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Cool, Calm Collection Fashion designer Dieter Kirkwood (’04) makes the scene. By Lisa Lenoir. Photos by Sarah Faust (’01). 10 Meet the Parents Columbia hosts its rst Parent Weekend. Photos by Michael Jarecki (’06) & Robyn Martin (’05). 12 Newsmakers Columbia grads at CNN were on the scene and behind the scenes to bring groundbreaking coverage of hurricane Katrina to viewers around the world. By Jim Sulski (’84). Photos by Eric Davis (’05). 16 Record, Report... Rescue CNN photographer Mark Biello (’83) is called into action. 23 That’s the Spirit Chicagoan Sherry Lansing did very, very well in Hollywood. Now she’s doing good. 24 AIM High Recognizing the bene ts of early arts-based education, Columbia brings arts-integrated learning to the Chicago Public Schools. By Micki Leventhal & Ann Wiens. Photos by Joel Wanek.

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Nathan Baker (’05), Photography Studio, 2004. Archival piezo print, 34” x 50”, edition of 8. Nathan Baker received his BFA in Photography in 2004. Photography Studio, shot in Columbia’s studios, is from his “Constructed Realities” series, which he exhibited in 2005 at Schneider Gallery in Chicago and Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. The series, in which each image depicts a single person performing several tasks within the same space, was a rst-place winner for photography in the 2005 Adobe Design Awards Exhibition. Baker’s work has been reviewed in New City, the Chicago Tribune, and TENbyTEN magazine, and was a New City pick for one of the “Top 5 Chicago Photography Shows of 2004.” He is represented by Schneider Gallery in Chicago. www.schneidergallerychicago.com, www.nathanbakerphotography.com v o l 1 : i s s u e 2 dearreaders: WINTER 2 0 0 6 DEMO
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Markland Lloyd, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President Marketing and Communication EDITOR Ann Wiens ART DIRECTOR Guido Mendez Welcome to the second issue of DEMO, the new magazine of, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Randall Albers from, and about Columbia College Chicago. In issue two, we continue our mission to Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin showcase the cultural contributions of the Columbia community—our alumni, students, William Cellini /’94 faculty, and staff. We think we have some pretty good stories to tell. But we want to William Frederking know what you—alumni and friends of Columbia College—think. Cheryl Johnson-Odim Mark Kelly So we’re asking you to send your thoughts, ideas, anecdotes, and images to us. James MacDonald And we’re offering some incentives. We’ll take your feedback to heart. If we receive Alton Miller Brian Shaw /’86 it by March 15, we’ll enter your name in a drawing to win some truly fabulous prizes Kari Sommers /’90 (see below). Jeff Spitz Jim Sulski /’84 Tell us about your most meaningful experience at Columbia. Tell us about a mentor, a Crystal Williams friend, a funny situation. Send us a picture of campus life in 1972. Let us know what CLASS NOTES EDITOR we’re doing (or not doing) to pique your interest, and what you’d like to see. James Kinser /’05 Be sure to include your name, mailing address, phone number, email, and graduation COLUMBIACOLLEGECHICAGO year (if you’re an alum). Current employees of Columbia College Chicago are ineligible to win (but we still value your input!). CHAIR , BOARD OF TRUSTEES Allen M. Turner We’re standing by, EMAIL US @: PRESIDENT [email protected] Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. ACTING VICE PRESIDENT FOR with “input” in the subject line INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Eric Winston, Ph.D. OR MAIL US: DIRECTOR OF MARKETING DEMO magazine Brenda Erin Berman Columbia College Chicago ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF Ann Wiens

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Over the past decade, we have watched with alarm as the arts curriculum in many school districts has been decimated. Today, sadly, many elementary and high schools offer virtually no instruction in music or art or drama.

As an arts educator, I’ve seen rsthand the difference that the arts can make in the classroom—and beyond. The arts contribute to our community’s reservoir of social and nancial capital, foster civic engagement, and strengthen personal development. It is in our interest, as a society, to ensure that our children have the opportunity to participate in arts programs that engage their minds and interest, excite their creativity—early and consistently—and allow them to develop the ” cognitive and creative abilities as only the arts can. A decade-long study of arts-based youth organizations, conducted by Stanford-based cultural anthropologist Dr. Shirley Brice Heath, demonstrated obert Drea

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by by particularly those deemed “at risk.” When compared with a national sample, young people who participate in arts programs are twice as likely to win an award for academic achievement, 31 percent more likely to say

arrick Carter that they plan to continue their education after high school, and 25 percent W more likely to report feeling satis ed with themselves.

Photo of Research compiled by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond of Columbia’s Center for Arts Policy corroborates Dr. Heath’s ndings. The evidence presented in their recent book, Putting the Arts in the Picture, demonstrates a correlation between arts-integrated learning and signi cant gains in student academic achievement. At Columbia, we believe in the arts. We believe in our public schools. We are engaged with our community. That is why we work with teachers to help them include the arts in their normal classroom curricula. That is why we have developed progressive, effective arts programs for school-age children. If schools are unable to include arts and communication programs within their curricula on their own, then the community—including corporations, philanthropic entities, churches, and arts organizations—must work together to provide legitimate “ alternatives. Why do this? Because the arts matter—to all of us.

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We’ve got game! New game-design major to launch in ’06 Frequency TV This spring, the college will launch from a new degree program in digital programs available game design. Approved by the as Podcasts board of trustees in October, the Bachelor of Arts in Game Design Columbia’s on-campus was developed in response television station, to burgeoning interest and Frequency TV, recently opportunity in the eld of digital became one of the rst W game technology. WIN A NE college stations to offer the ! entertainment programming “From classroom education to as Podcasts, downloadable PodS corporate and government training i SEE PAGE 2 via the Internet through the FOR DETAIL programs in everything from iTunes Music Store. Since cultural sensitivity to disaster October 28, Frequency TV’s response, interactive games original sketch comedy program, are the training tool of choice,” “Out on a Limb,” has been Columbia explains Doreen Bartoni, dean streaming to more than 1,100 of the School of Media Arts. subscribers all over the world, “Because of Columbia’s emphasis with 100 to 200 new subscribers on providing the best in both each day; ten more shows theory and practice, we are ideally Columbia launches became available in November. positioned to educate the next Black World generation of video-game-design Studies minor Frequency TV is currently working professionals.” to format all of its shows for This fall, Columbia students Podcasting. Ed Ferrara, production The major will be administered enrolled for the rst time in a manager for the Television under Columbia’s newly renamed program of Black World Studies, Department, thinks the station Department of Interactive Arts offered through the Department will get to the point where it is and Media (IAM), of Liberal Education. Their study producing shows speci cally for chaired by artist emphasizes a comparative this format. “The whole video- and educator analysis of the artistic and political on-demand thing is the wave of Annette Barbier legacies of black peoples around the future,” said Steve Siwinski, (left), who joined the the world and seeks to inspire a a senior television major and college faculty last serious dialog around regional and producer of Frequency TV. “We’re community fall. Barbier notes, cultural differences. While the eld ten steps ahead.” “Whether we are of “blackness” in higher education talking about web has traditionally been about race Streaming shows through iTunes design, developing video gaming in a post-Civil Rights Movement sets the bar a little higher for for education or entertainment, America, Black World Studies the crews working on the shows. or using the technologies to create takes a global approach. Before Podcasting, Frequency art that engages and challenges TV was only seen on campus the audience, Columbia will be Dr. Stephanie Shonekan, who and in the dorms. Now the shows providing education that keeps worked to develop the minor, notes are representing Columbia with our graduates at the cutting that it differs from programs at the entire world as its potential edge of the interaction of culture other institutions in part because audience. and technology. The diversity of of its emphasis on activism. “Can Columbia’s student body will be one even begin to speak about a Frequency TV programming can signi cant in developing a broader ‘Black World’ without also speaking be found on iTunes by searching range of interactive arts and about the nature of activism?” for “artist Frequency TV.” games than is currently available.” she asks. —reported by Hayley Graham (’07) 77,000 usablesquarefeettothe property, whichwilladdabout Institute ofJewish Studies.The “next-door neighbor,” theSpertus 618 S.MichiganAvenue from our Chicago purchasedthebuildingat negotiations, ColumbiaCollege After morethanayearof DEMO6 needs, it is a nice start.” will not solve all of our expansion seams.” He continues, “While this needs, and we are bursting at the administrative and student-services technology and studio requirements, to thatourconstantlychanging president, Dr. Warrick Carter. “Add grow each year,” notes Columbia’s Ave. “Our space needs continue to Campus Center at 600 S. Michigan next doortotheAlexandroff the centerofour“urbancampus,” Columbia’s acquisition stands at at 610S.MichiganAve. upon completionofitsnew facility infall2007,vacated by Spertus Columbia campus, issettobe Campus MasterPlan presents preliminary Institute building; Columbia buysSpertus

a much-desired four-story student Legends. The tower would house currently occupied by Buddy Guy’s at the corner of Wabash and Balbo, on the Columbia-owned property 14-story campus center to be built visionary stage, include a new, Highlights of the plan, still in its of trustees on December 15. and approved by the board president of campus environment, November 4 by Alicia Berg, vice at a campus town-hall meeting on “Campus Master Plan,” discussed development of a preliminary The purchase coincided with the and growing enrollment. technologies, students’ needs, space, and adapt to changing efficient and effective use of in the South Loop, make more Columbia’s dramatic presence to unify the campus, increase components of a long-term plan the proposed campus center are Both the Spertus purchase and academic space. center, as well as several floors of

The Columbia Chronicle Columbia The of courtesy (’08), ubio R auricio M by Photo . need forintervention. and detectingapeer’s orstudent’s knowing toaidinunderstanding approaches andkinesthetic Project, whichutilizesbody-based Hardy “MakingConnections” developed through itsShannon intheform conduct workshops Movement Therapy programwill for faculty and students. The Dance prevention protocol, and workshops campus, anexpansionofsuicide- around suicideprevention on andeducation understanding includingbetterclinical efforts educational It willsupport Therapy graduatedepartment. Services, andtheDanceMovement Student Affairs, Student Counseling represents acollaborationamong year,of $71,540forthefirst The grant, anaward whichcarries of HealthandHumanServices. agency withintheU.S.Department Administration, apublichealth and MentalHealthServices SAMHSA, theSubstanceAbuse Suicide Prevention grantsfrom receivingCampus and universities Columbia isamong22colleges Suicide Prevention Grant Supports Three-year SAMHA cameras and monitors. cameras andmonitors. security measures, primarilywith the collegetoaugmentitscurrent Initiatives, thegrantwillenable program calledUrbanAreaSecurity buildings. Undertheauspicesofa equipment inseveral campus $99,400 toinstallsurveillance government grantedthecollege of Chicagoandthefederal In othergrantnews, the city behavioral healthproblems. for studentswithmentaland to enhanceexistingservices institutions ofhighereducation Suicide Prevention Grantssupport suicide prevention. Campus Smith MemorialActforyouth Lee possible throughtheGarrett This new grantprogramwas made Columbia moves to preserve access and diversity through scholarships INMEMORIUM

