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columbia college chicago presents 11 conversations fe a t u r e s in the Arts Game On A year-long exploration of trends and issues in disciplines taught Columbia’s Interactive Arts and Media Department is creating innovative games “to get stuff done.” By Paul M. Davis. by Columbia’s School of Media Arts, focusing on social media, 14 Photography by Drew Reynolds (B.A. ’97) journalism, and the moving image (Hopeful) Hit Men Mira Nair With Chicago Overcoat, six alums are looking to hit the big Wednesday, April 28, 2010 screen, and the big time. By Nora O’Donnell. Photography by Chad McGavock (B.F.A. ’09) Mira Nair is the director of Salaam Bombay! 22 The Namesake, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, and Amelia. Portfolio: ESB Institute Fellowship Program Past Speakers Projects by five recent fellows at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts 33 and Media

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5 Vision: a question for President Warrick L. Carter C o v e r Biz Stone Arianna Huffington 7 Wire: news from the college community Cofounder of Twitter Cofounder and editor in chief John Lomax, a senior majoring in 3-D animation, 28 Events: what’s coming up on campus of The Huffington Post wears a headset used in Interactive Arts and Media 30 Get Lit: new books by Stephen T. Asma, Audrey Niffenegger, professor Dave Gerding’s CONSTRUCT project. Louis Silverstein, Dominic A. Pacyga, and John Schultz This series opens a three-year cycle of programs devoted to each 32 new recordings from , President’s Club donors enjoy of Columbia’s three schools: Media Arts, Fine and Performing Arts, Story, page 14. Photo: Drew Reynolds (B.A. ’97) Spin: TheS cotland Yard Gospel Choir media arts in the 21st century invitations to VIP receptions and Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Aaron Williams Band, and Kid Sister with the speakers following CORRECTIONS 40 Out There: our alumni section, featuring class news each event. All lectures at 7:00 p.m. at Film Row Cinema, and notes and CAAN updates To learn more about the 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th floor In some copies of DEMO 10, the captions for Anna President’s Club, call Kim 48 Point & Shoot: caught on camera around the country Tickets are available at no charge on a first-come, Shteynshleyger’s and Brian Ulrich’s photographs on page 6 Clement at 312.369.7084. 51 Honor Roll of Donors: Thank you to those who contributed first-served basis at colum.edu/conversations. were reversed. Ulrich’s work appeared on the left. 57 Backstory: 1955 In “What if I Bomb in Front of My Mom” (DEMO 10, page 16), Sheldon Patinkin was misquoted when discussing the academic marriage of Second City and S p o t O n Official HOTEL SponsorS: Columbia. He said, “Columbia’s Theater department functions around the concept that theater is an ensemble 6 Grassroots Giving Faculty/Staff Scholarship Initiative art, as is improv.” 12 Marlon West (B.A. ’85) animating princesses and frogs 20 Peter Cook (faculty, ASL) deaf poetry in motion 26 Erica Watson (B.A. ’98; M.A. ’05) smart, sexy comedy WINTER/spring 2010

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Announcing Columbia College Chicago’s new a r t d i r e c t o r Guido Mendez (B.A. ’10) Rubinstein Alexa Photo: Media Production Center Columbia College ChicagO Contact the Office of Alumni Relations for details c h a i r, b o a r d o f t r u s t e e s Allen M. Turner 312.369.6987 / [email protected] p r e s i d e n t Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. v i c e p r e s i d e n t f o r Eric V. A. Winston, Ph.D. February 27 institutional advancement Alumni Event at the Natural History Museum n a t i o n a l d i r e c t o r o f Joshua Culley-Foster (B.A. ’03) Reinventing Media Arts Education a l u m n i r e l a t i o n s CAAN Pittsburgh

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Now open, Columbia College Chicago’s state-of-the-art d i r e c t o r o f a l u m n i r e l a t i o n s , Sarah Schroeder (B.A. ’00) w e s t c o a s t March 7 Media Production Center is the first educational Oscar Viewing Parties Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas facility of its kind, designed to foster cross-disciplinary DEMO (volume 5, number 2) is published by Columbia College Chicago. It is mailed free of charge to alumni and friends of the college three times a year. collaboration among students in film, television, EVENTSMarch 14 The ideas and opinions expressed are those of the writers alone and do not necessarily Story Week Alumni Workshops and Reception reflect those of Columbia College Chicago. © Columbia College Chicago 2010. interactive arts and media, audio arts, journalism, and Chicago other areas of study. Running of the Green email US: CAAN Denver Located at 16th & state [email protected] Designed by Jeanne Gang /Studio Gang Architects, the innovative structure STreets, the MPC Features CALL US: March 18 is a model for the incorporation of green building practices. The facility also 35,500 square feet of Columbia College Chicago: 312.369.1000 Marketing Communication Department Presents commemorates Chicago’s role in filmmaking history by incorporating the DEMO magazine: 312.369.8631 Ad Autopsy 5—Advertising to Women arch from the former Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, parent company adaptable space, including mail US: Chicago DEMO magazine, Columbia College Chicago, of Paramount Pictures. two soundstages, a motion- 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605 April Student Alumni Association (SAA) capture studio, animating DEMO is online Annual Etiquette Dinner Read, comment, and share at colum.edu/demo suites, and more. Chicago colum.edu/mpc Become a fan! DEMO magazine is on Facebook colum.edu/alumni/events ALUMNI Columbia College Chicago recognizes the following individuals who joined The Presiden t ’ s C l u b a question for President Carter COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO Demo: Columbia College Chicago is a center for innovation in the visual, between June 1, 2009 and October 30, 2009. performing, media, and communication arts—that’s even our tag line. Michael J. Anderson Sherry S. Barrat How does the new Media Production Center, which opens for classes this William T. Britt ’92 Monica Del Angel ’96 semester, reflect that commitment to innovation? Betty Guttman Robert E. ’66 & Jane McNamara Michelle A. Passarelli ’99 Dr. Carter: The term “innovation” is used very loosely in higher education, James N. Pritzker but we don’t take it lightly at all, because we practice it every day. We push our faculty Joseph Seminetta to be cutting edge. We push our students to be cutting edge. We encourage them to Harrison I. & Lois M. Steans Irving Stenn Jr. be always looking at the next opportunity in their disciplines or their majors: What’s Wayne Tukes the next technology? How are the disciplines evolving? What majors are converging? Lindsay M. Wilbeck ’05 Where do we need to be providing instruction, or perhaps discontinuing instruction, as Constance & Hugh Williams industries change? That whole thing about innovation in the arts and media isn’t just a tag line for us, it’s the way we live. To learn more, contact kIM CLEMENT at 312.369.7084 or visit colum.edu/donate. Our new Media Production Center is a fine example of this. It is the first building we’ve built from the ground up, and it’s important from a variety of standpoints. It’s important because it’s a building we need, because there’s no other building like this. We could not have purchased a preexistent building and reconfigured it, the way we’ve done with our other buildings. We built a facility that precisely reflects our approach to teaching media arts in the twenty-first century, and there isn’t another one on the face of the globe that can do what this building does. Your contribution to Columbia It’s also important because of what it says about us as an institution. When we decided to do this, we brought in a consultant to assess our ability to raise the necessary money,

can be recognized forever. Photo: Robert Drea and he said, “You’ll be lucky to raise five million dollars, because you’ve never done it before. You have no history of fundraising at that level, of board giving at that level, and you have no friends out there that know you that well.” Well, we’ve raised more than $24 million for this project, Make a gift to the Media Production Center of $25 or with additional pledged. It shows that the consultant was wrong. But what it really shows is that Columbia College Chicago is positioned very differently than some folks thought we were. MAY2010 more before May 10, 2010 at 24:00:00 hours and Our trustees, our alumni, our faculty and staff, and our students all know what we can do.

you will have your name permanently recognized on We set a goal that some felt was impossible, and we reached it. We built a facility they said 10 the honor roll of donors in the first new-construction couldn’t be built. And this points to all the other things we know are possible at this institution. All the things that people said Columbia College couldn’t do, we did. And now we DEADLINE 12AM building in Columbia’s 120-year history. know we can do more—there are no limits. There are no dreams we can’t dream, because we know we have the wherewithal to get it done. Join fellow alums by giving during In Chicago, we have always attracted, and been attracted to, young creatives. Professionals the final countdown to this historic event! in the creative industries know us—many of them are our alumni—but for a long time we were under the radar for everyone else. Not anymore. The Media Production Center offers physical evidence of our commitment to innovation, and the results that innovation produces. We have a safe place in which students, faculty, and others can take creative risks. That doesn’t mean it’s chaotic, or that we lack structure or design in what we’re doing. But we are always looking forward, searching, reaching for the next thing. We are always taking informed risks. And that’s what leads to innovation. news from the Columbia community

Jim Sulski, department as part-time faculty in by his colleagues, students, and those 1991, became a full-time faculty whose lives he touched.” 1957–2010 member in 1999, and was promoted In addition to his role as faculty at He was a colleague to associate chair of the Journalism Columbia, Sulski was an alum of the “We wanted to do something that would resonate department in 2006, a position he college. He earned a B.A. in journalism across all areas of the college to bring people to some, a mentor held for two years. in 1984 and went on to receive an to many, and a An investigative journalist by M.A. in communications from the in this community together for the greater good.” nature, he stressed to his students University of Illinois at Chicago. He friend to all who the importance of holding decision wrote for a number of publications, knew him. Jim Sulski, makers accountable. “Jim was a including Crain’s Chicago Business, associate professor and adviser to the wonderful teacher and mentor who the Chicago Tribune, and Consumers Columbia Chronicle, lost his three-year took special pride in his work with Digest. He is survived by five children battle with cancer on January 7, 2010. the Columbia Chronicle newspaper,” and his wife, Jo Cates, associate vice Known for his humor and humbleness, said Columbia’s president, Warrick L. president for academic research and Sulski joined the Journalism Carter. “He will be incredibly missed dean of the library at Columbia. Jim Sulski

Front row (from left): J. Wayne Tukes, Bob Blinn, Brian Ritchard, Kamillah Ong, Mark Gonzalez. Second row: Brian Marth, Janet Talbot, Karen Smith, Pattie Mackenzie, Ruby Turner, Linda Hunter. Third row: Jessica Horwitz, Judy Dyke, Mary Blinn, Cory Byrd, Yolunda Kincade, Lauren Targ, Ritch Barnes. Back row: Charles Cannon, George Bailey, Will Casey, Keith Lusson, Arvis Averatte, Kevin Cassidy. Carol Ann Stowe, Not pictured: Richard Woods. Photo: Corey Minkanic (B.A. ’04) GRASS ROOTS GIVING 1951–2009 (Faculty/Staff Scholarship Initiative) Columbia lost a universally loved and respected colleague, teacher, and force As a member of the college advising staff, J. Wayne Tukes was It’s really quite extraordinary what they’ve done.” Britt says the in progressive early childhood education among the first to see the effects of the recession on students. effort has garnered commitments of more than $30,000 from when Carol Ann Stowe died unexpectedly on October 4, 2009, of complications He began talking with other faculty and staff about how they could faculty and staff since its inception in 2009. Combined with from a 1979 automobile accident. help. “We came up with the Faculty/Staff Scholarship Initiative matching funds from the college, that translates to more than In 1996 Stowe, a lifelong educator with a Ph.D. in educational processes from after consulting with a lot of folks about it,” Tukes recalls. $70,000 in scholarship funds available to students. Northwestern University, became the founding director of the Harris Center for Early Childhood Education in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia The initiative dovetails with Scholarship Columbia, a matching-fund “I’ve always wanted to do something for the students,” says College Chicago. campaign aimed primarily at alumni. Tukes and his colleagues Mark Gonzalez, a 28-year member of Columbia’s building services Her leadership and dedication brought critical grants to the progressive program, which trained new teachers in Chicago using the world-renowned expanded the idea over brown-bag lunches and through viral videos staff. “I’m glad I was able to help.” Reggio Emilia approach, an arts-based, child-focused method regarded by many and mailings, carefully keeping the message peer to peer. Visit colum.edu/createchange to watch the videos and learn as the most successful in the world. The B.A. program Stowe put in place has That’s been key to their success, notes Bill Britt, director of more about the initiative and a faculty/staff showcase being grown to include 126 majors. Stowe is survived by three daughters, two of whom are early childhood advancement services. “It’s reinvigorated faculty and staff giving. planned for April 1. education teachers in the Chicago area; two grandsons; and her husband, Tim.

