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ARLA PATCH, BFA Sculpture, has 72 been invited by former classmate Dan Castelaz (Tyler Rome, ‘71) to teach at his school, the Taipei American School in Taiwan during January 2007. She will travel on to Bangkok, Thailand where she will show the DVD of her book A Body Story to a visual media class at a Thai University. She will also give a presentation to her alma mater, the International School of Bangkok. In addition, she is currently teaching at Copper Canyon Academy for troubled girls in Arizona where she uses mask-making and photography as tools for healing. HELEN WEISZ, MFA Ceramics, had a tile piece selected for exhibition in the 7th International Biennial of Ceramics at the Museo de Ceramica de Mainises in Valencia, Spain, from November 18, 2005 to January 14, 2006. The show featured 58 works from 18 different countries. Helen was one of five artists exhibiting from the United States. APRIL FUSTER, MFA Printmaking, 73 recently completed a two-year term as president of the Mid-America Print Council. The Art Academy of Cincinnati, where she teaches printmaking and drawing, has moved to a renovated building downtown with improved and enlarged printmaking facilities. LOIS WINSTON, BFA Graphic Design/ Illustration, has sold a second novel to Dorchester Publishing, a leading New York publisher of genre fiction. Love, Lies & a Double Shot of Deception is a romantic suspense story that takes place in Philadelphia and features a heroine who attended art school. It will be published in June 2007. More information about the book can be found at www.loiswinston.com. LAURA DROGOUL BFA ’78, “THE ROOT (BLUE EYED),” SCULPTURE AT EVERGREEN, 15 FT (H), 2004. 20 TYLER GESTURES WINTER 2006 VERONICA BENNING, MFA Painting, 74 exhibited her paintings in a group show, “Tertiary, Three Colorists” at the Galeyrie Fine Art in Falmouth, Maine, from July 10 through August 12, 2006. SYDNEY CARPENTER, BFA and MFA ’76, participated in the University of the Arts 12th Annual Summer Lecture Series on July 5, 2006. Carpenter is currently a studio art professor at Swarthmore College. AUDREY FOX, BFA Painting, is an 76 artist and teacher in Lower Merion, PA. Her new concept in painting applies her artistic images directly to aluminum. The new process is on display in her new mural entitled “Waltz of the Tree People in the Jungle Garden” for the Aquatic and Fitness Center in Bala Cynwyd. The mural is a unique fantasy landscape where trees, leaves, and branches transform into people and hidden images are worked into the shadows. The company that helped to produce this artwork was able to print Fox’s image on aluminum using a unique, weather-resistant process. JOSEPH ESSIG, MFA Painting, 77 had his work exhibited in the eDavid Gallery show, “Six Contemporary Printmakers.” The group show was open June 24 through July 30, 2006. LISA LEARNER, BFA Painting, is teaching painting and drawing classes at the Main Line Art Center. Her paintings continue to be exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art gallery and in the David David Gallery at 260 South 18th Street in Philadelphia. POLLY APFELBAUM, BFA 78 Printmaking, will have a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery, London in early 2007. Frith Street Gallery represents a group of twenty-two international artists working in a variety of media, including Apfelbaum’s floorboard installations. LAURA DROGOUL, BFA Sculpture, a Baltimore sculptor and performance artist who created an eight-foot-tall Japanese mask with glowing blue eyes and papiermache skin, was named the first winner of the $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. JON WEIMAN, BFA Graphic Design, cofounded Weimanewman, LLC, in 2006. The company is a design firm specializing in Web design, illustration, Flash Animation and graphic design. Their clients include interior design firms, restaurants, a stone and marble supplier, among others. The Web address is www.weimanewman.com. JOHN WARREN, BFA Printmaking, 80 has owned and operated his own picture framing business for 10 years. He was in a three person show at the JMS gallery in Philadelphia from January through February, 2006. He was also in a group show at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College from September through November, 2004.