Under a trio of ambitious new initiatives designed to sustain opportunity and access, Columbia College will be awarding up to 700 new scholarships to low-income students by 2009. (’06). The Open Doors Scholarship Program, initiated in 2004, provides ric Davies

support to Chicago Public High E School (CPS) graduates. By the fourth year of the program (2007), 200 Open Doors Scholarships, Photo by ranging from $4,000 to $5,000 per year, will be available to new and continuing students. The initiative is supported in part by a $500,000 award from the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The award, announced in December, will establish an endowed fund Richard Dent Les Brownlee, that will generate up to ten renews scholarship 1915-2005 scholarships annually. The grant commitment was the largest of 60 awards made Famed journalist and professor Jake Caref, to nonpro ts nationwide. Former Chicago Bears 1985 emeritus Les Brownlee died 1919-2005 Super Bowl champion Richard November 21 after a long battle Two new programs will be added in Dent, founder of the Make a with cancer. Master carpenter Jake Caref fall 2006. The Columbia College Dent Foundation, announced was uent in six languages, Chicago Opportunity Scholarship his continuing commitment to A pioneer among Chicago well traveled, possessed great is similar in intent to the Open Columbia’s Sports Management journalists, Brownlee began his knowledge of Russian literature, Doors Scholarship, but is not program. The foundation has career at Ebony magazine and the politics, and philosophy, and was limited to CPS grads. Awards will added $15,000 to the original Chicago Defender, and in 1950 almost single-handedly responsible average $5,000 per year, and are $25,000 donation that established became the rst African-American for much of the early construction renewable for up to four years. the Make a Dent Scholarship for reporter on staff at the Chicago of Columbia College. He died The Retention Award Scholarship Sports Management two years ago. Daily News. He also worked for October 24 of cancer. is designed to assist high-achieving The scholarship primarily supports WLS-TV, WGN-TV, and WBEZ radio. students who are already enrolled Chicago public high school In 2002, he was honored with a Caref joined the staff in 1964, and doing well at Columbia, but graduates who need nancial Lifetime Achievement Award by and even after assuming the are in danger of withdrawing due assistance, have demonstrated the Chicago Headline Club. position of supervisor of the to nancial pressures. academic and/or athletic Building Services staff in the early excellence, and want to study the Brownlee joined the Journalism 1970s, he continued to serve The college proposes to match, eld of sports management. To faculty in the late 1970s, where as carpenter until his retirement dollar for dollar, all signi cant date, four scholarships of $2,000 he focused on Urban Affairs in 1988. In his book A Different contributions made to any of these or $2,500 have been awarded. reporting and served as mentor Drummer, Mike Alexandroff scholarship programs. Through and inspiration to generations encapsulated the extent of the matching program, the college Dent also intends to serve as a of students. He retired in Caref’s love for the college, writing, will greatly increase the power member of the program’s steering 2004. Brownlee had written an “When Columbia had no money of individual contributions while committee, to come to campus autobiography about his life as “the at all, Jake somehow found a demonstrating its commitment and talk to students, and to rst African-American journalist in way to personally nance many of to its mission of access and publicly discuss his enthusiastic downtown Chicago,” which is set to the college’s early constructions. opportunity. endorsement of our program. be published shortly. It took us years to repay him.” For more information or to make a scholarship contribution, please call Kim Clement, associate vice president of development, at 312-344-7084 or email [email protected]. DEMO8

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A black, A-line, wool skirt appears An insightful creative whose ideas Reading about fashion’s marquee The hands-on incubator of to be simple and unadorned at have been fueled by locales, names in Vogue and history books Columbia’s Fashion program first glance. But then its subtleties music, and iconoclastic designers, also helped to refine Kirkwood’s enabled Kirkwood to unleash emerge: seams curve downward Kirkwood looks to a variety of aesthetic. His classic styles— his creativity and explore from the hipbones, open slightly sources for his inspiration. A PBS with a twist—were influenced “extreme ideas of construction into tiny pleats, merge, and taper special on Alaska inspired his by contemporaries such as Jil and proportion.” One standout: at the hemline. No side seams austere, yet beautiful fall collection. Sander, Viktor Horsting and Rolf A puppet-like doupioni silk skirt, create its shape. A cropped “The winter color palette was Snoeren (who make up the Dutch with an underpinning structure jacket in brown wool/silk is just a subtle, hazy wash of earthy team Viktor & Rolf), and Belgian constructed of three concentric as quietly intriguing, with detailed tones. There are vast expanses of designers schooled at the Royal spring-steel circles, suspended seaming and fine construction desolation, but if one looks closer, Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. around the lower body at different setting it apart from the crowd. there are pockets of amazing Elegance and subtle grace were angles by strings, attached to Their creator is Dieter Kirkwood beauty. I felt this echoed gleaned from Christian Dior and the bodice shoulders. (’04) who, at 28, is already my design philosophy.” Charles James. The latter, whose standing tall among a new legion eveningwear animated sculpture While Kirkwood notes that such of Chicago-based talent making As trombonist in the now-defunct and architecture, especially extremes won’t move on a retail an impact on the city’s emerging Coldspot 8, a touring ska/ appealed to him. “I find myself floor, he continues to incorporate design scene. rocksteady/roots reggae band, taking little tidbits and assembling more subdued architectural and Kirkwood gravitated to the pared- them into my own look,” he says. voluminous components into his Kirkwood’s inaugural collection down British fashions of the late designs. For spring 2006, he is caught the attention of Marshall ’50s and early ’60s music scene. This filtered response to fashion looking to subtle, Japanese color Field’s executives, who included His slim physique was well suited comes after being bombarded harmonies, choosing blue shades his fall 2005 line along with those to styles with high armholes in his native Florida with over-the- and other muted tones. Hand silk of 19 other Chicago designers in and form-fitting torsos, slim, flat- top expressions of vivid color screening, pleating, and gathering the State Street store’s Chicago front pants, and work boots. “The á la Lily Pulitzer, loose-fitting white also appear in the collection. Boutique this fall. “That gave clothes have a working-class feel… pants, revealing clothes, and me a sense that I was on the instead of flashy and bourgeois.” oversized T-shirts. “I just remember “I plan on making or breaking right track,” he says. But more everything being so loud and at it here,” he says of Chicago’s importantly, it connected him with times obnoxious,” he says about burgeoning fashion scene. the city’s arts community, where Sunshine State attire. “So when “I am careful. I want to grow inspiration and support can’t I was exposed to more subdued organically. If you can be true help but benefit a fledgling fashion clothing from books and magazines, to your design philosophy, the business. Kirkwood’s spring it intrigued me. I liked the air success will follow.” collection will be carried by the of mystery that surrounded the design collective Habit, at 1951 garments that were more reserved.” W. Division Street [773.342.0093/ www.habitchicago.com].

Lisa Lenoir is the travel editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. She was previously the newspaper’s fashion editor. She teaches Fashion Journalism and Writing for Managers part time at Columbia College Chicago. Sarah Faust (’01) is part-time faculty and an MFA graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been shown at Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Catherine Edelman Gallery, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Models (facing page left to right): Columbia students Margaret Moric, Shin, and Blaise. DEMO10 PARENTS MEET 1 THE D M 2 6 OMS OMS A N D DA D S S I MMERSE MMERSE U RING COL RING 7 TH U EMSEL M B IA’S FIRST PARENT PARENT FIRST IA’S V ES ES I N CAM N 3 8 PU S S L W I F EEKEN E D 9 5 4 “WE’RE HAVING A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE AT COLUMBIA/ MY DAUGTER LOVES COLUMBIA/MY SON FEELS LIKE HE BELONGS HERE/WE ARE HAPPY COLUMBIA IS AVAILABLE. IT’S SO CREATIVE, YET INTEGRATED IN ONE CULTURE.

” Above are some of the comments “I think the parents who The weekend gave parents a made by parents—nearly 600 of attended went away with a better glimpse of campus life that has them—who converged on campus understanding of the college, changed dramatically in recent this fall for Columbia’s rst-ever and of how to be supportive as years. In 2002, Columbia was Parent Weekend. their students work to become largely a commuter school, with professionals in their arts and fewer than 500 students living “Parents of our new students media disciplines,” says Kelly. on campus. Today, more than are both intrigued and impressed “They’re further engaged into our 2,000 students, including half with Columbia College,” says community,” agrees Monroe, “so the freshman class, live in the Mark Kelly, vice president of they are more invested in their college’s four residence halls. Student Affairs, whose department students’ success here, and in Columbia has the seventh largest organized the event. “But it’s a Columbia’s success beyond their residential student population complex arts and media school, students’ time here.” in Illinois. The days of students and their stereotypical views of coming downtown for class, then college life may not apply. They For two days, parents were disappearing to their separate want to better understand who immersed in the life of the college. lives, are gone. we are, what we think, and They began with student-led tours what’s available to their sons of the campus, which has grown As the college works to adapt (’06). I and daughters.” exponentially in recent years. to the changing needs of this CK enjoyed meeting the parents. enjoyed That evening, families enjoyed a shifting population—to meet RE