—ANN WIENS A memorial to Carol Ann Stowe was created by students in the Early Childhood Education department. Photo: Alexa Rubinstein (B.F.A. ’09) DEMO6 Columbia Makes Journalism DEPARTMENT Sustainability Receives $45,000 to Support a Priority Emerging News Sources Warrick L. Columbia’s proposal for a website, Carter, president AustinTalks.org, is among a dozen of Columbia selected to share $500,000 that the Chicago Community Trust has pledged to support the development of emerging Columbia’s new Media Production Center. Photo: Tom Nowak The fifth floor of 33East Congress is the College Chicago, first Columbia building project to receive local news sources through a series of new grants called the Community LEED certification. Photo: Gensler has signed News Matters Award. Media Production Center the American Opens for Classes College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), thereby adding Columbia to a list of Columbia College Chicago has more than 650 institutions of higher education that have made this pledge. By signing the ACUPCC, Columbia commits to strive for climate neutrality Frequency TV’s award-winning Roller Derby segment completed construction on the new, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and staying current with new 35,500-square-foot Media Production technologies to help achieve this goal. This dedication is demonstrated by current building projects on campus, Center (MPC), the first new-construction building erected in the such as the new Media Production Center, designed from the ground up with college’s 120-year history. Spring semester classes began in the Broadcast Journalism and sustainability at the fore. Another recent project, the redesigned fifth floor facility on January 25, 2010, almost exactly one year after the initial of the 33 East Congress Parkway building, was awarded a Silver Certification Television Students Recognized groundbreaking. under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Commercial Designed from the ground up to accommodate a new way of by Emmy Organization Interiors category by the U.S. Green Building Council. It is the first Columbia teaching filmmaking and media production for the twenty-first century, project to receive LEED certification. the project saw its beginnings in conversations that began in 2001, The ChicagoTalks.org news site will The work of several Columbia students shortly after Warrick Carter began his tenure as president of the college serve as a model for the AustinTalks.org was recognized by the Chicago/Midwest and made the creation of a state-of-the-art production facility one of his community journalism project. priorities. The project gained momentum when Allen Turner, a partner Chapter of the National Academy of in the Pritzker Organization, became chairman of Columbia’s Board Columbia will receive $45,000 for the development of the site, which Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the of Trustees in 2005, acting as a catalyst to bring the project to fruition. Nami Mun Wins Whiting will serve as a clearinghouse of news and information important to the organization that awards the Emmy. The innovative structure was designed by Jeanne Gang / Studio Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The project, a collaboration A team of students from Frequency TV, Columbia’s student television Gang Architects, who won the commission through a highly competitive Writers’ Award with the Chicago Tribune enlisting student and professional journalists to station, won an award in the College Student Production: Entertainment architectural selection contest. The building is a model for the cover government meetings, businesses, churches, and other institutions Program/Segment category for a segment they created about the Chicago incorporation of sustainable design and construction processes, Fiction writing professor in the neighborhood, will distribute content via the website, the Tribune’s Outfit, a roller derby team. Michael Petroshus, Leo Flores, Chris Smith, a hallmark of Gang’s practice. One such element is the green roof Nami Mun was awarded Chicago Now blogsite (chicagonow.com), and other media. and Mallory Ryan entered “Roller Derby” into the running almost as an that covers 50 percent of the building. The facility also commemorates Suzanne McBride, an assistant professor in the Journalism department, afterthought. Chicago’s long role in the history of filmmaking, incorporating a huge, the prestigious Whiting plans to launch the site this spring. “We’re honored to have been given the “We made this show called ‘Charlie and Isabelle,’” said Petroshus. terra-cotta arch salvaged from the former Famous Players-Lasky Writer’s Award for her 2009 opportunity to partner with the residents, business owners, civic leaders, “And we all thought it was our best work, so we entered that.” But the Corporation, a parent of Paramount Pictures, whose facilities once novel Miles from Nowhere. The award, which educators, and people of faith in Austin,” she said. McBride and her partner team had also created a segment about the roller derby that they thought stood nearby. Nami Mun includes a $50,000 stipend, has been in the project, associate professor Barbara Iverson, will edit and distribute was interesting and well done, “so we figured it couldn’t hurt to put that The 40,162-square-foot lot at the corner of State and 16th streets, given annually since 1985 to 10 writers the news and information gathered by student and citizen journalists in too,” added Petroshus. Their initial entry, “Charlie and Isabelle,” was appraised at $3.2 million, was purchased from the City of Chicago of exceptional talent and promise early in their careers. through mobile devices, text messaging, and newsletters to reach as many also nominated for the award. for $200,000. The building is anchored by a 7,350-square-foot main In addition to the Whiting Award, the widely acclaimed Miles from Nowhere Austin residents as possible and to build audience involvement. Broadcast journalism students Frankie Jupiter, Caroline Rowland, soundstage, with a 2,085-square-foot motion-capture studio, a smaller was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. The novel follows Joon, The Community Media Workshop, a nonprofit housed at Columbia Lauren Rozyla, Steve Nichols, and Candace Pierce won first place in the soundstage, prop and wardrobe studios, classrooms, an outdoor a 13-year-old runaway, through the streets of New York as she struggles with College, also received a $45,000 grant. The Community News Matters Information Program/Segment category for their work on an Election dock for the college’s remote media truck, a rooftop terrace, and addiction, exploitation, and her own past. Award is funded jointly by the Chicago Community Trust and the John D. 2008 package. a lofty, glass-walled lobby that acts as an informal gathering space This is Mun’s second year on faculty at Columbia. When asked what has and Catherine T. MacAthur Foundation. It is part of the Knight Community Mary Hynes, an Emmy judging-committee cochair, noted that the for students. struck her most about the college, she answered, “The students, hands down. Information Challenge, a five-year, $24 million national effort “to help goal of the student awards is “to recognize excellence in college student For more information about the Media Production Center, including They seem to live and work and study and dress and talk and walk creatively … place-based foundations find creative ways to use new media and productions and encourage the next generation of television professionals. a gala being planned for October 2010, visit colum.edu/mpc. I was never that cool in college.” Mun is currently working on a book about crime. technology to keep residents informed and engaged.” These television students are the future Emmy Award winners.”

DEMO8 John Fischetti Manuscript Students Successfully Rally Collection Now Online to Save MAP Funding

The ColumbiaL ibrary Archives hold the When funding for the Monetary Aid The music video definitive collection of notebooks and Program (MAP) fell victim to budget cuts in I Wonder What I Could Be was sketches by the late John Fischetti. A syndicated the Illinois legislature in October, Columbia produced in just cartoonist, Fischetti worked primarily for the Chicago Daily News, reaching a students responded as Columbia students 24 hours by national audience and garnering him the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning Columbia students, in 1969. always do: they got creative. In just 24 hours, a group of students, faculty, and staff faculty, and staff wrote, shot, and produced a four-minute music video to raise awareness Recently, the library was awarded a grant by the Illinois State Library, a of the MAP department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. of an original composition, I Wonder What I Could Be, to raise awareness unding crisis. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the federal Library Services and of the crisis. The video was distributed via YouTube and other social Technology Act, to digitize the 3,300-work collection, making it available online. networking sites. Meanwhile, Columbia’s Student Government Association The physical materials from which this collection is derived are housed in the organized a letter-writing campaign and trip to Springfield to rally the John Fischetti, College Archives. To view the collection online, visit colum.edu/fischettiarchives. legislature to restore funding for MAP, which provides tuition assistance sketch, 1977 to thousands of Illinois students. About 140,000 students, or one fourth of those in the state, rely on MAP already promised to tens of thousands of students for the spring 2010 funding to help pay their tuition, including thousands of Columbia students, semester. It remains unclear, however, how the program will be funded who receive an average of about $1,940, according to an estimate the in future years. College Wins NASPA Awards Photographer Curtis Mann Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Columbia students joined others To see the music video and the Columbia Chronicle’s coverage of the from throughout the state at the October 15 rally. That afternoon the Illinois rally, visit colum.edu/demo and look for this story in the “Wire” section for Student Communications, Selected for Whitney Biennial House and Senate voted to allocate $205 million to MAP, securing grants of Demo online. Shop Columbia Curtis Mann, a 2008 graduate of Columbia’s Student communications have come a M.F.A. program in photography and current adjunct faculty in the department, has long way fast at Columbia. The student communications unit, a division of Student Affairs, was formed just two years ago, but it’s been invited to exhibit his work in the 2010 Columbia Night a Hit at Chicago already among the best in the country, according to NASPA–Student Affairs Whitney Biennial, among the most prestigious invitational International Film Festival Administrators in Education, contemporary art exhibitions in the world. the foremost association for Mann creates new photography by physically erasing and manipulating Columbia was the presenting sponsor of the student affairs professionals in found, amateur snapshots. This tension between creation and destruction higher education. Columbia’s in his process expands the boundaries of photography, incorporating 45th Chicago International Film Festival, which achievements will be honored at experimentation to form unique, often beautiful new works. “Curtis Mann ran October 8 through 22, 2009, at the AMC River East 21 Theaters. Among the NASPA’s 2010 Excellence Awards discovered his own distinctive artistic voice very early in our graduate highlights was Columbia Night on October 9, which included the world premier ceremony in March, where the program,” said Bob Thall, chair of Columbia’s photography department. of Chicago Overcoat, the debut feature from Beverly Ridge Pictures, a Chicago- college will receive the Grand “He then developed his work with great intelligence, energy, and ambition. based production company founded by several recent Columbia alumni. Silver Award (second overall We are very proud of Curtis and delighted that his work will be finding an Chicago Overcoat is a gangster story about an aging Outfit hit man with nationally) and Gold Award (best enormous new audience.” a chance to reclaim his lost glory. The film stars Frank Vincent, Kathrine in category) for the Student Loop. Mann is one of 55 artists chosen by curators Francesco Bonami and Narducci, Mike Starr, Danny Goldring, Stacy Keach, and Armand Assante. The Student Loop (colum. Appearing at Columbia Night’s reception and screening were several of the The Student Loop Gary Carrion-Murayari for the exhibition, which runs February 25 through edu/students) is “a virtual May 30 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. film’s stars, along with Beverly Ridge principals Kevin Moss, Brian Caunter, student center” that outlines Columbia’s innovative approach to community John Bosher, Chris Charles, and Philip Plowden. Following the screening, building focused on an online community where students can interact several of the filmmakers, along with stars Vincent, Narducci, Starr, and with one another and the college. The selection committee recognized Goldring, participated in a panel discussion. Columbia’s adoption of new online technologies and the creative editorial Recent grad Brad Bischoff (B.A. ’09) and his production company Rubbish approach used to attract a student audience. were presented with the Chicago Award during the festival for the short film ShopColumbia, an on-campus retail store selling student-created Curtis Mann, WET, which Bischoff wrote and directed as part of a Production II class at Loudspeaker (Beirut products and art, was recognized by NASPA with a Silver Award in the Mike Starr, Kathrine Narducci, Columbia. WET is the story of a young man faced with the grim reality of being happenings), from Frank Vincent, and Danny Goldring, Career and Academic Support category. ShopColumbia opened just eternally wet, and having to decide whether he belongs on land or in water. A the “Modification” stars of Chicago Overcoat, at the over a year ago in a storefront space at 623 South Wabash Avenue. series, 2008. world premier. sci-fi short, Burden, was also screened at Columbia Night. That film, a special- The NASPA awards recognize innovation and achievement in the Collection of the Museum of effects-rich story about an invader from outer space who has a change of heart, field of Student Affairs, and 2009 was the most competitive year in the Contemporary Photography. shares several alumni production-team members with Chicago Overcoat. See history of the awards. our story on Chicago Overcoat, “(Hopeful) Hit Men,” starting on page 22.

DEMO10 “I have a daughter who’s five years old. This is probably going to be the first movie she sees in the theater, and for it to be an African American princess is really cool.”

Marlon West (B.A. ’85)

“This is my favorite movie so far,” says Marlon West, effects The Princess and the Frog, a musical set in the French Quarter during animation supervisor on the holiday blockbuster The Princess and the Jazz Age, centers on a young girl named Princess Tiana, who the Frog, Disney’s first movie featuring an African American princess. lives in the New Orleans French Quarter during the Jazz Age. The animated fairy tale is set in the Louisiana bayous and boasts Somewhat of a throwback to the Disney classics of old, the film an all-star cast including Anika Noni Rose, Oprah Winfrey, and is a hand-drawn 2-D animation, a departure from the digitally John Goodman. animated 3-D films that moviegoers have become accustomed to. It’s a long way from the “little short films and animations with clay It’s Disney’s first 2-D film since 2004’s Home on the Range. and G.I. Joe” that West made with a Super 8 camera he got for “There’s a whole generation of kids who have never seen a hand- his twelfth birthday. drawn animated film on the big screen,” says West. “I think there It was that camera that sparked West’s passion for filmmaking are people who miss it, people who actually grew up watching hand- and animation. The St. Louis native earned a degree in film drawn animated films. They’re going to be thrilled to see one again.” and video from Columbia, then worked for Encyclopaedia West visits Columbia frequently to give students professional feedback Britannica for three years before heading to L.A. After on their portfolios and to participate in alumni activities. “Because freelancing for four years, he landed a job at Walt Disney Columbia has so many industry professionals teaching there, it left Animation Studios. During his 16-year tenure at Disney, he me with the impression that I was always going to be in the business has worked on many notable films, including The Lion King, of learning things my entire career,” says West. “It allowed me to take Pocahontas, Tarzan, and Chicken Little, and served as visual effects myself seriously as an artist and a filmmaker.” Which is a spirit that supervisor on Home on the Range and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. West continues to pass along to current Columbia students.

—Leah Banks (M.A. ’07)

Photo: Drew Reynolds (B.A. ’97)

DEMO12 “This is like the quarter-million-dollar table,” says Columbia professor David Gerding, sitting in front of a modest conference table outfitted with six laptops that are connected to optical sensors. As Gerding speaks, an avatar of his face appears on the laptop screen before him. A click of a button, and beams of light appear to radiate from the eyes of his digital self. “It’s detecting the iris. Can you see the laser beams coming out of my eyes? It’s like Blade Runner!”

constructive gaming

In a modest conference room in Columbia College’s Department of Interactive Arts and Media (IAM), we’ve stepped into what could pass as a set from the ’80s sci-fi classic. It’s a futuristic space where individuals interact on screen as small sensors track their eye movements, pupil dilation, and even facial expressions, all in the service of teaching machines to understand how people communicate and collaborate with one another.*

Gerding is one of several visionaries in Columbia’s IAM department who are leveraging video game technology to create what he terms “constructive games,” or “games to get stuff done.” Gerding heads the project CONSTRUCT, an effort to merge video gaming with behavioral and computer science to quantify the ways in which individuals communicate—such as speech, body language, and facial movements—in Hannah Anderton (freshman, Columbia’s Interactive Arts and order to facilitate more constructive Music Business), Michael Peters Media Department Is Creating Innovative interactions. (sophomore, Game Design), Games “to Get Stuff Done.” Noah Johnson (junior, Game Design), and John Lomax (senior, by Paul M. Davis 3-D Animation) work within the * In a few months, the system will be used to CONSTRUCT project game space analyze the speech and eye movements of four in Columbia’s Department of Columbia students as they interact in a meeting-like Interactive Arts and Media. setting in Columbia’s Media Production Center.