ANNETTE KUSHEN, BFA Painting, 81has recently had a gelatin silver photograph exhibited at New York University’s “Small Works Show 2006.” FRAN SIEGEL, BFA Painting, 82 was granted an individual artist fellowship for the city of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Siegel had an exhibition of three site-specific installations at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, in Los Angeles, California during April 2006. Siegel also had a solo exhibition at the Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City during the month of September, 2006. E.B. LEWIS, BFA Graphic Design, was 83a featured presenter at the Fleming County Reading Festival in late June. Lewis is a popular children’s book illustrator and spoke to the young audience of his desire for art and how he began illustrating books. ROSEANNE FIELDER (‘87) from her exhibition, Linear 84 Interference JOE at BEGONIA, the Painted Bride BFA Art Painting, Center had a solo exhibition “Blue, Period…etc.” at Larry Becker Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in June, 2006 and a group exhibition “The Art of Decoys, Revisited” at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ from May through August, 2006. LISA YUSKAVAGE, BFA Painting, 84recently had her debut as a member of the David Zwirner Galleries in New York. The two Zwirner Galleries, one in Chelsea and the other in Manhattan, had concurrent solo exhibitions featuring nearly 30 of Yuskavage’s oil paintings and drawings. The show received favorable remarks in The New York Times, Art in Review section, Friday, November 10, 2006. NICK CASSWAY BFA ’90, “SUPREME COURT DETAIL,” RUBBER STAMPINGS ON PAPER, NEXUS, 2002. ELIZABETH LEISTER, BFA Painting, 86 had a show “Every Body is Everywhere and Nowhere” on exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Morris Gallery from June 10 through August 20, 2006. This contemporary, multi-channel video installation features a daily Webcast performance from the artist’s Los Angeles studio exploring the alienation of placelessness and the changing definitions of body and self in contemporary life. The exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the William Penn Foundation. ROSEANNE FIEDLER, BFA Metals, 87 is a costume designer/stylist working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles and New York on everything from feature films and television to commercials and music videos. She had the pleasure recently of working with Robert Altman, Peter Farrelly, and the Coen brothers on various commercials. Her latest feature film, Clerks 2, directed by Kevin Smith, debuted this past summer. MICHAEL S. ILLES, BFA Painting, is a Los Angeles artist. His latest body of work is an intuitive struggle between light and dark, luminosity and opacity, and the collisions that occur when unexpected colors and textures meet. His Web site is www.illesgallery.com. His paintings are on display with corporate collectors such as Nordstrom, Macy’s, and Robinson May. Private account commissions can be viewed at www.neptima.net. He was a curator at Abbot’s Habit in Venice, CA from 1993 to1998 and is currently showing at the Canal Club, Venice, CA. VIRGINIA TYLER, MFA Sculpture, 88 had her work displayed at the SOHO20 Gallery in New York City as part of the 2006 National Affiliates Exhibition. SOHO20 Gallery was founded in 1973 as one of the first women’s alternative galleries in Manhattan. It exists in Soho’s art district as a non-profit, artist-run organization devoted to increasing public awareness of the excellence and diversity of women’s art. TOM MAZZULLO BFA ’90, “WALNUT,” CONTE CRAYON ON PAPER, 30 X 22 INCHES, 2004. NICK CASSWAY, BFA Painting, is 90the executive director of Nexus/ Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia’s longest running artist collective dedicated to experimental art. Nick has also been appointed a full-time faculty position in Drexel University’s Design and Merchandising department where he teaches computer graphics and graphic design. Nick is also the co-curator of Dissentia Curatorial Services, an internationally reknowned independent curating group dedicated to public access to contemporary artwork and the role the viewer has in the appreciation of art. Dissentia is currently working on an infomercial. Visit www.dissentia.com. TOM MAZZULLO, BFA Printmaking, exhibited in the “2006 Everson Biennial: Beauty is in the Eye of the Artist” in Syracuse, New York from June 10 through August 20, 2006. He also showed multiple pieces in “The Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings” at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia from June 7 through September 10, 2006. His work has been awarded the William D. Davis Award in Drawing for the exhibition, “Images 2006” at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Robeson Gallery at Pennsylvania State University from June 14 through July 16, 2006. View his work online at www.tommazzullo.tripod.com. TYLER GESTURES WINTER 2006 21
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