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(’83). Biello ark M Facing: Atlanta. Headquarters, CNN Left: When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts last August, it left more than a ruined coastline in its wake. The most devastating natural disaster in United States history rewrote the legacy of a presidential administration. It left a world-famous city changed forever, and people’s lives, homes, and communities destroyed. As the world watched, Katrina stripped the country of the last of its “it-can’t-happen-here” innocence, with scenes of destruction and helplessness on a scale seldom witnessed in a first-world country. ¶ The first to record those scenes—to, literally, shine a light on the magnitude of the devastation—were the journalists. In the days that followed, the media—most notably CNN—demonstrated how journalists could respond to catastrophic events before government forces could, showing those officially charged with our safety, right along with the rest of us, what they did not know. ¶ Among the journalists, technicians, producers, and others who converged to bring the unfolding catastrophe to light were many Columbia College Chicago graduates at media organizations around the country, each calling upon his or her own creativity and skills to get the story out. This fall, six members of the CNN crew, all graduates of Columbia’s Television department, spoke with Journalism professor Jim Sulski about their roles in an event that turned news coverage on its head. Instead of following government forces into an event, journalists took the lead. And they did not just cover the news—in some cases, they made the news. Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall near Buras, Louisiana, ravaging ofAugust29, onthemorning Early 2005, DEMO14 about,” she notes. correspondents and crew. “I had both a logistical and editorial side to worry network of experts about how to get safe drinking water and food to her CNN vacationing in the States to report to New Orleans, to consulting with her extensive, ranging from calling in international correspondents who were international news gathering. Her job during the storm and its aftermath was A few feet away from Davies sat this one,” he says. catastrophe for CNN’s global viewers. “We knew the world would be watchingthat. For Davies, it would mean producing the international take on the tragic history—and Davies and the CNN crew were about to document the storm carefully. Katrina was about to make history—albeit a frightening, headquarters, international operations manager seawater. Some 500 miles away, in a bustling newsroom at CNN’sthe area with Atlanta 145-mile-per-hour winds and surging walls of devastating “There aretimeswhen Parisa Khosravi those times.” This was oneof with theaudioboard. you becomeone Damianides Despina CNN International technician CNN International (’87), vice president of John Davies (’88) studied (’03) the area immediately.” notes. “When Katrina hit, we started assigning our people to the story and newsgathering operation for the western region of the United States,” he Orleans and other areas devastated by the storm. “Normally, we’re the peaked, he had sent one third of his Los Angeles/West Coast staff to New region bureau chief, intently studied the storm as well. By the time the story Across the continent in Los Angeles, to a very big story,” she says. “And we were.” “We knew from our coverage of the tsunami of a year prior that we were on also helping to coordinate the historic story emerging from the Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, CNN International supervising producer audio board,” Damianides recalls. “This was one of those times.” the reporter’s earpiece. “There are times when you become one with the Back, or IFB, the audio source from the control room that is transmitted to same time, Damianides was manipulating the network’s Interruptible Fold levels so that CNN viewers could clearly hear reporters at the scene. At the Katrina coverage, she was continuously manipulating and adjusting sound audio and video equipment, striving to provide the right audio mix. During the Nearby, CNN International technician “It was toughto need.” people insuch see somany Khosravi Parisa newsgathering vice presidentofinternational (’87) Peter Janos Despina Damianides (’82), CNN’s western Mary Primiano (’03) hovered over (’89) was international operations manager John Davies (’88) “The government dropped the ball big time. That made the story signi cantly more interesting.”

Across the CNN media spectrum of video, audio, and web were dozens As Davies, Khosravi, Damianides, Primiano, and Janos surveyed the of former Columbia College students, each responding to the storm in a hurricane from Atlanta and Los Angeles, senior photojournalist Mark Biello different way. Their work covering Katrina paralleled that of other Columbia (’83) was hunkered down in a New Orleans hotel room, literally in the eye Journalism, Radio, and Television alumni at hundreds of other media of the storm, waiting for the worst of the hurricane to pass. When he operations around the world, who were also putting in long hours covering emerged, Biello witnessed devastation “sadder” than anything he had the storm. seen before through the lenses of his well-traveled cameras, on a par with scenes he’d recorded in Baghdad, Sarajevo, or Mogadishu. By day’s “Once we knew New Orleans was under water, we knew this was one of end, Biello was not only documenting the destruction, but also helping to the most important stories we would be covering,” Davies says. And as pull Katrina victims from the deadly ood waters that submerged much of manager of international operations, he realized it had particular importance New Orleans (see pages 16-17), crossing the line from an observer of the “to an international audience because the area looked like a war zone or disaster to a participant for the rst time in his journalistic career. a third-world country. It didn’t look like something that could happen to the United States. There was also the fact that the government dropped the “As an American, it was embarrassing that the media could get in there ball big time. That made the story signi cantly more interesting.” but the government could not,” Primiano says. “From an international viewer’s standpoint, they could have been looking at the tsunami pictures Janos, who is in charge of a newsgathering division of 120 people, agrees again. There were scenes that looked like they were coming from a third- that the reporting was historic. “The coverage gave us the opportunity to world country, but were happening in our streets.” question authorities about where the hell they were,” he remarks. “How did we get satellite trucks and crews in there to broadcast live when the government said they couldn’t reach the area? We were sitting there and watching people die.” Newsmakers continues on page 18. special

DEMO16 C NN PH OTO J focus OURN RES RECORD MARK everyone by surprise.” to happen,” said Biello. “It took anyone expected what happened Hurricane Katrina. “I don’t think had prepared him for covering Hawk Down on Mogadishu that inspired Nelson Mandela, and the raid the Berlin Wall, the election of in the Persian Gulf, the fall of Biello has documented two wars he graduated from Columbia), network in 1983 (the summer Since joining the then-edgling no stranger to covering big stories. CNN, Mark “Mad Dog” Biello is As a senior photojournalist for A LIST M LIST . Nothing, however, A R K CU BIELLO (’83) IS IS (’83) BIELLO : Black BIELLO E began toemerge. the magnitudeofdevastation he says. Butasthesky cleared, sky tobreakup,” was starting two o’clockintheafternoon, the “Byoneor ofthe storm. worst where hehadwaited outthe hotelroom the French Quarter August 29, Bielloemergedfrom of Themorning New Orleans. Florida, thenmoved onto one hurricane moving across Katrina when it was a category Biello was assigned to cover . , CA REPORT LLE D INTO INTO AC : TION rooftops and bodies oating by.” “There were people stranded on upon was “astounding,” he recalls. the ooded area. What they came boat of volunteers heading out to Biello found a ride on a private out there.” Biello. “We knew we had to get which had been ooded,” says by the hundreds in the Ninth Ward, had told us that people were dying ordinary storm. “A city councilman became apparent that this was no As Biello surveyed the damage, it ... from left) with Photographs from he has encountered during his long career with CNN. YA SSER AR SSER M A R K BIELLO from right); and with President A F A T ; with ’s collection demonstrate the range of personalities personal L E CH WA LES A ; with Clockwise from top left: H. W SADDAM . BUS . H . HUSSEIN Biello (second (Biello second

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we had to getDespite theout deceptivelythere.” sunny As night fell, the darkness was At another point, Biello found skies overhead, Biello and eerily complete in the ooded ward. himself helping to pull people the rescue crew faced danger Biello realized he would have from the toxic ood waters into everywhere. Their small boat had to shift roles, from journalistic the rescue boat—the volunteers, to navigate downed power lines observer to active participant. exhausted and ill-equipped, and broken natural gas mains. His battery-powered camera simply needed his physical “You could hear the hum from the provided the only light available strength. For Biello, “It wasn’t current as we went under the lines as the volunteers chopped through a matter of crossing a line as in our boat, and you could see and the roof of a submerged house, a journalist. This was responding smell the natural-gas bubbles as rescuing a family trapped in the to an immediate need. Our they came up out of the water,” attic. “The husband and wife primary mission is to record Biello recalls. “It was a big shock, were holding up his father above and report, but this was a unique and it was not something you the water so he wouldn’t drown,” situation. If there was enough expected to see in New Orleans, Biello remembers. of a rescue operation, I wouldn’t a city with ve-star hotels.” have been needed.” —Jim Sulski DEMO18 Newsmakers

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15 . coverage, theColumbiagraduates Looking back It’s allabouttheemotion.” know walking outofColumbia. once did.Thisissomethingyou what isgoingonquicker thanthey behind thesceneswhounderstand really aboutthetalentedpeople mindless,” Davies cautions.“It’s hasnotmadeit “The technology suchasKatrina. element ofastory thehuman ability tounderstand isthe say matters thatwhattruly significant role, thejournalists playsAlthough technology a toAtlanta.”via Wi-Fi out a StarbucksandFTPthestory on yourlaptop.Thenyoucangoto You canshootandcutapieceall quickly we cannowreacttoevents. the equipmenthasgottenandhow notes. “It’s amazinghowportable isgoingdigital,”“Everything Janos fromnow.a few years using itprofessionallyinthefield students—the oneswhowillbe forcurrent emerging technology in November, demonstratingthe Columbia’s Television department the new equipmentwhenhevisited are.” Biellobroughtaselectionof nomatterwhereweinformation gives ustheabilitytobeamout later ithasalreadyimproved, which with Iraqcoverage, andtwoyears take oftechnology off that sort with them,” Biellosays. “We saw minimal equipmentthey can carry that cangooutandlivewith to sendoutsmallmobileteams newsgathering, suchastheability breakthrough withdigital “There hasbeenanamazing satellite trucks in there.” worked until we could get the got the news immediately. That it wasn’t the greatest quality, you of video-phone live shots. Although Katrina, we were able to do a lot says. “With the initial coverage of ago,”than even fiveyears Davies more savvy, thankstotechnology, coverage. “Themediaismuch playedtechnology intheKatrina role realize whatanimportant atthe stands out in my head,” she recalls, storm’s aftermath. “What clearly edge to the initial coverage of the was the heart-wrenching emotional affected.” What most moved her deeply for the people who were we actually are. It made you feel reminded me of how vulnerable families were Thetorn apart. event and belongings and friends and comments. “During Katrina, houses I was brought up,” Damianides I was to be well taken care of when Katrina reminded me of how lucky coverage. “Doing like a story effects of the storm and its feeling the profound personal Weeks later, the crew was still many people.” We becamealifelineformany, apparent. Katrina thatbecamevery like says Janos.“Butwithastory that we canmake adifference,” “We always know, asjournalists, “It was toughtosee That still haunts me.” for help to come down there. rooftops. She was literally begging water and people stranded on animals being electrocuted in the her cell phone as she witnessed a helicopter intoand crying started first flying started over the area in “was when one of our reporters human.” days was very, very saw duringthose echoes. such need,” so many peoplein “What you

Khosravi Journalism department and assistant chair of Columbia’s Jim Chronicle contributor to happens.” He is a regular is “photographing life as it at Columbia. His interest photojournalism student E several other publications. The Chicago Journal contributor to in 1992. Sulski is a regular University of Illinois at Chicago Communications from the in 1984 and an MA in in Journalism at Columbia Association. He earned a BA the Illinois College Press He is currently president of The Columbia Chronicle winning student newspaper, the adviser of the award- ric Davis (’06) S ulski (’84) . The Columbia CS magazine, , and

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Most artists dream of being “discovered” by the high-powered art dealer, the sophisticated collector, or the well-positioned curator whose nod of approval will bump their career up to the next level. Most dealers, collectors, and curators would love to make such a discovery. It doesn’t happen very often... but it does happen. Here, Susan Aurinko, owner of FLATFILEgalleries, the largest art gallery in Chicago, describes her discovery of painting student Joy Whalen’s work. DEMO20 2 slides. I saw something a quick glance at her student, and I took herself as a senior painting work. Joy introduced but mostly student-ish hours; some nice things, looking at work for several should have). I had been every college worth its salt by the way, is something Portfolio Center (which, at Columbia College’s professional in ‘Show Off’ I participated as a visiting “I met Joy Whalen when go upstairs. I said, ‘Can we me it was all in her studio this work was; she told I saw. I asked her where I was so excited by what actually began to pound, longer look. My heart interesting, and took a there? Now?’” 3 4 5

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“Joy’s studio was filled with great big, colorful, fabulously painted pieces, and a nearly life-size papier-mâché horse. I was stunned. This work was nothing short of remarkable. I told her on the spot that I was interested in representing her, because I knew that another dealer would snap her up if I didn’t. A few weeks later, the work came to FLATFILE.