DEMO14 Gerding is clearly energized by the prospect of opening up these high-end Once the Timeline system had been technologies and theoretical concepts trained to recognize certain types of to Columbia students, providing them behavior, Gerding and his team began with opportunities to think about and Building on the success of the department’s High-Rise Evacuation Project— to introduce new forms of input and experience media and sensory-laden a 2007 collaboration with the City of Chicago to develop a video game that study interactions in the real world. environments. The equipment involved helps train first responders how to evacuate a building in a disaster—Gerding “In the new round of research,” applying the with CONSTRUCT and the earlier High- began work on CONSTRUCT, a two-phase project to teach machines to analyze Gerding says, “instead of only having research Rise Evaculation Project provided the the interactions among humans as they collaborate. The project is funded five people playing a game, we’re foundation for the motion capture by a cooperative agreement between Columbia College and the U.S. Army going to have some number of those Gerding notes that his ultimate goal is studio in Columbia’s new Media Research Laboratory concerning Conglomerated Networked Telemetry to teams in other labs and four people to be able to integrate this technology Production Center, which goes online Raise Understanding of Collaborative Teams, or CONSTRUCT. Gerding explains sitting around a table of screens in and research into Columbia’s own this semester. “The students will get that what this basically entails is conducting “human factor studies—how the real world and acting in some kind programs, beginning with a special the chance to try these different, cool do people work together, how can they interact with each other? The idea of supervisory role.” While one group topics class slated for next fall. “We’re toys,” notes Gerding, who also sees was they could deploy what we make and use it in their lab. We’re creating plays the game, another group will going to try and find what you would possibilities to apply this research research tools for the broader research community.” sit in the Blade Runner meeting room, do if you were going to make a smart to media criticism and analysis, advising the players over headsets classroom,” he says. “What kinds of presenting students with a method The first phase of the research took place largely within a video game space. while their own real-world interactions data would you try and collect?” of quantifying types of human “We made the game in about a year and a half,” Gerding says. “We built a as a team are tracked. behavior to better understand how lab with five game-playing workstations set up, and five other workstations When Gerding speaks of smart players react to student-developed that were doing speech recognition in real time on the players. Everyone was “The gaze trackers will look at classrooms, he’s not talking about game worlds, or how directors wearing wireless headsets, and as they played the game, all the data was them and gather data,” Gerding rooms outfitted with computers respond to film shot on the Media streaming to this database.” explains. “There is useful data for and a projector. “Imagine if we had Production Center soundstages. humans in things like eye contact, a traditional classroom learning The game is deceptively simple in its execution. Built on a software engine body language. The trick is getting environment where everyone’s facing The CONSTRUCT project exemplifies often used in first-person-shooter games, it places five players in a confined machines to recognize those a board,” he says. “But we have gaze- the possibilities that Doreen Bartoni, virtual room. But instead of shooting at one another, players must collaborate patterns. When the gaze trackers are tracking sensors on the students, and dean of Columbia’s School of Media to succeed. The center of the virtual room contains a stack of colored blocks, all running together, we’ll get the data I, as the professor, get the sensor data Arts, envisions for students as a result and a simple image is displayed on one wall. The players are given two rounds back as 3-D heads in a 3-D space. It in my glasses, so when I go up to the of successful efforts to bring increased to reproduce the image using the blocks, working within 10- and 20-minute will say, ‘Dave was looking at subject board and am drawing, I can see data research dollars to the college. “Dave time limits to complete the task more quickly than other groups. one, or subject two,’ and you can get showing which students are looking at has taken his role as a researcher David Gerding, faculty, that as data.” By re-creating these which part of the board. What can we very seriously,” she says. “His mind is Gerding’s project team was able to pull reams of data from the avatars’ Interactive Arts and Media real-world interactions, the software do to make the environments literally amazingly facile. He is innovative. He movements and points of visual focus, as well as from the conversations between can then apply the same algorithms facilitate the goal of that room, which is a wonderful combination of being players, which were captured using speech-recognition software. The data was already established in the video game in this case would be learning? Gaze a creative individual who also has then harvested into a custom piece of software Gerding has dubbed Timeline, world to determine which types of tracking could wake up the student the technical expertise to be able to which visualized the separate data streams side by side. Doctoral students from interaction best achieved the shared who is falling asleep before the create a product. He’s a total package Chicago’s DePaul University used the software to label patterns of data as distinct goal of the individuals. professor has to. Or the room will in terms of bringing his department forms of human behavior. These patterns, once identified by humans, can be connect to the learning management and the school to the next level. I feel taught to the software so that it can automatically recognize types of behavior in system, and as the professor is very confident when he’s involved in future trials. As Gerding explains, “Instead of having a human being mark up the lecturing, related documents are a project that he will be able to have data, the machine can make those assertions based on the probability that a automatically being pulled up on a deliverables that not only satisfy human would have marked that scope of data that way.” screen based on keywords that the the project but also have other professor is saying.”* applications.” Screen shots, from top: 1. A player places a block in the grid during a race to re-create the goal image in the CONSTRUCT project game. 2. Timeline, software that was developed to visualize data to support machine learning. 3. TheT imeline software can Gerding presented this vision of smart create an inventory that a player’s avatar can see moment to moment. It generated more * classrooms in Madrid last November at than 130 million rows of data in the project’s first-round study. the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), which included representatives from more than 60 countries.

DEMO16 Barbier believes Faber’s work is serving an important role in Columbia’s community outreach creating games, efforts and in the development of creating change the culture of the department. “What we’re finding is that there’s not a At Columbia, this sort of original thought about gaming and collaboration is This semester, Faber will involve whole lot of diversity in the kind of not confined to Gerding’s work with CONSTRUCT, however. Work being done by Columbia students in community students who are coming to us for an Mindy Faber, another innovative thinker, demonstrates that these ideas and outreach through a course she’s education in game design,” Barbier As Barbier notes, the current conception approaches are part of the ethos of the IAM department. Faber is the founder working on with Andrew Hicks, an says. “We would like to diversify the of what gaming is and can be is very of the nonprofit Open Youth Networks, which she launched in 2007 to explore IAM professor, called Interactive Arts character of the program by bringing limited. “There’s a narrow bandwidth how video games and social media could empower women and urban youth. Media Team. “The class has a client, in a broader range of voices and for what’s considered appropriate and the client comes to them with a backgrounds. One of the reasons for games, so that’s one of the areas “I was interested in figuring out ways to train youth in participatory culture and problem that requires an interactive that we wanted to do this was as a we’d like to develop into—to give voice media, and to introduce them to Web 2.0 tools that could empower them to media-arts solution,” she explains. recruitment and development effort— to other reasons for games to exist, better their own lives and communities,” Faber says. “The class is charged with trying to recruitment in the sense that we other strategies and stories to tell.” figure out how to solve this problem would like to bring young people from Faber knew the chair of the IAM department, Annette Barbier, and made her using emerging technologies and various backgrounds into the game While Faber’s and Gerding’s work aware of the project, suggesting a partnership between the nonprofit and interactive media.” program, particularly young women, differs widely in execution, both are the college. When Faber joined the IAM department as academic manager in who don’t generally feel empowered committed to reimagining video 2009, she and Barbier developed a strategy for turning Open Youth Networks The first client chosen for the course to make games.” games and social media to turn these into a program within the department, working on projects with urban youth is the Chicago Youth Voices Network, technologies into tools that engender based on new and emerging technologies and games. a nonprofit that is seeking assistance Faber is particularly concerned with fruitful collaborations—ensuring that with an effort called the Youth 2.0 issues of women in gaming. Despite Columbia will play an important role One of Faber’s first projects at Columbia was Games for Change, a High Recovery Reporting Project. Faber’s recent Nielsen and BBC studies in the ongoing evolution of games and School Summer Institute course she taught in the summer of 2009 with Emily students will collaborate with 12 suggesting that more than half of electronic media. Kuehn, an adjunct professor. “We introduced youth to the idea of creating Chicago youth media organizations gamers are women, the stereotype games that have a social-issue message,” she explains. “We showed them to design an interactive solution to that women don’t play games has examples and led them through a fascinating curriculum showing how values the problem the client has posed, led to a stunning gender divide in the Paul M. Davis is a Chicago-based can be built into the mechanics of a game itself—not so much through the which involves creating Facebook industry. “We hope to prototype and freelance writer, designer, and content of the game, but what you’re doing inside the game. For example, the apps, quizzes, and social media build games that girls are actually in musician focusing on media and are you cooperating with others, or are you trying to undermine them? Are you tools to aggregate polling data about control of—online games, Facebook independent culture. trying to build collaboration among teams of people, or are you trying to just stereotype how youth are faring during the games, Wii games that teach self- go all out for yourself? economic recovery. “They’re applying defense for women,” Faber says. Drew Reynolds (B.A. ’97) is a Mindy Faber, academic manager, their technology skills to address “Our goal is to form collaborative photographer based in Chicago Interactive Arts and Media “In that class, our students came up with an idea for a game called Surviving that women real community issues,” says Faber. relationships with high schools and Los Angeles. High School,” Faber continues. “They broke up into four teams, and each team “We’re trying to figure out how we can through which we can create an worked on one year of high school. Then they combined that into one game don’t play create opportunities for our college incubator where girls can come in and about how to survive. What are the moral and ethical issues high school kids students in Interactive Arts and be trained as game designers, and deal with every day as they navigate their adolescent years? It was great. games has led Media and Game Arts in a mentoring/ be asked, ‘What do you want to play I never would have been able to come up with that idea, and in the process tutoring/service-learning capacity, and why?’ And then our IAM students they’re basically computer programming, which is a really high-level skill.” to a stunning in which they’re applying their skills can build and prototype these games, to collaborate in a community-based put them in the marketplace, and gender setting with high school students begin changing things up.” To that around social issues or ideas of using end, Faber is currently organizing divide in the technology to create a better world.” the 3G Summit: The Future of Girls, Gaming, and Gender, an exposition industry. planned for August 2010 at Columbia, Hannah Anderton in which 50 urban teenage girls will (freshman, Music collaborate with faculty and women Business) demonstrates game designers over three intensive the headset worn by participants in the days to build gender-inclusive game CONSTRUCT project. prototypes for the future.

DEMO18 Peter Cook can’t hear music. But he can see it. And feel it. And sense it.

Peter Cook (Faculty, ASL)

This ability is “innate,” according to Cook, an assistant professor on the Arts. Funding from the agency allowed Cook to start the with Columbia’s American Sign Language–English Interpretation Flying Words Project with Kenny Lerner, a poet who is not deaf program. Cook has been deaf since contracting spinal meningitis but is fluent in ASL. when he was three years old. Cook began his work at Columbia in 1995 at the very start of the That sense of innate rhythm and musicality comes through in ASL-English Interpretation program. He left the college for a couple Cook’s poetry and storytelling, which has won raves from audiences of years to work full time as a storyteller but returned in 2003. around the world. He teaches a variety of classes, but one of his favorites focuses on creativity and sign language by having students use ASL to “Most of my poetry is visual,” he says in America Sign Language write stories and poems—much like what he does in his own (ASL). We’re speaking with the help of Candace Hart, a full-time performance pieces. staff interpreter with Columbia. “It looks like a film,” continues Cook. “It looks like a movie in my mind. It’s a sequence of images.” Cook says he considers both deaf and hearing people to be his primary audiences, but he changes his material depending on His sign language is so fluid and mesmerizing, it seems surprising who’s in the crowd. For a deaf audience, Cook uses “hand-shape that Cook, 48, didn’t learn ASL until he went off to college at rhymes,” which are like plays on words, the same sign taking on the Rochester Institute of Technology. (He grew up learning different meanings. lip reading.) It was the mid-1980s and there was an explosion of deaf poetry in Rochester, he says. Cook, who was studying Cook says he feels fortunate to be at Columbia, one of only a few graphic design, performed some poems at a publishing universities with a four-year ASL program. “As an artist, I just want conference and was approached by Gregory Kolovakos, the to keep on creating and being creative,” he says. “Academically, I head of the literature program of the New York State Council hope whatever I’m doing with my time will contribute to deaf studies.”

—HEATHER LALLEY

Peter Cook signs “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees” from a poem by Pablo Neruda. Photo: Alexa Rubinstein (’09)

DEMO20 With Chicago Overcoat, the six alumni founders The crew of Chicago Overcoat. From left: Kevin Moss (’06), Philip S. Plowden (’07), of Beverly Chris Charles (B.A. ’07), Brian Caunter (B.A. ’06), John W. Bosher (B.A. ’06) Photo: Chad McGavock (B.F.A. ’09) Ridge Pictures

are looking The billboard beckons him, bright and grumbles, “Can I get a swig off First National Plaza building. The four, and bountiful. your Mountain Dew, bro?” The driver along with Brian Caunter (B.A. ’06) to hit the nods. Baldwin grabs the can, pours the and William Maursky (B.A. ’05), are (Hopeful) Daniel Baldwin—star of reality television neon liquid into his hands, and runs it the team of young Columbia College big screen— shows such as Celebrity Fit Club, through his hair. Showtime. Chicago film alumni behind Beverly Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and I’m Ridge Pictures, an independent and the a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, and “I haven’t had a Mountain Dew production company on a mission filming the low-budget crime thrillerThe since,” says John Bosher (B.A. ’06), to grow the film industry in Illinois. big time. Devil’s Dominoes—is on his way to his Baldwin’s driver that day. But three They’re off to a promising start: the hotel in Rockford, Illinois, when he sees years later, he remembers the partnership’s first feature-length By Nora O’Donnell the sign looming over the expressway. experience and others gained on the film, Chicago Overcoat, sold out five He turns to his bespectacled young set of that film. It’s part of what gave screenings at its October debut at driver and rasps, “Bro, we gotta get him the confidence to make his own the 45th Chicago International some wings at Hooters.” picture with his friends. Film Festival.

