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J.T. Takagi
Sound recordist, filmmaker
educAtion: BS, Antioch College; MFA, New York University
projects include: Call for Change series; Voices in the Street; She
Rhymes Like a Girl; Echando Raices/Taking Root; The #7 Train:
An Immigrant Journey; North Korea: Beyond the DMZ; Bittersweet
Survival; Homes Apart: Korea; The Women Outside; American
Masters; American Experience; Wide Angle
AwArds And honors include: Gold Award, New York Expo;
Special Jury Award, San Francisco Film Festival; First Prize, Amiens
International Film Festival; New York Foundation for the Arts; Open
Society Institute; Charles H. Revson Foundation; Rockefeller
Foundation; Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award
lita Talarico
Co-chair, MFA Design Department, School of Visual Arts. Formerly,
founding managing editor, American Illustration & Photography;
reporter-at-large, Italian Design Graphis
educAtion: BA, Empire State College; MFA, School of Visual Arts
professionAl experience includes: Advisor, Charrette; design
competition, U.S. Port of Entry at Massena, NY; architect selection
consultant: Cleveland Museum of Art, National World War II
Memorial Design Competition; project director: Whitehall Ferry
Terminal Design Competition; Pritzker Architecture Prize Annual
Jury Meeting; project coordinator, Italian Manifesto Conference,
International Design Conference in Aspen
puBlicAtions include: Co-author, Design Schools Confidential;
Design Entrepreneur; Design Career: A Practical Guide for
Beginning Illustrators and Graphic Designers; Graphic: Inside the
Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Graphic Designers. Co-editor,
Graphis Publication Design; associate editor, Art Against War, New
York Observed
AwArds And honors include: Visiting scholar, American
Academy in Rome; advisory board member emeritus, Adobe Partners
by Design
Kyle Talbott
Graphic designer, art director. Formerly, Felt Creative, The Cement
Works
educAtion: BFA, magna cum laude, Temple University
clients include: Handselecta, Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, Zoo
York, Complex, E*Trade, JPMorgan Chase, Tibotec Therapeutics,
Mucca Design, IAM, Community Connect, Behavior LLC
Jillian Tamaki
Illustrator
educAtion: BDS, with distinction, Alberta College of Art + Design
clients include: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire,
Maclean’s, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, ESPN, Fast
Company, The Guardian, Atlantic Monthly, Penguin, National
Geographic, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Nickelodeon
Books include: Skim, Gilded Lilies, Indoor Voice
AwArds include: Gold Medal, Society of Publication Designers;
gold and silver medals, Society of Illustrators; Silver Medal, National
Magazine Awards; Ignatz Award; Best Illustrated Children’s Books,
The New York Times; Doug Wright Award
weBsite: www.jilliantamaki.com
alessandro Tanaka
Screenwriter
educAtion: BA, Vassar College; MFA, Columbia University
screenplAys include: The Sitter, Walorsky
AwArds And honors include: Best Short Film, Columbia
University Film Festival
Meryl Taradash
Sculptor
educAtion: MFA, Pratt Institute
one-person exhiBitions include: Fordham University Law
School, Lincoln Center Campus; Jacksonville Museum of Modern
Art, FL; Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, PA; Art Museum
of University of California, Santa Barbara; Elaine Benson Gallery,
Bridgehampton, NY; Long Island Children’s Museum, NY
collections include: New Jersey State Council on the Arts;
Aramak Corporation, Philadelphia; David Bermant Foundation;
Music Center at Strathmore; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory;
Grounds for Sculpture; University of Virginia; Newark Museum;
Avanir Pharmaceuticals
puBlicAtions include: Sculpture; Newsday; New York Daily
News; The New York Times; Washington Times; contributor, Who’s
Who in American Art; Religion, Public Art: A World’s Eye View;
Terror and Violence; The Sculpture Reference
AwArds include: Ford Foundation Grant, New Jersey Arts
Council, Long Island Children’s Museum
Matt Tarulli
Vice president, creative director, Digitas. Formerly, Kirshenbaum
Bond Senecal + Partners, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Wunderman
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
Accounts include: Sharper Image, BMW, Nextel, Atari, Virgin
Atlantic Airways, Fiji Water, Edward Jones, Comcast, Dell, Johnnie
Walker, Land Rover, Citibank
AwArds include: The One Show, Art Directors Club, Graphis,
Creativity, ADDY
Isabel louise Taube
Art historian
educAtion: BA, Bowdoin College; MA, Williams College;
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
curAtor: “Peggy Bacon’s World,” Philadelphia Museum of Art
puBlicAtions include: Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age:
Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection; Whistler as
Printmaker: His Sources and Influences on His Followers;
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
AwArd: Sara Roby Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution
amy Taubin
Filmmaker, curator, performer, film and cultural critic
educAtion: BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MA, New York University
professionAl experience includes: Curator of video and film,
The Kitchen; film columnist, The Village Voice
puBlicAtions include: Millennium Film Journal, Premiere, LA
Weekly, Artforum; author, Taxi Driver; contributing editor, Film
Comment, Sight and Sound
collection: Museum of Modern Art
AwArds include: Anthology Film Archives; New York State
Council on the Arts; Distinguished Art Historian-Teacher Award,
School of Visual Arts
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