“People are crazy about it. Several of my big collectors are interested.” airplane, red cross, enigmatic figure each painting has, painting each enigmatic figure cross,airplane, red andoverthose, otherlayers, buteverylayer, everysmall There are abstract color fields, and then layers of pattern,this.likepaint tolearn toyears artists20mosttakes it incrediblyiscrafted it Anddays.these iswork much makes her work so special is that it is not derivative, as so neverpigeonholedbethink them. whatofIoneany in “Because she works so many styles into each piece, Joy can they’re all there in each painting, coexisting wonderfully. art comic-book to deconstructivism from animé, to own version of artistic truth movements and current trends, marrying them“Joy all doesn’tinto her paint in any mold; she samples many historical DEMO22 agriculture,they are totally focused. They are purposeful and activity; whatever they are engaged in, theywhether are very revealing. Their bodies vibrate with passion Althoughnonetheoffigures have visible facial features, seeing keep pieces.her of them, one atglance youtime finding everythings new keep you and perfect, is She has studied photography at Columbia, and participates regularly as a visiting S that,docanhappy.” I’m I mylife.If of restthe forgrow continue andlearn to to go, I would love to be able to paint and do my work to the very best of my ability— aspirations my as far maintains tension...still As that unified way a togetherin painting,” shesays, like“I handleto lotcomplicationsofa until they areworking iscurrently pursuing anMFA inpainting atPratt Institute inNew York. “Within my 2004 second-place Pougialis Fine Arts Award winner and a Weisman scholar. She Joy usan figures. This is purposeful, powerful work.” W halen (’05) A urinko professional in the Portfolio Center’s “Show Off” program. is a photographerisa andowner ofFLATFILEgalleries inChicago.

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Sherry Lansing DIDN’T START AT THE TOP—THOUGH SHE WOUND UP THERE.

During her three-decade career She started over in a new role, Last year, Lansing began a new in Hollywood, the studios Sherry making ve dollars an hour as chapter in her storybook life. Lansing headed produced such a script reader at MGM Studios. Stepping down as head culture-de ning lms as The She was promoted to head of the of Paramount, she founded China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, script-reading department, then to the Sherry Lansing Foundation, Forrest Gump, The First Wives Club, vice president of creative affairs. a philanthropic organization Saving Private Ryan, and Titanic. In the late 1970s, she became focusing on cancer research, As president of 20th Century Fox, senior vice president of production health, and education—issues she was the rst woman in the at Columbia Pictures and put her dear to her. She also cofounded, industry to hold that position. stamp on such lms as Kramer with Dr. Armand Hammer, a The Hollywood Reporter has called vs. Kramer, which snagged ve nonpro t philanthropic group Lansing “one of the most powerful Oscars, Best Picture among them. called Stop Cancer, and women in entertainment.” serves on the Independent In 1980, just ten years into her Citizens’ Oversight Committee Lansing’s fairy-tale career, like career, Lansing was appointed of the California Institute of most such success stories, began president of production for 20th Regenerative Medicine. on a much more pedestrian page. Century Fox. “Ex-Model Becomes A native South Sider, she moved Head of 20th Century Fox,” Columbia honored Lansing with to California after college, working condescended The New York Times the Chicago Spirit Award at a as a teacher in an inner-city Los headline. Lansing’s reaction was December 9 event at the Vine Angeles school. When the school indignant. The Times story, she said, Street Lounge in Hollywood. day ended, she would drive to a “negated ten years of hard work “It touches me that I’m receiving gas station, change clothes, and and reeked of sexism.” an award from my hometown,” head out to auditions. She rst said Lansing, who had high praise found work in commercials, and In 1991, when Lansing was for Columbia’s Semester in eventually landed roles appearing named chair of Paramount’s LA program: “Hats off to you, with John Wayne in Rio Lobo and Motion Picture Group, the headline to Dr. Carter, and to Columbia George Segal in Loving. But an announcing her appointment College Chicago,” she said, actress, Lansing says, “I wasn’t.” appeared where she thought it “because you are achieving She was a movie maker. should—in the business section. something that I guarantee you “This time it didn’t say ex-model,” every other college is going to she remarked at the time. “I nally want to copy.” felt recognized based on my work and skills as a movie maker.” DEMO24 A I M THE PARTNERSHIPS T HROUGH HI MAINSTREAM GH PROJECT I S . HELPING By By AIM M icki , , THE L eventhal TO CENTER and and BRING A nn W F iens ARTS OR / Photography by by Photography COMMUNITY INTEGRATION Joel W aneck ARTS I

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, an MFA candidate in Photography, with seventh-grade students at Herzl Elementary School. Elementary Herzl at students seventh-grade with Photography, in candidate MFA an , cDonald M Cecil artist Teaching The arts have always held a precarious position in the American public-education system. Associated more closely with the pleasantries of leisure than the practicality of work, the arts have long been perceived as a luxury, not a necessity. Beginning in the 1960s, public schools in Chicago and elsewhere began systematically decreasing their art offerings, as outdated technology, decaying buildings, and abysmal literacy rates clamored for attention. In the book Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, Nick Rabkin, executive director of the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, writes: “In low-income districts like Chicago... arts education was not a priority for policymakers faced with tough choices. Chicago stripped its elementary schools of all art and music teachers during a structural nancial crisis in 1979, precisely because art was viewed as something quite apart from academic improvement.”1 In the book, Rabkin and co-editor Robin Redmond present compelling evidence to the contrary. Citing the work of numerous researchers and educators, the book demonstrates the effectiveness of the arts for improving the overall quality of education, especially when arts-based learning is integrated with the broader academic curriculum. Drawing on the research and experience of those involved in arts-integrated education from a variety of perspectives, the book lays out evidence for why this approach holds such promise, particularly in our current global economic climate. Importantly, an arts-integrated approach to education has been shown to be especially effective for students in some of our poorest communities and our minority communities— those children in the most danger of being left behind. (’01) works with a student at Thurgood Marshall ayers M eah L Middle School on an arts-integrated literacy project. Teaching artist Teaching

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, in an attempt to assess what sort of education would best prepare students for the changing needs of the twenty- rst-century workforce, the United States Department of Labor published a report titled “What Work Requires of Schools.” Recognizing the country’s shift from a labor-based to a knowledge- based economy, the report recognized that “the globalization of commerce and industry and the explosive growth of technology on the job” would require new educational competencies and a very different academic foundation notes: than in the past. Yet it found the American educational system woefully behind in its response to these changes. 1. “These developments have barely been reected in how we prepare young people,” the researchers wrote. Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond, eds. Putting the “More than half our young people leave school without the knowledge or foundation required to nd and hold Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. Chicago: Center for Arts Policy at Columbia a good job... They face the bleak prospects of dead-end work interrupted only by periods of unemployment.” College Chicago, 2004. Not surprisingly, this dismal picture was all the more grim for “poor, disadvantaged, and minority youngsters.”2 2. “What Work Requires of Schools,” A SCANS Report for America 2000, The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor, June 1991. DEMO26 both discipline-based approaches to engage students in the education classroom,and arts-integrated arts in after- education and creativity from elementary through graduate school. teachingcommunityartists,andorganizers—asColumbia’s wellas developprogramsenhancefacultytothatown eld—classroomteachers,the in those of expertise andknowledge unique collaborativetheapproach, engaging and bene t, and respect reciprocity, mutualinclusiveness. of valuesEschewing the the “community in rootedoutreach” is model thatoften partnership-building favored to approachby academia,an CCAP took a more deliberately effort to professionalize this burgeoning eld. Guided by founding executive directorCommunity Julie Arts PartnershipsF. (now the CenterSimpson, for Community Arts CCAPPartnerships, developed or CCAP), as part of an international supports both arts andacademicinstruction.” botharts supports music teacher) has gone on to become stronger in the school, a leader. Good quality integration arts augments and strategies or programs, specialist (theschool’sthat have arts-integration thearts successfully incorporated or art schools the of many in fact, In sake. own its for art of teaching the instruction, arts discipline-based diminish it way,no does howeverIn areas. content across curriculum, the across learning engage to catalyst a as of use arts the the involves integration Arts eld. larger the of subset a is integration “arts says,education,” he arts in involved us of those “ForFlatley. Director,David Executive CCAP current to according signi cant, education—is approaches. andinterdisciplinary cross-curricular and classroom teachers create curriculum arts-integrated units that promote literacy through the artists arts, together,professional emphasizing Working the curricula. academic their into arts the of integration meaningful the in teachers classroom the mentor artists teaching The 12. through four grades in teachers classroom public-school Mentorship with Columbia) at teachers also are whom of (most Integration artists practicing matches Project,AIM Project AIM. Project or Arts the is them Among organizations. community-based through and programs, school schools, but enhance academic curricula along the way. community-basedand organizations, developtoimplementtheandintoback programs arts bringonlythenotthat policies. All the while, committed educators arts have been working at the grassroots level, largely through nonpro t languished fteenforyears, largelyignored by threeadministrations eachofand of part as Bush President rst the by commissioned report, skills that are fostered by an education in the arts. Theydo,admissions. college to however,funding school from likethe everything much determine that very sound evaluated by the standardized, ll-in-the-bubble tests that are increasingly signi cant in our education system, tests and creativity, learning, experiential on importance great places higher-order thinkingskills. also It apply.” to context,’expected be ‘in will is they skills what learning of way effective in the abstract learn rst most students that insisting than rather a the environment real within objectives learning placing science... cognitive of ndings the examining “After how Addressing our system might public educational best adapt to these needs, changing the summarizes: report