As the pair nears the restaurant, Bosher is sitting with several of those For Bosher and his band of Chicago Baldwin signals to pull over. He friends—Chris Charles (B.A. ’07), bros—none yet over 30 when the Frank Vincent as aging hit man Lou Marazano in Chicago Overcoat. exchanges his flannel shirt for a black Kevin Moss, and Phil Plowden— film was made—it’s an impressive All photos courtesy of Beverly Ridge Pictures unless leather jacket. He gestures toward the in a tiny rectangular office on the feat. Charles, an associate producer noted otherwise driver’s can of soda in the cup holder sixteenth floor of Chicago’s Three of Overcoat, says, “When celebrities

DEMO22 Clockwise from top left: Panel discussion featuring Brian Caunter, Frank Vincent, John W. Bosher, and Danny Goldring at the 45th Chicago Clockwise from top left: Sammy Delano (Martin Shannon), Lorenzo Galante (Mike Starr), and Lou Marazano (Frank Vincent); John Bosher International Film Festival; Frank Vincent on screen at Chicago Overcoat’s world premier; production still from Chicago Overcoat and Mike Capulli; Kevin Moss frames a shot; Frank Vincent and Chris Charles; aerial view of the crew shooting in Logan Square

“When celebrities come on set and see a bunch of guys in their twenties, it’s disconcerting. They’re ready to call up their agent and say, ‘What the hell did you get me into here?’”

come on set and see a bunch of guys glued the Beverly Ridge sextet Beverly Ridge Pictures in 2005. Charles says. “We made a lot of market flooded. They wanted to film as the perfect person to play their nor Bosher will say how much she Fame and fortune are still elusive, in their twenties, it’s disconcerting. together. Bosher and Moss Their first project as a company, an mistakes, but more importantly, we in Chicago—it would be cheaper aging, down-on-his-luck hitman. personally invested in the film’s $2 the debt is looming, and several They’re ready to call up their agent (Overcoat’s cinematographer) met ambitious 20-minute film based on learned from them.” and offer an opportunity to use the “During the writing process, million budget, but both confirm members of the close-knit group and say, ‘What the hell did you get me briefly as teenagers in Columbia’s Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Small locations they’d fallen in love with choosing Frank Vincent was key,” she became the main backer after still work part-time jobs or live at into here?’” High School Summer Institute, a five- Assassin,” became their calling card. Hungry for a chance to work on a as students—but they had little else. notes Caunter. “The process was a Vincent attached himself to the home. But a shared passion for week arts-immersion program. When Set in the 1950s, it’s a psychological real feature film, the pack picked Then it hit them like Joey “the Clown” little more fluent because we knew project. “It wasn’t so much a gift as a making movies and a deep sense That’s how veteran actor Frank the two reconnected as Columbia tale of a woman’s struggle with up jobs on The Devil’s Dominoes, Lombardo. The Family Secrets trials who we wanted to play our lead. trust in us,” the younger Moss says. of pride in what they have already Vincent, the 70-year-old star of College students in 2003, Bosher postpartum depression that quickly the aforementioned Daniel Baldwin were filling the daily news with real- We molded the character around “She believes in the company going accomplished keep them optimistic. Chicago Overcoat, felt. Known for already had a side project producing escalates to full-blown paranoia flick. There, among other things, life Chicago Outfit stories. Why not Frank, and made the character so on to make bigger, better movies.” “We’re all very fortunate to have playing mobsters in The Sopranos music videos with his roommate, when she starts to believe her child they gained experience handling do a mob movie? good he wouldn’t be able to refuse families who have supported us and Goodfellas, Vincent found Brian Caunter (Overcoat’s director). is trying to kill her. It’s a bit Twilight eccentric celebrities. “It was a good the role.” Vincent signed on. Several new projects are already and trusted us,” Charles says. “To himself working with a group of Their videos for local rappers Joe Zone wannabe meets movie of the training exercise on somebody else’s Bosher, a crime-drama nut with a under way. Charles is developing a be able to have them come to the unknowns about a third his age, Glass and Iroc fell into regular week, but then the astonishment watch and somebody else’s dime,” boyhood love of Bruce Willis movies, As producer, Bosher spearheaded border-patrol story with his former premiere was really rewarding.” and he doubted the project’s rotation on BET, and Moss joined the kicks in: this is a student film, Bosher says. By the time shooting and Caunter, the conceptual brains a 40-page business plan, and the screenwriting teacher Daniel Kravitz, prospects—for about a week. determined duo for some follow-up and it has accurate period cars? wrapped on Dominoes in October behind and eventually the director team began pitching it to investors. and Plowden is working on a comedy “We’re on the right track,” Plowden What defied his preconceptions? videos. “At Columbia,” Moss says, A former Columbia film professor, 2006, all were committed to trying of the venture, penned several drafts But ultimately, they kept it close to about a struggling actor. (“It’s got assures the families. Then Charles “Hard work,” Plowden says. “there are a lot of film students, but Peter Hawley, oversaw the group, their hands at their own production. before handing the script over to two home. The film’s executive producer some legs,” Plowden says.) But for quips, “All those years and dollars there are only so many that you think but the project blossomed outside The team considered a horror other Columbia grads, Josh Staman and provider of Plaza office space is now, Beverly Ridge’s main focuses didn’t go to waste.” Respect for hard work (and, to a might make it—the ones who really try of the classroom. “I think we learned movie—a common but successful (B.A. ’07) and Andrew Dowd (B.A. Moss’s mother, JoAnne, who heads are hitting the festival circuit, finding lesser extent, a love of Ultimate hard enough.” They recruited Charles, the real responsibilities involved in genre for first-time independent ’06), for the final touches in May a real estate title network and now Overcoat a distributor, and recouping Fighting Championships) eventually Maursky, and Plowden and formed filmmaking, and the stress involved,” filmmakers—but found the slasher 2007. They envisioned Frank Vincent co-owns Beverly Ridge. Neither Moss that $2 million.

DEMO24 “I try to be smart, to speak about my life in a truthful and honest way.”

Erica Watson (B.A. ’98; M.A. ’05)

You can tell from its title that Erica Watson’s one-woman show Fat Watson hasn’t always been onstage. She took home a bachelor’s Bitch! is not exactly family friendly—not even for her own family. After degree in film and television production from Columbia in 1998, a recent show at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, Watson’s then returned to earn a master’s in media management in 2005. father told her, “Erica, you have a nasty mouth! Where did you learn Throughout her time at Columbia, she was always working behind to talk like that?” Her response? “Well, I learned it from listening to the scenes, as a producer or director. your old Rudy Ray Moore and Redd Foxx records!” “The funny part of me was something that I was trying to suppress That’s not to say her parents—or the audiences at the sold-out in many ways,” Watson says. She preferred gaining respect as a shows—didn’t enjoy it. Sure, there were awkward moments, smart businesswoman and savvy producer. particularly when she faked a prolooooonged orgasm as her It wasn’t until Watson was 30 and unable to find any directing jobs mother sat in the front row. “My mom blushed while two of her in New York that she said, “Hey, I’ll take a stand-up comedy writing friends gave each other a high-five,” says Watson, 35, perhaps class and see where this can go.” best known recently for her role in the film Precious. But more on that in a moment. Where it went was Fat Bitch! And, almost counterintuitively, Watson’s comedy has landed her some serious movie roles—most notably in Fat Bitch! is Watson’s comedic reflection on body image, sex, stereo- the critical darling Precious. Watson plays Sheila, the abusive mother types, and life as a large woman. The title, she says, challenges of a little girl who “shows how the cycle of violence will continue if people, but overall “it’s definitely an asset. Some people were really we don’t stop it.” put off by it, because they weren’t able to understand the statement I was going to make. Men have been very offended by the title. Watson said she doesn’t see any disconnect between her comedic and I had one man say, ‘Why are you disrespecting yourself?’” dramatic sides. In fact, they feed one another. “Tragedy makes comedy, and I think most people who are driven to comedy have something But, she adds, that’s not the point. She is trying to retake the term, about them that made them the outsider,” she says. “Comedy is an make it her own, and recast it onstage. “I try to be smart, to speak armor in your life to protect you from some of the crap you go through. about my life in a truthful and honest way.” It’s easy to pull from that stuff when you’re doing a dramatic role.”

—Robert K. Elder

Photo: Jeremy Lawson (’94)

DEMO1626 Hedwig Dances Photo: Eileen Ryan s p e c i A L E V e n t s (see Dance)

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On Monsters: An Unnatural The book skillfully illustrates how study of human (and inhuman) desire, The book explores and pushes Thomas’s exhortation. Silverstein, there are passages, such as this one, “biography” of Chicago to stand cannot possibly provide a “complete” History of Our Worst Fears monsters both fascinate and repel aversion, longing, obsession, noble the boundaries between past and distinguished professor of humanities that are virtually indecipherable: out from the crowd. history, he has written a survey that By Stephen T. Asma us. The uncanny power they hold goals, and ignoble actions. It is a present, spirit and flesh, permanence at Columbia, tells us early on that, “However, let us remember that it broadly encompasses the highlights [Oxford University Press, 2009. in childhood imagination remains bona fide mystery novel and a deeply and impermanence, the profound yes, “scream[ing] bloody murder upon is not a finite I who is being birthed, The familiar—Fort Dearborn, the Fire, that interest and excite the serious 368 pages, $27.95 hardcover] present in both the entertainment creepy ghost story in which the dead and the mundane. Niffenegger sight of the grim reaper” is certainly but the temporal embodiment of a Haymarket, Hull House, Pullman, and student and the tourist alike. Reviewed by Geoff Hyatt and the overall worldview of adults. are substantially less disturbing than employs a direct, unadorned prose one way of dealing with approaching living process in existence prior to the World’s Columbian Exposition—are Asma presents this resonance not the living. style that provides a sharp contrast death. “However,” he writes, “as is the the individuated self being formed all given their due in Pacyga’s narrative, more . . . On Monsters is an insightful only as an expression of our fears and to the gothic themes of the novel. case in all human affairs, there exist out of waves of energy.” There must which makes time in between the exploration of the inhuman weaknesses but also as symptomatic The plot centers on Julia and This stylistic device complements a other doors into the house of dying be an easier way to say that. major stories of the growing metropolis No One Was Killed creatures (real and imagined) of a more existential angst caused by Valentina, 20-year-old “mirror twins” narrative in which the reader feels and death, a primary one being [the] to introduce and discuss the settlers, By John Schultz that scare us most. Stephen Asma, all things unclassifiable or irrational. with a deep and disquieting bond. frustration at the twins’ naively acceptance of death and surrender But here’s the thing: the act of reading, builders, and workers who were such [University of Chicago Press, associate professor of philosophy From Medusa to John Wayne They inherit an apartment next to adolescent engagement with their to life’s rhythms and flows.” and rereading, some tricky passages an important part of that growth. Too 2009. 307 pages, $17 at Columbia, has written an often Gacy, from Dracula’s castle to the London’s historic Highgate Cemetery. menacing and increasingly dire allows the ideas within them to enter many other works focus solely on the paperback]

