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Patricio Sarzosa
Creative director, Sessions College for Professional Design. Formerly,
senior designer, Max Identidad Corporativa; designer, G Spot
Advertising; editorial designer, Diario El Comercio, Ecuador
educAtion: BA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
clients include: The Economist; Olé, SBDC CUNY; Amino Vital;
Adventure-Life; Cinemark; Our Children Foundation; Previsora
Bank; IntegraMed
weBsite: www.psarzosa.com
Stephen Savage
Illustrator
educAtion: BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; MFA, School
of Visual Arts
clients include: The New York Times, Sky, Vibe, The New
Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times,
Business Week, Premiere, New Republic, Time, Newsweek, Worth,
Audubon, Women’s Health, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Nick Jr.,
Tahoe International Film Festival
exhiBitions include: Society of Illustrators, New York Times
Gallery Nine
Books: Polar Bear Night, Animals Undercover, Making Tracks
AwArds include: Best Illustrated Book, The New York Times;
American Library Association Notable Book; Parade; Pick of the
Lists, American Booksellers; Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book;
Society of Publication Designers; International Readers Association
Children’s Choice Award; American Illustration; Communication
Arts; Society of Illustrators
Gae Savannah
Multimedia artist, writer, curator
educAtion: AAS, Parsons School of Design; BA, Colby College;
MFA, School of Visual Arts; Advanced Rassias Method ESL training
one-person exhiBitions include: Scene Gallery; Art Resources
Transfer; Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery; Curcio Projects; SCOPE Art Fair
group exhiBitions include: Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton,
NJ; Visual Arts Museum; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Mattatuck
Museum, Waterbury, CT; Artists Space; Exit Art
puBlicAtions include: ArtAsiaPacific, Sculpture, Flash Art,
Art in America, The Village Voice, artnet
curAtor: Roger Smith Sculpture Window
honors include: Charles H. Revson Foundation
eleni Savvidou
Lighting designer, L’Observatoire International Lighting Design,
ES Lighting Design
educAtion: MA, New School University
clients include: University of Puerto Rico, Juilliard School,
Museum of the Moving Image
AwArds include: Best of show, InLight Richmond
elizabeth Sayles
Illustrator
educAtion: University of the Arts, School of Visual Arts
clients include: Henry Holt; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Clarion
Books; Pleasant Company; Random House; Delta Airlines; National
Geographic; T. Rowe Price; Lands’ End
children’s Books illustrAted include: Moon Child; In the
Night Garden; The Goldfish Yawned; Five Little Kittens; Not in
the House, Newton!; The Little Black Truck; I Already Know I
Love You; The Very Little Princess
group exhiBitions include: Society of Illustrators; Chemers
Gallery, Tustin, CA; Every Picture Tells a Story Gallery, Los Angeles;
Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
AwArds include: New York Public Library 100 Best Books;
American Booksellers; The New York Times bestseller; Bank Street
College; Best Children’s Book, Junior Library Guild Selection
weBsite: www.elizabethsayles.com
alan Scarritt
Fine artist
educAtion: BA, Brown University; MFA, California College of the
Arts
exhiBitions include: Cynthia Broan Gallery; Sideshow Gallery;
Stark Gallery; Willoughby Sharp Gallery; Gallery Paule Anglim, San
Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Axel Rabin Gallery
collections include: Museum of Modern Art; Denver Museum
of Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina;
Arkansas Arts Center
puBlicAtions include: Artforum, Bomb
AwArds include: National Endowment for the Arts; New York
State Council on the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Kate Schaffer
Computer artist; fine artist; photographer; director of operations,
BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Department, School of Visual Arts
educAtion: BA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County;
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
exhiBitions And screenings include: Exit Art; HERE Gallery;
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago International Gay &
Lesbian Film & Video Festival; AIM IV: International Festival of
Time-Based Media, University of Southern California, Pasadena;
Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Rhonda Schaller
Fine artist; director, Schaller + Jaquish Art Projects; founder, Create
Meditate; assistant director, Office of Career Development, School
of Visual Arts. Formerly, development director, Big Apple Circus;
assistant development director, Theater for The New City; annual
fund coordinator, Museum of Modern Art
educAtion: BA, Queens College
one-person exhiBitions include: RSS Gallery; Ceres Gallery;
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston
group exhiBitions include: Memorial Art Gallery, University of
Rochester, NY; Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY; Parker
Gallery, Washington, DC; Ukrainian Institute of Contemporary Art,
Chicago; Artists Space; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Author: Called or Not, Spirits are Present
grAnts include: Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Lucius and Eva
Eastman Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
weBsite: www.rhondaschallerchelsea.com
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