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Thurgood Marshall Middle School. Middle Marshall Thurgood Students work in an arts-integrated class at at class arts-integrated an in work Students their successive education-reform communityworks: TEACHING ARTIST JOURNAL COMES TO COLUMBIA “Most teaching artists live fragmented lives, working as independent contractors for multiple organizations,” writes Project AIM director Cynthia Weiss in the current issue of Teaching Artist Journal, a quarterly forum for professional teaching artists. “They travel from school to school, working their magic, but often don’t have peer groups with whom to share their concerns.” Teaching artists with Project AIM attend monthly meetings at the college, coming together to share their experiences and build community. It is one of the great strengths of the program, addressing the need for practitioners in this emerging eld to exchange knowledge and insight. * Three years ago, Eric Booth, an artist, teaching artist, and faculty member at The Juilliard School in New York, launched Teaching Artist Journal in response to this same need. Witnessing “the dramatic emergence of teaching artistry as a eld,” Booth recognized the need for professional teaching artists to have a forum through which “to clarify, enrich, and advance teaching artist research and practice.” When he decided to transition the journal to new leadership recently, Columbia College was his rst choice. “I know of no independent institution more dedicated to teaching artistry,” he writes in the current issue, citing Project AIM’s role in “leading the rst major national study of teaching artists” as an example of the college’s leadership in the eld. * Now under the editorial direction of the Center for Arts Policy, with musician and teaching artist Nick Jaffe as its new editor, the journal will continue its role as the primary source for writing by, for, and about teaching artists across the country, addressing the full range of practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to the eld. * Subscriptions to Teaching Artist Journal are available at http://www.leaonline.com/loi/taj. (’01) watch as their eighth-grade students at (’01) watch uis Crespo L (’01) and ayers M eah L Thurgood Marshall Middle School performexercise. a theatrical movement Teaching artists Teaching DEMO28 buzzword. Addressing parents of new Columbia students at this fall’s Parent Weekend luncheon, Nick Rabkin approach: Rabkin Nick college’s the luncheon, Weekend Parent fall’s described this at students Columbia new of parents a was Addressing integration arts buzzword. before long integration arts of concepts in based was education to approach on” minds on, “hands College,whose Columbia at initiated be should work It’s this that tting and achievement takes hold.” contribute signi cantly to the national dialogue that emerges as the cumulative evidence of increased engagement worthy of and support study as we move into the twenty- rst century. I’m con dent that CCAP’s work in this eld will children,” engaging for says Flatley. methods new “The federal government, as well foundations,as private and corporate powerful has identi ed this as an area for looking educators among sway hold to continues integration “Artssigni cant. equally is offers grant the that AIM pedagogy successful and accepted increasingly an as integration Project the develop further arts to of acknowledgement the CCAP But element. dissemination allow model and evaluation will important an initiative,course, including of funds, The program. the offered support the by across the country,from applications 128 Columbia’sof Out education. K-12 in was curriculum” rankedcore the into number instruction four. arts of integration the and development, “the further to implementation,support programs and expansion of standards-based arts-education Education (FIPSE) grant previously awarded to the initiative. 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It is an approach followed throughout the college, but also taken into the community by many entities in addition to CCAP. Columbia’s Early Childhood Education program teaches an arts-integrated approach to education. The college’s Upward Bound, Saturday Scholars, High School Summer Institute, and Summer Arts Camp all include signi cant arts-integration components aimed at pre-college-age students. The Center for Black Music Research works with schools to provide classroom teachers at ne and performing arts magnet schools with training on the history and contributions of the music of the African Diaspora. The Museum of Contemporary Photography has a signi cant educational program, offering hands-on, arts-integrated programs that reach signi cantly beyond the traditional museum viewing experience. And many other departments are incorporating arts integration into their work, both within the classroom and beyond. Experiential learning. Creativity. Higher-order thinking skills. The educational objectives the 1991 Department of Labor report said would be required of students in the twenty- rst century. Project AIM’s approach certainly seems to address the need. Project AIM teaching artist/ lmmaker Suree Tow ghnia returned to Pulaski Academy, an elementary magnet school in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, this year to continue working with a group of fth graders she began working with last year. Taking the basic lmmaking skills they learned in fourth grade, the students will add research and writing to create lms on the theme, “What Concerns Face Fifth Graders?” She will also begin work with a bilingual fth-grade group. Tow ghnia acknowledges that it’s not just the students who bene t from this approach: “Elementary students are fearless and not afraid to try,” she says. “Their creativity encourages me; their intelligence amazes me; their curiosity inspires me. Project AIM gives me hope for the future.”

Micki Leventhal is an art consumer and supporter and the media relations director for

Columbia. Ann Wiens is an artist and editor of Demo magazine. Joel Waneck is a photographer and educator in who teaches photography to children through Columbia’s Museum of Contemporary Photography and CCAP.

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At a name, and religious symbols this is a comic image, a cheap play with words that is honorable City’s Edge: Photographs of Chicago’s give a kind of shorthand, and a figurine of words, the description and worthwhile. “So let’s just open Lakefront, Thall’s fourth book on subsequent diminishment, to our resonates with comfort and a this little matchbox drawer and Chicago, offers a personal view deepest ideas. Love, fear, maternal lack of pretension. Greenberg take out berries to be apples for of the city’s lakefront—from the bonding, and God are inchoate; mixes the glib with the exalted the horses made of corks.” Evanston border on the north to they are ideas and states of mind in an attempt to dress down the the far South Side—spanning a that are inadequately represented vernacular of poetic language while Arielle Greenberg teaches in the 25-mile swath that is Chicago’s in written language, but are at the same time memorializing undergraduate and graduate poetry most defining physical attribute. nonetheless powerful as social the beauty of language and its programs at Columbia College Chicago. With this compelling set of constructs. Greenberg describes ability to move us. My Kafka Century is her second full- images, he hopes to enhance our her reason for writing poetry despite length collection of poems. She is a understanding of Chicago and the its apparent futility: In “Doll Farm,” Greenberg grapples new mother and lives with her family in urban scene it comprises. This with the conflict she has with Evanston, Illinois. Elizabeth Burke-Dain series of books will undoubtedly It’s stupid how beautiful. higher education and the authority is an artist and a writer who works in do so, providing an intimate, When mostly happy & finally it confers. Do her degrees make the Media Relations department at multifaceted view of our complex found, what else is there to do her a better or more worthy writer? Columbia College Chicago. urban environment. but write it down, She thinks not. “Sheer audacious weirdness... what’s not to like?” the chicago reader come back to Columbia for... “Dizzyingly diverse... Manifest’06 Manifest defies synopsis.” Alumni Reunion the chicago journal

Expose yourself Manifest! to the cutting-edge creativity of one of the most Friday, May 12 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. / Free vibrant arts communities in the country. On Friday, Columbia College Chicago campus/Grant Park May 12, Columbia’s South Loop campus will be Start at the new Tour Center at 600 S. Michigan, then take in a full day of exhibitions, the hottest art spot in town, with dozens of performances, screenings, music, and student exhibitions, performances, screenings, showcases, showcases. Enjoy an evening cocktail reception with fellow alumni, faculty, and staff. Join in for and more! Spectacle Fortuna, a parade like no other, and end the day with a free concert in Grant Park. The 2006 Manifest urban arts festival will include Alumni College the second annual Manifest Alumni Reunion, with Saturday, May 13 special activities for Columbia alums. Last year, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. / $35.00 University Center of Chicago, 525 S. State St. more than 350 alumni from across the country A day of workshops, speakers, and panels featuring prominent alumni. Last year’s Alumni came back to Columbia to reconnect with old friends College included discussions with WXRT DJ and faculty, see the exciting changes taking place Marty Lennartz (’82), producer/director Charlie Carner (’78), authors Sam Weller (’90) on campus, and enjoy the creative contributions and Joe Meno (’97), and writer/producer/director of a new generation of Columbia graduates. John McNaughton (’71). The day includes a luncheon with faculty, staff, and panelists, and ample opportunity for reconnecting with old friends. Check the website below for updated information. Register online at www.colum.edu/alumni/manifest or call 312-344-8611.

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Just wanted to send a note and tell I think the publication is fantastic! I just wanted to thank you for sending you how much I loved the first issue The layout is just beautiful and I have me your alumni magazine. I’m very of Demo! As an alumna from the forwarded a copy to my colleagues as flattered because I had only taken ’90s, it’s exciting to see how much the an example of how print communication a class at Columbia but have always school has expanded and grown since can be professional and still fresh and enjoyed being connected to the then. My Columbia experience played contemporary. Well done! college in some way. Thanks! a major role in bringing me to this << Liz Spittler << Christine E. Tanner point in my career (running a small graphic design business) and I’m I’ve just taken a look at Demo, and Just a quick note to congratulate you proud to be a part of the school’s wanted to congratulate you on it. I really on the first issue ofD emo! It looks history. Keep up the great work! liked Jeff Huebner’s article [“Paint the really great, I read it cover to cover. << Lidia Varesco (’94) Town Periwinkle,” pp. 14-20] on how I really like the alumni area where the college has grown and is presenting their awards and such are so playfully I received the inaugural issue of Demo a very polished face in the South Loop. discussed. It’s a great time to be magazine. . . I am touched by what The articles are varied, the design involved with Columbia College. I read, what was expressed. I feel is attractive—what a great effort. << Janet Ecklebarger inspired by the creativity demonstrated << Polly Ullrich and expressed in this issue of Demo. << Aaron Michael Received first issue ofD emo today. Excellent stuff! << Kaz Ayukawa (’68)

Matthew Nighswander Tracks in the Snow, photograph Semi-finalist, Columbia College Chicago 2005 holiday card competition.

Artist’s Statement:

I’m in my third year of the M.F.A. photography program at Columbia where I am also teaching a darkroom class this semester. Before entering the program, I worked at The Associated Press in New York City for six years as an international and national photo editor. The photo Tracks in the Snow was taken while waiting for a flight at Logan Airport in Boston. My photographs tend to be of the kind of nondescript places usually passed through on the way to somewhere else, because these spaces are where the transformative powers of photography can have the greatest effect; where the photographic image can create a sense of mystery and/or psychological tension that may not have been present in the original scene. My work can be viewed at www.mattnighswander.com.

