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Bernardo Ruiz
Producer, director, writer, documentary filmmaker
educAtion: BA, Sarah Lawrence College
professionAl experience includes: Associate editor, North
American Congress on Latin America
film And television projects include: Gardens of Paradise,
Roberto Clemente, American Experience, History Detectives,
Megastructures, Redemption, Skeleton Stories, Destination
America, Postcards from Buster, Matters of Race, The Sixth Section
AwArds And honors include: New York Foundation on the
Arts, Rockefeller Bellagio Writing Residency, Yaddo Foundation,
Latino Public Broadcasting, Paul Robeson Fund, Fundacion
Valparaiso Writing Residency
Sergio Ruzzier
Illustrator, writer
Author, illustrAtor: The Little Giant, The Birds, The Room
of Wonders, The Empty Cradle
illustrAtor: Moon, Have You Met My Mother?; Why Mole
Shouted and Other Stories; More Mole Stories; Love You When
You Whine
clients include: The New Yorker; The New York Times;
Washington Post; Wall Street Journal; Chicago Tribune; Atlantic
Monthly; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; HarperCollins; Farrar, Straus and
Giroux; Henry Holt
AwArds include: Gold Medal, Parents’ Choice Award; Society of
Publication Designers; Society of Illustrators; Communication Arts;
American Illustration
Jack Dingo Ryan
Fine artist
educAtion: BFA, University of Oregon; MFA, University of Georgia
exhiBitions include: Brooks Museum, Memphis; Cascade
Gallery, Portland, OR; Contemporary Art, Memphis; powerHouse:
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; American University Museum,
Washington, DC; Consolidated Works Contemporary Arts Center,
Seattle; La Maison Laurentine, France; Crawl Space, Seattle; Athens
Institute for Contemporary Art; Hunter Museum of American Art,
Chattanooga, TN; Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver
screenings include: Mantua Festival, Ballaghaderreen, Ireland;
Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel; T-10 Festival, San Francisco;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC;
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
puBlicAtions include: Art Papers, Number, Dish, Seattle
Times, The Oregonian
AwArd: Tennessee Arts Commission
Bob Sacha
Photographer, filmmaker, multimedia producer, editor
educAtion: BA, Syracuse University
clients include: Apple Computer, Open Society Institute, James
Irvine Foundation, Talking Eyes Media, Miller-McCune Foundation
puBlicAtions include: National Geographic, Life, Fortune,
Smithsonian, Time, Islands, Audubon, Photo District News
exhiBitions include: Watermark Gallery, Houston; Casa Italiana,
New York University; Palazzo Pigorini, Italy
AwArds And honors include: Documentary Project of the Year,
Pictures of the Year International; Alfred I. duPont Award, Columbia
University; Online News Organization; Picture of the Year Award;
National Press Photographers Association; New York Photo Festival;
White House News Photographers Association
weBsite: www.bobsacha.com
Dan Saelinger
Commercial photographer
educAtion: BFA, with distinction, Pennsylvania State University;
MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design
clients include: AARP, Addison-Wesley, Black Book, Fortune,
HarperCollins, IEEE Spectrum, Men’s Health, Field & Stream,
National Geographic Adventure, Maxim, Business Week, Fast
Company, Men’s Jounal, Condé Nast Portfolio, Money, Popular
Mechanics, Ready Made, Prevention, Time Out New York, Wired,
Nike, Popular Science, Runner’s World, Navigators Insurance
AwArds include: American Society of Magazine Editors, Society
of Publication Designers, Graphis, Photo District News, American
Photography, Art Directors Club Young Guns
weBsite: www.dansaelinger.com
Stefan Sagmeister
Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc. Formerly, M&Co; designer,
ETC. magazine, Vienna; creative director, Leo Burnett Hong Kong;
designer, Schauspielhaus Vienna
educAtion: MS, Pratt Institute; MFA, University of Applied Arts,
Vienna
grAphics And pAckAging for: The Rolling Stones, David Byrne,
Lou Reed, Aerosmith, Pat Metheny
puBlicAtions include: Rolling Stone; The New York Times
television credits include: Entertainment Tonight, The
Tonight Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America
AwArds: More than 200 design awards, including Lucky Strike
Designer Award, Raymond Loewy Foundation; Grammy Award;
Grand Prix, Communication Arts; Hall of Fame, Moscow Art
Directors Club; D&AD; The One Show
weBsite: www.stefansagmeister.com
Paul Sahre
Graphic designer
educAtion: BFA, MFA, Kent State University
clients include: Vintage Beacon Press; Verso; Random House;
Little, Brown and Company; Otherwise Editions; Simon & Schuster,
Inc.; IBM; Alfred A. Knopf; March First; Soho Repertory Theatre;
Microsoft; The New York Times; National Post; Verve Records;
MCI; Warner Brothers Records
group exhiBitions include: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum; Recontres Internationales des Arts Graphiques de
Chamount, France; Art Museum of the University of Memphis, TN;
Artists Space
AwArds include: Silver Pencil, The One Show, Communication
Arts Design Annual, Graphis, Print, Type Directors Club Annual,
I.D., AIGA
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