas where my husband, Ben, is working as a doctor for the military. I am looking for a teaching job in Texas, but may go back to school for my master’s degree.
• Carolyn Joslyn Gehrke, art/physics, ’96. I received my M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona in 2001. I work for Glory Educational Resource developing workbooks and software for elementary math.
• Andrea Morrill, art history, ’96, earned her masters degree in Northern Renaissance Art from the University of Wisconsin in 2000 and then moved to Texas for an eight month graduate internship at the Dallas Museum of Art in Museum Education. Andrea is currently the Curator of Education at Southeast Missouri State University Museum in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
• Matt Helland, studio art, ’97, is with an art advertising firm in New York, enjoying Manhattan and pursuing his career in the industry.
• Alison Latimer, art history,’97. I have recently moved to Seattle and married Tyler Lohse on August 23, 2003 at my parent’s home in Illinois. I’m working at Avenue A, an interactive advertising agency in the media department.
• Dean Dunakin, studio art, ’98, is working as a web designer for Dick Blick Art Materials in Chicago.
• Kate Fritzsche, art history/English, ’98. After graduating from Lawrence, I went on to pursue a graduate degree in art history from George Washington University, and I am currently finishing up my thesis toward that. I work for the National Gallery of Art as a Development Associate for Prospect Research. I would be happy to talk to any Lawrencians who are considering working in the arts in D.C.
• Ronda Nickel McDonough, anthropology/art history, ’98, is currently employed as Grants and Fund Developer with the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin. She lives in Madison and is married to Patrick McDonough, biology, 00, who will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in May of 2004.
• Heather Humbert Price, studio art, ’98. I am entering year three at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center in rural north-central Minnesota. I run an arts retreat program that attracts artists from around the world. In the last year I have met writers, filmmakers, visual artists and dancers. One of the artists, Beth Bauman, had her book published in March. It's so cool to be a part of the lives of these people! I have also brought in former LU alums to perform at the Center (Robb Asklof, voice performance, ’98, and Kat Berentsen, music, ‘98). Aside from the bats, mosquitoes and lack of ethnic cuisine, it's a pretty sweet gig. Please feel free to contact me (Heather’s e-mail address is in the alumni directory).
• Miranda Bouressa, studio art/art history, ’99. I currently live in Appleton and just finished my second term as an AmeriCorps member. My first year I worked at Clovis Grove Elementary School in Menasha, and this past year, I was placed at the American Red Cross of East Central Wisconsin in Oshkosh. After completing my second year, I was hired on full-time by the Red Cross as their Youth Services Coordinator. In art news, I have spent some time working at MIAD during their Creative Educators sessions, so I’m not totally out of the loop. I have been fortunate enough to travel and see in person some of the works I once studied projected larger than life on the walls of Wriston in their actual size and color.
• Courtney Gerber, art history, ’99. I completed my first year of graduate study in art history and museum studies at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts this past June. My concentration is 19th and 20th-century art of the United States and museum theory and history. I was an intern at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston this summer and have been awarded a teaching assistantship for the fall. On a personal note, Chad Freeburg, performance (voice), ’99, and I have set an October 1, 2004 wedding date. Well be married at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.
• Molly Munson, studio art, ’99. Enrolled in UCLA's Master of Architecture Program beginning fall 2003. No kids. (Praise the Lord!) Driving a red Corvette convertible. Platinum blonde…of course.
• Suzanne Murphy, studio art, ’99, is living in Minneapolis and recently took a screenprinting class at Highpoint Printmaking Center. She is working as the Minnesota organizer for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride (www.iwfr.org), a national mobilization in September 2003 to push for reform of federal immigration laws.
• Zan Keyser Popp, art history, ’99. In August of 2003, Zan received her M.A. in Art History from The George Washington University in Washington D.C.
• Cathy Sawinski, art history/classics, ’99. Last year I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a M.A. in Art History and Certificate in Museum Studies. Since then, I have been a Curatorial Assistant at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
• Colleen Ayers, studio art, ’00. I have been living in Madison, Wisconsin but will be moving to Minneapolis to pursue a degree in graphic design.
• Beth Schwindt, art history, ’00. I am currently a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago studying Historic Preservation (aka worshipping Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe).
• Jennifer Benjamin, art history/classics, ’01. I am currently living in Minneapolis and working at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a Tour Coordinator where I schedule public tours and assist with the continuing education of docents and volunteers. Life has kept me busy with that and starting the masters program at the University of St. Thomas. I begin this fall as a full-time student.
• Annie Krieg, art history/German, ’01. I finished my first year in the M.A. program in art history at the University of Pittsburgh. I spent 5 weeks in Germany this summer with an AIA grant working on my M.A. thesis on the appropriation of medieval architecture during the Third Reich. In April I presented a paper on this topic in a panel at the Midwest Art History Society Conference with April Eisman, art history/English, ’94, who is also at Pitt. Not only do we present papers together, we also got to meet up in Germany this summer and try to play racquetball in Pittsburgh as often as possible. In May I presented a version of my LU honors project on medieval monastic architecture for women at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• Laura Sullivan, art history, ’01. This summer I worked at a summer camp near Duluth, Minnesota. I intend to go to grad school for library science within the next year. I am currently living in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Kristina Sunde, studio art/art history, ’01. In May I completed my M.F.A. with an emphasis in drawing and anatomy at the New York Academy of Art. I sold the work from my thesis exhibition and am preparing a body of work for an exhibition in New York next year. I have recently relocated to Madison, Wisconsin and will begin teaching drawing courses in the fall.
• Melanie Kehoss, studio art, ’02. I have managed to avoid the temptations of a full-time salary and health benefits, and am working part-time as an engineering assistant at Johnson Controls in Milwaukee. The rest of the time, I’m keeping myself busy with art-making and the somewhat less exciting business of art. I have participated in Urban Side Show at Turner Hall, Reverb at Bucketworks, and Tough Guys and Cry Babies and XXL at Luckystar Studio. My portfolio is online at www.angelfire.com/wi/kehoss.
• Dan Leers, art history, ’02, is working at the Museum of the City of New York in a two-year position as project assistant for the department of prints and photographs. He is archiving a collection of negatives from the LOOK Magazine archives pertaining to Manhattan. A main aspect of his job is rehousing the negatives in order to better preserve them and make them more accessible for public research.
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VISUAL RESOURCE LIBRARY
We are excited to introduce you to our new Visual Resources Library Supervisor, Colette Lunday Brautigam. Colette is a graduate from the University of Minnesota, with a degree in English and Creative Writing, and she has a Masters of Library and Information Science from the College of St. Catherine/ Dominican University with a focus on special libraries. She offers her experience in working in the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota. While there she worked on the Kerlan Collection, home to the manuscripts and original illustrations for over 75,000 children’s books. Colette will be overseeing our extensive slide collection including slide-making, filing, image research, digital scanning along with developing special projects and overseeing our student workers. Welcome Colette.
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