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entertainment and media. Kevin is into the crowded arena of cartoon Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, which 1970s vice president of MFM Trade Meetings. animated feature films. Tartakovsky, recently wrapped production in Chicago. More info at www.trademeetings.com. who created “Dexter’s Laboratory” Ozier Mohammad (’72) gave a and “Samurai Jack” and directed the Jane Richlovsky (’91) was featured in presentation on how the press covered Sharon Mesmer (’83) authored a Emmy-winning “Star Wars: Clone Wars,” a four-page illustrated article in hurricane Katrina for a First Amendment new collection of short fiction,In will be prexy of creative at Orphanage Fiberarts, a national magazine that panel breakfast in November sponsored Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press). Animation Studios, a new company covers contemporary textile art and by Columbia University. Mohammad Mesmer is the author of a previous the F/X house’s founders are forming craft. More info at www.fiberarts.com. is also working on a project on the fiction collection,The Empty Quarter in San Francisco. National Guard and presentations about (Hanging Loose); a book of poems, Derek Bartholomaus (’92) is post- his role as a photographer with The New Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press); production supervisor on “Mind of York Times for colleges and universities and Lonely Tylenol, an art-poetry 1990s Mencia,” starring Carlos Mencia, which across the country. collaboration with David Humphrey was just picked up for a second season. (Flying Horse Editions/University of Margi Cole (’90), founder and director Jeff Jur (’76) is the director of Central Florida). Ma Vie à Yonago, in of the Dance COLEctive, was one Keri Buscaglia (’92) recently worked photography on the new network series French translation, will be published by of 57 emerging American leaders to as a Peace Corps volunteer to assist “Invasion,” which airs Wednesday Hachette Litteratures this year. receive the 2006 Marshall Memorial areas damaged by hurricane Katrina. nights on ABC. Fellowship. The goal of the fellowship For the first time in the Peace Corps’ Mark Protosevich (’83) wrote the is to educate the next generation 44-year history, volunteers have begun Donald Lewis (’78) wrote the stage script for the film version of the Richard of American and European leaders working domestically. Buscaglia served play Melissa Tunes In, a comedy Matheson novel I Am Legend. Set in on the importance of the transatlantic as a Peace Corps education volunteer about a narcissistic 12-year-old girl Los Angeles after a biological war, relationship and encourage them in Romania from 1996 to 1998, and who learns a life lesson when she the movie centers on the sole healthy to work with each other on a range drew upon her Peace Corps experience is trapped in a sitcom world starring survivor, a man who finds himself in a of international and domestic policy in Romania to help hurricane recovery herself. It won a 2003 Marilyn battle against nocturnal mutants. challenges. Fellows are selected efforts. Most recently, Buscaglia was a Hall Award and received its initial through a competitive, nationwide senior news writer and producer at Fox development at Chicago Dramatists, David Tolsky (’83) recently accepted process and come from politics, News in Chicago. where Lewis is a resident playwright. a position as camera operator, after government, the military, media, More info at www.brookpub.com. ten years in sitcoms as a first AC and business, and the nonprofit sector. Linda Evans (’92) had her play camera utility. He has begun work on Lipstick on a Pig produced in November Declan Quinn (’79) is the the television series “24.” Jerry Vasilatos (’90) is currently at Red Barn Theatre in Tucson, Arizona. cinematographer on Neil Jordan’s new co-producing and editing “Made in Previously she was playwright-in- film,Breakfast on Pluto, starring Cillian Joe Gentile (’86), editor in chief of Hollywood,” a weekly 60-minute residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre Murphy. Moonstone, a Chicago publisher of entertainment magazine show in New York. Her comedy Sticky Girls graphic novels and other fine fiction, spotlighting new releases in theaters, was produced at Live Theatre in Tucson has published Kolchak: The Night on DVD, and on CD. Syndicated and last October. 1980s Stalker Chronicles, a collection of airing in major cities since September 26 new original Kolchak short stories 30, the show can be seen on WLS – Stephanie Stanton (’92) joined Several Columbia alumni worked on the by noted authors from comics, ABC 7 in Chicago following “Ebert and DirecTV as part-time “NewsMix” new filmThe Dukes: Michael Goi (’80) horror fiction, and film. More info at Roeper.” Vasilatos’s directorial debut anchor. She continues her duties as is the cinematographer, Paolo Cascio www.moonstonebooks.com. The Night Before Christmas (shot and West Coast freelance correspondent (’84) did additional photography, and produced in Chicago), which aired for NBC NewsChannel and freelance Linda Leifer (’82) was the script Janusz Kaminski (’87) was among on Lifetime Television in 1994 under reporter for KNBC in Los Angeles. supervisor. The Dukes is a heist movie 79 cinematographers included in “The its original title Solstice: A Christmas set to ’50s rock’n’roll. Decisive Moment Revisited: Fine Art Story, is being released on DVD in Jim Hemphill (’93) and Ward Porrill Photography by the Cinematographers a special tenth-anniversary edition. (’93) premiered their horror filmBad Kevin Craemer (’83) organized of the ASC” at the Academy of Motion More info at www.nitestar.com. Reputation at the Eerie Horror Film the 2005 Entertainment and Media Picture Arts and Sciences Grand Lobby Festival in October. Hemphill wrote and Forum this fall in West Hollywood. Gallery in Beverly Hills this fall. Lisa Gillespie (’91) was the sound directed and Porrill produced the film. The annual event examines how mixer on “The Apprentice: Martha marketers and advertisers can Genndy Tartakovsky recently Stewart” (NBC). She was also the Collin Daniel (’94) and her partner increase brand awareness and sales partnered with F/X house the cable/second boom operator on the Brett Greenstein are the new casting lift using techniques available through Orphanage to spearhead its move feature The Break Up, starring Vince directors of the NBC series “Joey.” 34 what are you doing out there? send us your news: www.colum.edu/alumni DEMO CLASSNEWS&NOTES(cont.) COLUMBIACOLLEGECHICAGOWinter2006

Christian Herb (’94) is an editor for style” actors. Submissions can be romantically involved with pro hoops Shawn Socoloff (’01) is the the nationally syndicated NBC show dropped off at Rogers Orion Talent players. Sony Pictures’s Darren Star is producer’s assistant on the new “Access Hollywood.” Agency, 13273 Ventura Blvd. #104 executive producer. animated show “Boondocks,” which Studio City, California. 91604. premiered on Cartoon Network in Brian Greene (’94) appeared with the Steven Foley (’99) saw his debut November. Vagabond Players Theatre Company Becky Boxer (’97) plays a role in feature film,Strange as Angels, released in The Good Doctor, a comedy by Neil the movie Jarhead, directed by Sam on DVD this fall. Starring fellow alum Alan Trubow (’01) won the Iowa Simon, at the Raven Playhouse in North Mendes and starring Jake Gyllanhaal, Marie-Francoise Theodore (’98) Associated Press Managing Editors Hollywood this fall. Jamie Foxx, and Peter Saarsgard. and Christian Payton, the film asks, award for best enterprise reporting “Can a fiercely independent woman last year. He then accepted a sports- David Glaubke (’94) has taken an Rita Hawn-Muldoon (’97) has have both mind-blowing sex and a reporting job at the Austin American- account executive position at The Rose been working the past two years in satisfying relationship without giving Statesman. Group, a market-driven public-relations TV/film in Las Vegas. Some of her up her individuality?” firm headquartered in Culver City, credits include “The Ultimate Poker Nadine Velazquez (’01) is starring California, where he manages corporate Challenge” (WB), “Las Vegas Law” Joslyn Paul (’98) is assisting the as Catalina in the new NBC hit comedy accounts in the motion picture, apparel, (Court TV), “Lovitz Says” (CBS), line producer and Carl Seaton (’93) series “My Name Is Earl.” In recent liquor, and technology industries. “Criss Angel Mindfreak” (A&E), is assisting the director/executive months, USA Today named her one of “The Ron White Show” (WB), producer, Dan Lerner, on the J.J. “Five Rising Stars to Watch Closely” Chad Krueger (’94) is the musical “Pinks” (Speed Channel), and Abrams show “What About Brian?” and she was listed in Daily Variety as director of a new Second City ETC “The Ultimate Fighter” (Spike TV), which was recently picked up by ABC. one of “Ten Actors To Watch for 2005.” show, Immaculate Deception, which as well as the feature filmsVegas, In 2004, she was ranked among opened in November. Baby, and The Casino Job. She is John Quinn (’99) was co-editor Maxim’s “100 Sexiest Women.” an associate producer and script on Locusts: The 8th Plague, which Hoojung Lee (’94) is the artistic supervisor. premiered on Sci-Fi Channel in Julia Garcia (’02) currently works director at the Don O’Melveny Gallery November. Quinn is finishing up his at Global Video, a video conversion in Los Angeles. Cupid Hayes (’97) is working on first solo editing feature, a volcano and duplication company in downtown “Night Stalker” as Gabrielle Union’s disaster film starring Amy Jo Johnson Chicago. She acted in an independent Angela Wilson (’94), under the pen photo double and occasional stand-in. and Xander Berkley. He has also begun film calledBoricua , which screened name Jay Wilson, authored a children’s Cupid is on the women’s steering a new feature titled Basilisk, directed at the Tribeca Film Festival, the book titled The Fox Brothers. The book committee for SAG, works consistently, by Stephen Furst and starring Jeremy International Latino Film Festival in New is about three brothers who live in a and is an active community volunteer. London and Yancy Butler. York, the Chicago Film Festival, and this log cabin. One of them is lazy and has year’s Latino Film Festival in Chicago. to learn the hard way how to get a job. Neil Laird (’97) has written and Michelle Monaghan can currently Currently she is acting in a gospel play More info at www.authorhouse.com. produced programs for National be seen in theaters as Harmony Faith titled Sista Girl Be Whole, written and Geographic, The History Channel, PBS, Lane in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and will directed by Lynetta Hall Parrott. Kevin Leadingham (’96) had A&E, Discovery, and other networks. have a starring role in the upcoming the broadcast premiere of his His projects have taken him around the Mission: Impossible III. Christina Walker (’02) recently joined documentary Maid in America on PBS world, from the Middle East to Central Paramount Pictures as the assistant November 29. Kevin was the producer and South America, India, Europe, for John Wiseman, vice president of and cinematographer. More info at and Southeast Asia. He’s also written 2000s post production. www.maidinamericathedoc.com. articles for Frommer’s Budget Travel and Out Traveller magazines on Burma, Jim Carlson (’00) is the director of a Elizabeth Barnette (’03) is the Joe Meno (’96) released Bluebirds Turkey, and Nepal. Currently, he’s new Second City ETC show, Immaculate assistant post coordinator for the Wolf Used to Croon in the Choir, a collection producing “Get Out There!” an Animal Deception, which opened in November. Films shows “Law and Order,” “Law of short stories that he has compiled Planet series to be shot in Alaska and and Order: SVU,” and “Law and Order: over the past couple of years. See Costa Rica. Amy Ludwig (’01) has been exploring Criminal Intent.” Todd Dills’s (’03) review on page 28. a lot of forensic research as a writer’s Laura Resendiz (’97) accepted a assistant on “Bones,” a new fall series Judi Brandwein (’03) wrote the play Tonya Pinkins (’96) is featured in position at Legacy Professionals LLP, on Fox. Fornicationally Challenged, in which Romance and Cigarettes. The film recently a certified public accounting firm in she portrays over eight characters who screened at the Venice Film Festival and Chicago, as the marketing coordinator. Karla Palomo (’01) joined Bloomberg unwittingly launch her head first into the the Toronto Film Festival. Romance and in February 2004 as a financial dating scene after decades of married/ Cigarettes is a musical love story set in Ralph Chilton (’98) wrote the episode reporter for Spanish-language radio mom life. Fornicationally Challenged the world of the working class. When of “Nip/Tuck” that aired on F/X on and television for the United States premiered with a “one-night stand” at the characters can no longer express October 25. Season two of the show and Latin America. Since August, her Chicago’s Apollo Theater in November. themselves with language, they break has just come out on DVD. new responsibilities include anchoring into song, lip-synching the tunes lodged a live television market report from Jason Klamm (’03) joined the in their subconscious. Ayanna Floyd (’98) is writing the Bloomberg world headquarters in crew of “America’s Next Top Model” script for a new Fox drama, “Basketball New York. These broadcasts air live as a production assistant and works Orion Barnes (’97) opened his own Wives.” Set in Atlanta, the series in countries such as Mexico, Argentina, alongside Andy Newport (’03), who talent agency and is seeking “Chicago revolves around the lives of women Chile, and Colombia. is assistant camera on the hit show.