personal and always engaging compounds of the Khmer Rouge, Their benefactress is a mysterious circumstances. Death, the author points out, is an the mind almost without our being city’s dynamic nineteenth-century The Chicago Conspiracy Trial scholarly examination of the from starship aliens to campus English aunt, the estranged twin integral part of life’s continuum, less an aware of it. It’s as if, in writing the book, growth to urban dominance, slighting By John Schultz “monster” and what it reveals shooting sprees, the things that sister of their mother, a Lake Forest Niffenegger has noted that her literary ending than another stage of a process Silverstein hid some of its meaning this expansion’s results. Here, in what [University of Chicago Press, about us. Five clearly presented violate our understanding of the housewife. Aunt Elspeth has attached influences for Her Fearful Symmetry that begins at birth and continues behind the words, preferring us to Pacyga describes as biographical “art” 2009. 401 pages, and well-researched sections normal also help us define society’s several unusual clauses to the girls’ included Wilkie Collins’s The Woman after death. We should at least discover the meaning ourselves, in to capture the “spirit of the place,” the $22 paperback] form a history of the abominable conventions and taboos. legacy, establishing the mystery in White (1860) and Henry James’s acknowledge that it’s going to happen. our own time. He gives us a lot to think modern city is also included. Twentieth- through the lenses of myth, faith, that will be spun out as this modern The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The “Believing we can die this very day about, and the book stays with us long century Chicago sees changes in reform, These seminal works of narrative science, psychology, and the ever- A rational and levelheaded look at gothic tale unfolds. Turn of the Screw (1898). Her tribute is not a morbid thought,” Silverstein after we’ve put it down. gangland crime, labor, migration, the journalism by John Schultz, evolving modern world. the terrifying, On Monsters is one to these masters of mood and writes, it’s a life-affirming principle, home-front experiences during the world professor emeritus of fiction of the best books on the subject yet. The twins—unfocused, unmotivated, character is clear. an acknowledgment that the present, wars, and the rebuilding of the urban writing at Columbia, were Asma begins with a personal Asma defines the human relationship and oddly immature and the here and now, is all that exists. Chicago: A Biography landscape that consumed so much originally published in 1969 and anecdote of witnessing a young boy to monsters with compassion, never unsophisticated in a distinctly By Dominic A. Pacyga of the last half of the century. Both the 1970, respectively. Book Week with his mother encounter a display letting us forget that whatever things unmodern manner—drift into their Encountering Life’s Endings “A wasted life is a kind of death,” the [University of Chicago Press, issues and the people who lived them called No One Was Killed, which of “tragically malformed babies may go bump in the night, the fear new life as young expatriates. The By Louis Silverstein author says, and that’s really the 2009. 462 pages, $35 hardcover] play vibrant roles in Pacyga’s account. chronicles the 1968 Democratic floating in large jars of alcohol” belongs to us all. cast of characters includes the kindly [Xlibris, 2009. 206 pages, core of the book. The inevitability of Reviewed by Con Buckley National Convention riots, “a in London’s Hunterian Museum: Martin, suffering under a crippling $19.99 paperback] death allows us to examine “those As a respected historian with a vast more valuable factual record of case of obsessive-compulsive Reviewed by David Pitt aspects of ourselves that need to be Teachers and students of Chicago knowledge of the labor movement, events than the city’s white paper, As he stared intensely at a fetus Her Fearful Symmetry disorder; Robert, their deceased allowed to die, to be let go of.” We history, as well as general readers, neighborhoods, and ethnic events the Walker Report, and Theodore with two fused heads, his mother By Audrey Niffenegger aunt’s elusive and somewhat sinister Dylan Thomas wrote: “Do not go might not be able to choose precisely will find much to applaud in this and personalities, Pacyga writes of B. White’s Making of a President suddenly turned to him and asked, [Scribner, 2009. 416 pages, lover; and Aunt Elspeth’s restive gentle into that good night / Old how or when we will die, but we can single-volume survey of the city those, both familiar and not, “that combined.” Kirkus Reviews hailed “Is this disturbing to you, William?” $26.99 hardcover] ghost. These fascinating and fallible age should burn and rave at close choose, each and every day, the kind from its earliest days to the current capture the essence” of the city of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, He didn’t look away from the cases, Reviewed by Micki Leventhal individuals form the nucleus of of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of person we will be when we die: “As millennium. Dominic Pacyga, Chicago. Although this is not a work about the months-long trial of the but responded, “God, yes. Very.” relationships in Julia and Valentina’s of the light.” we live, so shall we die.” associate professor of history at of original research, the secondary Chicago Seven, as a “masterful Her Fearful Symmetry, the much- new world, in which there are no Columbia, explores a generous time sources are used and synthesized to recapitulation of these anomalous “Shall we go, then, dear?” anticipated second novel by Columbia clear villains and most certainly Think of Encountering Life’s Endings The book is not without its flaws. span in this volume, one of many every advantage. And while the author events” and said “all politically “No,” he shot back, “absolutely not.” professor Audrey Niffenegger, is a no heroes. as the “on the other hand” to The writing is sometimes stilted, and points that allow this long-anticipated himself writes that a single volume literate Americans should read it.”

DEMO30 THE Scotland Yard Gospel Choir . . . and the horse you rode in on Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women new recordings from the Bloodshot Records, 2009. sygc.com Columbia community Columbia connection: Nan Warshaw (M.A. ’93) is co-owner of Bloodshot and Gender in the Arts and Media Fellowship Program Records. Kegan Simon (M.A. ’06) is Bloodshot’s retail director. Mary Ralph, By Brent Steven White (B.A. ’08) who sings and plays guitar in SYGC, studied early childhood education at Columbia from 1999 to 2002. The sound: Indie The word: “Everything that happens in my life goes into “Art can encourage our greatest human capacity the music in one way or another,” singer/songwriter Elia Einhorn told the Chicago and is a strong tool for effecting lasting social change. I believe creating art is a social political act in Sun-Times recently. So there’s a sad irony when Einhorn sings in the album’s title track: “These days I find disturbing pictures in my mind / Of you as a mangled and of itself because it creates necessary dialogues and advocates for deep human response and traffic accident.” Nine days after this album’s release, a tire on the band’s van engagement. The individual creative voice presents the rich possibilities of shifting perceptions and blew, the van flipped several times, and everyone in the band suffered injuries, leading personal and social exploration.” —Jane M. Saks, executive director, ESB Institute some serious. But this is not a record about unintentional irony; it’s a concept album about a brutal breakup—a sort of romantic tragedy that tugs and pulls This firm belief in the power of art is among the founding principles of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for at your heart. the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, established at Columbia College Chicago in 2005. Merging cultural production with critical theory and academic research, the ESB Institute addresses The Aaron Williams Band issues focused on women, gender, human rights, access, representation, equity, and participation, as The Everwinding Road well as race and class. The arts and media are the central means through which the institute carries out Wake Up Productions, 2008. myspace.com/aaronwilliamsmusicbox the creation of new and original works, research, engagement, public education, and advocacy. The Columbia connection: Aaron Williams (lead vocals, guitars) earned a B.A. * in sound engineering in 2005; Zachary LaMotte (keys) earned a B.A. in music Here, we present ESB Institute Fellowship Program is central to this mission, providing opportunities for the development business management in 2003. projects by five recent of new creative voices that reflect a diversity of experiences, disciplines, visions, and identities. Since The sound: Modern rock The word: Taking cues from ’90s bands like Blues Institute Fellows: 2006, the program has supported more than 25 individual artists and scholars with financial resources, Traveler, Black Crows, and early Dave Matthews Band, the Aaron Williams Band dedicated research assistance, project and audience development, and cross-disciplinary networking. A Lynsey Addario, relies on much of what made these bands so successful: simplicity, rock-infused few projects involve partnerships with other organizations, such as the Goodman Theatre and 3Arts, which dynamics, and a flare for Phish-like jam. Yet The Everwinding Road is less a generic E. Patrick Johnson, will sponsor two upcoming fellowships. A defining principle of the Fellowship Program is the support rock album and more a modern rock/western hybrid (think less “hee-yaw” and * Invincible, it provides for the creative and intellectual processes. “One of my most important priorities and greatest more Brad Paisley), with its uplifting lyrics, clean sound, and occasional southern Red Tremmel, and To submit a recording for twang. Poppy and punchy, Williams was made for modern rock radio. privileges as executive director of the institute is working closely with the fellows during the rich period consideration in DEMO, send Lynn Nottage. of development and research with which all new artistic work and creative investigation begins,” says a CD and press release to: Kid Sister There’s more at Jane M. Saks. “The original creative voice always has the opportunity to be a ‘leadership voice’ and DEMO magazine colum.edu/demo/ create paradigm shifts. That is why I encourage risk taking, experimentation, and innovation within the Columbia College Chicago Ultraviolet 600 S. Michigan Ave. Downtown/Fool’s Gold, 2009. kidsistermusic.com portfolio11. program.” Fellows engage in developing a new creative, scholarly, or academic work and participate Chicago, IL 60605 Columbia connection: Melisa Young, also known as Kid Sister, earned a in expanded learning opportunities for students and faculty such as lectures, curricular intersections, Priority will be given to B.A. in film from Columbia in 2004. workshops, and roundtable discussions. Fellows are selected both by invitation, not application, recent recordings on a label. * The sound: Hip-hop/rap The word: In an industry where the turnover CDs will not be returned. from within the Columbia College community, including faculty and students, and externally, including happens quicker than at McDonald’s, Kid Sister is generating an enormous amount artists, scholars, and cultural workers. Fellows work closely with the executive director to develop each of buzz. One listen to Ultraviolet and it’s clear why: infectious grooves, catchy choruses project, including articulating their creative vision, determining future goals and aspirations for possible (“Right Hand Hi” is incredible), and an attitude that is simultaneously cute and serious. MIA and Lady Sovereign have nothing on this new kid on the block. There production and collaborations, and creating interdisciplinary networks to increase the impact and are moments listening to this record where I want to jump out of my chair, throw up visibility of their work. * “With our concentration on women, gender, and underrepresented artists, my hands, and dance like the uncoordinated white man that I am. Collaborating with scholars, and innovative ideas, the fellowship program provides a platform for new voices, experiences, Cee-Lo (Gnarls Barkley), Kanye West, and many others, Kid Sister is destined to break and reflections that represent the full breadth of our society,” Saks explains. “All of the cultural workers with a force as powerful as any female hip-hop artist since Beyoncé. When she does, chosen for the program are pushing their own creative processes and voices, as well as adding to and look for me on the dance floor, where I’ll be attempting floats and fancy footwork shifting the discourse on issues related to gender, race, access, agency, human rights, creativity, culture, while raising my right hand high, waiting for you to slap it. and community.”

DEMO32 “My fellowship enabled me Lynsey the freedom to focus on Addario documenting rape in the Spring 2008 Democratic Republic of Congo and to eventually produce enough work for the Congo/ Women exhibit. Without the backing of the fellowship, I never would have been able to take Addario the time out to interview and Camille

shoot portraits of women in

Photo: the DRC for such an important project. The institute provides Photojournalist Lynsey Addario is a wonderful network of strong, based in India. She photographs for the New York Times, National intelligent, creative women who Geographic, and Fortune among other are making great strides in publications in countries including Cuba, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, their respective fields, and it’s Nepal, Chad, and the Democratic an honor to be part of such a Republic of Congo. Addario was given a 2009 MacArthur “genius” award network of women.” and a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as part of the New York Times team.

Project: Addario created a new body of work comprising the central large-scale portraits for Congo/Women, an internationally touring photography exhibition and educational campaign to raise awareness of the widespread sexual violence facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo/ Women is an original coproduction of the ESB Institute and Art Works Projects. It debuted at Columbia College Chicago in early 2009 and has since been viewed by more than 100,000 people. It has been shown nationally and internationally Amandine, a pregnant 14-year-old, seeks refuge at including on Capitol Hill and at the a Congo medical center. United Nations headquarters in New Photo: Lynsey Addario, VII Network, York and will travel to more than 20 (Congo/Women Portraits of War: The venues over the next two years. Democratic Republic of Congo.)

DEMO34 “Becoming a fellow at the ESB Institute has changed the trajectory of my career as an artist and scholar. The fellowship program afforded me the opportunity to have an intensive workshop environment to develop my work that I have never had before. Jane Saks’ commitment to and investment in my work helped me see its potential beyond E. Patrick an insular academic community to imagine how it could Johnson impact the lives of people around the world.” Summer 2008 Lewis

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Invincible Summer 2009 “Working with the institute has given me support to reflect on my art E. Patrick Johnson is professor, chair, and director of graduate studies in the and activism in ways that deepen Department of Performance Studies my internal process, as well as my and a professor in the Department Detroit-based hip-hop artist and activist of African American Studies at Invincible began penning lyrics at age connection and accountability to the Group Northwestern University. He is the nine, shortly after moving to the Midwest communities I am part of. It has been

award-winning author of Appropriating from the Middle East and learning Media

Blackness: Performance and the Politics English by memorizing her favorite especially helpful to think out loud Crush

of Authenticity; Black Queer Studies: songs. She has performed around for with Jane and be affirmed to take my A Critical Anthology (with Mae G. the world both solo and as part of the Henderson); and Sweet Tea: Black Gay all-female hip-hop collective Anomolies. Stephens work in new directions that are not

V. Men of the South—an Oral History. In 2008, she released her acclaimed Erik beholden to any standard definitions debut album, ShapeShifters, through the Project: Johnson’s fellowship label and media company she founded, Photo: of success.” focused on the creation and Emergence. performance of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, a full-length work Project: Using hip-hop, media, adapted from his book. Johnson and and popular education, Invincible is Saks hosted a series of workshops exploring whether and to what extent with distinguished artists, performers, complex sciences can be applied to and scholars to investigate the make social movements stronger concepts, forms, and content of and more effective. Her goal is for the the production. Sweet Tea will be resources she creates to make these produced by Jane M. Saks, the ESB ideas accessible to a wider range Invincible performs at the South by Institute, and Chicago’s About Face of people who can build upon them Southwest music festival. Theatre and premiere in May 2010. E. Patrick Johnson performs Sweet Tea. through everyday practice. Photo: Magee

DEMO36 “Many scholars/artists keep their intellectual and artistic lives separate, discouraged by the lack of institutional support to bring the most meaningful aspects of their lives together. The fellowship provided me with that unique opportunity— Red Tremmel supporting and guiding me both academically and artistically. Summer 2009 In particular, Jane Saks’ vision and invaluable counsel has encouraged me, and held open a place for me to experiment, think and create in unexpected ways. The strategies of the institute are so clearly marked by a love of thought, creativity, nuance, beauty, and complexity that I have been humbled to be a part of their work.”

Red Tremmel is a historian, Scene from Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, performed at the Manhattan filmmaker, and curator of live Fall 2008 Institute/ Theatre Club. performances who specializes in Goodman Theatre Fellow Photo: Joan Marcus the history of working-class culture, Lynn Nottage gender and sexuality, and leisure spaces. He has taught gender and sexuality studies, most recently at Tulane University. Tremmel is Playwright Lynn Nottage is the author of “I wrote my play Ruined in response to the among the creators of the Sissy Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Fabulation, brutal war being waged against women in the Butch Brothers, a grass-roots team and the award-winning Intimate Apparel. that helped initiate Chicago’s recent Nottage’s many individual awards include Democratic Republic of Congo. The ESB Institute’s burlesque revival. He is working on a 2004 PEN/Laura Pels Award for literary generous and nurturing support of the play has excellence, a 2005 Guggenheim grant, a book, From the City on the Hill to Nottage

and a 2007 MacArthur “genius” award.