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Cynthia (Rodriguez) Pelayo (’03) Dieter Kirkwood (’04) was featured in Schaumburg, Illinois as promotions Lindsay Wilbeck (’05) was hired received an MS in Integrated in the City of Chicago’s Fashion Focus coordinator. as sales assistant/junior account Marketing Communication from Chicago 2005, an 11-day celebration in executive for Clear Channel Outdoor Roosevelt University in September. September, and his work was included Esther Baum-Taylor (’05) joined in Chicago. She is currently working in marketing in the Marshall Field’s Chicago Designer Chicago’s Collage Productions and research in Chicago. Shop on State Street. Read Lisa appeared in Eugene O’Neil’s Long Several alumni and students were Lenoir’s profile of Kirkwood on page 8, Day’s Journey Into Night this fall at the included in “Site Unseen,” an Dave Burberry (’04) is assistant with photos by Sarah Faust (’01). Gunder Mansion. interactive tour of site-specific visual, coordinator on NBC’s new game show audio, and live art at the Chicago “Deal or No Deal” from Endemol USA. Jodi Miller (’04) writes, edits, and takes Jeff Campbell (’05) was awarded a Cultural Center. One Whole Breath, Howie Mandel has been named the photos for Georgia-based Great Southern curatorial internship at the Museum of directed and performed by Clover show’s host. Dave was most recently Publishers’ 39 travel-based publications. Contemporary Art in Chicago for fall 2005. Morell (’05) in collaboration with a production assistant on “Fear Factor.” She received an award from the Georgia Nicole Adelman, Elizabeth “Deal or No Deal” is described as Press Association for a feature photograph Megan Clinard’s (’05) short play Czekner (’06), James Kinser contestants playing for a “top prize that accompanied one of her articles. Instinct, about a woman who believes (’05), Cristal Sabbagh (’06), Terri worth up to one million dollars in a she is a cat, was recently accepted Smeltzer (’05), and Liz Wuerffel high-energy match of nerves, instincts Sally Nalbor (’04) has a story, “The into an upcoming radio show performed (’06), was the culmination of a three- and raw intuition” and is based on a Pickup,” in Catena, the Collected Works by the acclaimed theater group New month performance process which show currently airing in 38 countries. of Calumet Region Writers. Her essay Frequency. The show will be performed embodied the performers’ physical, “Near Misses and Good Night Kisses” at The Roxy in front of a live audience emotional, and intuitive relationships Chris Coates (’04) is a staff writer appeared in Chicken Soup for Every and will later be broadcast nationally to the ethereal world in an era of war for the Los Angeles Downtown News. Mom’s Soul in April 2005. through XM Satellite Radio. More info and natural disaster. Documentation He has addressed some serious at www.newfrequencyradio.com. of the work can be viewed at www. issues in downtown Los Angeles in Brian Ulrich (’04) had photographic onewholebreath.blogspot.com. articles such as “Jumping Ship: Why works included in the following shows: Jimi Ford (’05) has been hired by Footprint, rise, a sound and movement Real Estate Brokers are Always on the “On the Scene,” a group show with Ascender Corporation, one of the performance by Aimee Lee (’06), Move” and “Allegations of Homeless Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, and Brian foremost type-design firms in the world. featured a violin solo performed amid ‘Dumping’ Spread: Some Charge Ulrich, at the Art Institute of Chicago, a sea of handmade paper sheetmusic Hospitals Send Discharged Patients and “Domestic Disturbance” at the Monica (Durrani) Jones (’05) was on stands throughout the room. She to Downtown.” While at Columbia, Evanston Art Center in Evanston, Illinois. promoted to assistant editor at Ebony Listens in Caves by Joan Dickinson Chris was editor in chief of The magazine in Chicago. She interned (’88) doubled as both a performance Columbia Chronicle. Read his stories Helen Vonderheide (’04) was the with Ebony over the summer. and a sited piece that acknowledged at www.ladowntownnews.com. postproduction assistant on the now- the proscenium function of the Claudia defunct “Head Cases.” She recently Mark Mallorca (’05) landed a Cassidy Theater and its resemblance Andy Coleman (’04) recently started joined the crew of “CSI: NY” as a position on “The O.C.” as a set to some of the paintings of the late in the mailroom with the agent trainee production assistant. Helen joins fellow production assistant and as the driver Hollis Sigler. 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Jaafar Aksikas (Cultural Studies) Audio Engineering Society on the Caroline Dodge Latta (Theater) is included on a recently released CD presented a paper, “Teaching Middle acoustics and vibrations of the harp, portrayed the role of Nancy in Edward by flute virtuoso Leonard Garrison. Eastern and North African Studies and coauthored a presentation on Albee’s Seascape at City Lit Theater Howard Schlossberg (Journalism) at American Universities,” at a the design of a composite harp this fall. spoke at the Society of Professional conference on “Change in the Middle soundboard at the Acoustical Society Laurie Lawlor (Fiction Writing) Journalists’ 2005 convention in East: Disciplinary and Pedagogical of America meeting in Vancouver, B.C. released three books this fall: This Perspectives” at the University of Las Vegas on the topic of “Sports Mario Castillo (Fine Arts) was Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Wisconsin, Madison in November. Reporting: The Playing Field and highlighted during Hispanic Heritage Year examines the changes in plant, Beyond.” He also contributed to a Annette Barbier (Interactive Arts + Month on Telemundo and Channel 5 TV. animal, and human life in the wetlands chapter for a book, Sports Media Media) received a jury finalist award He also exhibited ten major paintings in over the course of 20,000 years; (by Brad Schultz). His segment dealt at the 2005 University Film and Video a “Heritage” group show at the Noyes Dead Reckoning: A Private Voyage with with what it is like to be a print Association conference for her video Cultural Arts Center in Evanston. Captain Drake is a swashbuckling sports reporter. Homeland Security Advice. In August, Mary Filice (Arts, Entertainment + pirate tale for young adults. Her Barbier showed Escape, a new, large- Jeff Spitz (Film + Video) showed his Media Management) is among five critically acclaimed Shadow Catcher, scale, outdoor wall projection as part documentary, Return of the Navajo filmmakers who contributed chapters which won the Carl Sandburg and of Columbia’s VIBE (Video in the Built Boy, in a screening/discussion hosted to the feature-length filmCommon Golden Kite Awards, has been Environment) program. by Galeria Mistica in Tucson, Arizona Senses, which screened in October reprinted. in November with Elsie Mae Cly Begay Dave Berner (Radio) has completed at Chicago Filmmakers. Carol Loverde (Music) performed as and her son John Wayne Cly (subjects an audio/radio documentary, Pebble soprano soloist with the Sine Nomine Jan Garfield resigned her position of the film). The film, which debuted Beach Stories: Three Days from a Ensemble in Mozart’s Requiem, and at as Associate Provost in November in 2000 at Sundance and has aired Golfer’s Notebook, and signed a to relocate to Lynchburg, Virginia. the Chicago Humanities Festival with licensing deal with Audible.com on PBS, has also been shown recently She remains involved with the Ars Musica Chicago in November. and iTunes. The documentary was at several national and international college as a consultant on several finished with a Columbia Faculty Tom Mula (Theater) acted in Uneasy festivals. projects. Garfield was honored with Chair and Tom, Dick and Harry last Development Grant. Chris Swider and Tom Fraterrigo a one-night exhibition and reception summer, and directed Red Herring at (Film + Video) won a bronze Bob Blinn (Advising Center) penned at the A + D Gallery. Peninsula Plays in Wisconsin. He also the song “I Still Can’t Say Goodbye,” Remi award at the 2005 Houston Kevin Henry (Product Design) has 17 performances of Jacob Marley’s recorded by Merle Haggard on his new International Film Festival in the presented a paper at the Industrial Christmas Carol this season. album, Chicago Wind. The song has Comedy Screenplay category for 18th Design Society of America (IDSA) also been recorded by British artist Luke Palermo (Television) was Hole. Also, a 75-minute documentary National Education Conference Charlie Landsborough and country elected to the executive board of co-produced by Swider, Unauthorized in Washington, D.C. on creating a legend Chet Atkins. the Chicago chapter of the National and Proud of It, the Story of Rock & Roll web-centric design program. He also Academy of Television Arts and Comics, was previewed at the Institute Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin (Journalism) presented a lecture at The School Sciences, where he co-chairs the Emmy of Contemporary Art in London. wrote a feature article, “It Came from of The Art Institute of Chicago, committee. He continues to serve as Beneath the Lawn Chair,” for The “The Plot Thickens: Untangling a member of the planning board for George Thompson (Graphic Design) Chicago Tribune Magazine in August. Design Narratives,” as part of the the Chicagoland High School Video will represent Columbia College A medical detective story about the “Thick Design ’05” exhibition and Festival, held in April. at the Alliance Typographique growing incidence of Lyme disease in lecture series. Internationale conference in Helsinki, Illinois, it generated a huge amount Debra Parr (Fine Art + Art History) Barbara K. Iverson (Journalism) was Finland next September. of reader mail. Bloyd-Peshkin also wrote the essay for “Thick Design ’05,” invited to the first International Citizen published “Sugar Blues,” a look at the an exhibition organized by The School Wenhwa Ts’ao (Film + Video) Reporter Forum in Seoul, South Korea lives of workers who lost their jobs in of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Betty screened Wonton, a 12-minute film as a guest of Ohmynews, a South the shrinking Chicago candy industry, Rymer Gallery. about a young Chinese woman and Korean online newspaper. Iverson also in the magazine. her witty escape during an Immigration reviewed Democracy and New Media Barbara Robertson (Theater) played Customs Enforcement raid of the Joe Cancellaro (Interactive Arts + (Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, Grushinskaya in the critically acclaimed U.S. restaurant where she is illegally Media) published his book, Sound editors) for the Resource Center for Grand Hotel at Drury Lane Water employed, at the Chicago International Design for Interactive Media (Thomson Cyberculture Studies. Tower Theatre this season, and played Film Festival and the International Delmar Learning). Jane Avril in the Voices program for (Graphic Design) won Craig Jobson “Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre” Short Film Festival, Targu-Mures, recognition for The Billy Chronicles Michael Caplan (Film + Video) at the Art Institute of Chicago. Romania this fall. Ts’ao’s Disunion directed and produced the personal Part III, The Colonel’s Chicanery in a Robertson received a Jefferson Award of the Union of Suffering was also documentary Stones from the Soil, 75-book show titled “In The Game” nomination for her portrayal of Martha screened at several festivals recently. which aired on PBS in May. It is about at the South Shore Art Center in in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a school in 1930s Germany in which Cohasset, Massachusetts. Margot Wallace (Marketing the Court Theatre. several Jewish teenagers—including Communication) co-chaired a Cheryl Johnson-Odim (Liberal Arts Caplan’s father—were trained to Patti Roeder (Theater) performed as roundtable discussion on museums + Sciences) contributed a chapter, become the vanguard of a new society. Miss Hodge in Design for Living at Circle and college students at the Association “Actions Louder than Words: the Caplan was interviewed about the Theatre in Forest Park, Illinois, this of Midwest Museums’ national Historical Task of Defining Feminist film on WBEZ’s “848” and WTTW’s fall. She designed costumes for Dessa conference in Cincinnati this fall. Consciousness in Colonial West Africa,” “Chicago Tonight.” Rose, running this winter at Apple Tree to a forthcoming collection on feminist Chuck Webb (Music) just completed Theatre in Highland Park, Illinois. Melinda Carney (Audio Arts theory, The Feminist History Reader. the score for the motion picture Pieces + Acoustics) presented at the The book, edited by Susan Morgan, Howard Sandroff (Audio Arts + of a Dream, scheduled for release in Chicago chapter meeting of the will be published by Routledge Press. Acoustics) wrote a composition that spring 2006. Photos E rika Dufour (’96) U T I O N S E B OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO N I F E S T H TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO TO A FIELD COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO ALUMNI S O F A HOWARD MENDELSOHN (’49) GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY WILLIAM CELLINI, JR. (’94) D N A ONTRI O S I T I O N S, C XP OUS Howard Mendelsohn’s association Genndy Tartakovsky may not A graduate of Columbia’s Film T I O N O F T H with Columbia College Chicago be a household name, but his and Video department, Bill Cellini, A T I V E

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[ 1 ] 2005 Emmy nominee J.D. SIEVERTSON (’93) and Semester in LA program director JON KATZMAN attend a reception for Emmy nominees at the home of trustee Gary Belz and his wife Shelly. [ 2 ] Film department chair BRUCE SHERIDAN, 2004 Emmy nominee BETH MORGAN (’02), 2004 Emmy nominee FRED PIENKOS (’96), CHARLOTTE PIENKOS, and Television department chair MICHAEL NIEDERMAN at the Belz home. [ 3 ] DR. CARTER with Chicagoan JIM BELUSHI at the Illinois Film Of ce’s “Sweet Home Illinois” gala in Hollywood in September. [ 4 ] BARRIE COLE (’93/’03) & JULIE CAFFEY (’97) perform Alphabet Report at the DEMO launch party in September. [ 5 ] Photographer and musician JOEL WANEK performs at the DEMO launch party. [ 6 ] Artist/author/faculty member AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, whose artwork graced the cover of issue one, at the DEMO launch party. [ 7 ] GIGI PRITZKER, trustee DEBRA MARTIN CHASE, and board chair ALLEN TURNER at the President’s Club reception following Chase’s “Conversations in the Arts” appearance with JULIE ANDREWS. [ 8 ] Alumni Scholarship winners KATHRYN BERGQUIST (’05), HOLLY DE RUYTER (’06), and MARGARET MORRIS (’05). [ 9 ] Photography alumni ANNI HOLM (’04) and CAMILA OLARTE (’04) with Holm’s portrait of Olarte, shown this fall in “Visual Constructions” at the Glass Curtain Gallery. [ 10 ] Producer/trustee DEBRA MARTIN CHASE and actress JULIE ANDREWS enjoy a performance by musical theater students preceding Andrews’s “Conversations in the Arts” appearance. [ 11 ] Associate director of alumni relations JOSH CULLEY-FOSTER (’03) looks at JESSE FREESE’s (’06) entry in the college holiday card design competition. [ 12 ] DEBRA RILEY PARR (faculty in Art + Design) and BARBARA KASTEN (faculty in Photography) admire the winning student entries in the college holiday card design competition. [ 13 ] BOB TEITEL (’90), DR. CARTER, and GEORGE TILLMAN (’91) at the Chicago premier of Teitel and Tillman’s 2005 lm, Roll Bounce, at the Film Row Cinema. Photos: Con Buckley, Eric Davis (’06), Robert Kusel (’78), and Robyn Martin (’05). Rupert Deese, Array 700/Pink, 2005. Woodcut, 33” x 33”. From “New Prints 2005/Autumn.”

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New Black Repertory Ensemble. Photo: Matt Siber.

Quasar Dance Company. See “LatinoContempo Festival.” Photo: Mila Petrillo

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Richard Alston Recovering History: Chicago Jazz Ensemble: Cinema Sessions Dance Company On the Brink of a New From the Windy City to April 24 – 27, various times February 9 – 11, 8:00 p.m. Orleans Renaissance New Orleans with Love Film Row Cinema The Dance Center of Columbia January 12 – February 17 Friday, April 7, 8:00 p.m. 1104 S. Wabash Ave. College Chicago, 1306 S. Michigan Glass Curtain Gallery Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff 312.344.6725 Ave. Tickets $16-$24 at www. 1104 S. Wabash Ave. Auditorium, 220 S. Columbus Dr. www.filmatcolumbia.com dancecenter.org or 312.344.8300 312.344.6643 Tickets $5 to $35 at www/ticketweb. A week of screenings including Richard Alston, revered star of http://cspaces.colum.edu com or 312.344.6270 “The Written Image Screenwriting Columbia British modern dance, brings the The gifts of music and culture Guest artists from NOLA join Competition,” alumni-hosted intrinsic musical sensibility and that New Orleans has given the Jon Faddis and the Chicago workshops and lectures, and 2006 “The Big Screen” student obsession for formal balance that world are unprecedented. The Jazz Ensemble to celebrate the distinguish his choreography to Center for Black Music Research relationships between the cities film festival. the Dance Center. The program offers a look at the unique cultural help rebuild the jazz community. includes works set to Monteverdi’s history of this vibrant city through a More CJE dates at www.chijazz.com. r e AD i n G S madrigals, meditations on Chopin’s wealth of artifacts from its archives. winter Nocturnes and Etudes, and a DJ New Black Music Story Week Festival of Writers events Politics on Paper mix of global gypsy music. Repertory Ensemble “Fighting Words: Stories of January 13 - March 11 Wednesday, March 15, 8:00 p.m. LatinoContempo Festival Risk and Rebellion” Center for Book and Paper Arts Harris Theater for Music and Dance March 12 – 17, various times February 23 – March 18 1104 S. Wabash Ave. 205 E. Randolph. Tickets $15 at and locations The Dance Center of Columbia 312.344.6634 www.cbmr.org or 312.344.7559. http://fiction.colum.edu College Chicago, 1306 S. Michigan www.bookandpaper.org The ensemble kicks off the Center This five-day series of readings, Ave. Tickets at www.dancecenter.org A comment on the political and for Black Music Research’s National discussions, performances, or 312.344.8300 social scene manifested in Conference on Black Music presentations, and more engages Three international leaders in handmade paper, featuring works Research, presented in conjunction a diverse public audience with contemporary dance perform during by Eric Every, John Risseeuw, with the Society for American Music. writers, artists, and performers this year’s festival: Antares Danza and Ami Silverberg. The featuring world premiers of from a variety of fields. This year’s Contemporanea from Hermosillo, works by T.J. Anderson, Wendell Mexico presents the U.S. premiere Made in China guests include Stuart Dybek, January 14 – March 11 Logan, and Olly Wilson. Edward P. Jones, Dorothy Allison, of False Cognate; Brazil’s Quasar Dance Company makes its Midwest Museum of Contemporary and Tom Perrotta, among others. T H E A t e r debut; and Chicago’s own Luna Photography 600 S. Michigan Ave. Negra Dance Theater offers Woyzeck an evening of works by Cuban 312.344.7779 March 8 – 19, various times choreographers. www.mocp.org “Made in China” brings together New Studio Theater 72 E. 11th St. Tickets $5 at GA l l e r i e s work by a number of international artists who are responding to the www.colum.edu/theater or New Prints 2005/Autumn economic influence of China on 312.344.6126 Brian Shaw directs Georg January 12 – February 18 the global economy. Büchner’s classic play. Thursday’s Opening/panel discussion Shojo Manga! performance includes a discussion January 26, 5 – 7 p.m. (Girl Power!) with Zeljko Djukich, artistic director A+D GALLERY March 13 – April 26 of Chicago’s TUTA Theatre. 619 S. Wabash Ave. 312.344.8687 C33 Gallery Ragtime or www.colum.edu/adgallery 33 E. Congress Ave. 312.344.7188 A juried exhibition featuring 45 cspaces.colum.edu April 13 – 23, various times prints selected from over 1200 “Shojo Manga!” features work Getz Theater entries, this show continues the by 23 Japanese artists who have 72 E. 11th St. Tickets $10 - $14 International Print Center New contributed to the development at www.colum.edu/theater or York’s (IPCNY) series highlighting of modern shojo manga (comic art) 312.344.6126 exceptional contemporary prints. in Japan. The exhibition traces Tom Mula and Sheldon Patinkin Coordinated by Leonard Lehrer, the social changes that Japanese direct the musical tale, based on this major show is cosponsored by girls and women have experienced E.L. Doctorow’s seductive novel, Columbia College’s Art and Design since World War II. of the dreams of a nation at the Events are free unless department and IPCNY. turn of the (last) century. noted otherwise.

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