Sin City. Lynn been an invaluable part of the show’s incredible

of

Project: Tremmel’s documentary Project: Nottage’s fellowship focused success. Jane Saks’ passionate leadership and courtesy Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival on Ruined, her Pulitzer Prize–winning commitment to raising awareness about the plight play centered around a businesswoman

focuses on an influential group that Photo has been developing a discourse on who protects and profits from women of women in the DRC through performing arts sexuality and gender for more than whose bodies have become a battle- and media has been an inspiration, and I’ve been a century: burlesque performers. ground in the Democratic Republic of The film offers a glimpse into an Congo’s complex civil war. Produced in proud to be part of her incredible efforts.” intergenerational DIY dance culture collaboration with the Goodman Theatre that is refashioning ideas about and the Manhattan Theatre Club, the play feminine sexuality and depicting premiered at the Goodman in the winter sexual optimism in the face of of 2008. After attending a performance in homogenization and decay. New York, Ban Ki-moon, secretary general Julie Atlas Muz in Gurlesque of the United Nations, noted that the Burlesque. play inspired him to do more to eradicate Photo: Misty Winter sexual violence against women.

DEMO38 “As the chapter grows, my hope is that we can : DENVER develop a strong network where people can help each other with job prospects.” Pat Blum alumni / faculty news & notes Denver chapter leader

Contact your local When Pat Blum (B.A. ’84) received an invitation in the spring of 2007 to attend a Denver alumni meet-and-greet, CAAN chapter leader: it caused her to raise an eyebrow. “My first reaction was, Okay, I’m going to go to this and they’re going to hit me up for money,” says Blum, a shareholders services manager at World Capital Brokerage. DEAR ALUMNI, Chicago Not so, she would later find. Putting her apprehension aside, she attended the event. She enjoyed the company New York Metro chapter leaders Joan Hammel (B.A. ’86) of her fellow alumni, so she attended another soon after. It was there Blum approached Sarah Schroeder (B.A. [email protected] When I began working with the Student Alumni Association (SAA) a year and ’00), director of alumni relations, West Coast) and told her she’d like to handle the Columbia Alumni Association a half ago, I was both excited and nervous. Excited about all of the possibilities Atlanta and Network (CAAN) operations for the Denver chapter. She got the job on the spot. for the students and the ideas I had for them; nervous because there were no Susan Fore (B.A. ’99) [email protected] With help from fellow alumni Jodi Miller Hardee (M.A. ’04) and Mindy Simon-Pamer (B.A. ’05), whom she students in the group. One by one over those first few weeks, the students who Denver playfully refers to as her “sergeants-at-arms,” Blum likes “to do a little bit of everything” for alumni in Denver. would become the SAA’s core leadership group trickled into my office and into Pat Blum (B.A. ’84) their integral roles for this unique organization: President One of the most popular events, she says, is the annual Running of the Green, a 7K run that takes place the Chelsea Middendorf [email protected] (Fashion Design ’12), Executive Vice President Niles Howard (Film & Video ’11), Sunday before St. Patrick’s Day in downtown Denver. She also gets alumni together at Mile High Stadium when Detroit Vice President of External Affairs Stephanie Tanner (Photography ’11), and the Chicago Cubs play the Colorado Rockies; she’s found the games are “good for getting families to come out.” Patrick Duffy (B.A. ’02) Vice President of Internal Affairs Kelsey Lindsey (Photography ’12). And yes, [email protected] There are also cocktail parties every fall. they are all so awesome that they deserve the word “president” in their titles! Las Vegas “I like trying to get people together,” she says, noting there are about 450 alums in Colorado, about 75 percent Together, we hosted several alumni guest speakers at events that quickly C. J. Hill (B.A. ’99) of them in the Denver area. gained momentum. In December 2008, more than 70 students, alumni, [email protected] Although it’s been 25 years since she graduated from Columbia, Blum maintains the college had a and guests attended Dan Asma’s (B.A. ’92) presentation on marketing major Los Angeles “monumental” impact on her life. As such, she has big plans for its Denver alumni chapter. feature films, and our group has been growing ever since. Students from P. A. Cadichon (B.A. ’01) [email protected] departments across campus have embraced the opportunity to learn from “Ultimately, I’d like to see the Denver chapter be a support line,” she says. “Whether that be physical, helping our rock-star alumni through the SAA Alumni Guest Speaker series. Alumni Nashville them get familiar with the area if they are new to town, or emotional, lending an ear if they are going through Ross Rylance (B.A. ’84) who have graciously volunteered their time and talents to the SAA include tough times and just need someone to reach out to so they don’t feel all alone.” [email protected] Sean Chercover (B.A. ’91), Stephanie Kuehnert (B.A. ’03/M.F.A. ’06), New York Metro Justin Kulovsek (B.A. ’04), Gabe Pastrana (B.A. ’05), Yvonne Davis (B.A. —Brent Steven White (B.A. ’08) James “Woody” Woodward (M.A. ’03) ’99), Elbert Phillips (B.A. ’07), Jay Boersma (B.A. ’74), Carmaine Means [email protected] (B.A. ’02) and the list goes on. Kristie Borgmann (B.A. ’04) [email protected] Student Alumni Association members Kelsey The SAA’s programming is a tremendous asset to the students’ experience, For more information about CAAN: Denver or any of Columbia’s regional alumni chapters, visit colum.edu/alumni or Lindsey (’12), Michelle Passarelli (staff advisor), as they benefit from the professional insight and opportunities the alumni Phoenix contact Cynthia Vargas, assistant director of alumni programming, at [email protected] or 312.369.8640. Niles Howard (’11), Chelsea Middendorf (’12), Don Fox (B.A. ’85) and Stephanie Tanner (’11) provide. This year, the students hope to expand the annual Etiquette Dinner (an event created to instruct students in proper dining etiquette in a business [email protected] Donna Jaglieski (B.A. ’90; M.A.T. ’96) setting) to include more alumni participation, and are working to raise enough [email protected] funds to double the number of students who can attend. To this end, they’re Pittsburgh taking orders for Columbia’s first-ever student business cards, and will Mike Moscato (B.A. ‘94) embark on a phone-a-thon soon, so be on the lookout for a call! [email protected] The SAA has raised the bar in terms of student philanthropy. These students are Portland, OR our future alumni, and it gives me great pleasure to be part of this organization Dan Strickland (B.A. ’94) [email protected] and watch these students create their own processes of “giving back” that will Donna Egan (’88) become part of Columbia’s alumni culture for decades to come. [email protected] Kindest regards, San Francisco Steven Gray (B.A. ’89) Sunday, March 7, 2010 [email protected] Save the date for an event to remember Washington, D.C. as Columbia celebrates the Academy Peyton Caruthers (M.A.M. ’06) Awards with viewing parties in cities Michelle Passarelli (B.A. ’99) [email protected] across the country. 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What are you doing out there? We want to know! Michael Matthews (B.A. ’99) served Deck, and others. Tim is a soundtrack Lynne Bredfeldt (B.A. ’05), president as the artistic director of Celebration composer and scripted and directed the 2000s of J. Lynne PR, was honored by Fashion To submit your news, log in to the alumni online community at colum.edu/alumni. Theatre from 2005 to 2008 and recently movie All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, Group International at the sixth annual Nick Aleck (B.A. ’06) recently created The listings here are edited for length; the website features expanded news, notes, and pictures. directed a production of Edward Albee’s for which he also composed, and Rising Star Awards in the public relations Three Tall Women at the El Centro Theatre Califone performed the soundtrack. his own photography company called category for innovation, creativity, and in Hollywood. Future Nostlagia Photography, where accomplishment in Chicago. Shreya Shelat (B.A. ’97) moved to he specializes in live concert and Sharon McAllister (’93) published California to pursue acting after a five- promotional band photography. Visit John Buhta (B.A. ’03) graduated magna cum year hiatus working in other fields. futurenostalgiaphoto.com. sponsorship for Chicago’s Museum of school violence in American history, on Robert Fritts (’92) was recently the book Still, Now; Someday based laude from Brooklyn Law School in June. 1970s Science and Industry, launched Women’s May 18, 1927, which left 38 children nominated for a News and Documentary on her performance project carrying/ (B.A. ’91) was the Juan Anguiano (B.A. ’09) is working at a Entertainment Television (WE: TV) as and six adults (including the killer and Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual holding, which deals with issues of Sean Spencer Marissa Cerar’s (B.A. ’02) short script engineer-in-charge for the ABC News Spanish-language television station in Tyler, Paul Broucek (B.A. ’74) was appointed director of consumer marketing and his wife) dead. Visit arniebernstein.com. Achievement in a Craft: Music and pregnancy and motherhood. Sharon was produced and the final product is production of Health Care Debate with Texas, as an assignment editor/producer. president for music for Warner Brothers promotions in New York, and worked as Sound for the sound mixing of National worked with four other Columbia on Vanity Fair’s website. The W Hotel President Obama. The shoot took place Studios. He is responsible for developing a territory manager for American Movie. Bruno Bonugli (B.A. ’97) was a Geographic Channel’s Superpride. alumni on the project: dancers Amy exhibited her film worldwide as part of a Hettie Barnhill (B.A. ’06) made her all music associated with the motion He also performed with the Tempo players semifinalist (top 50) in the Amazon.com Goldbeck-Jozefczyk (M.A. ’04) at the White House in June. competition. Broadway debut in the production FELA picture division. in Oak Brook, Illinois, was a board member ad contest, which received more than Hank Grover (B.A. ’97) was and Lisa Lewis (’04), photographer this winter. Visit felaonbroadway.com. of the Free Associates Theater Company, 1,000 submissions. production supervisor on Nictophobia, Brian Warling (B.A. ’90), and Erica Watson (B.A. ’98) has a role Katie Camacho (B.A. ’05) and Christin Hettie previously performed in Hairspray Albert (Bill) Williams (B.A. ’73) is and did commercial voice-over work. a feature film starring Michael Madsen videographer Mark Hubert (B.A. ’88). in the Oprah Winfrey-produced film, Chan (B.A. ’98) decided to use their talents at the Muny Opera, St. Louis, and a singer, an actor, a musical theater Debi Bradshaw (B.A. ’93) presented (Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2, Donnie Brasco, Visit blurb.com. Precious. Her one-woman show Fat and take a substantial risk in the face off-Broadway in Arrangement and composer, and a librettist. He is the chief Mauro Fiore (B.A. ’87) was director the animated short So Whaddya Think Reservoir Dogs) and Jennifer Tisdale (The Bitch ran in Chicago, New York, and Los of an unstable economy by starting their choreographed Surrender off-Broadway theater critic for the Chicago Reader and of photography for the blockbuster Avatar. at the L.A. Shorts Film Festival in July. House Bunny, Grounded for Life). Fellow Scott Nychay (B.A. ’95), an award- Angeles last fall. She recently hosted a own online retail business. Launched in 2009. winner of the George Jean Nathan Award The cover story of the January issue of Debi wrote and voiced the piece; Sean alum Jayson Crothers (B.A. ’02) was winning political cartoonist, is writing pilot for a new Oxygen Network television in August 2009, ShopitUPchic.com for Dramatic Criticism and Peter Lisagor American Cinematographer includes an Bradshaw animated it. the director of photography. and illustrating his memoir, Drawing series and is featured on various BET introduces a new kind of shopping (B.A. ’06) opened Award for Outstanding Arts Journalism. interview with Mauro and commends Strength. Scott developed his skills as shows. Erica was also featured on the James Beesley experience to the fashion-forward a recording studio in Chicago called Bill is on faculty in Columbia’s Theater how, as the film’s cinematographer, he Rick Delaup (B.A. ’90) founded Alfreda Henderson-Lewis (B.A. ’94) a visual satirist drawing cartoons for cover of Chicago’s RedEye and TimeOut customer. ShopitUPchic.com focuses Downbeat Studio. Located in Ukrainian department and a member of the City combined high-definition and motion- Bustout Burlesque, an authentic is DJ Smooth on Jazz Show, Mondays the Columbia Chronicle. The Journalism Chicago in November. See our profile, on unique contemporary domestic Village, it offers professional recording and of Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of capture technology to help director James 1950s-style burlesque show, in 2005. from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on KSBR Jazz department also connected Scott with page 26. and international designers at production. Visit downbeatstudio.com. Fame. He recently coedited the book Cameron create this groundbreaking (and The show performs in New Orleans, 88.5 in Mission Viejo, California. Visit an internship with Jack Higgins of the affordable prices. Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago’s record-breaking) film. primarily at the House of Blues. In 2009, ksbr.net. Sun-Times, and he received the John Steve Yost (B.A. ’94) made his acting LGBTQ Community, 1977–1997. he founded the New Orleans Burlesque Fischetti Finalist Award. debut in Dead, a film released through Kathie Bergquist (B.A. ’05) is George Desort’s (B.A ’03) film Michael Goi (B.A. ’80), president of the Festival, which is devoted to classic Erica Hubbard (B.A. ’99) plays the Moore Entertainment and directed by coauthor (with Robert McDonald ) of A Fortunate Wilderness is a study of wolves American Society of Cinematographers, and traditional burlesque and live jazz. leading role of Cassie Sutton in the Noreen M. Paholak (B.A. ’94) is a George Streicher. View it on YouTube Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago. and moose on Isle Royale. For four 1980s was honored by Kodak with a full-page Delaup has been researching the history current ABC Family Channel series gym director at Sprouts Preschool of the or at moore-entertainment.com. Steve She is adjunct faculty in the Fiction years, Desort shadowed biologist Dr. tribute ad on the back cover of the January of New Orleans burlesque for nearly Lincoln Heights. Philly Kids Gym. Previously, she was the is a videographer and audio/visual Writing department of Columbia College Rolf Peterson in the backcountry of Isle Penelope Cagney (’88) moderated issue of American Cinematographer magazine. 15 years, interviewing dozens of former managing director of the Little Gym of specialist for the Barrington School and curates Women and Children First Royale, a wilderness island anchored in the panel Winning Case Studies from dancers, comics, and musicians, and Teisha Johnson (’96) received her Narberth, Pennsylvania. District. Through Columbia College and bookstore’s monthly Sappho’s Salon. the northwest waters of Lake Superior. AFP: Thriving and Surviving in the Dino Stamatopoulos (’86) and has spoken on the subject at the New second diversity mini grant from the the Chicagoland Television Educators Working solo, he traveled via kayak in Downturn in October as part of Arizona Andy Dick (’85) performed at the Just Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Association of Schools and Colleges of Jane Richlovsky’s (B.A. ’91) exhibit Council, students in the Barrington Danny Bernardo (’03) starred the summer and by cross-country skis State University Lodestar Center for for Laughs Comedy Festival in Chicago Tennessee Williams Festival, Tease-O- Optometry for a summer program that Bubble opened last August at Museo High School Video Arts program have as Scooter Thomas in Team Venture and sled in the winter. The program aired Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation’s last summer. The five-day festival Rama, Tales of the Cocktail, and other was held on the campus of the Illinois in Langley, Washington. The promises been awarded 16 Emmys, six Crystal Productions’ Scooter Thomas Makes It to on PBS channels across Michigan in late annual conference on nonprofit included more than 70 shows and events. Visit bustoutburlesque.com or College of Optometry (ICO) in July. The of the recently battered American Pillars, and a National Emmy during the Top of the World last fall. He has also 2009. Visit fortunatewilderness.com. sustainability. featured several top-name comedians. neworleansburlesquefest.com. Focus on Your Future summer program, dream of owning a home inspired the last three years. worked as an actor or on production which Teisha created, is aimed at these paintings on found textiles. with several companies. He has spent Amanda Farrar (’06) is the new Paolo Cascio (’84) was recently Laura Steele (B.A. ’84) is on the Brew Natasha Egan (M.F.A. ’98), associate exposing underrepresented minorities to Visit janerichlovsky.com. Betsey Zajko (B.A. ’91) played Mitzi time as a theater educator with Maggie executive director of Barrel of Monkeys selected as one of the honorees 97.3, Milwaukee’s classic rock station. director and curator of the Museum the profession of optometry and ICO. in Half of Plenty at the Rouge Machine Daley’s AfterSchool Matters and as (BOM), an ensemble of actor-educators for this year’s 2009 Emerging of Contemporary Photography, is Tim Rutili (’92) is a singer, guitarist, in Los Angeles last summer. Betsey adjunct faculty at the Chicago Academy whose mission is to create an alternative Cinematographer’s Awards for his work curating Road to Nowhere, an exhibition Hilmar Koch (B.A. ’93), principal keyboardist, and frontman/lyricist has performed at Steppenwolf, Trap for the Arts. learning environment in which children on Almost Perfect. View Paolo’s work at 1990s exploring the United States at the supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, for the rock band Califone. Tim found Door, and Reverie theaters, and was share their personal voices and celebrate pchollywood.com. close of the “American century,” for the will receive a scientific/technical Oscar success with the band Red Red Meat named a Talent of the Year finalist by Brad Bischoff’s (B.A. ’09) short the power of their imaginations. BOM Arnie Bernstein’s (M.A. ’94) book thirteenth FotoFest Biennial, March 12 from the Academy of Motion Pictures on in the ’90s and was a member of the Chicago’s Screen Magazine. A former film Wet premiered at the Chicago accomplishes this through creative writing JeffD elong (B.A. ’89) is marketing Bath Massacre: America's First School through April 25, 2010, in Houston. February 20 for his work on Pearl Harbor. indie rock supergroup Ugly Casanova, host for National Public Radio, International Film Festival, where it workshops and in-school performances director for the Theatre Building. Bombing was published in March 2009 The acclaimed FotoFest Biennial is the which included Modest Mouse singer Betsey is also a voice-over actress and won the acclaimed Chicago Award. Wet of children’s stories, and has served more He has worked as a consultant for and is now in its third printing. The book longest-running photography biennial in Jiadong Ma (’97) is president of Really Isaac Brock (musician), producer and has performed in several film and was created in a Production II class at than 7,500 children in 38 public schools Comcast, developed promotions and is the true story of the deadliest act of the United States. Visit fotofest.org. Useful Products Inc. in Darien, Illinois. former Red Red Meat bandmate Brian television projects. Columbia. Visit lookatrubbish.com. in Chicago. Visit barrelofmonkeys.org.

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Jeremy Felton (’09), a.k.a. Jeremih, Chicago and is the associate editor Leucrota Press in October 2010. His Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Christmas concert in December. Visit Benjamin Pietrucha (B.A. ’08) is now Film Festival in 2009. Tressa also starred Melisa Young (B.A. ’04), a.k.a Kid signed with Def Jam Records last of and a frequent contributor to Black short story “A Galaxy Safe for Love” Trailers and behind-the-scenes footage myspace.com/impaledrums. blog writer/editor at Talent Zoo. in the Hollywood debut of the original Sister, released her much-anticipated February. He recently released his debut MBA Magazine. Temple writes a monthly appears in the new edition of Temenos, can be seen at burdenthemovie.com. Broadway show Back to Bacharach and debut record, Ultraviolet, last fall. See our album, Jeremih, and his single “Birthday column for StreetWise and is completing Central Michigan University’s online Rebecca Michuda (B.A. ’08) is Aisha Qidwae (B.A. ’08) is a writer/ David alongside American Idol finalist review, p. 32. Sex” reached the Top 10 on the Billboard a book about Melanie Blocker-Stokes, literary journal, and “Running Dark” is Chrissy Mahlmeister (B.A. ’08) assistant editor at Today’s Chicago research assistant at IQRA International and recording artist Diana Degarmo charts. Visit jeremihmusic.com. a Chicago woman with postpartum in the January issue of Necrotic Tissue. has been named assistant editor at Woman magazine. Visit tcwmag.com. Educational Foundation. at the Music Box at Fonda Theater on psychosis who jumped to her death. A LIFE.com. Previously, she had been a Hollywood Boulevard. The show received In Memoriam Hannah Ferdinand (B.A. ’07) is a former Chicago city manager at Rolling Katie Kaszmetskie (B.A. ’09) temporary editorial assistant at InStyle. Jef Moll (B.A. ’00) has worked as audio P. D. Rearick’s (B.A. ’02) works were rave reviews, and is currently being production assistant for The Dr. Oz Show Out Urbanstyle Weekly and staff writer at volunteered with the English Opens engineer with producer Elvis Baskette featured last July at the Farmington pitched in Las Vegas. Visit back2bd.com. Prince Akbar at Harpo Studios. She previously worked Trumpet Newsmagazine, Temple started Doors program, teaching English to Melissa Marin (B.A. ’07) is a since 2004, and recently completed work Hills City Gallery. The exhibit featured (B.A. ’06) as a PA with Kurtis Productions. her career in TV news as a reporter in high-school-aged students in Romeral, production assistant/producer at on releases from Story of the Year for traditionally printed black-and- Sheryl Tirol (B.A. ’00) is now a northwest Indiana, and later as a TV Chile. Katie then traveled to Brazil, DirecTV, and set PA at the Style Network. Epitaph Records, Alter Bridge for Universal white photographs presented in an junior account executive with an John Callaway Christina Fernando (B.A. ’06) news producer in Macon, Georgia. where she lectured about the importance Records, the Classic Crime for Tooth & untraditional format. The small prints entertainment PR firm out of Santa (’58, Radio/Journalism) started the Quintessential Candle of communication and language, travel, Julian Martinez (B.A. ’05) was Nail Records, 32 Leaves and Otherwise for were set in a series that floated in a Monica, California. The company Company, which produces handmade Ben Hicks (B.A. ’03), cofounder/ and seizing opportunity. featured as Caravaggio in Cuba and His Universal Records, and Fact from Japan semidark room, each with its own represents various companies and Robert Michael Canman premium soy candle products. The writer/director/producer, Carmen Teddy Bear, an Urbantheater production, for Avex Records. Moll also produced, bulb to illuminate the scenes. Visit people in the entertainment industry. (’64, Television) candles are made using the highest- Navis (’04), production designer, and TaQuoya Kennedy (M.A. ’07) is the last fall. Urbantheater is an ensemble of engineered, and mixed the EP Falling with flickr.com/photos/pdrearick. quality essential oil fragrances, lead-free Jon Pauss (B.A. ’03), cofounder/ new executive producer and Juanita ethnically diverse artists and performers Style with the Chicago band On the Front. 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By promising to never sell their on business, business owners, and the human experience. recruiting talent from the Midwest for Nestor Yulfo-Reyes (B.A. ’08) (administrative assistant to Columbia’s Paige Gray (M.A. ’08) is a reporter for films to large studios or distribution the economy. the fifth season of America’s Got Talent. Alena Scarver (B.A. ’07) is an proudly presents his new collection former President John Duff.) the Taos News in Taos, New Mexico. companies, they allow for a unique and Michelle Matlock (B.A. ’05) is a writer Contact her at amberleeagtauditions@ editorial assistant/reporter for the of paintings, which can be viewed uncompromised voice in filmmaking. Brandon Koller (B.A. ’06), Vanessa and an editor at insur.com along with fellow gmail.com if you’ve got talent. Chicago Tribune. at isaacdesignz.com. Nestor was Edwin Hugh Manning James Grigdesby (B.A. ’08), better Visit elephantdreamspictures.com. Panerosa (’06), and Leslie Taylor Columbia grad Kat Zeman (B.A. ’99). showcased at the Highwood Last (former faculty in Fashion and known around the Midwest as DJ Juice, (B.A. ’08) were recently featured in the Jennifer Nelson (B.A. ’08) is episodic Melissa K. Stallard’s (M.F.A. ’08) Call Art Festival and the Art Sharks Arts Management, and former launched a career as a hip-hop artist J’Sun Howard (’04) was the LinkUp Marriott Theatre’s acclaimed production Amanda Maurer (’08) is an online production assistant on the newest photographic series Worth the Trip was exhibition at the John G. Shedd curator of Columbia’s Fashion after experimenting with his own rhymes Residency Artist at Links Hall in Chicago. of Hairspray. producer for the Chicago Tribune. Nickelodeon show, Kung Fu Panda, which on view at Virginia Intermont College in Aquarium last fall. Study Collection) over the beats of artists that he played The residency program supports premieres in 2010. Bristol in the Anne R. Worrell Fine Arts while DJing at local parties. His singles independent artists in the research of Allison (Wright) Kucharzak (B.A. Chelsea Maxwell (B.A. ’08) joined Center last fall. Lourdes Vazquez (B.A. ’09) is a Carol Ann Stowe “Summertime Heat” and “Let’s Roll” are ideas and development of innovative new ’08) is working in public relations at the conversion-driven marketing agency J. Adams Oaks (M.F.A. ’00) curates freelance weekend reporter for El Dia, (Director, Harris Center for Early out now, and he is promoting his newest work in movement-based practices. Public Communications Inc. in Chicago. 90octane as a marketing coordinator. the RE:Action reading series for Geno Tazioli (B.A. ’04) is vice the Spanish-language newspaper Childhood Education) mixtape, Will Rap 4 Deal, the follow-up to Chelsea became familiar with 90octane Around the Coyote and is a member president of sales for Lit Post, an artist- published by the Dallas Morning News. 2008’s Outside Lookin In. James has also Brian Hughes (B.A. ’04) made his first Matthew Kugelman’s (B.A. ’04) programs through a marketing of Serendipity Theatre Collective’s owned post-production facility with Jim Sulski worked as a radio host. film in 2007, the short thriller Deadly short video was selected as a finalist internship at the agency. story development team. He has been clients such as Disney, Lionsgate Films, Nicole Walker (B.A. ’08) is working (’84, Journalism/ faculty, Journalism) Dweller, which was a finalist on Direct in the Crunch Gym Shorts competition. published in Hairtrigger, River Oak Review, MTV, American Apparel, American Eagle as an editor for the suburban edition of Kate Harnedy’s (B.A. ’05) photography TV’s horror channel and in Chiller TV’s Visit crunchgymshorts.com/#/watch- Lauren McKeague (B.A. ’07) and 2D, No Touching, and the Madison Review, Outfitters, and Alice in Chains. Geno Healthcare Times. John N. Thale exhibit Labor of Love: Life at Alpha nationwide Dare 2 Direct short film video/5926558. Carly Singraber (’08) co-own Pink and his work won Chicago Public Radio’s is responsible for the direction and (M.A.T. ’06, Urban Teaching) Farm ran last summer at the Downtown contest. With his in-the-works feature film Slip, a trendy dress boutique for women Stories on Stage competition. His first management of all sales and business Ashley Waugh (B.A. ’09) is a Initiative for the Visual Arts in Eugene, debut, Zombie, Indiana, Brian wants to put Michael D. Lynch’s (B.A. ’05) in Mokena, Illinois. Pink Slip came about novel, Why I Fight, won both the National development operations for Lit Post. production assistant for WGCI, WVAZ, Oregon. It is a photo documentary of the human touches on the monster movie action-packed fantasy short “Burden” in an effort to address the lack of dress Society of Arts and Letters regional As the company’s acting liaison, he and WGRB, produces two shows on Marriages & Unions Alpha Farm community in rural western genre. For more on Hughes and Zombie, was nominated for four awards at the shops in Chicago’s far south suburbs. competition and an Illinois Arts Council maintains key client relationships while WGRB, is assistant producer for the Oregon that was established in 1971 Indiana, visit 9401productions.com. Action on Film Festival, and won the Visit pinkslipboutique.com. Fellowship Award. developing and implementing strategies national show Keep Hope Alive with Jodi Miller (M.A. ’04) married and is one of the oldest communes VFX category. Burden’s epic three-year for expanding the company’s growing Jesse Jackson, and is a board operator John Hardee IV on June 20, 2009, in in the state. This project is the first Rashauna Hull (B.A. ’09) is public production brought together more Phil Messina (B.A. ’09) is a drummer Michael Peters (B.A. ’05) played customer base. for American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest Evergreen, Colorado. Jodi works in documentation of Alpha Farm and marks relations/fundraising specialist for than 100 Columbia College Chicago with various heavy metal bands. His Rudge in TimeLine’s production of The on WKSC. Two of her pieces have aired magazine publishing and is an active the beginning of a long-term project titled Women’s International Construction students and alumni. With support from band Impale’s latest demo will be out History Boys, which closed in October Tressa Thomas (B.A. ’00) was on Vocalo.org (“Charlie and I,” “I Wish member of CAAN: Denver. Pursuing Utopia: Intentional Communities Education Program, where she is the Chicago Film Office, the filmmakers soon, and he will be going on a two-week after being extended three times. The honored to sing “God Bless America” at I Said Machine Gun”). Waugh is also in America. securing sponsorship for community- managed to close down the Loop’s European tour with heavy metal band production was met with critical and Dodger Stadium last June. The Yesterday a basketball announcer for the Grand Kelly Zavala (B.A. ’07) married center development in Uganja, Kenya. Financial District in order to safely Whorrid in March. Phil played drums for audience response unprecedented in the Pool, her short film starring Hollywood Allstar League for Seniors. Ryan Schultz, her love of six years, Temple Hemphill (M.A. ’07) is stage the film’s dazzling climax. Burden The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Elbo company’s history, with performances legend Mickey Rooney, was an official on October 3, 2008. They look forward an adjunct media communications Geoff Hyatt (M.F.A. ’09) will have features Peter Cullen, best known as Room last Halloween, and percussion selling out weeks in advance and nearly selection of both the Hollywood Black Meg White (M.A. ’08) is senior writer to piecing together a shared creative professor at Kennedy-King College in his novel Malagon Rising published by the iconic voice of Optimus Prime in for the Southwest Symphony Orchestra’s universal praise in reviews. Film Festival and the West Hollywood at BuzzFlash.com in Chicago. space very soon.

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Pride Parade (Bitsy Club Version)” won Park Field House in Chicago. at Juijiang University in China, where the Windy City Times Pride Literary he conducted a poetry project with Kimo Williams (AEMM) and his Lt. Ted Cho (DEPS) played with Poi Dog Supplement Prose Prize. students. Dan Band featuring Gary Sinise traveled Pondering at the Austin City Limits Music to Afghanistan to perform for American and Festival in Texas. Annika Marie Sabina Ott Sharon Ross (Television) coedited military and civilians as part of the USO (Art & Design) are involved in the Great Teen Television: Essays on Programming initiative to entertain service members. Garnett Kilberg Cohen (English) Poor Farm Experiment, a contemporary and Fandom (McFarland, 2009), an published essays in Briar Cliff Review and art space in Manawa, Wisconsin. Marie, essay collection that explores the Justin Witte (DEPS) cowrote a pilot for Glossololia. 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DEMO46 GreenTown Chicago Breakfast Robert F. Kennedy Jr., named one of Conversations Time magazine’s “heroes for the planet” in the Arts: for his role in leading Riverkeeper's Biz Stone fight to restore the Hudson River, was The first Conversations in the Arts the keynote speaker at the GreenTown event of the year brought Biz Stone, Chicago environmental conference in cofounder of Twitter, to campus, where October. He joined members of the he gave an insightful presentation Columbia community for a breakfast on the role of this burgeoning social 1 2 reception on October 15, 2009. network in changing the way people Photos: Vandell Cobb (B.A. ’75) communicate around the world. Photos: Vandell Cobb (B.A. ’75) 1 2 [ 1 ] Architect Jeanne Gang, Dean Doreen Bartoni [ 2 ] Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman [ 1 ] Biz Stone [ 2 ] Columbia College Chicago of the Board Allen Turner [ 3 ] Robert F. President Warrick L. Carter, Chairman of the Kennedy Jr. [ 4 ] Cynthia Raskin, Trustee Board Allen Turner, Lynn Turner [ 3 ] Biz Ellen Stone Belic Stone, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Eric Winston, and Trustee Howard Mendelsohn [ 4 ] Reception for Biz Stone following his talk

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Chicago/LA Chicago Impact Link Event Awards Columbia and others celebrated Jeff Garlin was the honoree at the 7th “Chicagoans in entertainment in L.A.” Annual Columbia College Chicago Impact at the Chicago L.A. Link Event in Santa Awards. Alumni joined others in the Monica. Jerrod and R.J. Melman and Bob entertainment industry at the Paramount Lynn were the restaurant hosts, while Theater in Hollywood to honor the native Tom Dreesen emceed and Richard Roper Chicagoan, who has made his mark as and Bill Zwecker worked the red carpet. 1 2 1 2 a writer, producer, director, or actor in a Photos: Mitch Canoff range of productions from The Second City to Curb Your Enthusiasm. [ 1 ] Elaine Madsen, Bill Zwecker, Virginia Photos: Michelle Pullman Madsen, Tom Dreesen [ 2 ] Chaz Ebert, Bob Teitel [ 3 ] Bill Zwecker, Chris [ 1 ] Craig Gore (’99), Johnny Derango (’02) O’Donnell [ 4 ] Kevin Farley, Richard Roper [ 2 ] Nassoma Vernon (’03), JeffG arlin [ 3 ] President Warrick L. Carter, Charles Robert Carner (’78,) Joe Mantegna, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Eric V.A. Winston [ 4 ] Meghan Mathes (’09), Television Chair Michael Niederman 3 4 3 4 DEMO48

Alumni Time! Photos: Robyn Martin (B.A. ’04), Stephanie Tanner In fiscal year 2009, which ended August 31, generous (’12), Kelsey Lindsey (’12), Vladimir Zaytsev (’12) individuals and organizations contributed a total of $11,611,291 to support the educational mission of Columbia Reunion 2009 College Chicago. Many of those gifts were designated for Evolving Through the Decades was the theme 1 2 3 Scholarship Columbia, a five-year, $1 million challenge to of this year’s alumni reunion, which took place raise unrestricted scholarship support for deserving students Thankyou. who need it. Many were in support of the on campus September 24-27, 2009. Alumni Media Production Center, Columbia’s first-ever new-construction building, which reconnected with old friends and faculty at a opens for classes this semester. series of receptions, workshops, and a Sunday gospel brunch at House of Blues.

[ 1 ] Tony Kemp (B.A. ’86), student Chelsea Middendorf, Our Honor Roll of Donors includes individuals and organizations that gave $100 or more in fiscal year 2009 [ 2 ] Bill Barrick (’89) Julie Poznan (B.A. ’01), Nicolra 4 5 (September 1, 2008, through August 31, 2009), followed by a list of those that contributed $100 or more during the first quarter Gholston (B.A. ’06), Lauren Waring (B.A. ’09), Theresa Moore of fiscal year 2010 (September 1 through November 30, 2009).

(B.A. ’94), Sherron Farrel (B.A. ’08) at the Sunday gospel Donors who contribute $1,000 or more annually are members of the President’s Club, the college’s most prestigious giving society. brunch [ 3 ] Arthur “The Legend” Leach (B.A. ’71), William For information about giving to Columbia, visit colum.edu/donate or call Kim Clement at 312.369.7084. Swartwood (B.A. ’96) [ 4 ] Alumni participate in the Book and Paper workshop [ 5 ] ThelmaS errano (B.A. ’88), Jane Bishop- Lillegard (B.A. ’85), Louis Byrd III (B.A. ’90), Gary Stubits (B.A. ’94), Jeff Wehrmeister (B.A. ’90) [ 6 ] Alumni rehearse for their recording in the voiceover workshop. [ 7 ] Stephanie Michael Wolf Raymond J. & Kristine Spencer Christina Seely Evette Cardona & Mona Tanner (’12) and Kelsey Lindsey (’12) represent the Ken Wornick Allen M. & Lynn Turner Nancy & R. Stratford Shields Noriega Student Alumni Association at Fall 2009 New Student Greg Zeman Richard B. & Barbara K. Timothy Carroll 6 7 8 Convocation [ 8 ] Jay Boersma (B.A. ’74), Creative Director $25,000 to $49,999 Silverman William F. Carroll Jr. & Mary C. for Playboy Enterprises, speaks about his career to Anonymous $5,000 to $9,999 Lawrence K. & Maxine Snider Carroll members of the Student Alumni Association at the Portfolio Columbia College Chicago Susan V. Downing Anonymous David S. Solomon M.D. & Alexander Castellino Honor Roll of Donors Brent W. & Susan H. Felitto Alfred Bader Brenda C. Solomon M.D. Jim & Jane Cohan Center [ 9 ] Jim Smith, Neil Kowalski, Jessica Gatward, Fiscal Year 2009 (September Todd Gitlin Mr. Dan Casey & Mrs. Dolores Julie Volkmann Mrs. Rhea Cohn Walter Krakowsky, Michelle Passarelli (B.A. ’99), Erica 1, 2008–August 31, 2009) Bill L. & Vicki Hood Connoly Kay Collier Watson (B.A. ’98, M.A. ’05), Michael Anderson, Valerie Howard Mendelsohn ’49 William F. Cellini Jr. ’94 & $1,000 to $4,999 Catherine Costello Driscoll (B.A. ’86) at Watson’s one-woman comedy show, Fat INDIVIDUALS Mary K. O’Shaughnessy & Carmen Cantarin Anonymous (4) Joshua Culley-Foster ’04 Bitch, in Chicago. See page 26. [ 10 ] Trustee Susan Downing; Charles Van Gilder Michael & Barbara Collins Jay Albanese Jennifer E. Davis ’02 Sarah Siddons Society scholarship recipient A.J. Ware TheP resident’s Club Gigi Pritzker Pucker & Katalin Deer Randall K. Albers Jacqueline & Michael DeSalle (Donors who contribute $1,000 Michael A. Pucker Marc Freidus Michael J. Anderson Tracy Dillard (B.A. ’09); Sarah Siddons Award winner, CSI’s William Petersen 9 10 or more in a year are members Barry M. & Anne M. Sabloff Ralph W. & Karen C. Gidwitz David Applegate Nicholas Dwyer & Elizabeth A. of The President’s Club) Richard A. Hanson Bruce R. & Ann R. Bachmann Yokas $10,000 to $24,999 Arthur J. & Mary Frances Hass Doreen M. Bartoni & Paul E. Elledge & Leasha J. $500,000+ Warrick L. Carter Ph.D. & Chester T. Kamin & Nancy Renee L. Hansen ’80 Overturf George Middlemas & Sherry Laurel Carter Schaefer Kamin H. Temel Belek Richard A. & Jeane F. Erley The Student Alumni Association Petska Bruce A. Crown & Deborah A. Jean Kralka Alicia & Brian Berg Rev. Sherron Farrell ’08 at Columbia College Chicago Crown Marcia E. Lazar ’03 & Alan O. Sonia & TheodoreC . Bloch James F. Feldstein $100,000 to $249,999 connects current students with Allan R. Drebin Ph.D. & Ellen Amos Gary Bowden Richard J. & Nancy L. Firfer successful alumni. Lee & Maria Friedlander Drebin Phillip Moll William J. & Marea Brichta Samuel A. Floyd Jr. Jeremy D. Efroymson ’98 Madeline Murphy Rabb Bonnie Brooks Rebecca L. Ford $50,000 to $99,999 To find out more, contact Georgia & Gerald W. Fogelson Sharon & Leon Oberlander Suzette Bross Bulley & Sue & Paul Freehling Michelle Passarelli, SAA Advisor, Roy H. & Ann T. Boyd Mary Louise Haddad & Samuel Joseph F. Peyronnin III ’70 & Allen E. Bulley Jonathan S. Gitelson ’05 at 312 369 6987 or Loranne Ehlenbach & John Perry Susan Zirinsky Shelley A. & Rubin Brown Joshua & Ikram Goldman colum.edu/alumni. Ehlenbach Paul R. & Nancy Knapp Samuel E. & Paula F. PfefferP h.D. Robert J. Buford Susan M. Gosin Herbert Hochberg Elizabeth A. Liebman Ph.D. Stephen H. Pugh Jr. & Margo V. Kathleen T. Butera Theodore J. &K aye A. Grabbe Find us on Don & Rosemary R. Jackson Richard S. & Jeanne L. Press Brooks-Pugh Barbara J. Calabrese Richard & Mary L. Gray JeffreyK . Mercer & James N. Pritzker Arlen D. Rubin ’66 & Elaine C. Lutgart J. Calcote Betty Guttman linda Glass Pamela & John Rijos Cohen Gregory C. Cameron ThomasL . Harris

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